The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-07
BITTER
IN ATTACK ON
1HAW FAMILY
Insinuates That Mrs. ThaW's
Book Shows Traces of
Brain Storm
THAWS CONDUCT UNCANNY
AN0 UKWa0LEs0ME IN COURT
His Attitude Toward His Act Shows
That His Mind is Diseased-Pursu.
ed Idea Of Injury to Young Amcri.
can Girls.

ed Idea Of Injury to Young Amcri.
can Girls.
White Pains, N. Y, Aug. 1.-THE
closing arguments were heard by
Supreme Court Justice Isaac n Mills
today in the application OF Harry X.
Thaw for release from tho Matteawan
asylum. Each side was confined to
one hour and both had said that they
did not need as much time as this.
Jeromd's turn came first.
Mrs. Josiah Thaw, the prisoners
sister-in-law, was the only member
OF the family party not present when
tho court convened.
Thaw looked even paler than usual.
His chair touched Jeromo's. Flo set
his features with tho evident deter
mlnation to show no emotion under
the storm which he expected to de-
scend upon his head. Jerome began
Dy saying that Justice Mills must be
perfectly familiar with the case, and
therefore he would not attempt to go
over the evidence in detail. Speaking
OF the credibility of the witnesses and
their bearing under cross-examination
he said he believed all did their best
TO tell the truth except Mrs. EVELYN
Nesbi5 Thaw.
Il do think" he declared, "that this
girl was deliberately and Intentional
~ falsifying. That she told her hus-
band the story OF her injury at tho
hands OF Stanford White I have no
doubt. IL person had come in here
from Mars continued prosecutor. F"
and seen Thaw on tho stand, he would
nave realized something was the mat
Ter with him. 1t was nnwholesomc.
IL was uncanny. l call your attention
10 MS attitude toward his act. A man
OF sound mind would have said, YES.
l Killed him but he did great wrong
10 the woman | loved and | hated
MIN. 1t was wrong, | know" .Jer-
ONES voice rose for the first time.
Mrs. Thaw laid down her magazine
and she and the prisoner and hjs
counsel held q whispered conference
The district attorney went on: "The
situation is about this. Here is a man
whom heredity has proven to be mad;
ne is man whose childhood was that
oi highly nervous sort. We find
nm marrying this girl There was
nothing after the marriage to excite
ms jealousy. We see him PURSUING.
tnls ldea OF injury to young American
girls 'N''-A
referring to Mrs. Thaw's attack on
lliin Ill Ine Secret Service" Jerome
sad: We see in this pamphlet the
same color that runs all through the
son s behavior. 1t seems to me il
would not be safe to turn this man
loose until there had been ample on
portunity to submit him to medical
examination from day to day for a
long period" Jerome finished his
summing up at 11:35, the court hay-
ing offered no objection to the length
OF his speech.
The Possibilities.
Several possibilities confront Thaw.
The court may grant his plea and
make him absolutely free. 1t NAV de-
eide that he has not established his
sanity and refuse to interfere in
which case the state, authorities will
probably send him back to Nattea-
wan. But Justice Mills has further
discretionary powers. He may feel
that the young mans mental condi-
tlon Is still i'll doubt and for that rea-
son delay final order, meanwhile
paroling Thaw in the custody of some
offlcer or possibly on his own recog-
nlzance in the care of his family. or
he may declare Thaw insane. hut
moved by his mothers complaint re-
gard1"" his surroundings at M;.ttea-
wan, send him to some other state
hospital not peopled by criminals
Thaw left the court room with a
Jaunty step. The strain. of the past
four weeks. during which he has sub
mltted personally to fourteen hours
OF cross-eXamination, was not appar-
ent either in his face or his bearing.
At no time during the proceedings
mas he expressed anything but salts
faction with the results and conf
dence in the success of his cause.
am sure," he said, that l shall
be free.'
The evidence presented in behalf
of Thaw closed yesterday with a
dramatic outburst by his mother. Mrs
Mary Coply Thaw who was the final
witness. Her last words were a de-
nunciation of District Attorney
jerome. Earlier in the day she had
read a list OF names distinguished in
New York society. They were guests
she said, at dinner she gave in New
York which Harry attended before his
marriage. In concluding her testi-
mony, she referred to this list of
names.
II brought in the names of those
who attended that dinner to my son."
she said, because of the statements
OF Mr.. Jerome regarding the company
Harry was accustomed to keep. /
do not have any special enmity to-
ward Mr.. Jerome, but he certainly
has not behaved in this matter in q
gentlemanly way nor in a Christian