The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-21
OUR OLD FRIEND
HARRY k. THAW
IS WITH Us
AG AIN
United States Supreme Court
Orders Half-Witted Slayer
of Stanford White Back to
Bug-House in New York.
COMPLETE NEW SET OF
LEGAL COMPLICATIONS
Authorities May Now Do Any
of Half a Dozen Things
With the Bug All of Which
May Be Wrong

- . - - - - ~--
May Be Wrong
Washington. Dec Harry E.
Thaw lost his fght t.dlg lu the SUE
.reme court uf the ..tcd states
aEaiuet 9,iug eXtradif-l from the
state uf NrW HampshIa to the state
ut SOW York
Iu pri,f decision bt Justice
Holmes. which was lHr unanimous
decision of 'u" Duuts, NIs hoId th1t
the celebrated prisou,r should nr
turned over 600 once tu tine SEES York
authorities Zoo answer .. rj.,tncut
charging conspiracy m escape from
Muteawlu asylum tor fhs criminal
insane.
Whether his escape from the asy-
lum while bis counsel .uutrudrd hc
was insane constituted Grim, and
other questions the deyl-.ur dismissed
with the comment thaf lhey could
not enter into habeH- corpus pros
cocdinE and that tho, were proper
questions for the state af Sew york
to decide
Actually the celebrated Thaw case
th" NllIns ut Siar.0rd White
WAS NOT before the supreme court
Merely the question of returning
rh'w ou tNe yoUspira-' Indictment
was up for decision.
What other moves. .f any, We're
open tu ThaN counsel t0 prevent has
return Go the state Xherr ne wac
twice tried ana had made many fu-
| tilr c0nrt. tu be- released those ia
wlar with the legal procedure were
at a Joss t1 forecast. 10 those who
have followed the case b. -erm- that
| thg rIhg against returning Co Ncw
York was lo-t and that ,o.hra re-
maiued buI Tor tb. sheriff of .uos
.uautN Sew Hampshire. ru turn
Thlv over Goo Ncw Yurk officers
uuou the 'tNrudINou granted hy the
governor of Sew Hampshire. but
stayed by the decision oi Justice AL
irirh. which wa- today reversed.
Th1v wtN however, remain iu
New Hampshire tnr thirty DAYS AN
Jess h.- rftorucy- consent tu his re
m0,aI sooner This results from the
tt.t chat the mandate OF the surrcm,
court carrying u1f Jos decision .s mot
issued unru tn.rri DAYS uuu today
unless thr ATTORNEYS for both sides
Join lu requesting lu earlier ISSUE of
the order
LeEM tufuuItr- who have f1l-
lowed me case pointed out today chat
New YORK alth fs custody ut ThaW
srcure mIEhf uun dirrct his immrdl-
ate trial Tor conspiracy or might an-
nal the Indictment aud return tHe
prisoner tu MaU.a wan. or BE- might
return h,n to Nss asylum .u sre-
gard ot thc Indictment.
HurIug th, 4rEuuent ,f tho case
before the -IpT,m, court CnItf Jus-
tic, White IntlrHf.d q @ immediate
imprisonment uf Ihsw after his re-
tufn mIshf aIN. T.t' Go another ts-
bras corpus pro...tiugs goo determine
whether % federal report had been
denied tE ruiaHe ham in an asylum
after 'Atratlt.u- H.m foT cuu-uIIHUr
The Iii~tur, once More
ou August l... tHl3 Thyn escaped
from tho MatttHn.u insane hospital
m >en NuFE whore hr had uren
confined. after fo. trials sar tbe ku-
Iug of stanford White ChsrEgJ with
a rnusrirHes Goo ...4pr. be- NH- "ulHf
atr1.Eued JOB Nev Hampshire Hr
was indicted u <ew York uu that
dtuon Was made r. Nru Hampshire
EXuadluun waH .Iiercd us ths -ot
rruor of Sew hampshire. lur .u hH-
pess corpus iu fnr fcdrrsl district
court Judge AlIr.eh beji Tnaw
should bee released
iustlHs fiuImt announced tine
COURTS unanimous decision TODAY He
ursi uYrrfuied thD contention tbHt BE-
WAS NOT crime for man confined
Iu an insane aH, Ilu tn walls out a. hr
could and chat therefore consrIr-
a,y to do su was mot crime
we do Not rrgard De- us open to'
debate that tht Withdrawal hy con-
Hi.uups OF mon from an insane
cess lun. Go which he had been enu-
uiticd as ThsW wac did Ieud to oh-
etr4,t the due administration of the
law Al ioast the New YORK courts
may So degloc Therefore the lu
dietmeut eharges crime. n there Is
ans remote defect in the earlier pro-
cecdiuRs by whnh rhaN was com
uutted. which we are far from inti-
mating. that b. NOT the time and nlace
lOr chat question to be- trsd.
Justice Holmes said the MOST seri-
QUE arEumcut for Thaw was chat n
he were insane when he coufufed GO
ssrapc. De- could noe be- Eulty of "a
crime while If be- were uot insane.
he was entitled to he discharged aud
that hes confinement and other facts
in tho RECORD reQnirrd the supreme
court to assume That he vas insane