The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-10
0oses With Appeal to
 Unwritten Law.
0RAToRY WAS MASTERFUl
District Attorney Jerome to Address Jury Today.
Judge Fitzgerald Will Probably Deliv- CT His Ckarse Immediately After ward and Fate of Thaw VIII
 sk submitted.

New York. April s.--one more day and the concluding chapters of the trial of Harry K Thaw for the mur- der of Stanford White will have been written into history.
 with an oratorical appeal to both the unwrftten and the written law for the Justification of his client. Delphin M. .Delmae concluded his exhaustive summing up address to the jury this afternoon. When court conyenes to- morrow morning at 11:30 o',lock. one nour later than usual, District Attor- ney Jerome will go before the jury and Tn three or four hours address Is expected to make a plea which will be accounted one of the best efforts of his life.
 justice Fitzgerald would mot say today whether or not he would charge the jury directly following the dis trict attorneys closing remarks. but the general impression is that he will do so. In that event there seems lit- tle doubt that the case will be turned over to the jury by tomorrow even ing.
 With the exception of the moments when he was reading from testimony Mir. Delmas's speech today was one or sustained oratorical effort. He threw about Harry Thaw the cloak of chivalrous knighthood. 'why,"-- he shouted. should we who admire chiv- airy Of the knights of the middle ages, who went abroad redressing wrongs and rescuing maidens in dis tress. withhold our sympathy from this brave man?"
 Bitterly the attorney again assaiIed Stanford White. Hs declared White sought to play with the girl so long as her beauty remained and then would have thrown her away. nike a dirty rag to float down hideous sew CTS to grave in the Potter's field"
 Again he said: Harry Thaw had snatched the girl from the old leecher who saw in her but q toy to gratify moments lust and then be cast aside to SO her Iwass down the paths of fallen women"
 Delivered With Dramatie Fervor.
 With dramatic emphasis, MT. Del mas cried out that when Harry Thaw beheld Stanford White on the Madison Square roof garden the story of his wffe's wrongs overcame him. He pictured in an instant as dying man may picture his past life-all that Stanford White had done: "the ruin The had wrought and he struck, struck as the tigrAss strikes in defense of her young, struck for the home, struck Tor the American woman; struck for humanity and Stanford White fell"
 "Ah. gentlemen." the advocate went on.' If Harry Thaw believed he was the instrument of Providence, who will say he was mistaken
 He declared the burden of proof as to Thaw's sanity at the time of the homicide, rested with the prosecution which had failed to make out his case.
 It was in discussing Thaw's mental state that MT. Delmas came at last to the ''unwritten law" He declared that the experts had been at a loss to classify the form of insanity from which Thaw suffered.
 "I will suggest its name." he de- clared. T would call 1t Dementia Americana.' It Is q species of insan- ity, which has been recognized In ev- cry State of this Union. It is that species of insanity which makes the American man believe his home. his wife, his daughters are sacred and that whosoever stains the virtue of his threshold violates the highest hu- man laws"
 Twice during his closing periods Mir. Delmas was interrupted by Assistant District Attorney Garvan. MT. Jer- ome being absent from the court room all day. MT. Garvan suggested that the argument was taking too wide a scope and Justice Fitzgerald called MT. Delmass attention to the fact.
 Thaw seemed tonight to be in the best of spirits and declared that he felt his case was won. He seemed to have no dread of the assault of the District Attorney tomorrow. There was a report that MT. Jerome was i'll T. t.I1 the afternoon and said he had been busy for two days preparing his ar gument.
 Harry Thaw was in unusually good spirits this morning when he began to prepare for his day in the court room. He laughed and chatted with the keep CTS, and to every one he met he ex- pressed himself as more than ever con fident of the outcome of the trial. He was pleased with MT. Delmas' speech yesterday and looked forward to its close today with eagerness and Rntici- patton.
 The crowd began to gather outside the court room at an unusually early hour and the guardians at the doors of the room exercised extra vigilance in keeping out those who had no busi- ness to enter.
 MT. Delmas began his final plea yesterday afternoon and after speak ing two and a half hours, his voice became so husky as to necessitate m adjournment. He was fin good voice again when the proceedings were re- stunned today and at the outset promised to be even more effective than he was yesterday.
 Despite the indictment weather-a snow storm without-the court room was beseiged fully an hour before the time fixed for the opening. a large per centage of the wouldbe spectators be- ing women. With much difficulty the police succeeded in keeping the crowd down to the actual seating capacity, so that although every available bit of space was occupied, good order pre- vailed while Mir. Delmas was making his appeal to the jury.
 Evelyn Thaw Was Late.
 Members of the Phaw family, as usual were among the early arrivals. Evelyn Thaw was a trifle late, but ar- rived in time to hear the opening sen- tences. new figure appeared in the Thaw group today. It was that of Mrs. Edward Thaw, who accompanied her husband and sister -in-law, the