The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-25
TO ASK ELIOT WHY
THAW QUIT HARVARD
Court Will Pass on Question of
Sending a Commission
to Cambridge.
HIS FRIENDS on STAND
Down Casters and Canadians
Many Of Them-Say lie
Surely Is Sane.

II was day OF days for Harry
Thaw yesterday as troops OF witnesses
from Canada and New Hampshire. who
had sold him pianos or automobiles or
or were highly paid by him for their
services while he was In their towns
or villages after his escape. took the
stand steadily and testified with enthu-
siasm that he was everything desirable
from. as one witness put 1t, tho most
rational fisherman ever saw" up to
the sort of citizen Canada needs
Wherefore long before the morning
session of the insanity hearing before
Supreme Court Justice Peter Hendrick
had got its real impetus all the Thaw
of former days was beginning to assert
itself. The kind words said In praise
of his mental accomplishments as wit
ness after witness took the stand seemed
to stimulate him TO a new--or rather
the old-enthuslasm.
Soon he was giving out statement
after statement TO the newspaper men at
his elbow during sessions In court and
as he strolled the corridors during a
newed vigor.
lie was no longer content to sit In
enforced idleness' as he has been sit
ting since Tuesday. with young Morgan
]. O'Brien, Jr.. seated as "A sort OF
buffer at his elbow and thus separating
him from the lawyers actively conduct-
ing his case. AS the day wore on Thaw
got up alertly, squeezed his way back
of the younger Mr.. O'Brien's chair and
pumped himself down directly next to
Harvard Dismissal brought Up.
only once. and that late in the day.
adverse news reached him when he
heard Deputy Attorney-General Cook
explaining to newspaper men in answer
to their questions that the state had
asked for and expected TO obtain court
order to send commission to Massa-
chusetts to take the testimony OF Presi-
dent Emeritus Charles w. Eliot regard
Harvard in 1892.
Thaw instantly leaned over the press
table to take a listening part in the talk
between Mr.. Cook and the reporters.
Immediately he began to issue state
ments to the press table.
I'VE understand" Mr. Cook had said
when asked about the commission. that
President Eliot one day called Thsw
into his office AT noon and told him
fatty that he must get out OF Harvard
by 3 o'clock that afternoon. II that Is
so, We want to know Why. Application
for the appointment of a commission to
take President Eliots testimony has
been made and We shall know probab bly,
in the morning whether or not our re-
quest will be granted
That" said Thiw in one of the state
ments he issued thercupon, shows that
Cook is faking IN His sanity examine
tion here. 1t Is the waving Of the white
flag by Cook preparatory to surrender.
Cook In running down a twentyyear-
old story shows that he hasn't been able
to get any other evidence to present
here.
Cook is showing that he is vigilant
in the interest OF Attorney-General
Woodbur Thaw's statement went on.
Hes starting on "A fishing expedition
and that's all this commission he's going
to try to send to Massachusetts amounts
to. It's untrue that Dr. Eliot called me
to his office at midday or noon and asked
me to leave the university at 3 T., NJ.
What occurred ] prefer to leave to
Dr, Eliot. am quite willing to accept
his statement and content myself with
out that Mr.. Cook shows in this
course that he IL not chiefly interested
in the question of sanity"