The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-20
THAW GETS HOME
AFTER NINE YEARS,
10000 MEET HIM
Grppts Mother Before Pitts
burg Crowd. Giving Her
Credit for Freedom.
SAYS DEAL IN STOCKS
PAID LEGAL EXPENSES

r,TrsgrRG. July 1o.--Harry X. Thaw
got home tonight and was met NJ the
train by a crowd Of 10000.
train by A crowd Of 10000. II was his
hrst appearance here In nine years,
He had half a dozen motorcycle po-
,icemen TO clear the way for his auto
mobile. Superintendent of Police Mat
the VS. on hand in another
directing the job and a procession Oh
automobiles Of admirers or the curious
trailing behind. When he reached the
Thaw home he had "a mob to welcome
him while IL trampl.d the lawn and a
battery of moving picture and ordinary
cameras ON the porch and on the lawn
and on the driveway to record every
move and expression OF the man who
Killed stanford Waite. His mother stood
In the doorway to meet MIN ana sinileu
1t the crowds and the photographers.
The picture taking done with. Thaw
issued another written statement to the
press.
He said ITO return to Pittsburg has
been my desire for so long that ! do not
fnds words to express myself, no" that l
am home. II also | want to thank my
tflepus, so many VI lutHl, lOl htilNic
toward this success. that now i can
name but one-my mother
On the train on the way 10 Pittsburg'
Thaw said that the reports OF the eX-
pense OF his trials and efforts to get out
of Mattea wan had been exaggerated. HE
said that his first trial cost him hun-
dreds Of thousands of dollars, but that
the second cost much less. The hght
cost his family nothing. he said. lie
borrowed the money from his sisters
and mother and paid his sisters back
but his mother lost 50 per cent. OF tne
money she put up through his being
forced into bankruptcy. Thaw said that
he made enough In stocks during the
panic OF 1907 TO pay all his expenses
except for the last proceeding.
While coming from philadelphia
Harry Thaw issued a statement to news
pape men IN accompanied hin tt
Pittsburg concerning the published re
ports that Attorney-General Woodbur.
Of New York state declared the inter
views printed with David Robinson
foreman of the jury which freed Thaw
strengthened the States appeal from the
verdict. Thaw's statement follows
9Th statement of the foreman of thu
Jury agrees with the opinion OF mn
out Of ten people In the State OF New
York who have expressed themselves u
me. The sentiment III New "ffanlpsnITe
was a little different. but in Canada. II
Boston and from everywhere this sid'
Of New York the same opinion Is held
BY the great majority of people.
THE same idea is to be found not II
Judge Delmas's speech, which EXTENDED
the limits too widely. but in District Al
torney Jcrome's summing up. You cal
ind il in a dozen OF his strongest as
s~ertions TO the 1905 jury before l
acquitted me.
ANY talk OF the $4,000 Attorney
General. .ir. Woodbury., that the jury
mems position would help him is bun
combe. Aside from the fact that Justic'
Hendrick stated he accepted the purel.
individual and consequently worthless
opinion OF other Judges, Mr.. Woodbur.
knows that he had no evidence OF in
sanity and that when he presented
case with 10 basis except the admitted
perjury OF his chief witness he nigh
almost have been held himself in con
tempt OF court for wasting the time o
the Judge and the jury by forcing then
to listen TO what is commonly calle'
hot air"
Tonight the Thaws had a family re
union They would not say who wa
present and aothing was said a. I
Aarry's plans for the future.