The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-15
Final Decision to Be Given
by the Court. Probably
Tomorrow.
BIG CROWD RUSHES TO
SHAKE SLAYER'S HAND
Hats Smashed in Press as
Cameras Click and Cheers
Are Shouted.
VERDICT Is REACHED
IN JUST 53 MINUTES
Two Ballots Taken. but
Opinion Is Unanimous
From the Start.

Harry K Thaw won the hrs, very
!; portant victory in his nine Yeas OF
fighting for freedom when a Jury which
since three ks ago last Tucsday
has been listening to testimony regard
ing his present sanity yesterday after
noon brought in q verdict that Thaw
now is sane.
What the jury decided Is OF vaiu" only
dnasmuch as it may pr may not influence
supreme Court Justice Peter a Hem
drick. II is for Justice Hendrck to say
next wh.ther Thaw should be released
from custody or sent back to Matteawan.
Justice Hcndrck may II he wishes dis
card the jurys opinion and say that
Thuw still is insane. the jui. in the
present hearing being Ilerely an ad-
visory body.
Thaw's chief counsel, John Il. Stdnch-
than an hour after the jurymen had re-
tired. filed In and said that in their
opinion Thaw is now sane moved that
Thaw he released from custody that mo-
mcnt. Justice liendrick the'eupon SAID
he would make his final decision later.
This morning Justice .Hendrick and the
lawyers for and against Tha : release
Will N. ct in his chambers Il. II oclocK
Mr.. Stanchficld III then ask again that
the commitment by Justice bowling OF
1haw to Matteawau In 1905 H., declared
void and Thaw set free. Deputy Attor-
ney-General Becker ls expected to op-
pose this.
1t is thought that Justloa Hendrick,
no matter what he may have 10 say
this morning 10 the lawyers privately
regarding his decision, will not until to-
morrow forenoon make formal public
announcement az to whether he thinks
Thaw should be freed What Justice
HendriCk says then will be iinal-Thaw
may pick up his hat and '!alk up town
free man at Justice Hendricks say so,
or, if the Justir, SO decides, he Will 10
back to Matt"dwdu.
But from the cheers. the handshakes
he hand clappiHg and general hurrah
r's,de and outside of the County Court
House Yesterday afternoon one gathered
tiat about 1000 Tha n supporters at
least laborcd under the mistaken notion
that the jury's decision means freedom
for Thaw.
straw hats were smashed In the wild
ir.ss II humans who wanted to shake
Tnaw's hand. Moving picture operators
PEI ched high on the Court House steps
steadily clicked their cameras. Baval-
los Of newspaper camera men fell over
one another as they backed through the
h,ering crowd to snap Thaw again
and again when he left the Court House
IN triumph.
Iiashllght after hashlght had been
t.ken before this in n court room ad-
joining the one in which the jury had
decided him sane. lie vas flashed stand
i"r with the jury, carefully posed in
the all absorbing act pf shaking hands
with the dminutlNe foreman Of the jury.
bpvid Robinson Of 5l7 West 18th
street In that picture the jury was
pictured also as "A standing background.
snapped In Many Poses.
smile pretty, Harry" laughed a girl
as the nashlight men carefully posed
Thaw and the foreman during this first
p.1ture taking. and everybody laughed
Look at the bluebird. Harry" "A
blue uniformed court officer said face
,lodsly about the same time.
They took him sitting down--ths was
while the thousands were waiting out
size me uohl ana ubWn IN chambers
street to whoop things III for hlm-and
they photographed him standing up The
hashlight powder banged again and
again and the smoke hung heavy in
the hot room Jurors We're having the
time of their lives and although none
OF them, so far as could he learned,
ever had addressed "A word 10 HIM in
their lives until. a few minutes before,
he had walked to the jury box to shake
their hands in turn, all Of them during
the picture taking were addressing him
AS Harry.
And" said Sheriff Grifonhagen in
a worried way while the hullahaloo of
congratulations and photograph making
in the empty court room was going on,
the Judge Will give me hell for this!
This man is not yet out OF jurisdiction
Of the court"
The sheriff seemed 10 be the only un-
happy person in sight. Squads Of re-
purtcrS standing to one side and TAX
ing it all in were glceful, So were tho
camera men, who were having the time
of their young lives as they made Thaw
hold pOses--and the 'relator" didn't ob-
ject to holding them which were
strongly suggestive of an East Side
wedding group, The jurors. who five
minutes earlier had asked the court for
extra compensation because three weeks
of jury duty had taken them away from
their various jobs, seemed happlest of
to sit next to me" during the picture
taking.