St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 12, 1909

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Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service _ f : os . 7 saat “ : ; & Pia Loa oe é Se 2 JF ; : x Pak, rey gl 2% a 4 t+. pee . 9 y. 3 rs Bee . - ous - j > af day; southwest winds. Temperatures are above the norma! in the cotton belt. In Texas there has been no rain in the last 24 hours except along the coast. Light rains fell in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. . Th® stage of the river is 12.7, a fall of .6, portion

hee WP eat: oe Pri % + oi An unusual paragraph in Justice Mills’ opinion is devoted Copley Thaw, the prisoner’s mother. The Court says: | “While paying this high regard to Dr. Baker, the Court is b; satisfied with the treatment which Thaw has received at M there to obtain his freedom. “] reuotcty, the, pettiegin, So elieh, sth he aaa to their custody the privileges, so-called, which he was permit in his first three months’ stay be restéred to him if such « pi ra venerable and wost estimable mother be at all

Is Freed, He Would Be a Mer ne COURT ACCEPTS MERRILL Slayer Was Insane at Time of Shoot — won a complete victory over Harry K. Thaw today, wl s hat better off than before he brought the sbeiial oe Thaw will remain in the jail at least until tomorrow, when sa ae if oT was sane. Thaw told him, Dr. Meyers said, that while he wag ¢ wie: nt “I am more sorry for my mother than for anybody else,” Thaw . om the teldjhons and asked her to'give my austen: Sa aina Sa of before Justice Mills in Mount Vernon tomorrow morning, file notice of f peal and ask for a modification of the Justice’s order, committing T | custody of the defendant—Dr. Robert B. Lambs, superintendent of 3 vi ee COURT RESTORES THAW’S PRIVI : his return there in October last, after bia unsuccessful anaes “ |found to be clearly incompatible with due ee mes an font ther