Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — THAW HEARING IS CLOSED [ARTICLE]

THAW HEARING IS CLOSED

Mother and Sister Are Last Witnesses In Effort to Establish Pittsburger*s Mental Condition. White Plains, N. J., July 12.-r-The Thaw lunacy hearing is closed, so far as the admission of testimony is concerned, with a sensation furnished by the last two of the many witnesses called during the day by Clarence J. Shearn to establish the present and past rationality of Harry K. Thaw. These witnesses Mrs Mary Copley Thaw, aged mother of the prisoner and Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, nee Margaret Thaw, Harry’s sister. Both furnished the strongest of corroborative evidence that there actually was, as charged by Thaw, a plan to send him without a trial to the Matteawan state hospital for the insane. It was decided that Mr. Shearn’s summing up would be delivered next Tuesday. In place of oral summing up Mr. Jerome promised to submit briefs to the court by July 19, Justice Keogh then announced that he would probably render his decision a week later, which will be Friday July 26.