Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-25
NEW SENSATION SPRUNG
BY STATE IN THAW CASE
pulsion From Harvard
in 1892
UNDIsMAYED By DEVELOPMENT
Day Strongly Favorable to Establish
ment Of Prisoners Sanity-Many
Witnesses Attest Their Belief In
His Nationality.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.

lSpecial to The Times -Dispatch.1
NEW YORK. June 24.-A new SEN
sation was sprung in the Thaw case
| to-day by the announcement Of Deputy
Attorney General Cook that he will
| delve into the reasons for Thaw's ex-
pulsion from Harvard University in
| 1892 in the effort to establish his pres
ent insanity.
Scandalous details never before
brought to light. which will material
ly aid the States contention Of in
sanity. are alleged to lie behind the
abrupt termination OF Thaw's univer-
sty career
"Thnw was called into President
Eliots office at noon one day" said
Cook to-day. "and told to leave by 3
o'clock, and understand that he did
unofficially. I am in possession Of the
details. but I desire to have them In
legal form TO lay before the jury"
Justice Hendrick will tomorrow
morning pass upon Cooks application
for the appointment of a commissioner
to take the testimony at Cambridge of
former President Eliot on his reasons
for dismissinE Thaw. Stanchheld
counsel for .Thaw, declined to join In
request for the appointment of the
commission. Cook. however, asserted
that the judge had intimated n purpose
to grant the motion.
Thaw's reasons for leaving Harvard
have never been explained.
THAw IS UNDIsMAYED
BY LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Thaw. however. is undismayed by
this latest development in his fight for
freedom. At the conclusion OF the
session to-day. day strongly favor
able to the legal establishment of his
sanity. he said regarding the Harvard
incident:
This commission matter simply
shows that Cook is waving the white
flag preparatory to surrender He has
not been able to get anything new
that dates within the past twenty
years. He is simply showing that he
is vigilant In the interests OF Attorney
General Woodbury.. He is starting on
fishing expedition. That's all the
commission amounts to-
1T is absolutely untrue that DR..
Eliot called me to his office at noon
and asked me to leave the university
by o'clock. What occurred, 1 prefer
not to say. I prefer to leave it to DR..
Eliot. am quite willing to accent
his statement. and content myself with
pointing out that Mr.. Cook shows in
this course that he is not interested
chiefly in the question of my present
sanity"
Active and alert. but calm amid the
storm and stress of legal combat.
Thaw beamed his satisfaction to-day
as witness after witness. who had been
associated closely with him during the
past eight years. attested n belief in
his nationality.
VALUABLE TESTIMONY
OF FORMER SHERIFF
Especially valuable to the Thaw side
was the testimony of Holman A. Drew
former sheriff OF Coos County, N. H..
who for sixteen months preceding
Thaw's return to New York was at his
side constantly as his legal guard
regard him as absolutely rational"
said Sheriff Drew. summing up his i'm
pressions OF long and constant asso-
citation with Thaw.
turning to the reporters table as
Drew uttered this opinion, Thaw, in
unconcealed joy. said:
"1f there was any question of nv
sanity, you reporters would have taken
his testimony word for word lie was
with me for sixteen months. He is an
educated man, as you see, graduate
or Dartmouth. His testimony is worth
that of all the alienists put together.
The others who have testified were
with me only comparatively short
time But Drew knows me-"
called TO the stand late in the after
noon. Drew. sturdy. broad-faced.
clear-eyed New England type. told OF
his arrest of Thaw when the latter
first entered New Hampshire. There
after the two were together constantly
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