Evening star., 1917-03-13
HARRY JHAW HELD
TO Be DEMENTED
Philadelphia Court Appoints
Committees of His Person
and Estate.
NO APPEAL FROM DECISION

Dy rne Associated FAfess.
PHILADELPHIA. March 13-Harry
X. Thaw was today adiudged a lunatic
by the common pleas court Of this city.
and under the law cannot be taken to
New York on requisition to stand trial
on charges of assaulting Frederick
Gump, jr.. high school student of Kansas
City, Mo. Thaw will be kept in St
Mary's Hospital here pending his re-
moval to Pennsylvania asylum.
The courts action was based on the
report presented today by a lunacy com
mission which yesterday took the testi-
mony Of Thaw and his mother.
Counsel Makes Statement.
In announcing the conclusion of the
lunacy commission, James Gay Gordon.
counsel for Mrs. Thaw, on whose behalf
the lunacy proceedings were begun,
made this statement
The inQuisition which met yester-
day and heard the case of Harry X.
Thaw. adjudged him to be a Iunatjc
and the finding was today filed in the
court of common pleas
Judge Martin made the usual appro-
pirate order touching his person and
estate. Thaw is now in the custody
o
sylvania. represented by its court of
chancery, and under the control and
protection of the court and laws Of the
commonwealth.
This necessarily settles the ques-
ton OF his extradition and rings down
the curtain on that proceeding. Mrs
Thaw and her family all desire If pos
sible that the matter may be dropped
from public exploitation. Thaw is now
safe from harm to himself or others
q n hA mill hall
guard him.
Anything with respect to him here
after can only be done with the sanction
Of the court"
Committee on His Estate Named
Judge Martin appointed J. Dennistor
Lyon. Pittsburgh banker. and DR.
Walter Riddle, the Thaw family ply.
sician in Pittsburgh, as a committee te
| take charge of Thaw's estate The,
will enter 100000 security. Thaw'.
present income, according to his counsel
is between S75.0e0 and $4,000, on two
trust funds left by his father. William
Thaw.
today can be carried to the Supreme
Court. according to Thaw's attorney
! Immediately after the announcement
OF Judge Martins decree, Thaw's coun-
sci IN tciegrdm nOtlNe0 GOV. Brum-
baugh Of the action taken on the ques-
ton Of Thaw's sanity and the appoint
ment by the court of committees OF his
person and estate.
BY the courts decree the police guard
at Thaw's bedside at the hospital will
be withdrawn and a private guard sub
stituted. The decree orders that he
stand committe at the hospital for the
time being pending his removal to
another institution. In another decree
Judge Martin appointed Thaw's mother
custodian OF his person.
Brother and Sister Witnesses.
1t was learned today that Mrs. Car.
pegie. Thaw's sister, and Josiah Thaw
his brother. both were among the wit.
nesses who testified in the lunacy pro.
ceedings.
Physicians testified before the luracy
commission that Thaw was suffering
from dementia and would get worse a,
time went on.
The commission heard testimony re-
viewing his life from the time he was
twenty-one until his recent attempt at
suicide.
NEW YORK. March 13-The decision
of the common pleas court of Philadel-
phia. declaring Harry X. Thaw insane,
which. it is believed there. will frustra te
attempts to bring him to this city for
trial on charges of assaulting Frederick
Gump. will not deter District Attorney
Swami from making application to Gov.
Brumbaugh for Thaw's eXtradition.