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IIKAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, HA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1012.
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‘How Can He Say He Loves Me When He’d Let Me Starve?’
ENDLESS LEGAL TANGLE
POEM THAW WROTE IN MATTEAWAN
MATTEAWAN, N. Y., Aug. 23.—The following verses
were written by Harry Kendall Thaw in his room at Mattea-
wn and found in the waste-paper basket beside his reading
table last December:
“There are lights aflame on Broadway,
There are hopes and lives undone;
There are debts of sin no man can pay,
And Broadway hates the sun.
“There are vain regrets on Broadway,
There are secret sighs and tears;
For one must smile as well as pray,
And the weakling meets with jeers."
Fugitive From Matteawan, Backed
by Family’s Millions, Will Utilize
Every Technicality to Prevent De
portation F rom Dominion of Canada.
SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, Au*. 23.
With Harry Thaw’s case now in the
courts of Canada^ the prediction made
that it would be months—years, per
haps eternity—before the slayer of
Stanford White is again in the juris
diction of New York State is
strengthened.
His family, wealthy and powerful,
has rushed to his defense. He has
unlimited resources to fight the legal
battle against his deportation from
Canadian soil. When the first writ
of habeas corpus was granted, it as
sured him the right to appeal his
cause to the highest Canadian court.
It is believed that this litigation
can be made to last over years. It
will be impossible to deny him bail
!n the Dominion, for he is a lunatic
only in New York State. His status
now is that he is simply considered
an undesirable by Canadian immigra
tion authorities, who, It is thought,
may override the courts and deport
him.
Should the courts of Canada finally
rule against him, his case might be
taken up from Washington. Even
then if he were finally deported,
should he be sent to any other State
than New York, he could fight extra
dition there, and there are many emi
nent lawyers who believe that it is
absolutely impossible to bring him
back into New York then.
Probably Considered These Facts.
All these things probably had been
considered when Thaw made his dar
ing escape from Matteawan Asylum,
when he dashed across the Connecti
cut border, then through the State
into New Hampshire and from New
Hampshire into the Dominion of Can
ada.
Thaw knows well the law’s delay.
He remembers his long, period in the
Tombs before he was first brought to
trial for the slaying of White. He
remembers the long fight for life and
liberty then. He remembers the en
forced wait after the first mistrial. He
remembers the weary days of his sec
ond hearing.
He remembers the slow' progress of
his cause during his legal efforts o
get his release from Matteawan
Knowing these things and recognizing
that there was hardly a bare possi
bility that bail would be denied him,
he turned toward Canada rather than
seek safety at sea, as his pursuers
thought he surely would do.
It was probably due to this realiza
tion that, he accepted his arrest at
Coaticook, Quebec, coolly and that tie
awaits the issue of his habeas corpus
proceedings just as coolly now.
Secures Talented Lawyers.
He is represented in his application
for habeas corpus proceedings by W.
L. Shurtleff and Colonel H. R. Fraser,
one of the most talented lawyers »f
Eastern Canada. He is thoroughly
buoyed up in the belief that the Ca
nadian Government will never order
his deportation or extradition.
"I have studied every legal phase of
my case and have arrived at the be
lief that I am safe here,” said Thaw.
“My plans did not alone include my
physical escape. I looked into the le.
gai feature to establish my status in
any other State than New York and
•ny other country than the United
States. I am not a dangerous man. I
do not seek vengeance. My wife.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, need not fear
me. Nor need anyone else fear me.
“All I want is peaceful and legal
liberty. I feel that I am perfectly
safe. I have studied law ever since I
was admitted to Matteawan, and I
believe that I am qualified to speak in
this matter.
"Statements to the effect U at I only
sought liberty to kill are sen.seless
They are so ridiculous that I won’t
talk of them. I have the kindest feel
ings toward the people of Canada, and
will retain such feelings, no matter
what action the Dominion Govern
ment takes, but I hope that they do
not deport me. Detention in an in
sane asylum is a living death. It is
enough to make a maniac out of a
perfectly sane man.”
Refuses to Betray Friends.
Afiked for a detailed story of his
flight, he refused.
“Yes, I was the man they spotted in
Lenox, Mass., said hfe. “But from
that point on I must say nothing. I
won’t betray my friends.”
Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, sister
of Thaw arrived soon after his arrest
and immediately sought her brother.
Thaw $»ent word to Roger O’Mara, the
Pittsburg (Pa.) private detective, who
has been his counsellor since youth,
to rush here on the first train.
He said that he wanted to get the
fight over with. His first trepidation
came with the news that District At
torney Conger, of Dutchess County,
New York, and Dr. Kieb, of the Mat
teawan Institution* would come to co
operate with the United States au
thorities in an effort to have Thaw de
ported bask to New York, or extra
dited.
Plans for the court battle in Thaw’s
behalf were carefully made by Mr.
Shurtleff and Colonel Fraser and
hopes to have his release ordered by
Judge Globensky and plans to leave
immediately for Quebec if he gets out.
He intends to sail for France if he
gets his freedom, so that he will be
sure to be safe. Ultimately he hopes
to have his legal freedom established
so that he can return to Pittsburg.
Contend Thaw Is Tourist.
Among the grounds up^n which the
Thaw lawyers put into their plea for
their client’s liberty is that he is only
a tourist passing through Canada, and
they point to the case of Jack John
son, the negro pugilist, as a precedent.
They contend that Johnson was un
der conviction of an infraction of
the United States law, whereas Thaw
has not broken any law. They con
tended that Johnson was a fugitive
from justice, whereas Thaw is a fugi
tive from an institution for the in
sane.
They pointed to Thaw’s behavior to
uphold the contention that no matter
what his condition in the past, he is
now sane and rational. The facts
that Thaw has not broken any Cana
dian laws and that no indictment ex
ists against him across the border
were emphasized. Thaw offered many
suggestions to his lawyers and in a
way seemed to be their pilot. He
looked very solemn and impressive as
he gave his opinions of his own case.
'My idea is that speed is the requi
site thing,” Thaw’ told them.
News Unnerves Prisoner.
The Canadian Government and the
United States Government were both
represented by able counsel who re
sisted Thaw’s efforts to gain his lib
erty on a writ of habeas corpus. They
contended that the law governing
Thaw’s case is very plain and they
pointed to precedents.
In fact, it was reported that Act
ing Superintendent of Immigration
Blair in Ottawa had been counseled
by the Ministry of Justice that Thaw
should be deported at once. When
Thaw heard this report he trembled
end became pale. He was unnerved
by the news and showed It.
The presence in Sherbrooke of the
most spectacular and sensational
prisoner in the world njade a gala oc
casion. Not one of the Provincial
fairs which are being held throughout
Eastern Canada at this time could
vie with Thaw as an attraction. Great
crowds came into Sherbrooke from
the surrounding country.
Families gathered about the Jail,
hoping to get a glimpse of the well-
known prisoner if he was taken to
the courthouse. Some came a dis
tance of 100 miles to see Thaw. The
street on which the Jail is located was
jammed.
Glad to Please Curious.
This curiosity tickled Thaw im
mensely. He said he did not want to
disappoint anyone who really wanted
to see what he looked like.
Mr. Shurtleff was resentful against
Justice of the Peace Dupuis, of Coat
icook, who held Thaw on the charge
of being a fugitive and sent him here
for further examination.
“We contend that Justice of the
Peace Dupuis acted illegally,” de
clared Shurtleff. “He exceeded his
authority. He had no right to hold
Thaw.”
Colonel Fraser assured Thaw that
conspiracy is not an extraditable of
fense and that he need not feel any
great alarm over the fact that a war
rant. charging Thaw with conspiring
to gain his liberty is on its way here
from Dutchess County. He did not
give such optimistic assurances about
deportation, however.
Thaw lost no time in arranging to
secure cash. He telegraphed to a
banker relative in Pittsburg (where
the bulk of the Thaw fortune Is In
vested) to send him money to fight
his case.
Thaw fa/*ed the habeas corpus
hearing coolly and confidently. Be
fore going to court, he ate a hearty
breakfast and dressed with minute
care, evidently realizing that he would
be gazed on by thousands on the
short ride from th e jail to the court
house.
Smuggling Claim Advanced.
He hard prepared a number of notes
to guide his lawyers in their conduct
of his case, and was evidently disap
pointed when they did not seem to
give these notes gr^at consideration.
An investigation of the manner in
which Thaw came into possession of
a railroad ticket for Detroit. Mich., is
being made. The Dominion authori
ties are not satisfied that Thaw
bought the ticket himself.
It was learned from an authorita
tive source that immigration officers
who are here plan to arrest Thaw on
the ground that he smuggled his way
into Canada if he gets his freedom
on a habeas corpus writ.
The village of St. Hermenigilde,
where Thaw and his companions
came into Canada from the United
States, is not a port of entry.
I ATEST photograp of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw posed especially for The Sunday American at
—' her hotel in New York where, it is said, she is near a breakdown rfom fear that her hus
band will regain his liberty and attempt to do her violence, and a photograph of Harry Kendall
Thaw, taken in his cell at Matteawan from which he escaped to aCnada, where he is using every
legal means to prevent his deportation to the Unfted States
SKELETON HI
University of Chicago Professor
Declares Prophet Took Wife as
Horrible Example.
‘He’s a Paranoiac,’ She Screams—Describes Her
Sacrifice.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Mrs. Eve-
lyn Nesbit Thaw is breaking down
under the fear that Harry K. Thaw
may evade the law and succeed in
reaching her. There were visible evi
dences of the strain under which she
has been laboring since he escaped
from Matteawan last Sunday when
a Sunday American reporter saw her
last night in the Hotel Brevoort.
Thaw’s declaration from the jail in
Sherbrooke that her return to the
stage had prompted him to make a
dash for liberty and that he loved
her more than anything else in life
were called to her attention.
“Good God!” she exclaimed “How
could that man say he loves me when
he would have let me starve in the
streets?"
“Do you love him?” she was asked
“Love him! I love him as much as
he loves me,” was her derisive reply.
“He wanted to keep me down after
I had testified and sold my soul for
him and I had done everything that
a human being could do for a man;
and now he makes this maudlin state
ment about love.
Never Knew Love’s Meaning.
“He is a paranoiac, and he doesn’t
know what love is. He has never
known the meaning of it as long as
I have known him. As for taking
care of me as any man who loved a
woman would do, both he and his
mother them me out, after I had
saved him from the electric chair.
“Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw entered
Into an agreement with me at the
time of the trial to provide me with
$12,000 a year on condition that I
would consent to an annulment of
our marriage. I did consent, and the
papers were drawn. Then his mother
repudiated it. That was In June, 1012,
and I have received no money from
them since that time.
“Before that date I bad received
$70 a week and my rent. I had to
dispose of pictures and scrape and
save to live, and 1 finally came to the
conclusion that I had something with
in myself, that I could prove I pos
sessed the gift of making my own liv
ing, which is a gift after all.
Breaks Into Tears.
“I thank God that I have that gift
or his mother would be jeering at me
in the gutter," and Mrs. Thaw broke
into tears.
“He wants to spoil my life and my
work,” she continued, turning to
John Reilly, her counsel, who was in
the room. “I told you that if I made
a success he would want to injure
me, and here he has stated that my
success was the thing that impelled
him to break for his liberty. He
wants to injure me and he will bend
everything to that end.
"I told you also,” she added to her
lawyer, “that he would not be free
long before he would betray himself
through his excessive egotism.
“But there is worse coming if he
retains his liberty. Things will begin
to happen when he gets his drink.
He is going to do something desperate,
I know, just as surely as I could fore
see the things I have referred to.
Wait until he gets drink in him—it is
ho r rible to contemplate!” And Mrs.
Thaw again broke down and sobbed.
“Desperate and Dangerous.”
“Don’t you think that you may be
exaggerating because of your over
wrought state of mind?” was asked.
“I wish it were so,” she replied.
“But anyone who thinks Harry Thaw
will not be a desperate man when he
gets the opportunity to satisfy his
appetite for drink, knows nothing of
him. 1 know him. Dr. Flint knows
him. Judge Jerome knows him. He
will be a desperate and dangerous
man.
“This great State ought to be
ashamed of Itself to allow a para
noiac to make and unmake its tnstl-
vas pi rmitted liber
ties that no man in his position had
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^twis cyEijtvicc.
ever before enjoyed. Thaw has not
done it, it has been the Thaw money.
“Do you know that when I used to
see him in the Tombs he used to be
drunk on Scotch whisky? Let the
Tombs officials deny it if they dare.
I know it and they know it. Harry
Thaw told me he could get All the
liquor he wanted there.”
Mr. Reilly warned his client that
she was overtaxing her strength, bui
she persisted in unloading her mind.
Ceremony by Mormon Judge Is Call
ed Unsatisfactory by Adminis
trators of Estate.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 23.—In order to
comply with the wishes of the adminis
trators of the $1,000,000 estate of her
father, the late Thomas R. Lamb, of
Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs Anna B.
Lamb-Wilson must be married to her
husbaVid again.
The husband is E. Douglas Wilson, of
this city. He pursued Miss Lamb more
the Pennsylvania Rubber Company, of
an 10,000 miles across the United
States and over the Pacific Ocean be
fore he married her In Honolulu last
April. The ceremony was performed by
Judge Hernandez, whom Wilson says Is
a Mormon. This marriage, though legal,
did not meet with the approval of the
administrators.
Old Graveyard Must
Give Way to Railroad
Milwaukee Line Is Compelled to
Move Old Burial Ground Near
For Alcohol.
Edwin Booth Saves
Lillian Russell
Rescuer Is Only Nine and His Play
mate at Maine Resort Was
Drowning.
PORTLAND, ME., Aug. 23—Edwin
Booth saved Lillian Russell from
drowning at South Harpswell when
she fell from the wharf. Both are
summer visitors.
Edwin is 9 years old. and the son
of Charles E. Booth, of Yonkers, N.
Y., while Lillian is 13, and the
daughter of Charles A. Russell, of
Boston. Edwin, her playmate, was
fully clad, but he dove into the
ocean like a veteran, drawing the
girl to safety.
Thieves Warn, Then
Rob Rail Station
Telephone Central Office They Had
Looted Pay Phone, Then Steal
Instrument.
NYACK, N. Y., Aug. 23.—Before
carrying away the telephone from the
Stony Point station of the West Shore
Railroad last night, thieves tele
phoned to the central office to say
that they had robbed the office and
telephone coin box. The operator
thought some practical Joker was at
work and paid no attention to the
man who called.
This morning It was found that the
money drawer at the station had been
robbed of 75 cents In cash, and from
the telephone box had been taken
about $3 in coins. The thieves alsj
took the telephone.
WOMAN POLITICIAN IS MAD.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Aug. 23.—Countess Eliza
beth Emllie Von Wedel, a French
woman and a former "political agent.”
who was quite a celebrity, has been
placed in a German asylum for the
insane.
CHICAGO. Aug. 23.—Hows’b family
skeleton has come to light, If not to
life. The domestic gcandalofanclent
Israel’s prophet has beerT"^emove3
from Its closet, scoured with higher
criticism and rattled In the face of
Biblical scholars, who were perfectly
willing to let It rest. Professor J. M.
Powis Smith, of the University of
Chicago, exhibits it in an article on
“The Marriage of Hosea,” In the cur
rent number of The Biblical World.
Hosea’s wife, Gomer Bath Dlblalm,
Is the viilalness of the story recon
structed by Professor Smith from the
account of her marriage to the
prophet, and In the first three chap
ters of the book of Hosea, Profes
sor Smith asserts that Gomer, con
trary to the usual Interpretation of
the Scriptural account, was a person
of evil reputation before the wedding
ceremony was performed.
Prophet Krvew His Faults.
Professor Smith adds to his ver
sion the fact that Hosea knew of
Gomer’s faults and took her “with
his eyes open.” In short, the
prophet married Gomer with the cu
rious purpose of making the match
a horrible example to the rest of the
Israelites, he asserts.
The marriage was to impress Israel
with the fact of its own disloyalty to
God.
According to the professor’s view r ,
the belief that “Hosea, as a young
man, fell in love with Gomer and mar
ried her, supposing her to be all his
youthful imagination fancied her to
be,” that she later left his home to
live with another man, that he bought
her back and then become a prophet,
will not hold water. The scholar de
clares that this version is founded on
an imperfect notion of the physiology
of prophets.
Professor Smith asserts that the
wife’s name, which means “Gomer,
daughter of Fig Cakes,” signifies that
she was held in low' esteem. He re
translates several words in the Bibli
cal account and gives the following
as the proper version:
“Hosea. a prophet already burdened
with the sense of his people’* sin,
felt himself railed upon by Yahweh
to marry a lewd woman, to the end.
that through such r marriage he might
open the eyes of Israel to the enor
mity of its offense in being disloyal
to Yahweh, Its rightful lord. In pur
suance of this conviction. Hosea
bought Gomer, a woman living In
public shame with her paramour.
Placed Her Under Restraint.
“But he at once placed her under
restraint, denying her association
with himself as well as with others,
and Reeking by such discipline to fit
her for her position as hls wife. This
phase of the experience was inter
preted for Israel as meaning that
she as Yahweh's bride must be dis
ciplined by exile before she could ex
pect to enjoy any further favor from
Yahweh.
“After this period of restraint for
Gomer she was taken by Hosea into
hls home and became the mother of
three children. Each of these ih
succession was given a prophetic
name, and, like Isaiah’s children, be
came a walking sermon to Israel Just
as the institution of marriage Itself
had been.”
Hard Fall Re-sets
Dislocated Spine
WIMINGTON, DEL., Aug. 23— An
expenditure of $16,000 and treatment
for years in sanitariums in Germany
and Paris failed to accomplish what a
fall downstairs did. Mrs. William
Heim, of Ellendale, Del., was cured at
a dislocated spine in this unusual
manner. The fall forced her spine
into place. To-day she says she la
well.
Her head is bandaged, but she was
able to preside over a recent meeting
of the Ellendale Ladies’ Social, of
which she is president.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Aug. 23 —Among
various other activities the Milwaukee |
Railroad people* have found themselves
engaged In rebuilding their line across \
Iowa is that of moving a cemetery.
In securing a right-of-way near the
Des Moines River It purchased an old
burial ground, one long since aban
doned. Among the bodies the railroad
men have removed is one that had been
burled seventy-five years. The remark
able state of preservation of clothing ]
and lack of decay of the bones after j
such a long period has been a sourct
of surprise to the men exhuming lh#
bodies.
U. S. Officer Invents
Airship Destroyer
Balloon Equipped With Explosives
and Wire Feelers Will Pro
tect War Craft.
NEW YORK, Aug, 23— Joseph
Stelnmetz, a retired lieutenant of ar
tillery in the United States army, has
just perfected an Invention that Is
likely to Interfere greatly with the
effectiveness of the aeroplan In naval
warfare Stelnmetz Is now negotiat
ing with the War Department for the
use of hls invention. It consists of a
captive hydrogen ballon suspended
over either an arsenal or battleship
It carries a large quantity of explo
sives, which would be touched off by
any aircraft coming in contact with
wires extended from it. The airship
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