The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-15
THAW IS FOUND SANE BY JURY AND
 JUDGE WILL MAKE
 DECISION FRIDAY
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rhaw then filed into room adjoining the
 court, where photographers were waiting | Thaw himself moved the benches ana
 chairs around In the room so that he and
 all the jurymen might get into the pie l ture.
 | It was with great difficulty that court | attendants and deputy sheriffs prevented ! scores of men and women from dashing up to Thaw in the courtroom to congrat-
 ulate him. It was with much more diff | iculty that the crowd was cleared from | the courthouse.
 Outside the courthouse there is a wide , flight of stone steps which had been l crowded all afternoon with hundreds of persons. The street and the sidewalks on either side of it were also congested. When ThaW, fianked by deputy sheriffs, | appeared in the doorway a great cheer went up. Thaw seemed much pleased. | Still in the center of the cordon of deputy sheriffs Thaw crossed the street | and went to the sheriff s offlce There he | removed his coat, lighted a cigar, and looked out of the window at the great crowd being dispersed by policemen. l Tonight Thaw was taken to the office of | a physician to have wound in his hand dressed. It was said he received the in- | jury while playing with medicine ball 1 in the Ludlow street Jail last night. Two Ballots Taken
 Explaining why two ballots were taken, 1 one of the jurors, Paul J. Marks, a | brother of the president of the Borough | of Manhattan, said that on the first bal | lot the vote Il to one that Thaw was | sane. The dissenting juror said that he cast his ballot that way more matter | of form than anything else. that the verdict would not be rendered without for nal discussion The vote was unanimous | on the second ballot.
 | MT. Marks also said that he and the | other members of the jury believed that | 1haw was eccentric and. possibly, men, 1 tally weak, but that they did not believe | that he would harm anyone else. l History of Case
 Thaw began his fight for freedom fol- lowing the staying of Stanford White on
 the roof of Madison Square Garden or l the night of June 25. 1906. After two sen | satonal trials. the first of which resulted | in a disagreement, Thaw was acquitted 1 on the ground of insanity, but was or dered committed to Matteawan.
 In 1908 Thaws counsel obtained writs oi
 habeas corpus requiring his examination 1 in court with view to establishing hi: | sanity, but these were denied.
 Thaw subsequently, made dash for lib | erty in August 19l3 escaping In an auto mobile to Coatlcook, Quebec, where he wa. | ldiitSttb. ne iatct WdS TtitdSeu duu Sen 1 back across the border. being arrested fl | New Hampshire. There a commission 1 declared him mentally sound. Then fol | lowed many legal battles to preven Thaws return to New York. He lost ant
 was brought back here. and with those
 who aided in his escape was tried on | charge of conspiracy All were acquitted
 Thaw having been declared mentally | sound in New Hampshire, his counse | then started proceedings here to have hi: | sanity established in the state which stil | was fighting to have him returned tc 1 Matteawan. A motion for a trial by jury
 was granted by Judge Hendrick April 23 The trial was begun on June %.