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Show HARRY K. THAW AND HIS MOTHER, SKETCHED RECENTLY THROUGH HARRY'S MOTHER, AND NOT HIS WIFE, NOW LIES HIS HOPE OF FREEDOM 1 By Peter Pry Shelvin Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 24. Tho axiom "What's everybody's business shortly short-ly becomes nobody's affair," was nev. er better exemplified than in the Thaw case to date. So much has been written writ-ten about legal actions for freedom and hair-splitting anont insanity, thut it is safe to say that few persons now know tho actual status of the case, where not many months ago they knew the most Intimate and intricate details. Thaw is now on the threshold of liberty, or at least has a "fighting chance" better than ecr before. He is at least entitled to a triaon tho question of whether he has recovered his sanity, according to Justice Tompkins Tomp-kins of Nyack, N. Y.. after hearing arguments on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by his mother, Mary . C. Thaw. This trial Is scheduled for the early part of February and is regarded as the first real victory that has graced his mother's fight since Thaw's sentence sen-tence to Matteawan. In applying for the writ, Mr6. Thaw declared that her son could not be "criminally insane." as he had been acquitted of crime by a jury, further reiterating that, he i was now sane and should not bo Kept ( in a madhouse. District Attorney William T. Jerome and Asa Bird ! Gardiner, representing thp 9tate at-J at-J torney general, asked that the trial ho I hold in New York, which was grant-' grant-' ed. Justice A. S. Tompkins, in his i opinion, states that Thaw is entitled : to a trial without a jury, to dctermino . whether lie has recovered his san-! san-! ity. Thaw was returned to the asylum, i with permission to see his lawyer I alone, despite the district attorney's I remarks that Attorney Morsehauser J took his own risk of being brained j by his paranoic client. This new "fighting chance" points , anew to a mother's devotion, that will only end with success or when the gray hairs go to the grave. Mrs. Thaw, In order to censerve her failing fail-ing strength, will leave Pittsburg for Dungoness. off Cumberland Island, Georgia, till the Insanity trial. Mrs. Copley Thaw, former Countess of Yarmouth, and Joslah Thaw, Harry':; uncle, will also be guosts of their sister, sis-ter, Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, at the Georgia resorL The possibility of victory In February with no preliminary pre-liminary sensations to dampen It, has united the family In one common lin-I lin-I pulse, and the Thaws are now a unit. |