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...press, which must to some extent be a reflection of public intelligence, varies in ratio to the mentality of the public which each newspaper serves. Thus, some 18 years ago, while some of the press gave restrained and sober accounts of the Thaw case, the gum-chewers' sheets ranted ad nauseum about the pitfalls on the Great White Way; the "wages of sin"; the wily, wicked life of White; the uselessness of Thaw; the warning to young girls; the eternal law of Justice which prompted Thaw to avenge his wife's honor; the pathetic face of Mrs. Evelyn...
Since that time the press has not improved. The facts of the case today are that Harry K. Thaw has begun proceedings to establish his sanity. The story is complicated by a petition for intervention on the part of Evelyn Nesbit, divorced wife of Thaw, declaring that "Harry Kendall Thaw has not fully recovered his normal mental condition and that he is still a lunatic, and that if he should be freed from restraint at the present time and his estate restored to him, he would dissipate and probably wholly destroy the interests which . . . Russell William Thaw...
Evidence at the trial brought out the fact that Thaw was in 1918 on intimate terms with rabbits at the Pennsylvania Hospital for Nervous Diseases, whence he was removed during the War. He kissed them often and called them "tweedledums" and "tootsies," then threw them 40 feet into the snow, exclaiming: "It didn't hurt them!" Despite this evidence alienists were of the opinion that Thaw is sane...
Additional factors are that Thaw is worth about $5,000,000; Evelyn Nesbit owns the Café El Prinkipo on the boardwalk of Atlantic City and is moderately wealthy...
...Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw's former wife, rose from the bed on which she had been sitting in her ill-furnished hotel room; shook off the four griffons and the Albino Pekinese which had scrambled about her lap while she spoke; dashed to the mirror, seized a large comb and ran it through her black hair, which hangs to her shoulders in a long straight...