Show IF F THAWS THAW'S CASE WERE LEFT TO THE PUBLIC HE WOULD BE FREED SAYS QUICK By HERBERT QUICK If the matter of freeing lg Harry Thaw Tha or sending him to l could h have va b been n submitted to a vote ote of t the tho e American pe people pt he would have been freed b by a majority of urea to one Wh Why That he killed Stanford White is I un un- disputed That he was waR mentally Irre- Irre le Is not believed b by many And yet ct If f one ma may accept the evidence of the average I mans man's expression lon of preference preference prefer prefer- renco r- r ence enco the great grent majority of the people say Lot Let Harry rry Thaw go Are AN the people wrong or ar are the they right Tho case Is a very interesting one Thaw Is a rich Irich man No sentiment ismore is ismore more deep deeply ingrained in the mind of or orthe the average n citizen than one ono of or repugnance repugnance repugnance nance to the tho eca escape e of a rich man mere more ly 1 because ho he is rich but ho he Is to the punishment of such a aman aman aman man because of lor his riches Tho The Thaw case is proof of or the fact that the tho great eat jury of the iho American P people ople is ready to givs a R rich culprit th the brn hn benefit fit of every doubt and mitigating circumstance It seems to be evidence that the I possession posses 8 sion slon of wealth Is no crime In the mind of or the average L poor man Thaw has never had a 0 chance Ho He never had h that struggle with the world which I Is essential 1 tc to the development dt of or most mens men's character nor tho those re restraints restraInts restraints re- re of poverty the necessity of holding a position of trust the tho need of or conserving earning power which constitute constitute constitute con con- the safeguard of or the average mind He could afford to bo be a bad man and h he was ivos He Ho had no for the things of the mind and the spirit and he did not need to work What was there for him to do Nothing remained for such a mind but a 0 plunge Into the tho whirlpool which finally brought him face to face with Stanford White White- armed The people of or the tho country feel with much sympathy for him that these long years jears ars of or imprisonment and struggle gle le e have given n him the chance la which hl he is never nc r had before the before r th tho chance I n to thinly of so et hp fl B his own pleasure or wino wine women Irresponsibility and vice The people feel that they thoy would like to see Harry Thaw make a 0 success of ot what In is l loft left ft of his hla tragic life lIe They Thoy more mono than half haJ bell believe eve he will do so Th They y do not believe bellee him to be a a. dan dangerous erous man to turn loose on tho the public Thoy are arc the tho public p and the they are arc not afraid of or him I I. I For or the tho American p people ople are tho the most merciful people in the world I read recently that the governor of or Georgia lit is cn engaged lcd in an examination of or the cases of ot several forgotten con- con convicts in the state prisons Prisons friendless friendless poor men who who have for a- a h quarter of a century or moro more endured the iho living JIvinG death captivity of or If It It had not been for Harry Thaws Thaw's money he could not have made mado the fight which has really re constituted a n. trial b by the Jury JUr of the whole holo American people I wish nil all of these forgotten convicts convicts con con- could make mako the same Ilme sort ot of i fight ht for |