New York Supreme Court October 15, 1908 (People ex rel. Peabody v. Chanler)

MILLS, J.

This is a proceeding under a writ of habeas corpus to determine the present sanity of Harry K. Thaw. Such issue having been joined by the return and traverse herein, and the trial thereof having been set for the 12th of October, instant, at White Plains, the district attorney of New York county, appearing for the-superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital, one of the defendants