Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — MRS. THAW WEEPS IN TESTIFYING FOR SON [ARTICLE]

MRS. THAW WEEPS IN TESTIFYING FOR SON

Prisoner Tells Tales us Doings of Stanford White. White Plains. N. Y., Aug. 6. —More of those stories which have stained the memory of the eminent architect. Stanford White, were related at the Thaw sanity hearing. They were told first by witnesses called in Harry K. Thaw’s behalf and then by Thaw himself. Between these unsavory accounts, like a jewel held up to view between soiled fingers, came an Illustration of mother love and filial affection that brought tears even to the eyes of those eager faced women who had refused to leave the courtroom when warned of the kind of testimony that was to come. This was the appearance on the stand of Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, the prisoner’s white haired mother. Mrs. Thaw said Harry accepted conditions at Matteawas as something that could not be remedied. She gave a graphic description of Her visit to the second room her son occupied at Matteawan During the recital she had to stop twice, covering her face and weeping.

”Do you want to know what my Harry's room was like?’* she sobbed. “Tell us.” said Attorney Morschauser “It was clean enough, but It was provided with an iron-bed. and that was all.”