Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1908 — THAWATMATTEAWAN [ARTICLE]

THAWATMATTEAWAN

Slayer of Stanford White Takes Up the “Simple Life" of an Asylum. New York. Feb. 3.—Adjudged not guilty of the murder of Stanford White by reason of Insanity at the time the fatul shots were fired Harry Kendall Thaw was held by the court to be a dangerous lunatic, and was whirled away to the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Matteawau. The verdict came after twenty-five hours of waiting, and when every one connected with the case had abandoned all hope of an agreement ever being reached in this or any other trial. Four hours after the foreman’s lips had framed the words “Not guilty,” with the accompanying Insanitly clause. Thaw, protesting he was sane, was on his way to Matteawan. A little after nightfall he had been received in the institution under commitment pai<ers which directed ids detention "until discharged by due course of law.” His Incarceration In Matteawan was by order of Judge Dowling, to which his counsel took an exception, but did not try to stop immediate removal, preferring to have time to consider the best manner of procedure.