Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-28
THAW DECLARED SANE
BY STATE COMMISSION
AFTER HIS ESCAPE
General Streeter Testifies
Investigators Made Thor
ough Study of His Con-
dition-Report Admitted
as Evidence.

NEW YORK, June 2s.-Harry X. Thaw
..ored heavily today in his fight to prove
u. sanity before Justice Hendrick and
Jury, evidence being admitted that the
STATE of New Hampshire found Whites
.,ayer to be sane man after his escape
from Matteawan Asylum.
General Frank s. streeter. of Concord,
H.. who was chairman of the com
mission appointed by Federal Judge
Aldrlch in 1914 to examine Thaw as to
Ne sanity, swore that ne firmly be-
lieyed the prisoner was sane. The COM
mission found Thaw sane.
The state failed to shake streeter on
eross-examlnation, Deputy Attorney GEN
eral Becker attempted to show that as a
jayman General Streeter did not know
enough about paranola to Judge Thaw's
FgTditlon. Streeter replied that he was
the defender of the late Mary Baker
Eddy. Christian Science leader, in her
famous trial on the same charge.
Becker quickly dropped that line OF
uuestioning
streeter said he received about $1,000 for
hls work on the Thaw commission, and
that the other members received $1,000
zach Thaw, he said, paid for this.
sharp clash between counsel occurred
when Becker objected TO reading into the
record the sanity commissions report
Justice Hendrick ruled that the COM
misson's report would be admitted as
oyIdenoe. This commission, on January
1914 gave the slayer of Stanford White
a clean bill of health regarding his sanity.
vivid word picture of the dramatic
L., NnHIcnr
Garden nine years ago was given by Cen
sral streeter who said Thaw told the
commission that 1t was when he first pro-
nosed to marry her that Evelyn Nesbit
told him the story about the architect
that finally led him to shoot White.
streeter testified that Thaw told the COM
mission the story of the killing unemo-
tionally. and said he said he was sorry
! moment after 1t occurred.
"Thaw told US" said Streeter, that as
he and Evelyn were going down the aisle
abe leaned over and whispered there's
that beast White Then Thaw walked
over to the table where White sat, pulled
his gun and shot him. He broke a gun
a moment later to reassure the crowded
room. Thaw told us that he knew he
had done wrong instantly and regretted
Il"
General Streeter said he firmly believed
that Thaw Is now sane.
''This case speaks for itself" Thaw said.
rThere is no need for me to say any
thing. All these witnesses, experts and
laymen believe me sane now. 1t makes
no difference what Jerome and others
may say about my mental condition in
past years"
A scathing rebuke to the New York
press for its attitude in the present Harry
X Thaw sanity case was delivered by
Justice Hendrick at the resumption of the
trial today He warned the newspaper
writer's that hereafter they would have
to confine themselves to the record in
writing their stories of the Thaw case
II want to warn the newspaper men
and their editors that If this trial by the
newspapers Is not stopped 1 will summon
them before me for contempt OF court" "
said Justice Hendrick
II also became known that the court
warned the attorneys on both sides to
be more careful of their utterances to re-
porters. 1t was understood that the
courts attitude was caused by stories
With the case.
It became known during the session
that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, for whom sub
poena servers have been searching. IS
still at the camp of Jack Clifford, her
dancing partner, at Chateaugay Lake, in
the Adirondacks, 2l miles from Malone,
N. Y. She did not go to Canada, as re-
ported. Subpoena servers sent by Deputy
Attorney General Cook failed to find her.
The real fireworks of the trial are ex-
peeted to come when the State produces
William T. jerome, former District At
torney and for eight years Thaw's me
mesis."
1t was announced that the examination
Of Dr. Charles w. Eliot, president emer-
itus Of Harvard University, would be
made on Wednesday at Cambridge.