Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-11

INV spsttLpOlh WAS cfnpled ana the
doors locked. AS time wore on the
crowd awaiting the verdict grew
smaller and smaller At last the COURT
house CORR doris were nearly deserted.
only me newspaper writer's remaining.
THE MOTHER GROWS WEARY.
Mrs, William Thaw grew weary Of
the long vigil and went back 10 her.
apartments IN an uptown hotel, Eve
lvf remained nt the courthouse ready
10 be by her husbands side when q
verdict was rendered 1t seemed 20
be the general impression everywhere
that there was no possibility OF YER
dict being reached before tomorrow
morning. II then,
Thaw. at 1880 p. m, was IN the
prisoners pen on the second floor of
the courthouse with his wife. Mrs.
George L. Carnegie, his sister; Mrs.
Carnegie Josiah Thaw and members
of his counsel.
'rhaw was said at this time to have
entirely recovered from the depres-
sion Of the afternoon, and was the
most chesrful and hopeful member of
his party, The long delay In reach
ing a verdict seemed to him to pre-
clude the possibility of his conviction.
He laughed and chatted with his rela-
lives and attorneys and commented
at times upon the district attorneys
address and Justice Fltzgeralds
charge. The latter Thaw believed,
was not wholly impartial, and he said
he feared it might have bad effect
upon the jury.
Thaw's family were fearful lest un-
der Justice Fitzgerald's charge the
jury might bring in verdict for one
of the lesser degrees of murder or OF
manslaUghter, aA outlined by the court,
Harry Thaw was amused when he
i., Iat LII tan ~ n,N s,f Ia
afternoon papers that upon leaving the
courtroom he had fallen fainting upon
the floor.
'The boy has wonderful nerve" said
MIR. Peabody, OF his counsel, ''and It is
standing him In good stead tonight,
JEROME TO THE Jury
Jerome arising when the court had
opened. "from all ] can Judge from
The papers have 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 en-
Joined by the court to make UP your
verdict solely from the evidence"
Mr. Jerome went into the details OF
the evidence regarding Thaw's actions
and words after the killing and said
that there was not one thing that did
not show calmness GOODNESS and ra-
tionalfty.
'sETe was rational he was calm" went
on the district attorney,
HOW TRAw syoT WHITE.
.sHe walks UP to his enemy, after
carefully locating him. and carefully
takes aim He does not take any
chances of hitting any one else You
are told his face WAS white He was a.
man who had nursed an entnity for
three years. who had glared at his enc
my until. after a good dinner and near
ing the story OF two men and woman
In which TruxtOn Beale had figured, de-
liberately shoots down his enemy. Is II
any wonder he was white2 is the kill
ing OF a human being a thing so COM
mon that a man can do 1t without turin
ing paler
s'You locate your enemy, you locate
the man who blackbaled your at clubs,
who you say ravished your wife, who
spread stories of perversion about you,
YOU shoot him down, and then come
here with vonr 'dementia Americana
1t is absurd Why the crime bristies
with prernedltatlon- Unexplained, II IS
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
bIaoker than the cloak OF midnight
which counsel yesterday threw about
his memory, and [ say he stlll mas
right to believe that the laws OF this
would protect him
''Who made this man the eSecufloner
of Stanford Whitc7 Had he no right 10
put his faith In the laws OF this slater
Must a man so around here as In a
mining Campo
COLD FLOODED, PREMEDlTATED
MURDER
"There Is nothing in this direct case
that does not show coldblooded, pre-
mediiated murder. And TO this what
answer is madeY L was insane when
| shot into a mans heads [ did not know
went across the room and fired three
IL was pistol ! held In my hands;
did not know II WAS my enemy vas
shooting, I did not know the nature
and quality OF my act and ] did not
know that II was wrong
'.Gentlemenr when the law says that
when a man does not know an act ls
wrong, he lis excusable: II does not
mean that in his opinion 1t Is not
wrong, but that his mental eona1tloh
is such that he doesn not realize ene
act is legally wrong. When the an,
archlsts in the Chicago Haymarket
threw the bombs they had nothing
a aInst the policemen whom they
Killed they were simply deluded men
who believed 1t was their duty 10 hlil
ali the representatives OF law and or
der: but they knew that under the Ia"
the act was wTOng-'
When Mr. Jerome took Np the testi-
mony OF Evelyn Thaw he was very e.
fcctiye. He spoke with much Yehe,
monce In defense of STANFORD white ana
his words fairly bTistted with sarcasm
,ybe en- he had occasion 10 refer to Thaw
as the modern '-St George and Evelyn
as the "angel child
STANFORD WHITE.
White he designated as a man OF po-
sltion In the community and genius.
He pointed out tina there Is not a par
ticIe OF evidence to show that White
made any Insldlous advances toward
Evelyn after coming into her lifci that
he dazzled her child mind with Rich
gifts, but ON the contrary mo helped her
only by presents OF necessary wearing
a ptinrel, White, he declared, never
piled the girl with Wine, for she herself
admitted that he never permitted her
10 drink more than one glass,
MI, Jerome rounded out hls defense
OF White with the declaration that a
man may mot be yrtuouS, he may DO
unchaste, but IL Is not necessary that
he Is a brute"
The district attorney dNelt at length
u pom the occurrence IN the Twenty
fourth street studio, as related by Eve
lyn upon the Witness stand and pointed
luI what lac declared We're many serious
discrepancies In ner narrative He
laid great stress on the fact that al
though the girl could remember what
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