The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-04-11
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years OF age and think what such
thing as wo have heard would have
meant 10 them. What does this girl
dof Does she shrink from this man?
Does she abhor him?
"No!' Numbered the district attorney
In his loudest tone. "She meets him
again and Dgaln and again. Eight or
nine times she goes to the tower and
to the Twenty-fourth street house with
this human ogre who had stripped her
Of her virglnlty.
"She met him time after time again."
said Mr.. Jerome, utterlng the words
between cllnched teeth. "and far from
repelling these fearful attacks we find
Der by her own words at one time
undressing In n room downstairs while
White was talking with friend on the
floor above.
This dragon preying upon female
virtue wrote this angel child letter
after letter, scores OF them. We have
shown them 10 be In the possession OF
the defense. Some OF them were iden.
tilted. but was single one put In evi.
dence aud read7 No. There Is moth
ing TO show you that these letters con.
talncd anything that was bad. Would
not some one OF these many letters con.
tain something TO indicate the vicious
character. the evil disposition. Of this
very wicked man;
"Now. gentlemen. let MS see what
this girl herself says % the horrible
lemon who ruined her she says:
Outside Of this one awful thing I ad.
mlrcd stanford White. lie had a most
extraordinary personality
"What an extraordinary panegyric
that Il coming from those llpsl
stanford Whites lips are sealed by
death and by the rules Of evidence.
but what are we expected 10 believe
against n man 10 whom such n tribute
Is paid by the girl he so brutality Sc
ducedf
Gentlemen. am not here 30 defend
Stanford White. but am compelled
TO say that there Il a difference be-
tween nnchasiity and brutality: there
Il n difference between the man OF the
world aud the brute who ravishes.
"lIer own words have ruined the
theory that Stanford white was n
brute. Has she been 10 enlightened
by this modern -. George that nj last
she has come 10 believe that all women
arr not unchaste. and yet she can
come here. but twenty-five years OF
age. and ST In that chair and describe
The man who ravishcd her as a girl OF
sixteen In the remarkable way that
she has donei
You have not n sclntilla Of evidence
outside Of her own story that the rcla.
lions between her and stanford White
were Impure. and the character OF her
story may best he judged by her state
ment that all Of her experiences with
this man were against her will-that
they were all rape-yet We ind her, as
I have told you before. voluntarily In
bis rooms. waiting and willing for the
awful attacks % this monster"
Mr.. Jerome laid great stress upon the
fact that. although the girl could re
member what trau>plred during her
Journeys through Europe. she could
not hx the time within three months
when. n she claimed. she was out.
mgcd by stanford White.
After the case had been given 90 the
jury Mr. Jerome's attention was called
20 the nervous state Of the defendant.
Discussing the situation with a mum.
her % friends. the district attorney
said. referring 20 Thaw: The poor
fellow thought the judge would sim.
ply tell the jury 20 let this 80. George.
this Sir Galahad business 20. aud
that's all there would lie 10 H. Now
understand he Il sitting In his cell all
IN n mess, bis head bowed. worrying
about the outcome. I'm really sorry
Tor him, but more 20 for his mother"
Under the statutes Of New York
muffcr In the nrst degree l. punish.
able with death. murder In the second
degree by imprisonment for life and
manslaughicr In the first degree by
Imprisonment not 20 exceed twenty
years. n the verdict should lsc ono Of
acquliial on the ground Of insanity the
disposition 81 the prisoner would rest
with Justice Fitzgerald. Thaw having
already bccn declared sane by the re.
port Of a commission which Justice
Fitzgerald has approved and conhrm.
Ell. Il would seem that the prisoner
must h. released