The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-11

tended. like priest dismissing . con- gregation. I did not see anything ir
 the evidence about that.
 Wanted to Prevent Panic.
 He held the pistol up that tho poo pie present might know that there
 would be no more shooting, in order to
 prevent a panic. When the man who
 arrested him asked why he did 1t, the | wife,
 'He did not say. am the apostle of
 God. appointed to kill this ravisher of | American virgins | No, my friends this apostle of God
 business came after this defendant had
 the advice of my friend, Dr. Evans | MT. Jerome went into the details or
 the evidence regarding Thaw's actions
 and words after the killing and sa.4
 tnere was not one thing that did not
 show absolute calmness. coolness and
 rat.onality.
 He was rational, he was calm, and 1 cool. went on the district attorney.
 He walks up to his enemy. after care- 1 fully locating him and carefully takes
 aim. He does not take any chances or hitting any one else. You are told
 his lace was white. Here was a man
 who had nursed an enmity for three
 years. who for three years had giared
 at his enemy until. after a good dinner.
 and hearing the story of two men and
 woman in which Truxton Beale had
 figured, deliberately shoots down his
 enemy. Is 1t any wonder he was
 white? Is the killing of a human be-
 ing thing so common that a man l can do 1t without turning pale? Black Balled at Clubs. | You locate your enemy. you locate the man who black balled you at
 clubs. who you say ravished your wife.
 who spread stories of perversion about
 you. you shoot him down and then
 come here with your 'dementia Ameri-
 cana It is absurd. Why the crime
 bristles with premeditation. | Unexplained, 1t Is murder in the
 first degree. A man shoots down his
 enemy. who. no matter how bad he may be, Is entitled to the protection
 of the law. Let him be blacker than
 the cloak of midnight which counsel
 yesterday threw about his memory. and
 say he still had a right to be where
 he was on the night of the 25th. of last
 June. He had right to believe that
 the laws of this community would pro- l tect him.
 l Who made this man the execution
 CT of Stanford White? Had he no
 right to put his faith in the laws Of
 li,.s state. Must a man go armed here
 as in a mining camp.
 | There is nothing in this direct case. |
 blooded. premeditated, murder. And to
 this what answer is made? was in-
 sane when I went thirty feet across
 that room and fired three shots into
 a mans head; did not know ltNwas . pistol I held in my hand; I did not
 know 1t was Stanford White, my
 enemy, I was shooting; I did not know
 the nature and quality of my act, and | did not know that 1t was wrong. | Gentlemen, when the law says that when 8 man does not know an act is | wrong he Is excusable 1t does not mean that in his opinion 1t is not wrong, but | that his mental condition Is such that
 he does not know the act Is legally
 wrong. When the anarchists in the Chicago hay market threw the bombs they had nothing against the polfce- men whom they killed; they were simply deluded men who believed it was their duty to kill all the represen- tatives of law and order; but they knew that under the law that act was wrong"
 Takes Up EveIyn's Testimony.
 When MT. Jerome took up the testf- meny of Evelyn Thaw, he was very effective. He spoke with much ve- hemence in defennse of Stanford White, and his words fairly bristied with sarcasm when he had occasion to refer to Thaw as the modern 'St. George" and Evelyn as the angel child"
 White he designated as a man of position in the community and a genius. He pointed out that there is not a par tiole of evidence to show that White made any insiduous advances toward Evelyn after coming into her life, that he dazzled her childish mind with rich gifts. but On the contrary. he helped her only by presents of necessary wearing apparel White. he declared never piled the girl with wine. for she herself admitted that he never permit ted her to drink more, than one glass. MT. Jerome rounded out his defense of White with the declaration. "A man may not be virtuous. he may be un- chaste, but 1t does not follow that he Is l @ brute"
 The District Attorney dwelt at length upon the occurrences in the
 Twenty fourth Street studio as related by Evelyn Thaw on the witness stand, and pointed out what he declared were
 many serious discrepancies In her mar
 rative; he laid great stress upon tho
 fact that although the girl could re- 1 member what transpired during her journeys through Europe. she could not | fix tn time, within three months, when, as she claimed, she was out ragged by Stanford White. He charac- | terized the occurrence In the studio as
 most extraordinary, particularly as | she the victim was a member of the | Florodora' chorus.
 Beyond Human Conception. Tt can hardly be conceived he con- | tinued, that this chorus girl should
 be dragged into den and there att | tackled"
 Mir Jerome referred to the offer of the defense to allow the prosecution to | contradict Evelyn's story and then de- | clared that when he made a move to avail himself of it. the doors were closed.
 II called learned chemist" the Dis- | trict Attorney continued, ito prove to | you that there does not exist a drug such as this angel child would have you believe was employed to bring about her ruin. But my learned oppo- nent from the Pacific slope objected. | And then I called the photographer
 who took these pictures for which | Evelyn says she posed on the night she | was outraged. I knew that his evil | dence would not be admitted. knew | that even if counsel for the defense | had not objected the learned Judge
 would have ruled 1t out; 1t was not of
 fered in the hope that 1t would be ad-
 mitted. It was offered to call ths cheap bluff of my learned opponent 80 strange is It. my friends, that l this angel child'-this girl of the cho- rus-should believe what she says l Stanford White told her about all wo-
 men being bad and some simply so un- I