The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-15


 for freedom when jury which since ka5.se weeks ago last Thursday has been listening to testimony regarding his present sanity, yesterday after noon brought in a verdict that TaaW now Is sane.
 what the jury decided is of value. only inasrnuch as it snay or may not hndauence Supreme Court Justice Pe- Ter A Hendrick It is for Justice Hendrtck to say next whether Ihasy should be released from custody or sent back to MatteaWan- Justice EET5er,tsrScIc may if he wishes discard 3he jury's opinion and say that Ifasaw AstiIi is Insane, the jury in the present hearing being merely an advisory body.
 Stanch17eId, inln1e diately after the I1z1xv. less than an hour after the jury linen had retired filed in and said that lin their opinion Thaw Is now sane, xnoved that Tf1asw be reieased rom Ecustody that moment Justice Hen artclx thereupon said he would make his final decision later
 rlaSs naorning Justice Hendrick and itae lawyers for and against ThaST s EreIease will meet in his chambers at II clock MT StanchfeId will then tasI< aeain that the commitment by iTnst1ce DowIing of Thaw to Mattea- I7van in 1908 be declared void and sr1aaxz set freq Deputy Attorney eGseneral Becker is expected toloppose gthis-
 Decision Expected To-1norrovs.
 It is thought that Justice Hendrick, mo matter what he may have to say thds morning to the lawyers priyate- E1y regarding his decision, VIII not un- ltiI tomorrow forenoon make as formal public announcement as to whether he thinks Thaw should be freed What Justice Hendrfek says then VIII be an sNwa1k up town a free man at 2 ustdce Hendrick sayso. or, if the Justice so decides. he VIII go back to Aatbea- an.
 But from the cheers the hand and, shaIzes the cla.ppisae and general klla1frash inside and oItside of the County Court House yesterday after noon one gathered that about ?, 0ees sThaw supporters at teast labored url- der the mistaken notion that he Jl1ry's kdecfsion means freedom for T11aW
 Straw hats were smashed in the wild press of humans who wanted to Shake zFhsJr' $ hand. Moving picture opera tors perched high on the court house steps steadily clicked their eaIneFas. BattaIions of newspaper camera men fell over one another as they backed tiarough the cheering crowd to snap .Thaw again and again when he left the court house in triumph.
 FlashIignt after hashiigh had been taken before this in a court room ad- Jcfnfng the one in which the 5ulEy had decided h5In sane He was flashed standing with the jury, earef ful1sz pos ed in. the all absorbing act of shaking hands with the di1llinutive foreman of the jury David R Rohinson of 517 West St4 streeas n that picture the jury pictured also as a standing back ground,
 snapDed in Many Poses
 
 girl as the dashIight men carefully posed Thaw and the foreman during this first picture takingsS and every body laughed.
 look at tae bluebir Harry a blue unifor1aed court officer said face flously about the same time
 They took him sitting downz--this WAS while tne thou ntls were waiting outside the door and down in Cham 6ers street to Whoop things up for hfrn and they paotosraphed h i'm standing up The Has night powder smoke hung heavy in the hot room Jurors were having the time of 6hef1 lives; and aIthofgh none of them, SC lar as could be learned, ever had ad- dressed word to him in their lives until few minutes befores he had walked to the jury box to shake their hands in turn. all of them during the picture taking were addressing him as Harry.
 And said sherif Grifenhagen fr q worried way while the hunabaIoc oi cpugra6ulatfons and photograph rnak- ing on. t1ae judge will give me heT for thist TIads man is not yet oui Of Jurisdiction of the court :
 The sheriff seemed to be the onfy unhappy person in sight Squad: Of reporters standing to one side and H. 1.l ~. the camera men, who " ere having ths time of their young lives as they made T1lHsw1 hold poses#and the srelator' didn't object to holding tfe1n-whicE were strongly suggestive of an East Side wedding group. The jurors who five minutes earlier. had asked the court for extra compensation be cause three weeks of jury duty had taken away from their various Ii jobs seemed happiest of all as they called laughingIy to Harry to :ssit next tC me- during the picture taking.
 His Tr1unphaI March
 And then there was the triurnpha. march to the outer world, down tht various flights of stairs between soli6 ranks Of persons who srnacked thei1 hands together like rnilsketry fire a: Thaw walked past then his straw hai doffed and gracious smiles and bow: showing his appreciation of the fuss being made over him
 Policemen tried to push back the hundreds who tried to squeeze througt the door with him as he started fol sunlight. Cheers arose outside as the great crowd on both sides of Cham. hers street grapsed that Pittsburgh best known citizen was about tc emerge. Straw hats were knocked off, disappeared under scuffling fec and were smashed.
 Everybody knows he's been de c1ared sane except Stanford White cried fat and profnsely perspirine man. whereupon this sentiment was applauded also
 The fat mans remark was inter.