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MRS. MARY COPLEY THAW.
WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME.
HARRY K. THAW.
MRS. EVELYN NESBIT THAW.
DELPHIN M. DELMAS.
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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. O.A., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1913.
Thaw Life Drama Bares Every Human Passion [][](j|
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Nation’s Interest in His Case Is Unflagging NIGHT
From Mansion to Lone
ly Farmhouse, Every
D e v e 1 o p m e n t Is
Watched With Breath
less Interest.
By DOROTHY DIX. *
No other murder case in the whole
history of the world has been so much
written about, so much read about,
so much discussed as the Thaw case.
If all that has been printed about it
were spread out upon the earth, it
would blanket “the United States from
Canada to the Gulf, and from the At
lantic to the Pacific Ocean.
And every printed word of it all
has been eagerly devoured, not only
by people to whom their daily news
paper sensation is as necessary as
pepper and salt in their food, but by
quiet, conservative folk who as a rule
religiously skip all accounts of mur
ders and scandals in their papers and
confine their attention to the tariff
and the editorials.
But there was something in the
Thaw case that took hold of the pop
ular imagination and stirred the dull
est fancy so that the remotest ham
lets and the loneliest farmhouses were
Just as much interested in it as was
Broadway. Every move in it was fol
lowed with the breathless interest with
which an audience watches a grip
ping melodrama, and, no matter what
the real merits of the case are, or
what the law, it is idle to deny that
popular sympathy went with Thaw.
Thaw Appears as a Hero.
In New York we were close to the
magnitude of the crime, and we knew
a few things about Harry Thaw that
aid not seem to make him just the
ideal avenger of youth and innocence.
Also there were circumstances con
nected with Evelyn’s past history that
dimmed her halo as a victim of man’s
depravity, but away from New York
these slight blurs on the picture were
not perceived.
Harry Thaw was the noble hero
who rescued the persecuted heroine
and slew the despoiler of virtue, and
most people hoped that the law would
deal leniently with him. He killed to
avenge the woman he loved—his wife
—and that theory of justifiable homi
cide still goes in the South and West
As a matter of fact, popular sym
pathy has always been with Thaw,
even in New York, and it is interest
ing to note that, in his present at
tempt to escape from Matteawan,
practically everyone that discusses it
expresses the hope that he will suc
ceed in his efforts to get free.
General Interest Not Abated.
For underneath it all is the feeling
that Thaw committed a crime that
needed to be committed, that he rid
the world of a man who was a mon
ster of vice and an influence for evil
whose power was beyond computing,
and who had preyed on defenseless
young girls. This man’s social and
professional position and the wealth
of the men who were his associates
put him almost beyond the reach of
the law.
Probably only such a bullet as
Thaw’s could have stopped his iniqui-
The People Hail Thaw as Public
Benefactor, Says Dorothy Dix
“Popular sympathy has always been with Thaw, even in
New York, and it is interesting to note that, in his present at
tempt to escape from Matteawan. practically everyone that
discusses it expresses the hope that he will succeed in his ef
forts to get free.
“For underneath it all is the feeling that Thaw committed
a crime that needed to be committed; that he rid the world of
a man who was a monster of vice and an influence of evil;
whose power was beyond computing, and who preyed on de
fenseless young girls. This man’s social and professional posi
tion, and the wealth of the men who were his associates, put
him almost beyond the reach of the law.
“Probably only such a bullet as Thaw’s could have stopped
his iniquitous career, and for that reason the man in the streets
and the woman in the home have never udge Thaw harshly
and have always felt that he was unduJy punished. Which
isn’t law, nor logic, but is very human.”
—DOROTHY DIX.
tous career, and for that reason the
man in the street and the woman in
the home have never judged Thaw
hardly, and have always felt that he
was unduly punished—w’hich isn’t law
nor logic, but is very human.
Nor has the general interest in the
Thaw case abated, although it is now
seven years and more since Thaw shot
Stanford White dead in Madison
Square Garden. Thousands go night
ly to see Evelyn Nesbit do a foolish
little dance on a roof garden simply
because she was the heroine of that
scandal, and millions of readers are
watching Thaw's attempt to escape
from Matteawan with an Interest they
are not bestowing upon what Huerta
is doing in Mexico, or Congress is
doing to them in Washington.
Drama Held Every Passion.
This undying interest in the Thaw
case is easily explained in many
ways. For one thing, it w r as a great
human drama that swept every chord
of emotion. It had in it love, and
jealousy, and bitter hate and re
venge. every passion that sways the
heart. Moreover, it went back to the
very foundation stone of romance,
and told the tale, in real life, that has
been the basic idea of every novel
from Pamela down to William Dean
Howells.
Its heroine was the poor, pretty
country girl w r ho comes to the greit
city to seek her fortune, and w'hose
beauty is her undoing. She meets
with the rich villain, who substitutes
silks and satins for her homespun,
who plays his knowledge of the world
against her unsophistication, and so
beguiles her into the primrose path.
Then comes the rich young prince,
who falls in love with her, who mag
nanimously marries her in spite ( f
her past, and who takes her by the
hand and leads her to his splendid
home and his w’hite-haired old moth
er, who. after having at first fran
tically opposed the marriage, finally
consents, and bestows upon them her
blessing.
Romance in Real Life.
There isn’t one of us who hasn't sat
up nights to follow some novel with
exactly that plot. Ther^ isn’t one f
us who hasn’t shed tears over such a
play on the stage, and hissed the vil
lain, and applauded the noble hero,
and felt that when the hero shot down
the dark-browed villain he was doinff
a praiseworthy act for which he de
served a Carnegie medal.
And here was the st<»j|^' in reality.
Here was the romance in actual life.
Here was the play being played out
by the living people, not the, mum
mers on a stage. No wonder that the
Thaw case interested the general pub
lic!
Another reason was because of the
importance of the people concerned
in it. In one of the charming come
dies that Sol Smith Russell used to
play there w’as a scene in which he.
starving himself, told stories to make
two hungry little children forget
their misery.
“What shall I tell you about?” he
asked.
“Tell us about rich people,” replied
the poverty-stricken little creatures.
Tale Had Good Background.
So say we all. We like to hear of
the doings of the rich and great, and
we like to read of millionaires’ af
fairs just as we prefer to peruse nov
els in which the characters are duk°«
and duchesses rather than scrubwom
en and longshoremen.
The Thaws’ millions gave a sort of
aureate background to the story. Be
sides which, they were personally in
teresting. There was his old mother,
white-haired, haughty, her ^roud head
bowed to meet th s agonizing experi
ence—the greatest that any mother
can possibly suffer—that of seeing her
idolized son, his hands red with blood,
standing in the shadow of the elec
tric chair, fighting f his life.
There were his sisters, Mrs. Car
negie, married to a nephew of Andrew
f’arnegie, and so adding other mil
lions and other prestige to the Thaw
millions and prestige There was the
Countess of Yarmouth, another sister,
the shadow of her mad marriage to a
discredited and fortune-hunting Eng
lish peer already darkening about her.
There were brothers who came and
went during the trial, and always
Roger O’Mara, grim mouthed, silent
as the Sphinx, forever hovering in
the shadow of the Thaw family.
The Three Vital Figures.
About all there were tho three
vital figures in the case. First the
Family’s Millions Fur-
nish Aureate Back
ground to Tragedy of
Beauty, H ate, Re
venge and Love.
ghost of Stanford White, all the
more interesting because it was so
intangible it left a million things to
the imagination—an evil ghost that
might have come from th e pit Itself,
so black and sinister were the things
attributed to It.
From the shadows from which it
was evoked came also lurid pictures
of unmentionable orgies taking place
amid scenes of indescribable beauty
and splendor. They were scenes such
as filled the pages of Ouida, and that
ravish the fancy.
Then there was Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, marvelously beautiful, with
her story of injured innocence to
make the very angels weep—a story
that gained credence from her wist
ful little child’s face. Never was
there a more lovely heroine, never a
sadder tale or one that went straight-
er to the heart of every honest man
and woman. That such experiences
should befall one so young and ten
der drew tears from every eye—
tears that had to be wiped away sur
reptitiously, so that we wouldn’t miss
a single word of her revelations.
Escapades Startle the Nation.
And there was Harry Thaw’ him
self, a perfect type of the gilded
youth, who make history up and
down the tenderloin. The country al
ready rang with a thousand stories,
some true, some false, of his es
capades—of his giving $50,000 beauty
dinners to the demi-mondaines of Eu
rope, of his shooting up cafes just
for fun, of his hard-headed old
father having made a frantic effort
to save him by cutting down his al
lowance, and of his fond mother hav
ing circumvented the plan by supply
ing him with money from her own
deep purse.
Other features of interest vere the
lawyers, Dan O’Reilly, fresh from the
Patterson case; Clifford Hartridge,
Gleason, Delmas, brought from the
Pacific Coast because of his golden
tongue and posing about in Napoleon
ic attitudes; Martin Littleton, alert,
the iron hand iii the silken glove, the
only man who has ever been able
to control Thaw at all.
Question of Sanity Absorbing.
And last, but not least, one of the
reasons for the undying interest in
the Thaw case is the still unsolved
query whether he is sane or insane.
It is like the conundrum of the lady
or the tiger, and each person has a
perfectly good opinion on it which he
can substantiate with perfectly good
arguments.
Half a dozen alienists, eminent and
respected in their professions, most
of them the authors of books on
mental diseases, many of them in
charge of institutions for the insane,
swear that Thaw is a dangerous lu
natic. An equal number of other
alienists, also authors of books on
mental diseased and in charge of
other insane asylums, swear that he
is perfectly sane. When doctors dis
agree what is the layman to do but
argue about it?
And so, for a hundred and one
reasons, the interest in the Thaw
case goes on and will continue to
go on for Heaven knows how long.
It is the great continued story of
real life in which our interest never
flags, for none of us knows what is
coming next, nor what the real end
will be.
Screens Subtract Colors in Arti
ficial Light That Are Foreign
to Natural Illumination.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.—Day-
light at night—century-old dream of
scientists—is now a reality.
Dr. Herbert E. Ives, one of the best
known of American scientists, has
•solved the problem. By mans of ar
tificial light he has been able to pro
duce daylight, pure, true and unvary
ing. The value of the diseo'very to
surgery and to a w’ide range of in
dustries can not be overestimated. It
means, in many instances, the virtual
revolutionizing of industries which
depend in great part on daylight.
Like all great inventions. Dr. Ives’
process is simple. The light is ob
tained by passing artificial light rays
from a powerful incandescent gas
burner through two color screens
These subtract the colors in the arti
ficial light that are foreign to day
light.
The result Is daylight.
T)r. Ives, after perfecting the scien
tific points, set about to get a device
applicable to general use.
An Incandescent gaslight is placed
cn top of a cabinet. There is a metal
reflector to throw the light downward
through the delicate screens, w’hich
filter out the rays that make it differ
from daylight.
“My invention,” said Dr. Ive.q last
night, "has a great field of usefulness
in surgery and certain industries.
“Surgeons depend upon the color
of tissues to tell whether they are
diseased or not. A great deal of sur
gery is done at night.
“In textile manufacturing, dyeing,
color printing, etc., daylight at night
will have many uses. In color print
ing, for instance, they can run their
presses only as long as the Ink they
put in by daylight lasts. With the
aid of my Invention they can run the
presses all night.
“Daylight,” Dr. Ives continued, “va
ries from morning tints to almost all
hues at night when the* sun is set
ting. On a cloudy day daylight is
not true. The light produced by my
Invention is unchangeable. It does
not have to depend on the position
of the sun or the presence or absence
of clouds.
"This invention can be made in va
rious forms, to be used for different
purposes. For instance, it can be
used to light a small roonj or closet.
It can be used to light a table so
that you can read by daylight at mid
night, or any other hour before the
sun is up. My dining room table if
lighted by artificial daylight now.”
Steals Tombstone
Weighing 2,000 Lbs.
Robber Sought by Owner to Ex
pain, $50 Reward Up.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Some thief
who may wish to be forehanded in
event of a violent termination of his
career stole a tombstone at night from
the show- yard of the monument works
of Joseph F. Gastat at No. 4806 North
Clara street.
It is a polished granite block weigh
ing 2,000 pounds and 19 not inscribed.
The yard is in a lonely neighborhood
and the thief was free to take his
time at the task.
“I have offered a reward of $50 for
the arrest of the robber,” said Mr.
Gast. “and I am curious to know w’hat
motive provoked the theft.”
Do You Want a
Perfect Figure?
Seeks Trial and Acquittal on Con
spiracy Charge to Remove Ground
for Deportation—State, Beaten in
First Clash, Forced to Mark Time.
SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC. Aug. 30.
Repulsed by its own attack, the State
of New York, fighting for the posses
sion of Harry K. Thaw, to-day is
compelled to wait for the famous
prisoner to make some move which
will permit them to take counter ac
tion and again place him in Mattea
wan Asylum, from w’hich he so dra
matically escaped more than a week
ag°- , , ,
Thaw occupies just as paradoxical
a position. In his fight to become a
free man he is fighting every move
to get him out of jail.
Here is the situation. The State of
New York preferred criminal charges
of conspiracy against Thaw. On this
charge he was arrested soon after h6
had crossed the New Hampshire State
line into Canada.
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leas*e from prison on a writ of habeas
corpus. The date for arguing the ap
plication for the writ was 9et.
Thaw Called an Undesirable.
In the meantime representatives of
the State of New York sought Thaw’s
deportation into New York by the
immigration authorities. These au
thorities held that Thaw is an un
desirable citizen and should be de
ported.
This ruling meant that if Thaw
were to win his fight for freedom on
the habeas corpus w r rit he would lose
his fight for freedom by being deport
ed into the United States and imme
diately rearrested. Obviously, Thaw’s
only hope for freedom ‘was to stay In
Jail.
His attorneys immediately made
application for withdrawal of the ap
plication for the writ of habeas cor
pus. The State of New’ York imme
diately straggled to have the original
application granted and Thaw made
free.
State Loses First Tilt.
In the first legal skirmish before
Judge Globensky, before whom the
writ w’as pending, was won by Thaw
on all three points at issue. These
w’ere:
1. New’ York State was denied the
right to be a party tc the proceedings
in court.
2. Counsel for the State failed in
their efforts to have Thaw arraigned
before a magistrate, and the commit
ment on which he was held quashed,
w’hich would have released him to the
immigration authorities.
3. The court granted the plea of
Thaw’’s counsel for a discontinuance
of the writ of habeas corpus, w’hich
might have brought about his release.
This remedied the stragetic blunder
that his counsel had made in making
the original application for writ of
habeas corpus.
But Thaw’s principal victory was
in his realization that Canadian pub
lic sentiment is with him and he is
assured of a fair trial and probable
acquittal If the charges of conspiracy
are ever brought to trial. If he Is ac
quitted on that charge, it is held by
his counsel that his legal status in
Canada will be fixed and he can not
be deported as an undesirable.
Prisoner Given Ovation.
As soon as the crowd that packed
the courtroom saw that the court had
ruled in favor of Stanford White s
slaver there was a tremendous dem
onstration in his favor. He was
cheered all the -way back to the jail
and was made to realize that If he
gets a jury trial in Canada chances
of his success are exceedingly bright
William Travers Jerome, his old
prosecutor, who is repre.^nting New
York State as special counsel, has
pow gone to Quebec, where he will
make every effort to have the magis
trate w’ho committed Thaw. Alexis
Dupuis, of Coaticook quash the com
mitment.
If he succeeds in this Thaw will be
in jail with no charge against him
and. of course, will have to be re
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HARRY THAW AND SOME OF THOSE FOR AND AGAINST HIM