The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-11
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 ThAw wrote from Paris and Pitttsburg 70 Attorney Longfellow and which XAss Introduced to show the effect of Xxelyn's story on the young mans
 He declared that the letters showed an through them the writer's apprccia- t1on of legal rights and wrongs. They are nothing more" he contin ued. Than the cratic and vulgar pro- auctions of a rich illterate who all ways had his own way in life until he was looked up in the city prison"
 Takes up Will.
 The will and codicil were next taken up and discussed. The will showed cowardly fear of death, declared the prosecutor, but nothing more.
 'So you see, gentlemen he went on, 1t was easy for such a cowardly man as this to withhold his 'dementia 2 Americana' for three years and then kill the victim who could not see him approach"
 Now turn to the mcther's testimo- ny. When he went home. the girl had thrown him over again, perhaps for the very reasons mentioned in that affidavit There is nothing to show there was any other reason. He loved her all right. loved ner in his own brute away. There is the scene In the church when the music moved him and he shed tears. Where was the delusion there? He WIS nervous and worried on the day of his marriage Why? Evelyn was not 21 and he was afraid her mother would not give her consent. Did Thaw show delusion. Didn't 1t rather show a sense of the requirements of the lawf
 TeuderIofn Homicide
 Men of the jury. there is in this case . every element of the simply vulgar. ev- cry day tenderloin homicide. If the defendant were any person but the rich Harry Thaw of Pittsburg; if Stanford White were not leading architect. but Chinaman In Mott Street; if this girl were a chorus girl in a Bowery thea Ire. how long would the brain storm or the paranoia theory be listeded to.
 There were two ordinary men in this cssa. and between them was a tigress urging them on. With Thaw she was seduced by white; with White she was the victim of Thaw's perversion. Why men, there are the same old clements here that have made criminal history ever since the world began.
 Did his mother say he was ever ir- rationals No. She simply said he was nervous and depressed and after we hear of what happened Before he left New Yorg, I don't wonder.
 Nows tor the witnesses. First. Dr. Wiley. ] see Mir. Delmas does mot place him among his experts He seems to treat these experts as so much Junk If he puts seven in one basket against six in the other, he seems to think the seven will win. 1 had the de- luSion that quality counted for some- thing, and that it was not merely matter of quantity"
 Testimony of Physicians.
 Taking up the testimony of the de- fence's medical witnesses, one by one Mir. Jerome passed lightly over that given by pr. Wiley of Pittsburg. and practically ignored 1t altogether. Of pr. Bingaman. the Thaw family physi- elan, he spoke in the highest respect.
 This physician. who frankly tells you that he is general practitioner" I'M Jerome continued, "who is hot a hired expert. testified that Thaw ns child had all the ailments incidental to childhood. He tells you that he was called in to attend Thaw in the latter part of 1904 and found him depressed and nervous. That is only natural. Any man who had had the interviews Thaw had with the girl he loved, saw her go to his hated rival. and make the affidavit she did, would also be depressed and dejected.
 "The doctor also saw Thaw in prison and found that Thaw had stuffed some paper in the cell door to keep out the draught so as not to catch cold. Per fectly natural, is it not? Thaw told pr. Bingaman that his counsel desired 10 put him in a mad house and that n conspiracy was on foot to commit him to an asylum so as to revent the life of White being made public in a court room. For that reason he changed his counsel-rational proceeding. 1T Thaw wanted to take a chance of fighting out his case before n jury.
 ''Now as to Dr. Deemar He merely testified that Thaw was nervous, that's all
 Doctors Evans md Wagner came next. Evans told you that Thaw suf- fered from exaggerated ego. That is merely another name for vanity. pr. Bingaman when asked about it, raid