New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-25
Jokes as He Breakfasts in
Hotel Belmont After
Silent Reception.
DRAGS DOCTOR INTO
PICTURE AT PRISON
viii Be Arraigned To-day
on Conspiracy Charge
Wife FleeS City.


great outdoors, which he has enjoyed
almost without restriction FOR the last
seventeen months, and fit himself once
more into an by by 8 foot cell
among the shut-ins, bound about by the
concrete walls and steel bars Of the
Tombs prison.
Trout fishing in the brooks Of New
Hampshire. bracing walks and chatty
evenings with the genial Sheriff Drew,
who was his keeper there. and the
privilege Of going about at will to visit
friends. all faded into the memories Of
things that have been. and Thaw found
himself again in the same place he
was when, more than eight wears ago.
he was committed to the Tombs to
await trial for the murder % Stanford
White.
This transition from liberty 10 prison
life again had no visible depressing
effect on him. lie seemed buoycd up
almost TO the state of elation by the
hone with which his lawyers have filled
him. that he cannot lose the new fight
for his liberty he is about 20 make on
New York soil.
A he got off the train from Boston
shortly after Z o'clock at the Grand
Central Terminal his face was gay with
smiles. and he walked jauntily with his
keepers through the station 10 the
Hotel Belmont for breakfast.
Gets No Ovation Here.
There we're a few early travellers
abroad, and they gathered in curious
group to look at him. They were silent.
But this lack OF the ovation which he
has come to expect from an admiring
populace wherever he goes did not dash
his spirits. He realized j vas 100 early
for his real constituents 20 be cut.
lie recognized here and there news
psper men he has met in his eight and
more years OF notoriety, and greeted
them with variety OF Jokes that
seemed to rise spontaneously from his
optimism. He ate his breakfast with
relish, joking and chatting all the
time. and then was taken by Sheriff
Hornbeck in a taXicab and delivered TO
Headkeeper julius Bremel at the
Tombs.
Bremel was new man 70 him. but
he found an old friend in DR.. Frank A.
Mcclure. the Tombs physician. He
threw his arm about the doctors shoul-
der and insisted on dragging him into
the picture the photographers asked
him TO pose for. The posing was done
with the bars Of the inner gate OF the
prison as a background.
"I didn't want 70 come TO New York
lust now" Thaw babbled IN his pc
culiar. quick pronunciation, which hops
from word to word, "but Mr.. Jerome
insisted
He had no statements TO make yes
terdav. but never lost chance to give
Jerome dig. He was in such high
spirits that he was willing to be face
tious even toward Jerome.
The first scene in the new fight he
will make for his liberty will come this
roorniug. when he is arraigned before
Justice Davis on the conspiracy charge
Tor which he was eXtradited. IL TINS
foht William Travers Jerome and John
r Stanchfeld will be pitted against
each other
Lawyers in Dilemma.
Roth OF them will be armed with the
horns Of the same dilemms, and each
will try 20 turn the two points or j.
against the other. On one hand, Mr.
Jerome has fought all these years 20
keep Thaw incsrcerated on the ground
that he is insane. but IN TINS hght ne
will have to prove that he was sane,
st least al the time of and in regard
10 the act of conspiracy with which ne
is charged.
Mr.. 5tanchfeld. on the other hand,
will have client in Thaw who has
been trying ever since committed 20
Vstteawan 20 establish his sanity IN
order TO get out, but in order 20 de-
fend himself IN the present case ne
will have 10 plead mis- adJudged lnsan-
F itv as a bar TO his prosecution.
Anv number OF results can be figured
A. the outcome of the interlocking o.
these two opposed views OF the same
dilemma. One way is that If Jerome
succeeds In convicting Ihsw ne viii
place Thaw in position OF claiming
that ne has By the same token been
proved sane. And II Stancnfeld sue
ceeds in getting Thaw acquitted New
YORK can claim that by that same token
Thaw's insanity has been redeclsred.
IL seems 10 be case in which each
side rides the otner's horse as suits
jts purpose: and II will depend upon
the respective legal devices. forensic
arts. wits and dexterity of Stanchneld
and Jerome as 10 who travels the last
est and goes the furthest on the
horses.
/ Mr.. Stanchfeld said Yesterday that
the course Of events to-day upon ar
raignment would be the fixing of a
future date fos pleading and for trial.
81 do not expect the trial for five or
six weeks" he said. but | think Thaw
will be given the opportunity 10 plead
in three or four days. As TO whether
an application for Thaw's release on
bail will be made, ! have not seen my
client vet. | expect 10 talk with him
tomorrow. and that question will be
decided then Thaw is charged with a
misdemeanor and is absolutely entitled
under the law 10 his release on bail
Safe from Matteawsn Yet.
When it was suggested that Mr..
Jerome would oppose bail, he SAID that
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