New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-20

Atlantic City" left him, and for the
nine hours Of the hot, tiresome trip ne
never wearied Of picking out land
marks.
The train seemed to come all at once
into East Liberty as he prattled on, and
be had TO hasten to get off. There was
great crowd on the PLATFORM, and .
roar OF welcome went up as he ap-
neared. A squadron Of police fought
n way through the struggling mass, and
the spectacular Homecoming began.
Mrs. Thaw Smiles at Film Men
After he had posed, his mother con-
sented TO do what she had never Will
ingly done before, stand Tor the news
paper photographers. She was In such
n happy mood that she even went iur-
Their and let the movie" men MIN ner
talking to her son.
On the long homeward trip Thaw
consented to-day to talk OF phases OF
the last nine years he has never as
cussed before. Chief among tfese was
the amount II cost him to escape the
electric chair and TO win MS liberty
from Matteawan.
81 have seen printed reports that my
fight cost me and my family over
million dollars" he said. THAT amount
is an extravagant guess. Ny hrst triai
cost me hundreds Of thousands OF dol
lars. but that was only because | was
swindled. The services ! got, during
that whole trial were not worth more
than S25 900. The second trial cost mo
a great deal less, but still too much.
an the next place, this fight has not
cost my family anything. | borrowed
money from my sisters and from my
mother. | have paid my sisters back,
but my mother lost so per cent OF
what she put up. | was forced into
bankruptcy by fraudulent charges. II
swindled | should not have become
bankrupt.
81 made enough profits in stocks dur
expenses, including all the habeas
one, from the time l went into Mat
teawsn until l escaped. / was then In
the Tombs waiting my second trial.
bought nothing but railroad stocks
when they were the lowest I bought
on margin. but tho margin was very
heavy.
my habeas corpus proceedings didn't
cost much, but my expenses since ! left
Matteawan have been heavy because /
was moving around so much and there
were lawyers In Canada and New
Hampshire and New York. The state
during this last proceeding although
ii did not have to pay counsel fees be-
cause the deputy Attorneys General
were working on their regular salaries
spent three dollars for every one of
mine and it didn't get as good a case
for its money as did at that. don't
know what my expenses for this last
trial will be because the bills haven't
come in yet"
Derldes Woodbury's "Hot Air"
Thaw also discussed the statement Of
David Robinson, foreman Of his jury,
that the jury believed the natural
law" justified the killing of White.
"His statement" he said, agrees
with the opinion Of nine out of ten
people who have expressed themselves
to me- The same idea is to be found
in District Attorney Jerome's summing
up. You can find it in dozen of his
strongest assertions in 1908 to the jury
which acquitted me.
"Any talk of the $4,000 Attorney
General, Mr. Woodbury., that the jury
mans position would help him in an
appeal is all buncombe. Aside from
the fact that Justice Hendrick stated
he accepted the purely individual and
consequently worthless opinions of
other judges in previous proceedings,
Mr.. Woodbury. knows that he had
no evidence of insanity and that when
he presented a case with no basis ex-
cept the admitted perjury Of his chief
witness he might almost have been
held himself in contempt for wasting
the time Of the court by forcing them
to listen to what is commonly called
hot air"