New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-18
Kept Up Legal Fight.

Kept UP Legal rl9nI'
Again. on June H. 1909 MI. Morschauser
petitioned Justice Gaynor. In the Appel
late Division OF the Supreme Court,
Erooklvn. The writ was issued. and on
.Iuly d Thaw was once more removed 10
the White Plains Jail
ON July II the hearing on the writ was
begun I'm the Westchester County Court
before Justice Mills. 4 representative o.
the Attorney Generals ONCE and District
Attorney Winsow OF Westchester Couh'
Is opposed Thaws release. The prisoner
EXPRESSED great pleasure AT hearing tha'
District Attorney Jerome would not APP
pear
The trial lasted until August j.. "hen
Tbaw was once more sent back 10 the
asylum The testimony throughout had
b,en ON TnaW's actions since his commit
men, 10 MatteaWan. Threats To XII i've
IAN when n. should be released, his III
erary asplratious while in the asylum ana
bi. gen.ral conduct since his commitment
wer. the basis Of efforts to Keep MIN III
custody
cor a Few DAYS In April. 1910 Tha" lei'
the ASYLUM 10 serve as witness III s"''
for 5000 brought against his m"ther ~
,unord W Hartridge FOR counsel fees III
the murder trial
Harry Thaw's hope OF release from
N,tteovan vas again swept away IN
February. 1911. when his appeal from 'hs
decl-ion OF the Appellate DiNlsloh' a."
verse to his contention that he was oelhs
ILLEGALLY detained In the asylum. vas avs
missed bv the Court of Appeals M'S'
Thav. I'm a petition TO the court. nad set
,or,h that she believed that the heaith
.,d person Of her son was tn constant
d,,,srn and sought his release because
-, ,,e "unprecedented and inhuman treat
mont Of a sane. acquitted man In an IN
sttution for the criminal insane
Wife Opposes Him.
In Aprll 1919 on a petition from Mrs
Mary Thaw. showing that several dlsuh-
eulshed alienists had examined 1haW anu
pronounced him sane, ne" VIII "d9
| obtained The trial Vas begun on June
II before Justice Keogh I'm the supreme
| Court White Plains. Opposed to the tes-
,irorv Of the Experts employed 10y
! Thaw's mother was the testimony u
EVELYN Nesbit Thaw, now hghunE he'
husbands release bitterly Mr.. Jerome
had been retained to oppose ina" re-
lease and. as SO often before, ne VAS
successful. ON July %. 1912. the murderer
of stanford White was sent back 10 Mat
teawan for the last time.
At various times during Thaw's conhne-
ment I'm the asylum there had been fu-
mors of consplracies to permit the GEAR
of Mattcawan' to escape. Finally the
runors became so insstent that Governor
Sulzer orde' eel an investigation. In the
course Of this probe II came out 'ha'
Dr John W Russell. head or the lnsu-
tuition. had been offered bride OF S-o'Wl
to release Thaw. The names of SulIer
and Prison Superintendent Joseph +.
Scott were drawn into the case when
Dr Russell said he had been given TO
understand by the would-be bribers that
those two men would look with favor on
the escape of Thaw. John Anhut was
named as the man who had offered III
Russell the bride.
As a result Of the disclosures during
this probe, Dr. Russell was removed from
his office and Dr. RAYMOND FRANCIS
Charles Kieb was appointed I'm his place
Anhut was found guilty Of bribery ana
sentenced To four years In prison, but
was released ON bail pending new trlal
In the meantime he was disbarrtd.
During all the legal battles over Harry
X Thaw since he killed Stanford White
his mother has spent something more
than a million dollars for him. and the
s,,,.,s exnenses have exceeded SS50.0o0