Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-11
.THAW'S FATE SOON
IN HANDS Of JUDGE
PRISONER SURE HE WILL BE
FREE-MoTHER CONTINUES
TESTIMONY.
ALiENIsTs DECLARE HE'S SANE
CROSS EXAMINATION BY
JEROME.

White Plains, N Y, Aug. Harry
Thaw's latest struggle to regain free
dom will end today. The testimony
closed yesterday afternoon and all
that remains is the arguments of at
torneys. Justice Mills will announce
his decision next Thursday. The court
may grant Thaw's plea and make him
free. 1t may decide he has not es-
tablished his sanity and refuse to in
terfere, in which case he probably will
be sent back to the Matteawan hos
pital for the criminal insane. But
Justice Mills may feel that Thaw's
mental condition is still doubtful and
may postpone any final order, mean
while placing him in the custody of
some officer or possibly in the care of
his family. Or he may declare Thaw
insane, but moved by the mothers
complaint regarding the surroundings
at Matteawan, send him to state hos
pital not peopled by criminals.
Thaw left the courtroom yesterday
afternoon jauntily. The four weeks
strain during which he was under
fourteen hours cross examination, had
not apparently affected him. Never
during the proceedings has he ex-
pressed ar<thing but satisfaction with
the results and confidence in the out
come. Yesterday afternoon he was as
hopeful as ever.
I'm sure" he said, ..that l shall be
free"
The evidence presented in behalf of
Thaw closed yesterday with a dramat-
ic outburst against District Attorney
Jerome by his mother, who was the
final Witness Earlier in the day she
had read list of the names of dis
tingIshed New York society. They
We're guests, she said, at dinner she
gave in New York at which Harry at
tended before his marriage. Conclud-
ing her testimony, she said:
Drought III the names Oh those
who attended that dinner to my son,
because of Mr.. Jerome's statement
regarding the company Harry was ac-
customed to keep. | have no special
enmity toward Mr.. Jerome, but he GER
tainly has not behaved in a gentle
manly or christian way Mr. Jerome
always talked about Harry's being a
frequenter of the tenderloin, which re
knows as we'll as anyone that my boy
never went to the tenderloin until he
met certain person who dropped him
down"
THAT" said Attorney Morschauser,
tends our case"
Mrs Thaw's testimony yesterday
was again frequently interrupted by
sobbing, as she described Harry's sur
roundings at Matteawan. That
place seemed to me like vestibule to
the Internal regions" she said.
The principal new witness was
Roger O'Mara, formerly chief of police
a. Pittsburg, and recently employed by
Thaw as a detective He testified
confederation of the stories about
Stanford White -,.~.
Most of the day was devoted to re-
examination of Thaw's alienists. Jer-
ONE attacked the experts with every
device of skilled cross examination
He reused the ire of DR.. Evans by ask
ing if he was the object of the denun-
citation of medical expert witnesses de-
livered Thursday by Governor Frank
lin Fort, of New Jersey DR.. Evans is
of the New Jersey
state insane hospital. He replied
that he declined to go into PERSONAL
ties.
DR.. Isham c. Harris of Poughkeep-
sic state asylum, also received a grill
ing. But the assertions of both alien
lists that whatever Thaw's mental con-
dition might have been when he shot
White, he was now sane was un-
shaken.
Jerome will sum up today and Nor
schauser will follow. The case will
nrobohly ha in Justice Mills hands by