The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-25
Harry Kendall Thaw
 "Due Process of Law"

It has been alleged by anarchists, socialists and other ag1tators that in lfhe Unitedl States there is one law for ifhe rich and another for the poor.
 Such allegations are bitterly denied by Jurists, and they can point to thou ed justice, with even scales, has weighed the evidence without fear or favor, and passed such Judgments as prove that "the law is no respecter of lpersons-'
 In his criticism of the courts, how -sver the agitator is not wholly bereft of arguments which seefh to prove his | case. Among others, he will point to the Thawscase, and to some such facts sas these:
 It was eight years ago today. on June 2b, 1906, that Harry Kendall ThaSv. scion of a millionaire family of Pfttaburghs shot and killed Stanford White, a distinguished architect, on the Eoof of Madison Square Garden. Seven, months later he was placed on ltria1 before Justice Fitzgerald in New ETork. The trial, one of the most sen National in American legal history, contfnued from January 28 to April | Ia, 1907, and ended in the disagree
 nent of the jury.
 on Jana1ary 4, 1908, the second trial of Thaw commenced before Justice lDoewllng. It lasted less than 0 month, land the accused man was acquitted on lfheNground of'insanity. and sent to the asylAm for the criminal insane at 1GakfeaWan-
 Then began the long legal warfare to bmAng about the release of Thaw. Tn 1908 a writ of habeas corpus, with this end an view, was dismissed. In H1eo9 a hearing to. determine the ques- '4ion of Thmw's sanity was held at White Plaame. where Evelyn Nesbit Tahasv, the schild wife" heroine of this Isordt0 tragedy, testified that her hus- Sbsnd had threatened to kill her. Jus I4zce Mills held that Thaw was mem tally unbalanced and remanded him to 6nae hospital for the criminal Insane. D@r4ng the four years that followed sGher@I were various other legal actions, mnd th@ State of New York was put to mreax taxpense to combat the various mo~e@tcf the able counsel engaged by the ThRws- A
 On August 17th of last year. legal xnsans having failed him. 7rha-w car tried out successfully a plan which gare himt his freedom. With the aid of five men and two swift automo- balesahe got safa1y away from the hos spa1a1. and reached CoaticoolS, in Cam 7mdm. before he was captured. He was subsequently, taken to New Hamp- Sahfre, and there began his determined Regal battlei to prevent his return to slaS ct1Btodyiof the New York authori-
 Pointing to this record of a legal battle lasting eight years, the critic of t1he American administration of jus tice will triumphantly ask:
 Would Harry K. Thaw be alive to- day, eight years after the corffnissfcn of his crime, If he had not possessed the Thaw millions, used in the er1l- pICyn1ant Of the best legal talent and the greatest a1ienists in the country7
 
 ' Today is the anniversary of that his- torfc battle between British and Chinese ships in 1859, when Josiah Tattna1l commander of tie Asiatac squadron Of the United States seeing the English about to. be overwhelmed by the 'eheafhen Chinese,,' went to their assistance, and explained his vio-g 1atlon of the neutrality laws by the statement, "Blood is thicker than wa ter" Tattna1 was a Geor g1an, and served in the Confederate navy during the civil war