New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-27
THAw QUIT
HARVARD FOUND
OUT BY STATE
Scandals Said to Have
Caused Him to Get 3-HOur
Notice from DR.. Eliot.
WAS NOT EXPELLED,
SLEUTHS DISCOVER
Search for Evelyn Nesbit and
Missing Whip Exhibit for
Jury Still On.

Here is the story of Thaw at Har-
ward and how he left, as unearthed,
they say, by the research workers of
the Attorney Generals Office who have
been nosing around in ancient college
history. II was twenty-three years ago
that Thaw received three hours time
in which to deprive the university of
his presence.
The reason that incident is being
brought back to haunt him now is that
the state attorneys are convinced he
was manifesting even in those remote
years what they regard as the incur
able and perverted form of insanity
which led him to kill Stanford White
and for which they want to thrust him
back into Matteawan.
In the first year of his college days,
the detectives of the Attorney Gen
erals Office have reported to Frank
Cook and A. L. Becker, the deputies
in charge of the state case, Thaw lived
at Mrs. Emma Spyvee's eminently re-
spectacle boarding house, at 38 North
Avenue, now Massachusetts, Avenue,
Cambridge, Mass.
He had a way of enticing youngsters
TO his room, Mr.. Becker said yester-
day, and it is believed that even then
he fagellated them, as it has been
shown in previous habeas corpus pro-
ceedings he whipped young girls. But
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viting TO his room the young son of
the policeman on post.
Case Was Hushed Up.
The detectives say that when Thaw
began to beat the boy he made an out
cry and ran screaming from the room
to his father, who hurried back with
him TO Thaw's room in time to find
corroborative circumstances OF the
youngsters tale. In some way, how
ever, that matter was hushed up.
There was no arrest, and the incident
was not at that time called to the at
tention of the college authorities.
As result of il, however, Thaw
had to find rooms elsewhere, and went
to live at Quincy Hall. For about a
year he lived there without get
ting into open trouble. But there be-
gan to be talk, and finally, it is said,
there was an attack on three boys,
cne of them the son of the janitor OF
the house.
There was no hushing it up this
time, and report of the matter, with
full circumstances and information of
previous actions by Thaw, was laid
fully before President Eliot. He was
so thoroughly convinced of the truth
fulness of the reports that he sent for
Thaw privately, deciding upon a
course that would save the college
from disgrace.
He told Thaw at noon that II he
would leave by o'clock there would
be nothing more said or done, but If
he did not he would call for a thor
ough investigation by the college fac
ulty. That was enough for Thaw By
3 o'clock he was gone.
Want EIiot's Testimony.
It is for the purpose of getting this
testimony into the form OF legal evil
dence that a commission will be sent
10 DR.. Eliot to take his testimony.
This commission will go TO his sum
mer home at Bar Harbor Wednesday.
"The reason we are so anxious 10
get every detail of this college scan
dal into the record, saiu WI pcIhCi
Yesterday, as because the alienists
hold that the mental condition ex-
hibited by Thaw then is incurable. 1t
is on this theory that he is incurably
and dangerously insane that we seek
his return TO Matteawan. Thaw tells
the truth when he says he was not ex-
peiled. He simply took discreet de-
parture." So
MIR. Becker said the whip. with
which Thaw fagellated girls in his
fat, which he kept under the name OF
Professor Reed, and which was pro-
duced in evidence at previous trials,
has disappeared, although every Ell
fort has been made by state detec-
lives 70 find it. The last seen OF 1t
was when it was an exhibit in the
last habeas corpus trial Ut White
Plains. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had it
one day, and plsyfully stuck 1t IN her
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