The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-11
ANXIOUS MOMENTS FOR
THE SLAYER Of WHITE
Continued from Page I.

District Attorney Jerome sum UP the
states case against Harry X. Thaw,
slayer Of Stanford White.
Court did not convene until II 80, and
two hours before that time the advance
guard Of spectators began TO arrive and
took up positions of vantage in the cor
ridors leading to the court room so as
10 be among the first to be admitted
when the doors were opened. The pO-
lice, however, were prepared for the
rush, and kept the doors closed until II
O'Clock But this did not prevent a
large number OF favored friends from
getting into the court room before that
hour Court attendants employed the
side doors. leading to the ante-rooms,
10 good advantage, and so when the
main entrance was opened the trial
room was almost filled.
Intense Interest.
The small enclosure in front of the
Judges bench was also taxed TO its ut
most capacity by the friends and as
sistants of the attorney, and altogether
the scene in the court room when Mr..
Jerome rose to address the jury was
one of tense interest, in expectancy and
suppressed excitement.
In the corridors the scenes were most
stirring. Scores Of disappointed men
the police i'm last effort to pass, anly
to be repulsed and fairly dragged back
from the entrance. Men with imagined
influence pleaded with the officers. ca
ioled begged and threatened, but all
in vain.
About FIVE minutes before the ses-
sion was begun members of the Thaw
family began TO arrive. The first TO
enter was Josiah Thaw, accompanied
NJ
Carnegie and her husband were next.
Mrs. Edward Thaw and Evelyn Thaw
followed quickly, and the elder Mrs.
Thaw came last. All looked hopeful
and confident.
AT II 80 Justice Fitzgerald took his
seat upon the bench, the jury was
brought in and Harry X. Thaw was
called TO the bar.
Gentlemen of the jury" said Mr..
Jerome, arising when the court had
opened from all / can judge from the
papers, having been absent-you
have been wandering through a mere
field Of romance for two days. The life
Of a human being is not to be judged
on such premises. The issues here can
not be determined by quotations from
the scriptures. You have been enjoined
by the court to make up your verdict
solely from the evidence.
The attorneys for the defense have
had the responsibility of human life
resting upon them. But there has been
= responsibility equally grave upon the
prosecution.
The law is not a cruel law. 1t does
lot punish for the mere sake of pun
ishment. 1t Furnishes To protect those
who live under il.
Important as it is that no human life
should be put out unjustly, IL is equal
~ important to the community in
which you and 1 dwell that the law
shall be justly upheld.
II, gentlemen, have had no easy task.
IL in the heat of the battle l have tran
seconded the courtesy due to counsel,
will beg you to overlook it. If in the
judgment of the court have gone fur
Their than | should have gone in max
ing certain statements in court. I have
nothing but regret for il. This is a
time for us all to lay aside our animos-
tiles. The issue here is not TO be de-
etrmined upon my personality or upon
that OF the counsel for the defense.
People VS.. Harry Thaw.
Keep clearly i'm mind that while the
defendants counsel stand for the de-
PENDANT individually, there is another
side, the side of the people, of whom
YOU are a part. This is no action be-
tween the executors Of Stanford White
and this defendant; it is not trial to
determine whether Evelyn Thaw was
ravished by Stanford White. It is an
issue between the people of New York
state and Harry Thaw, and it is to
determine whether what he did was
tustiflable or excusable. or whether he
should be punished for it.
II will assure YOU that. not upon the
word of the counsel. but upon the evil
dence. you are bound by your oaths to
decide this issue. On the evidence I
will try to point out 10 you that this de-
PENDANTS crime was not justifiable or
excusable, and that he should be pun
ished.
You are not entitled to say that this
man is guilty because the grand jury
indicted him for murder i'm the first
degree, but you are entitled TO consider
that on the records they said the un-