The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-27
THE WOMAN AND THE BRUTE

Y THE WOMAN AND THE BRUTE
From A Texas Paper:-
If Harry Thaw was being tried in
a Texas court and before a jury of
twelve Texas gentlemen. with Je-
rome as the PROSECUTOR and pursuing
the same line of questioning as he
has pursued in his examination of
Evelyn Thaw IN New York. the jury
would acauit the man without leaving
the box.
Paraphrasing the play of "The
Lady and the Tiger. the writer can
not refrain from expressing in the
caption of this article his utter con-
tempt for the cigarette sucking pros
ecutor who is trying by crucifying the
soul Of tt is wife. a woman. if you
please. no worse than tens of thous-
ands of others who move in the best
society of New York S gilded aristoc-
racy.
Any man who will calmly consider
the tactics of the prosecutor cannot
but feel that jerome is much of a
brute in putting Mrs. Thaw through
the painful ordeal and subiecting her
to cruel and bitter humiliation by pro-
scouting inquiries into her past that
have no bearing or relevancy to the
question at stake Mrs. Thaw has
told the story of hayward and
wicked girl. She has told of treading
"the primrose path of dalliance. -
but since becoming the wife of Harry
Thaw SO far as the proofs show she
has been faithful. And her fidelity to
him will win for her the admiration
of the deep-thinking people of this
country, should win freedom for her
husband. She has tried-in the ques-
tion as not been raised that she has
MOTTO put her past behind her for
ever: atone for its error and live
new and clean life. For Jerome to
have crucifed her soul by dragging
from her the story of her past is not
short of brutal. There is always room
for charity and forgiveness and sym
pathy for an erring woman. Mrs.
Thaw was young. giddy. beautiful.
weak. She says Stanford White de
bauched her under circumstances of
the vilest depravity. The story causes
the good. red rich blood in the veins
of all true gentlemen to run cold at
the means employed. He started her
on the downward path to hell and
was seeking to lead her into that path
anew. Thaw says he believed this.
and killed White. One thing is evil
dent: If the mother of White. the
woman who gave him birth. could
look down from the jewelled walls OF
heaven upon such acts as White is
said to have committed against young
girls and womanhood. she would re-
gret that he did not die during the
ordeal of birth.
Every gallant and chivalrous man
will agree with us that White de-
served the fate that overlook him.
But Jerome is in his glory when he
has woman upon the witness rack
as has been shown in his questioning
Of Mrs. Thaw., He put a frail, child
like. shrinking woman. scarcely NOR,
than girl. on the rack and tortured
her for five days by forcing from he,
tine story of her past sins and weak
nesses committed when she was jus
budding into girlhood. yet hardly Out
of the era of childhood. Yes, Jerom'
is much of brute. He has not halle,
at anything and has gone beyond al
the rules Of evidence. of common
fairness and common decency.
There has never been a rule o
evidence since the days Of Moses t
this that justifies such tactics as ha
been pursued by Jerome. Such tactic
are akin to the barbarous and is Fl
only for ba. barians who have neve
gained an idea Of the right or {
justice.