The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-07
DROPS THAW CASE
QUICKLY IN COURT
COUNSEL DOES NOT THINK 1T
ADVISABLE To HAVE 1T
CONSIDERED NOW.
BACK IN ASYLUM
MATTEAWAN INNATE APPEARS
TO RAVE AGED pERCEpTTBLN,
THOSE WHO SEE HIN
DECLARE.

NEW YORK. March G.-Counse
retained by Harry X. Thaw, in hi.
latest attempt to have himself re.
leased from Matteawan, on the ground
hat lie is sane decided suddenly to
day that the public feeling against
Thaw at present. because Of the re
cent bribery charges, does not make q
trial as to his sanity advisable JUS
now, and when the habeas corpus
proceedings were called before su
preme Court Justice Geigerieh, the
writ was withdrawn
Take him back ordered Acting
Superintendent Leak, of Matteawan
as soon as the court had disposed OF
the case, ana the result was that
Thaw was on a train bound for tbs
asylum for the criminal insane III
about an hour after he reached the
city al 9.15 o'clock.
There was belief on the part OF
The State authorities that Thaw and
his new counsel never intended to
have the haheas corpus case proceed
and that the purpose of bringing him
30 New York was to give District At
torncy Whitman am opportunity to cal
him as a witness before the grand jury
,
Since the fact that he was called tC
testify might be used as an argument
that the authorities regarded him az
sane.
Think II Wen to Walt.
The district attorney made no re.
quest today that Thaw remain here
ia be a witness, but said that If tht
grand jurors express a desire Ia heal
ThaW when they take up the case mex
week he viii have Thaw appear
/ Thaws counsel believed it advisable
! to await the outcome Of the inVesti.
cation before asking a new inquiry
as to his sanity
Justice Gcigerich made il plain
/ however that had the case gone OF
today he would have transferred the
proceedings to Westchester county
ann in that event the writ wouit
probably have been dismissed All The
Westchcster county judges have heart
and decided Thaw applications in The
4 past, and IL was on that ground tina
/ Thaw's counsel got the writ in New
York -
Thaw was brought to New York to
I day by Or. Leak, Prison Agent Nc
i Cabe and keeper. When he ap
/ peared in court persons who had seer
HIM on his former visits here notet
that he had aged perceptiblY
ClingS Close TO O'Mcara.
Thaw was met at the Grand Cen
trai station by his former bodyguard
/ Roger, . Meara, OF Pitt&hurE and ex
Governor stone of Pennsylvania, VIII
was present Ia behalf OF the Thap
family, ThaW seemed to be dazed b,
tho crowd around the Corridors AM
in going In and out he chung closel,
to The arm of o'Mcura.
Thaw 5 writ had been obtained b,
Or. Charles Kennedy. a medico-lega
practitioner hut when the case wa
called Henry HirschberR, of New
hurgh son of Justice Hirschberg. O
appellate division in Brooklyn. step
ped to the bar and asked permission
to withdraw the writ saying that Df
Kennedy had been unable to consul
with his client properly and the cas-
was not prepared.
IN-ASsiStant District Att0rne.
Jerome requested hat the writ he dis
missed in the regular way Justic
Geieerich, however told Mr. Jerom
that he didn't see how the people
rights would be premdiced by tn
Withdrawal of the writ