The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-14
THAW TO LEARN FATE BY NIGHT
 IN FINAL FIGHT
Jury Gets Sanity Case This Afternoon After NArgu-
 ments By Lawyers.
PAST LIFE BAKED UP
 BY THE PROSECUTION
Insane When He Killed White, He's Insane Now, "
 Says Attorney General.

New York, July 14-Harry K. Thaw may know by tonight whether he is to be set free as the outcome of his nine years fight to prove that>fne is sane or whether he is to be sent back to the Mattea- wan asylum as insane.
 Most of the day was spent in the final ar,gurn entsS of the lawyers for the state and for the prisoner. Both sides consumed much time and the state went into detail of Thaw's life. ; Tn summing up the case of the state, Deputy Attorney General Cook review ed the life of Thaw from the time of his birth, until he was deported from Canada after his escape from the state hospital for the criminal insane at Matteawan He recalled to the jury that Thaw had thrice been declared insane and told of an alleged attempt to stab a fellow student at Harvard University of his alleged attempt to shoot a cabnnan and of a fight in an aII-night restaurant in which he was hit on the head with water bottle.
 tsFhaw was insane during all this ktime,'' MT. Cook went on: The was in- sane when he shot and killed zStan- ford White; there is no doubt of that. And the same conditions prevail to- day.
 MT. Cook repeatedly turned from the jury box and shook his finger at Thaw, sitting five feet away. He re- ferred time and again to Evelyn Nes- bit Thaw as that true virgin of his" ThaH, meanwhile, seemed to be un- aware that MT. Cook was anywhere nearby He chatted with his counsel and once turned and smiled at a friend sitting among the spectators :
 During the latter part of MT. Cooks summing up, United States Senators Ollie James, of Kentucky. and Hughes
 
 and took seats on the bench with Jus tice Hendricl. Mr.. Stanchneld, coun- seI for Thaw, began by declaring that neither he nor the court was con cerned with the previous actions of ThaW.
 ..The question: said MT. Stanch- field, s.is whether he is sane today
 Counsel then took up the remark made on the stand yesterday by pr. Austin Mint. chief alienist for the state, that the unwritten law does not go here.'ss
 right but that technically he was wrong He related several eases. among that of the late General Daniel E. Hick1es, in an attempt to show that aroused passion, resulting in kill ing, had often beer excused by juries. Aroused passion and intense hatred of a man who had wronged the woman
 
 Thaw to kill Stanford White.
 MT. Stanchf1eld read to the jury a portion of decision by Justice Jenks in. a litigation in which Thaw was con- cerned. In this the justice pointed 1 out that Tha1H, having been acquitted l ef murder, his commitment to Mat teawan was not in the nature of pun 1 ishment, but was for the purpose o1 restraining an alleged insane person who at large might be a menace to the peace Of the community. Such a commitment, according to Justice Jenkg, was valid only so long as the person. committed might remain in sane.
 MT. Stanchf1eld discussed the case of Thaw in every detail, including the finding of the commission appointed 1 by the federal courts to examine Thaw while he was in New Hampshire, sub sequent to his deportation from Can ada.