The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-20


 Pittsburgh, Pa. July 2o-Mrs,sI Mary Cooley Thaw; clad entirely in white. stood in the doorway Of the5 Thaw residence in the east end, atI 6:25 o'clock last evening Before hef f stretched the broad lawns of the eszJ fate Beyond the velvet acres lay Beeehwood Boulevard, one of the finest stretch es of roadway in 'Penn-a sy1vania.
 The aged woman was watching the noint where the boulevard meets Fifth Avenue at right angles. She had stood thus for five minutes when f a high powered automobile swung swiftly from the avenue to the ooule7. ward.
 l The machine contained three men, one of whom was waving white handkerchief. The salutation was re- turned. The man who waved the Handkerchief was Harry Kendall Tnaw, who June Is, 1906, left Pitts burgh to slay Stanford White in New York nine days later, and who imme-s dfately thereafter began the fight for his own life and liberty which ended l last Saturday in his release on bail.
 Wild Rushsof Autos. E Directly behind Thaw,s car plung- Led a machine equal power contain- ing Chief of Police Matth ews lieu tentnt of police in much gold braid and newspapermen. The Chief was. standing up, vainly giving orders to a dozen members of the motorcycle squad who were making desperate but unsuccessful efforts to control a, hum dred chauffeurs who seemed to have l suddenly gone speed mad.
 The hundred were guiding as many machines containing a yelling, cheer ling throng of Thaw-crazeds enthusi- asts. Considering the speed and the i enthusiasm it might have well been a Vanderbilt Cup race Pittsburgh, a city of many strange experiences l nGver before saw the like. And 1t fis doubtful if any other city ever did
 Behind Chief Matthews,s car tratI- ed a motley procession of careening motor vehicles containing as many wo-s men as men. Along the side of the roadway, wholly regardless of traffic i regulations spedi half a dozen n1a- chimes with moving picture operators grinding out yards of film The Ch1ef LyeIled at them. They didn't even stop i to cuss back. They merely ground l out more film.
 A young woman driving a. racing car was peremptorily ordered to stop l She merely took one hand from the 4wheeI long enough to twiddle her t fingers at her nose aiming at the IChief. One Of her feminine compan- irons wasted enough breath to shout l that the Chief didn't actually sown l Pittsburgh-yet.
 Too Happy to Cry
 The dizzy procession swept up the ThaEyv drive and Thawts ear came. to a stop so suddenly under the porte cochere that it slid ten feet Within Tone second tn ereafter the former pris- oner was in the arms of his mother. She smiled joyfully, but not a tear meistened5 her eyes Apparently she was too happy to cry. Run up and change your clothes. for we are ready for supper" was her greeting.
 But Thaw didn't go upstairs just I then, for the pursuing crowd had throng were number of local re- porters he knew and he wanted to say a few words to them
 ''It is just tfis,'' he said, while the moving picture man ground their . cranks, ''to return to Pittsburgh has been my desire so long that I do not finds words to express myself now E. that I am at home. Also want to : thank my friends, so many of them, flor helping me toward this success that I now can name but one, my mother
 Then into the house rushed ThaM and upstairs to his room, leaving Daniel w. Dean, the detective who : had accompanied him from New York : to report to John B. Stanchheld Thaw's counsel in New York, that he - had successfully fulfilled his mission and delivered Thaw to Ids mother. } The reporters wanted some word from Thaw concerning the interview with David Robinsons foreman Of the Thaw jury, who declared in Atlantic City yesterday that he had believed Thaw sane before he went into the jury box and had refused to be guided by a part of the charge of Justice Hendrick.
 Replies to Jury Foreman On the way from P11iladelphda where Thaw spent last night, the slayer of White was told that Attor- : Iley General Woodbury of New York 5 had declared this interview wouIc $ aid in. the states appeal and inighr form the basis Of an investigation Thaw gave out the following state ment:
 The statement of the foreman
 of the jury agrees with the optn-
 ion of ndne out of ten of the peo- pie in the state of New York who
 have expressed themselves to me. < The sentiment in New Hamp-
 shire was a little different, but in Canada, in Boston and from ! everywhere this side of New York tlne same opinion Is held by the great majority of people. The same idea is to be found not in Judge Delrnas' speech.
 which extended the limits too widely, but in District Attorney Jerome's summing up. You can { find itNin a dozen of his strongest assertions to the 1908 jury be-
 fore it acquitted me-
 Any talk, of the $50, ,00o Attor-
 ney General, MT. Woodbury, that
 the jurynan's position would
 help him, is bunconb. Aside from
 the fact that Justice Hendrick stated he accepted the purely in-
 dfvidual, and consequently. worth less, opinions of other Judges, MT. T Woodbury knows that he had no
 evidence of insanity and that when he presented case with no basis, except that he admit
 ted perjury of his chief witness, E he might well have been held himself in contempt of court for
 wasting the time of the. Judge