The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-04-12
TAAN JURY STILL OUT.
AGREEEMENT IN FAMOUS CASE
THOUGHT IMPROBABLE.
SAID TO BE HoPeLessLY DIVIDE
District Attorney Jerome Makes Plea
for Conviction Of Prisoner--JJry
Hears MereIess castgation Of eye.
Ign ThaW.

'1sdrs Merc'less CastlgatIon OF eye
Ign ThaW.
New York. April Charged with
the responsibility of deciding the tdte
OF HAIRY heaJal Tuaw. the jury wnili
since January 20 has been sitting ln
judgment on the young slayer uf
Stanford White, spent the night IN the
jury room OF the criminal courts
building Justice Fitzgerald had gone
to his club uptown and had an auto.
mobile in readiness to make a quick
trip to the court house should he be
needed. His instructions regarding
locking up the jury were telephoned,
1t was said that when Justice Filz.
geralds message was received at the
court house the officers on duty there
put the matter up to the Jurors them.
selves, asking if there was any pos
sibility of a verdict within the next
few hours. The reply was strongly
negative. The jury was said to be al
most hopelessly divided and nobody
connected with the case would ven.
ture the hope of anything better than
disagreement as the climax of the
ng-drawn-out trial.
Thaw, who was much depressed at
the close Of Jeromes attack on him |
as "a cowardly, brutal murderer-a
rich illiterate who always had had his
own way until he fell into the clutches |
Of the law revived in spirits as the |
time wore on and the chances of an |
unfavorable verdict seemed to him to |
become more and more remote.
The disagreement OF the jury is the |
most unfavorable outcome that Thaw |
had at any time anticipated during the
progress of the trial, His family and
counsel were much alarmed lest the !
jury, under Justice Fitzgerald's
charge, might find verdict of some
less crime than murder in the first
degree. The prisoner did not share
this gloomy outlook and laughed and
joked to dispel the serious looks on
the faces of his mother and wife.
From the opening of court until the
jury retired the fates dealt unmerci
fully with Thaw. Beginning with
District Attorney Jerome's final argu.
ment and throughout the judges
charge, Thaw had to listen to a
scathing attack upon his character
and to a narrative drawn from the
evidence, which was meant to strip
his deeds of the halo of chivalric glory
which his own attorneys had thrown
about them.
Judges Charge to Jury.
The judges charge was a concise
outline of the law and gave to the
Jury the alternative of rendering any
one of the following four verdicts-
murder in the first degree, murder in
the second degree, manslaughter in
the first degree or not guilty on the
ground of insanity. The statute gov.
erning the plea CT insanity was de-
fined clearly, much sttess being laid
on the fact that an irresistible i'm.
pulse to kill had no place in the law.
the charge, while consist
Ing principally of complete ex.
PLANTATION of the law, was considered
by those who have followed the trial
as adverse TO the defendant The at.
-orneys for the defendant took excep.
lions because the judge had failed to
include any of their requests.
Thaw was much depressed by the
Judges words and could not suppress
MS feelings. He left the court room
detected.
The district attorneys summing up
was a comparative and forceful re.
view of all the evidence adduced. He
declared at the outset that romance
md sentiment did not enter into the
ssue; it was not a question of Stan.
ord Whites character or Evelyn
This VS. sufferings, it was 2 plain mat.
er of fact homicide.
"A common cowardly tenderloin
as he termed it. The novel
Ilea of "dementia Americana" made
~ Attorney Delmas at the very close
If his argument was attacked by the
listr,ct attorney and he repeatedly re-
erred 10 it in tones of sarcasm.
Mr. Jerome dealt mercilessly with
evelyn Thaw, to whom he referred as
nc angel child" and to Thaw, whom
lie termed alternately "St. George" :
md Sir Galahad."
WESTERN PEOPLE DEFRAUDED.