Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-11

of two men and a woman in which TruX-
ton Beale had figured, deliberately shoots
down his enemy. Is it any wonder he
was white: Is the killing of human
being 50 common that man can do II
without even turning pale?
you locate your enemy, you locate the
man who blackballed you at clubs who.
YOU say, ravished your wife. who spread
stories of pclversion about YOU; You
shoot MIN down, and then come here with
Your 'Dementia Americana 1t is absurd.
why, the crime bristles with premedita-
ton. Unexplained K is murGer in the
first degree A man shoots down his en-
eniy who. no matter how bad he may be,
is entitled to the protection of the law.
Let him be blacler than the cloak OF
midnight, which counsel yesterday threw
about his memory. and I say he still had
right to be where he was the night of
the 18th of last June. He had right to
be, that the laws of this community
would protect him.
who made this man the eXecutioner
of Stanford White? Has ne no right to
put his faith in the laws of this state?
Must a man go armed hereafter as in 4
mining camp?
There is nothing in this direct case,
gentlemen, that does not show cold
blooled, premeditated murder. And to
| this what answer is made? I was in
sane when 1 went 80 feet across that
room and fired three shots into Il mans
head. l did not know it was a pistol I
| held in my hand | did rot know it was
| Stanford White, my enemy, 1 was shoot
| ing, did not know the nature and quail
| ity of my act and l cid not know that
| it was wrong
Gentlemen. when the law says that
man does not know an act is wrong, and
| he is excused it does not mean that his
orimion was wrong. but that his mental
condition is such that he does not know
| the act is legally wrong. When the An
archist>; il the Chicago Havmafket threw
| the bomb they had nothing against the
policemen whom they killed; they We're
simply deluded men who believed that it
was thai: duty TO kill all the representa-
| tives Of law and order, bat they knew
that under the law that act was wrong"
| When Mr.. Jerome in his argument
reached the testimony of Evelyn Thaw,
| he spoke with much vchemence in de-
| fence of Stanford White and his words
| fairly bristled with sarcasm when he
| lad occasion to refer to ThaW as the
| modern est. George and Evelyn as
''the angel child
While he designated as a man Of po-
| Sition in the community and genius.
He said there is not particle of evil
| dence to show that White made any
insidious advances towards Evelyn af-
| ter coming into her life. that he daZ-
zed her childish mind with rich gifts,
| but on the contrary. he helped her on
| ~ by presents of necessary wearing
| apparel. White. he declared, never piled
| the girl with wine. for she herself ad-
| United that he never permitted her to
| drink more than one glass.
Mr. Jerome rounded out his defence
! of the dead man with the declaration
| that "a man may not be virtuous, he
may be unchaste. but it does not fol-
low that he is a brute
The district attorney dwelt at length
upon the occurrences in the eth street
| studio as related by Evelyn Thaw on
| the witness stand. and pointed out
what he declared We're many serious
discrepancies in her narrative. He laid
great stress upon the fact that al
| though the girl could remember what
| transpired during her journeys through
| Europe. she could not fix the time,
| within three months, when. as she
claimed. she was outraged by Stanford
White. He characterizes the occur
renee in the studio as "most extraor-
binary, particularly as she. the victim.
was member of the Florodora chorus.
cit can hardly be conceived" he
continued. that this chorus girl should
be dragged into a den and there at
tackled
M. jerome referred to the offer of
the defence to allow the prosecution to
contradict Evelyn's story, and then de-
clared that when he attempted it the
doors were closed.
81 called learned chemist" Mr. Jer-
ONE continued, "to prove to you that
there does not exist a drug such as this
angel child would have YOU believe
was employed to bring about her ruin.
But my learned opponent objected.
called the photographer who took these
pictures for which Evelyn says she
posed on the night before she was cut
ragged | knew that his evidence would
not be admitted. 1t was opposed to call
the cheap bluff Of my learned orpo
nent."
How strange it is. my friends, that
this 'angel child'-this girl of the cho-
rus-should believe what she says Stan
ford White told her about all women
being bad and some simply unfortu-
nate as to be found out. Does what She
did afterward appeal to your common
sense?
Contrast her action with that Of 9TH
er girls. Was she brought up any more
carefully than your own daughters
have been brought up? Go back to
when they We're 16i. years Of age and
think what such thing as we have
heard would have meant to them. What
does this girl do? Does she shrink from
this man? Does she abhor
No" Numbered the district attor-
ney, "she meets him again and again
and again and again. Eight or nine
times she goes to the tower and to the
oath street house with this human ogre.
who had stripped her of her virginity
Snc met him time and time again."
said Mr.. Jerome. uttering the words be-
tween cliached teeth, and far from re-