New-York tribune., 1907-04-11
THAW'S FATE WITH JURY.
Locked Up Until 1880 This Morning Rumor They
Stand j 0 to for AcqmttaL
JEROME MAKES SCATFIING ADDRESS.
Says Young Wife Lied Declares Thaw Was Sane-COms Charge
Thought To Be Against Prisoner.

e'isO uCSCIlUcU dS tile acts OF a man WHO wen
knew what he was about. His demeanor on
the way to the police station and when ar
raigned all showed the perfectly possessed.
normal man. Mr.. Jerome argued.
"It not until my thirsty friend Dr.
Evans. had an opportunity to talk to Thaw
that these brainstorms We're thought Of" said
the District Attorney sarcastically
DEFENDS WHITES MEMORY.
At no time was Mr. Jerome more earnest than
when he Iamented that the rules of evidence
had not permitted him to defend Stanford
Whites memory by competent evidence. "Oh.
If the whole truth could only be told he said
with eloquent gesture. Then he told how
Mr.. Delmas had prevented him from showing
that Evelyn Nesbit could not have been with
Stanford White the night she says he drugged
her
"And then the defence ostentatiously put in
evidence a big bunch Of letters from Stanford
White to the girl" Mr. Jerome said. Were
they read? Only one of them Do YOU think
that If there had been the least suggestion Of
anything evil in any of those letters they would
not have been read? And wouldn't a man If he
had the character the defence ascribes 10 him
have written something eviI9 They were not
read because there was not a word in them that
was not proper and kindly
Then the District Attorney told Of the
extraordinary tribute young Mrs. Thaw had
paid White when she described him "a grand
man; one of the finest men ever knew"
1T seems to me-" Mr.. Jerome said. with much
emotion, 'as if the spirit of Stanford White
must have entered and whispered in her ear
Evelyn. my lips are sealed in death. have no
protectors. Won't you say one good word for
me?'"
Telling use was made by the prosecutor Os
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life. her sneers at good girls who would uevec
amount to anything who might become wives
and mothers. but nothing else" were read ana
used to show that the angel child was muoa
of a woman of the world even at seventeen-I
Nor did Mr.. Jerome fail 10 point out to ths
jury that her innocent, childish manner and.
dress when she gave testimony were assumed To
gain their sympathy.
But you have sworn to lay sympathy asldeIsF
he told the twelve men. and you must abIdaH
by your oaths."
CALLS HUMMEI. "sCoUNDREL."
Mr.. Jerome didn't spare Humulel "For years
1 have ,TiedN 20 get him where have got him.
1 regard him as a bIackmailing scoundreI o<
twenty years standing, and I intend to puc
him In Jail as soor as can and keep him there
as long as 1 can" he said Nevertheless. he ar.
gued. there was internal evidence in the am
davit itself that Evelyn Nesbit made that
proved its truth. and he pointed out that the
testimony OF Snydecker. the notary public who
witnessed her. signature. and had remained un<
. contradiCted.
In concluding his summing Up Mr.. Jerome
quoted from the Bible. following his opponents
example With much earnestness he fntOned.
e. Vengeance is mine saith the Lord. and 1 shall
repay" And again, was Numbered forth.
from Mount Sinai: Thou shalt not KILL