The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-15
THE RIcHMoNp NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. July Is 1915

to know him we'll. gathered about
him. IF Justice Hendrick had dis.
charged me from custody today
should have left for Pittsburg tonight
But as he has not ret intimated what
his final decision is. do not care
to make any statement at this tinie
about my future plans"
Nobody who talked 10 Thaw. how
/, ever. had any doubt that he was quite
confident at the time that his re-
lease was merely a matter OF hours
II Is possible, of course, that Justice
Hendrick may have a different idea
altogether, but Thaw did not seem
| to think that he is to be sent pack
to Matteawan.
!, At the Waldorf, where Thaw dined
4 later with Sheriff Grifenhagen AMI
Deputy Sheriff Miller. he decided 10
go more into detail about his plans
i for the future. This was after he
had taken taxicab trip from the
| Emigrant Savings Bank Building
where the sheriff's Offices are To-
Gated, to the office of his physician
DR.. Silio. in West Fifty-seventh
Street. and then had ambled down
to the Waldorf for dinner
To Settle Down to Work.
IT expect to go out to the coast II
/ am liberated by Justice Hendrick,' -
said Thaw to intervfewers. AFTER
that trip shall return to Pittsburg
and devote the rest of my life to BUSH
ness"
/ What sort of business?" Thaw
was asked.
i ITO looking after my property" he
replied. and added with a grin. IF ]
have any property left"
! When Thaw had ended his dinner
he returned with Sheriff Grifenhagen
and the deputy to Ludlow-Street jail.
/ Thaw showed no emotion Of any
kind when the jury fled into an ex-
pectant courtroom and declared him
sane. Neither did his mother, his
sister. Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie,
! or any other member of the family
Benjamin Thaw, and Thaw's half
brother, Josiah.
/ Jury Takes Two Ballots.
The jury. which returned at ESQ
O'Clock p. M. following brief
I charge by Justice Hendrick, returned
/ to the courtroom fifty-three minutes
later. The jury needed only two bal
] lots to arrive at Adhesion.
/ On the first ballot juror No. IL,
1 Charles A. Basil. cast the only vote
against declaring Thaw sane Mr..
DdElf uiSdSEEGu WIN the OtAST GfCNSn
jurors, however, not because he
thought Thaw should be returned to
! Matteawan. but because he believed
1 his adverse vote would give the fury
an opportunity for further discussion.
Thereupon the jury talked over tne
main points of the case. DR.. Austin
Flint, the States chief alienist, had
said on the witness stand that in de-
Gliding whether or not man was a
paranoiac, asolutely the only thing
/ judge and jury he'd to go on was what
expert alienists had to say on the
question
The experts alone swore DIR. Flint.
and not lay witnesses, were qualified
to say whether or not Thaw was sane.
Pay No Heed to Flint.
| In his charge to the jury Justice
Hendrick brought up this statement
OF DIR. Flint and told the jury he did
not believe that only the word of the
alienists was of value when the jury
were making up their minds about
Thaw's sanity. The jury went the
Judge ore better: when they began
| To deliberate after the preliminary
ballot they decided unanimously early
| In the elaboration to disregard ABB
solutely the testimony of alienists al
together.
| The fury went even further and
discussed whether or not IL would be
advisable to draft a letter to the
Legislature. asking IL something
| couldn't be done about limiting the
| activities OF experts In cases such az
the one they were celebrating over
| at the time. There was no doubt, II
one were to Judge by the tone OF
the Jurors remarks following the
rendering Of their decision. that they
held the testimony of experts as next
door to silly.
History OF Famous Case.
| six smiling girls were twisting and
| turning In the big Six dance. to the
accompaniment of light musical COM
edy music, on the stage of the Madi-
son Square Roof Garden few min
utes after IL o'clock on the night OF
Juneh28, 1905. A rather distinguish
ed looking man OF fifty was leaning
forward with his chin on the palm
! of his right hand ana his elbow rest
| Ing on a table not far from the stage.
| At thu same moment a young man
with blanched face and wild eyes. who
| bit his lips In nervous agitation,
rapidly, but quietly, approached the
| elder man ana pulling a revolver
from coat pocket, exclaimed
| hoarseiy:
| "You--you have ruined my life.
You ought to die, and you are go-
ring to- - se .ssz-'
Almost simultaneously there was
| the report OF a revolver shot follows
ed by two others In rapid succession.
The elder man. who had not had a
chance for his life, collapsed In his
lchair--dead.
And that instant there was cre-
ated the most notorious murder case
| IN the history OF this country. IL
has stood without parallel ever since.
Harry Kendall Thaw had shot 20
death Stanford White. the foremost
architect in the United states, and
| on top of Whites greatest nonu-
ment.
The first bullet went wild. bury
ing itself in the wall OF the roof gar
den The other shots found their
mark One penetrated Whites sto-
mach and the other his brain through
the left eye. HE HE'D instantly.
Tfaaw was very pale, but cool and
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