The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-10

Mr. Smith was brother-in-law of Stan
ford White, but he did not feel toward
him the aversion he felt for Stanford
White. Then he returned to his party,
talked about the play, discussed Its lack
of interest, talking of leaving what haG
turned out to be at least tedious past
time. They left, Mrs. Thaw and Thomas
McCaleb in front, Truxton Beale and
Thaw following. Mr. Beale saw a friend
and stopped to speak to him. He left
Thaw to proceed on his way alone. Re
member at this period, gentlemen, the
unbroken testimony of all the witnesses
to the effect that the manner and de-
meanor of Thaw was perfectly calm and
composed, that he walked quietly down
the aisle. When he reached the point of
exit, he espied to his right, the form
of Stanford White.
Sees White.
stamford White was looking at the
performance on the stage. He was about
twenty feet to the left of Mr.. Thaw.
Mr. Thaw then turned walked slowly
and quietly towards him, faced him, and
when he had faced him fired the shots
which caused his death. He then walked
slowly away and deliberately, and l wish
to call your attention to the circum-
stance-apparently slight but to my mind
of the greatest significance, as testified
by Mr.. Meyer Cohen, who said that as
soon as the body of Stanford White had
fallen to the ground Thaw turned to the
audience, spread out his arms in the
shape OF a cross and stood composedly
there-a circumstance which has not been
dwelt on by the learned experts called as
witnesses by the state, but which denotes
the character of the execution that TOOK
place.
Mr. Thaw stood as a priest might have
CT of n GaHrlflniAl
offering, saying; All is over and dis
missing the congregation He turned his
pistol barrel down, to indicate to the
audience that there was no danger to
them, he then walked slowly to where his
wife stood and when she said: oh! Harry,
what have you done? He replied: 1T is
all right, dearie, | have pdrobably saved
your life. As he said this he stopped
and kissed her. When he was disarmed he
said He has ruined my wife When the
policeman came he said He has ruined
my WIFE | have dwelt on these Incl
dents gentlemen to call your attention to
the fact that the safety of his wife, whose
menace was implied by the very presence
of this man, was uppermost in his mind.
To him this man. who had met the yonng
wife on the street, who had followed her
to the DOCTORS had also followed her to
the Cafe Martin and to the roof garden.
b Saved Her Life.
This was the man who had been boast
ing that he would get the young wife
away from her husband. So it was after
White had been shot, the first great
thought that welled up within him in
the storm of stress of the moment was
that AT last my wife Is safe. 1 have
| saved her life.
And when he answered to the officer
said He has ruined my Wife what was
the condition of his mind, what was It,,
when as he was quietly and peaceably
walking down the aisle he turned and
saw the hideous form of the man who
had been the cause of suen suffering?
If you have ever been in moments of
peril you know that mems minds go back
over the past and illumine it as lightning
at night illumnes the storm clouds.
AS Lightning Flash.
I'm that flash Harry Thaw saw what
had ruined his whole life. He saw that
man as he had BEEN he saw him he
became a friend of that poverty stricken
family, saw him laying plans to ingrati-
ate himself in that family; saw him pos
| ing as the protector and friend of that
| beautiful child, whose beauty had at
! tracted him; saw him paying money to
| the mother to leave the city while he car
| ried out his fiendish plans; saw him lure
| that child to his vile den; saw MIN ply