Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-04-08
DELMAS BEGINS
ADDRESS TO JURY
Thaw Trial Enters
Upon Final
Stage
OF 18TH WEEK
Predicted Verdict Will Be
Reached By Wednesday
Night.

New York, April S--Attorney Del
mas, chief counsel for the defense ir
the Thaw murder trial, began his sum
ming up address to the jury this af
ternoon at 2 o'clock. If Attorney Del
mas can conclude today, District At
torney Jerome will talk tomorrow
and verdict in the case may be
reached as soon as Wednesday night
Jerome Objected-Court Overruled.
With the opening Of the trial today
District Attorney Jerome made for
NAL motion to the court asking thai
the report Of the Lunacy Commission
be not confirmed. Justice Fitzgerald
overruled the motion and ordered the
trial to proceed.
Dr.. Hamilton Called.
DIR. Hamilton was then called as
witness, having been on the stant
when the trial was interrupted by the
appointment of the Lunacy Commits
sion. Jerome objected to the witness
testifying on the ground that it would
simply reopen the whole case. The
court sustained the objection and both
the defense and state rested.
Ordered Jury Locked Up.
Thereupon Justice Fitzgerald or
dered the jury locked up from now un
til the case closed. Jerome suggested
that this would be an undue hardship
upon the jurors who had no notice OF
1t and the court agreed to let the jur-
ors go until o'clock in the afternoon
in order that they might arrange their
affairs.
Twelfth Week Of Trial
Beginning with today, the trial is
entering upon its twelfth week. This
is the longest trial in the history Of
New York criminal courts.
Delmas May Finish Today
Attorney Delmas expects to finish
his address to the jury this evening
In opening he stated that as the tes'
timony had been very voluminous and
there had been so many Interruptions
1t would take two or three hours to
refresh the memory of the jurors on
the testimony that had been intro
duced. If Delmas is unable to con.
clude this evening, District Attorney
Jerome will not begin his address to
the jury until Wednesday. as he de-
sires whole day for his speech.
Justice Fitzgerald is expected to
charge the jury the same day that
Jerome closes.
Making Impassioned Appeal.
Delmas began his argument by
quoting from the statement of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome when he said:
1--WE have no right to be trying this
man if the real facts in the case were
known
He said that he would ask for an
acquittal on the written law of the
state Of New York. Then followed a
resume Of every bit of Harry Thaw's
life
Charged White With Felony.
Delmas declared that Stanford
White committed felony in his as
|sault upon Evelyn Nesbit He de-
clared that the large sums of money
paid by White to Mrs. Nesbit proved
that he had ruined her daughter.
Mrs. NesbIt Unnatural Mother. N
He further denounced Mrs. Nesoit
as an unnatural mother who had Civ
en- the district attorney statements tc
torture the wounded soul of her OWL
daughter. He paid a high tribute tc
Jerome by calling him master mind
but added that even though gifted be
yond the average mind, he could not
shake the testimony of Evelyn.
Moves Juror to Tears,
When he touched on Thaw's love
for Evelyn one of the jurors was seen
to wipe his eyes.
Will Jury Fail to Agree2
with the trial finished save for the
summing up. the belief that the jury
will disagree is growing among those
who have followed the case from Its
beginning. The trial has been longest
and most costly ever held In New
York and Justice Fitzgerald will not
allow the i,1ry to he discharged until
he is certain that there is no chance
of it's agreeing. A disagreement would
mean that Thaw would have to re-
main in the Tombs until his regular
turn came again, probably until late in
tho fall