The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-26
\ STUDY OF JEROME.
Everybody in New York Wants Thaw
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New York Letter.
 And Jerome himself! At times he is almost desperate. A little rugged, well 1 built man. he paces up and down within | the railing much after the fashion of an iritated skye terrier that has lost I the trail of house cat. He barks. He | snaps. He loses his temper, explodes grows wildly sarcastic, keeps his forces | 1 ma hullabaloo, keeps his detectives on l the jump interrupts the witness, the opposing counsel, and the judge pleads | almost with tears in his eyes that cer- | tain testimony be not admitted. protests, gnaws his mustache. excites his nerves and all the time the soft, droning voice | of Delmas caresses him this way and | that. winning point after point. It Is fine sarcasm to call this murder trial l The case of the people against Hrry IThaw."
 Every one In New York wants to see never imagine from the popular state 1 of mind. to be the able attorney of the people. Their sympathy IS all against | him here, as much or more than in the | last gubernatorial campaign. when he was hissed by Republicans and Demo- crats alike. Jerome Is indeed in a quandary. No matter what he does in the Thaw trial it is bound to be unpopu- lar prominent newspaper man said | to mo not long ago: If Jerome is any l kind of man he won't attempt to cross examine Evelyn Nesbit" There you are! As an officer of the State he is
 
 yet there are not 100 men m New York City who would support him in such move. That he was personal friend of the dead architect and that he to justice by means of the Gerry So ciety back in the days when White was whey and gay. may in q way have helped to build up this alread popular prejudice against the District Attor ney They say that when the half-hys- terical girl climbed down from her wit ness chair that day there wasn't dry eve in the room. and the District At torney didn't have a single supporter among the people present.
 It Is marvellous how the Thaws are holding together through it all The Countess of Yarmouth, the mother, Mrs. brother. are evidently determined to give their support to the man now in trial for his life.
 The women seem particularly dis passionate through all the court pro ceedings. sitting, after the manner of womankind in crisis for hours at time withiut the movement of muscle of their faces. Josiah Thaw shows the evidences of suffering much worse than does the prisoner himself vet Harry Thaw Is much more emaCtated and broken than you would think, to judge from his recent photographs. He is possessed of one thing which seems to me indicative of a phase of his charac ter too generally overlooked-He has deliciously frank, clean, young smile-- the smile of a good natured fair-mind ed. open-hearted boy If you don't re- member those morbid, unhealthy eyes and think only of the pleasant parted lips. you can easily believe that he Is .he man who told a ruined girl that all women were not depraved. that he had two lovely, decent sisters and 3 pure. sweet mother" Prison life and the strain of the trial have told on him; the mlsshapen head and features are drawn "a, 1R-rr times he has peculiar methods of re neving himself of his anxiety. The day his expert was testfying as to his Insanity. he sat near by and read cheap novel all aftern"nl without Iis- tenins tn the tonhnleaAtlo- of tho tes- timonv at all.