The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
Mother of the Slayer of Stan
ford White
Has Written a Pamphlet in De-
Tense Of Her Son.
SHE ATTACKS JEROME
Charges a Conspiracy Among
Men in High Places.
For the Purpose of Keeping
Harry in the Asylum.

New York. July 12.-Mrs. Mary
Cop1ey Thaw, mother of Harry K.
Thaw, has just finished writing a
booklet on the case of her son. whose
trial on habeas corpus proceedings
before Justice Mills at White
Plains is set for. today. This
publication is now in the hands of
the printers and will be brought out
and placed on sale all over the coun-
try this week. It consists Of fully
eight thousand words and also a pic
ture of Mrs. Thaw. In some parts it
is particularly bitter and she ar
raigns in strong terms men in high
places, who, she asserts, were in
league to prevent her son even secur-
ing a trial, but bent on sending him
to an asylum for the insane.
She refers to these men as men
high in professional life, friends of
Stanford White" She refers to them
as blackmailers, perjurers and the
like She characteriZes her son as
fan average young man, with a
chivalrous nature, as was shown IN
his efforts to break. up =disre putaole
places" She points out that Je-
rome'S speech to the jury in the last
trial is a Vindication 70 her sons eff
forts and says that while 1t was pre-
tended that Thaw had delusions
regarding these Infamous dens. Je-
rome in his summing up tn admitted
that TIC RAANCS C<>ASSSN~~
The ForewoPd.
The introduction to the pamphlet
follows:
friends and others for descending into
the arena to thus openly combat the
rna1evoIent personality who has domi-
mated my sons case since before ms
scquittal by the jury and the commit
ment by Judge bowling But excep-
floral conditions demand exceptional
nd "a fact that lOiStr1cfl
Attorney jerome has on four occasions
left the quite sufficient responsibilities
of his own district to pursue this case
into a district within which, as he him.
self has acknowledged with his own
signature, he has no jurisdiction, com
pels this unusual procedure on my
part.
tended for use in case he succeeded in
having another judge remove the case
to New York. All know this would new
er be consented to by my son and his
counsel and that the motion was not
made in good faith. Delay is all that
was aimed at, doubtless with the hope
that Jerome expressed when, after the
first trial. he said he wolild delay the
second trial IN the nope gT tnat may 4r%
1t very difficult to write dispass1onate-
" of so paIpable crimes against justice
and the constitutional rights of Ameri-
can citizens"
Mrs Thaw then quotes two letters
from Mr.. Jerome to prisoners in the
Matteawan asylum, declaring that af-
ter their conviction he had no further
jurisdiction in their cases. Immediate
" following the introduction and under
the head of the secret unveiled" Mrs.
Thaw continues:
Having determined to stay near my
son until he is released from this Illegal
Imprisonment, my family and L waited
hopefully four months for the decision
of the appellate divisions only to be
bitterly disappointed when it came.
Certain facts should be known |
that will, in a measure, explain the |
hostility shown toward my son and |
the vindictive persecution he has en- |
dured. When I returned from Europe |
in 1906 I found a cowardly combin- |
alton, made up of men of professional |
standing, together with disreputable |
blacSmaflerS, perJurerS and others, /
all working in the interests of the |
very rich companions of Stanford |
White. To prevent a trial, which they |
feared. would result in exposure, they |
set to work to blacken the character /
of my son, an average young man |
with a ddvalrous nature, as shown |
by his attSmpt to break up these dis /
reputable places. Then. in order to
diction, the family, living and dead,
was attacked by slanderous false
hoods as never before known in any
trial. The influence at that time was
tremendously strong.
His Speech to the Jury.
They pretended that my son had
insane delusions regarding those
three infamous dens and their uses