THE THAW CASE

Evening Star, Issue 18627, 7 May 1924, Page 5

THE THAW CASE

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

HIS WIFE AGAINST HIM,

PHILADELPHIA, April 15. A jury of ten, white men and two negroes is hearing the case in which Harry K. Thaw seeks to regain his freedom after many years in an asylum for the insane. Strange stones of"Thaw’s life in tho asylum were told.

Tho lawyer representing the Thaw estate, who opposed Thaw’s release, read records of the asylum to the effect that Thaw played with rabbits and hurled them in tho air. Thaw also bit the rabbits and talked to them.

Dr Mills, a loading alienist, contended that despite Thaw’s diversions, ho was still sane. He also said that sexual perversion was not necessarily a sign of insanity. Famous figures at the previous Thaw trials were present to-day. Thaw lias much changed. He is grey-haired, and appeared agitated. Ho greeted his mother, who is oighty-two years of age, with tho greatest affection.

Evelyn Nosbit Thaw, his wife, who ifi opposing Thaw’s release, arrived at the court in a. bright yellow sport dress. Counsel objected to the striking costume, so she will appear to-morrow dressed quietly, [Thaw, a millionaire, shot Stanford White, also a. millionaire, at -no Madison Square Gardens Theatre, of which White had been the architect, at a crowded performance in lOOti. He was found not guilty of murder, but was adjudged to bo insane. Recently, five medical experts declared him to be sane. Mrs Thaw, however, believes that he is still a lunatic, and says that his release would jeopardise the inheritance of her son, whose parentage Thaw questions. Mrs Thaw accepted a theatrical engagement some years ago,]