Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09
all his friends held the same opinion.

all his friends held the same opinion.
And it was true," declared the
speaker; "the man who had brooded
on this subject for three years, who
had pictures of dreadful horrors
haunting him by day, and in the still
ness of the night, could not be hui
man to retain his reason. Gentlemen.
place yourself in his place; picture to
yourselves the horrors he went thru,
and do justice to Harry Thaw."
Court Takes Recess.
"It was 10: 80 and Delmas announced
that he found IL would be impossible
for him to conclude by the usual re-
cess time, as he had expected to do,
and asked that recess be taken until 2
o'clock. Recess was ordered
Delmas resumed his address at 2:07.
Following the recess, Delmas brought
the narrative of his argument down
to the events of the night of the traSe-
dy, the 25th of June last. He contenued
that Thaw was insane when he shot
and killed White and reviewed exhaus-
lively the testimony adduced on this
subject. When Delmas reached the
period where Thaw and party were
about to leave the roof garden, he said:
Describes the Shooting.
Remember that at this period, gen
tlemen. the unbroken testimony of all
witnesses is to the effect that the man
ner and demeanor of: Thaw was per-
fectly calm and composed and that he
walked quietly down the aisle. When
he reached the point of exit he spied
to his right the form of White. White
was then intently looking at the per-
formance on the stage and he was
about twenty feet to the left of Thaw.
Thaw then turned and walked
faced him and when White
caused his death. He then turned
slowly and de1iberately-and wish to
call your attention to this circum-
stance, apparently slight, but to my
mind of the greatest significance, as
testified to by Meyer Cohen, who said
,thxE as soon as the body of White had
fallen to the ground Thaw turned to
the audience, spread out his arms in
the shape of a cross and stood COM
posedly. there-a circumstance which
has not been dwelt upon by the learned
experts called as witnesses by the
state, but which denotes the character
of the execution that took place.
"Thaw stood as priest might have
stood after some ceremony of sacrificial
offering, saying: All is over thus dis
missing the congregation. He turned
the pistol barrel down to indicate to
the audience that there was no dan
ger to them, and he then walked slow
ly to where his wife stood, and when
she said: oh, Harry, what have you
done? he replied: It's right, dearie,
I have probably saved your life AS
he said this he stopped and kissed
her When he was disarmed, he said
He has ruined my wife When a
policeman came he said: He has ruined
my wife,"
DeImas Concludes.
II have dwelt upon these incidents.
gentlemen to call your attention to
the fact that the safety of his wife,
whose menace was implied by the very
presence of this man, was uppermost
in his mind. To him this man, who
had met his young wife on the street,
who had followed her to the doctors.
who had also followed her to the Cafe
Martin, and to the roof garden-this
was the man who had boasted he would
get the young wife away from her hus-
band. So it was that after he had
shot. the first great thought that welled
up within him in the storm and stress
of the moment, was that "At last my
wife is safe. I have saved her life"
Delmas told the Jury that the pros
ecution's alienists would not have tes-
titled that Thaw was not insane had
they been asked that question. As
sistant District Attorney Garvan OBJ
jected Fitzgerald ruled that the jury
could not speculate as to what an
swers might have been given. Delmas
said the species of insanity from which
Thaw suffered was the insanity which
makes every American man believe his
home to be sacred.
Delmas concluded his argument at
3: II. He spoke altogether five and one
quarter hours. AS soon as he finished
the court adjourned until tomorrow
morning, when Jerome will begin the
final argument for the state.