Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-25
INSCRIPTIONS EXPERTS AND
UNSCRUPULOUS LAWYERS.

The committee Of the New York
State Bar Association to whom was de-
puted the usual investigation and re-
port on the conditions surrounding
the commitment and discharge of the
insane, has submitted unanimous re-
port scathingly condemning the meth
DDS pursued in the Thaw case and the
persistent efforts being made to secure
the release Of that unsavory criminal.
It's denunciations will meet with
welcome reception from the public,
long since disguised with the1 entire
case, and especially annoyed and Of
Tended by the brazen effrontry with
which the wealth of the Thaw family
has been used in an endeavor to sub
vert justice and defeat the verdict Of
the court that sent him to the asylum
instead the gaIlows where his life
might righteously have closed. The
summary Of this case presented by this
committee of the leading attorneys Of
New York is such a review as may
| well arouse public sentiment to such 4
pitch as to effectually prelude even
the shadow of a hope to the Thaw fam
lily that by further expenditures Of
money in the purchase Of legal talent
and medical lament, on sale to the
highest bidder, they can secure the re-
| lease of the murderer of Stanford
White. Says the committee:
A youthful debauchee Of great
wealth. trained to believe that his
money gave him right to freedom from
all restraints, whether imposed by law
or the rules of decency, inheriting an
abnOrmality Of mind likely to de-
velop into homicidal acts, leading a
| debased and ignobI0s life, without a
thought Of the responsibilities which
wealth imposed upon its owner, COM
mits foul and cowaFdly murder in a
| public resort. If he were sane there
| could be no escape from the penalty Of
/ death. His only defense is insanity
! After a long and seemingly needless
delay-and delays in hauling murder
Z ers 10 the bar for trial bring the adj
ministratiOn Of the criminal law into
| lisrepute-he is brought to a trial.
which by reason of the manner in
| which it is conducted, degenerates into
a disgraceful farce, and a confused
jury finds itself unable to agree. A
i second trial, conducted properly and
I with dignity, results in a verdict Of
| acquittal on the ground of insanity,
/ and thereupon the prisoner is sent by
| the court, as required by the statue, to
a state asylum for the criminal insane.
| From this he plans to get free upon
| successive writs of habeas corpus.
which he purposes to apply for so long
| as his purse will enable him to pav
| Jealous counsel and INSCRIPTIONS ex-
| perts We say INSCRIPTIONS experts.
| for, to the shame of the medical pro-
fession be it spoken, the expert who
at one time swears him out of jail on
/ an opinion Of insanity attempts at an
| other time TO swear him out of the asv-
| lum by an opinion of sanity. So for
getful are the murderer's family of
/ their duty to society. their obligation
to uphold law, that they aid and abet
| the plot, and instead of leaving him to
his fate as it is their duty as citizens
| TO do, they claim, forsooth, that he is
| an object of persecution. 1t is a mere
/ question of time and money when this
/ particular murderer will be set free 10
| direct his homicidal inclinations
against some other citizen who has al
ready fallen or may hereafter come
under his displeasure.