Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1915 — HARRY THAW IS ACQUITTED OF CONSPIRACY [ARTICLE]

HARRY THAW IS ACQUITTED OF CONSPIRACY

Jury Brings in Verdict This Forenoon in Favor of Defendants. Special to The Republican. New York, March 13,The jury hearing the evidence in the case of Harry K. Thaw and co-defendants, charged with conspiracy as a result of Thaw’s escape from Matteawan . Hospital, brought in a verdict of acquittal at 11 o’clock this morning. Thaw was on the stand in the early part of yesterday. Following the statement of his counsel and attorneys for the state, Justice Page instructed the jurors that unless the evidence satisfied them definitely that Thaw and the co-defendants had carried out a deliberate plot, neither he now them could be regarded as guilty of conspiracy.