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...Mirror" v. Thaw...
Newspapers entertain a medieval fervor for crusades. Happy the editor who can turn sensational "copy" into proof of his devotion to the welfare of the commonalty. Last week the New York Daily Mirror found such an opportunity in the doings of Harry K. Thaw, famed murderer...
...Thaw, it is true, had done little to command newspaper attention beyond escorting a young woman to a cabaret-a procedure technically innocent. But out of the sinister personality of the aging rake, the Mirror's editors drew material for a startling story...
...HARRY THAW FREE? roared a headline that straddled the Mirror's front page. Underneath was reproduced Thaw's disordered countenance and iron-grey hair with the caption: "Harry K. Thaw, nationally known murderer, is burning up Broadway again. Nightly, with bloated face, he makes the rounds of the night clubs...
...inside page five pictures of Mr. Thaw were published: AS DANDY, AS SLAYER, AS FUGITIVE, AS BOY BEATER, AS FIREMAN. Two more photographs meaningly compared his features with those of Harrison Noel, mentally delinquent protagonist of a murder trial now occupying national attention. A chronological table of Thaw's misdemeanors bore the title: "Highlights in the story of wealth, mental decay, vicious living, murder and insane asylums, depicting the life of Harry K. Thaw. . . The Rip Van Winkle of the Bright Light District is hitting it up again. . . His bloated face and protruding eyes mark him as he reels...