CASE OF HARRY THAW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 10

CASE OF HARRY THAW.

APPEAL FOB FREEDOM

PHILADELPHIA, April 23.—A jury comprising ten white men and two negrces is hearing the case in which Harry K. Thaw is seeking to regaiin his freedom alter many years in a menial hospital. Strange stories of Thaw's life in the institution were told. The lawyer representing the Thaw estate, who opposed Thaw's release, read records to the effect thai Thaw played with rabbits and hurled them in the air. He dso bit the rabbits and talked to them. Dr. Mills, a leading alienist, contended that despite Thaw's diversions he. was still sane. Famous figures at the previous Thaw trials were present to-day. Thaw has changed greatly. He is grey-haired and appeared to be agitated. He'greeted his mother, who is 82 years of age, with the greatest affection. Evelyn Xesbit Thaw_, .appellants wife. who is opposing his release, arrived 1 at the Court in a'bright yellow dress. Counsel objected to the striking costume, so she wjill appear toKmorrow dressed quietly.

Harry K. Thaw fatally shut a millionaire, architect, Stanford White, at the Madison • Square Garden Theatre, New York, in ISO 6. The motive was jealousy. At the subsequent trial he was adjudged to be insane, and has sine© been confined to a mental hospital!. He has made previous efforts to secure his freedom by appeals to the Courts. After spending a pleasant holiday at his mother's home in Pittsburgh, Harry 'thaw returned to the Pennsylvania State Mental Hospital. He told the reporters that he believed his'application for release would he granted oil March 21. He said he proposed to enter civic hie in Pittsburg and work for social! betterment. In all the years he has spent in State asylums since the murder of Stanford White, Thaw says lie has. been a dose student, and he hopes that freedom will be given him to identify Ivan soli with Pittsburgh in -such a way that the. honorable traditions of Iks family wijl be maintained."