The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-10
.DELMAs CLOSES
GREAT ARGUMENT.
Continued from First page)
IF the execution that took place.
A Sacrificial Offering. Il

81 {
Mr.. Thaw stood as a priest might
iical Offering. saying, "All is over"
and Diminishing the congregation. He
turned his pistol barrel down to indi-
cate to the audience that there was
no danger to them. HI then walked
slowly to where his wife stood, and
when she said, oh. Harry, what have
you done?' he replied, IT is all right,
dcnric; l have probably saved your
| life AS he said this he stopped and
he said, lie ruined my wife When
| the policeman came he said, He ruined
my Wife
u have dwelt upon these incidents,
gentlemen, to call your attention to
the fact that the safety or his wife,
whose menace was implied by the very
presence of this man, was uppermost
! In his mind. TO him this man, who
| had met the young wife on the street,
who had followed her to the doctors,
had also followed her to the Cafe Mar
| tin and to the roof garden. This was
| the man who had boosted he would
1 get the young wife away from her
| husband. So 1t was that after he had
shot. the first great thought that wclled
1 up within him in the storm and stress
| OF the moment wa1 that at last my
/ VIE Is safe. l have saved her life.',
For Defense of Wonanhood.
"And then. when he answered the
officer and said, He has ruined my
wife. which was the condition OF his
! mind? What was It when, as he was
l quietly and peaceably walking down
tue aisle. he turned and saw the hid
eous form of the man who had been
the cause Of SO much suTcring?'
With dramatic emphasis, Mr. Delmas
erred out that when Harry TlSaw be-
neid stanford White on the Madison
i Square Roof Garden, the story Of his
wife's wrongs overcame him. He
4 pictured In an nstant-as a diving
man may picture his past life-nlI that
stanford White had done--.'the ruin
he had wrought. and he struck, struck
4 rs the tigrcss strikes in defense Of
her young, struck for the home, struck
ior American womanhood. struck for
humanity and Stanford White fell.
4 Benefit of the Doubt.
All. gentlemen" the advocate went
on IF Harry Thaw believed he was
. the instrument Of Providence, who will
say he was Imistaken9"
MIR. Delmas discusa1d but briefly
4 the testimony OF the expert witnesses
declaring that whatever weight might
I attach to their uttcrances was on the
side Of the defendant He declared
B the burden OF proof as to Thaw's
sanity at the time of the homicide
rested with the prosecution. which had
failed to make out It's case. Coming
to the question of reasonable doubt,
a MIR Delmas said:
+ Gentlemen, take your minds back
to the day you We're examined when
the learned Justice said to you, Are
you ready to give this defendant the
benefit OF every reasonable doubt?'
"a nn yn nnY he hat
were admitted to the jury box
Before you send this young man
to his doom you must be satisfied of
his guilt beyond every reasonable
4 doubt.
What is reasonable doubt? The
term seems to define itself in it's
q own words. A reasonable doubt is u
Z doubt which n reasonable man may
"a have. You are all reasonable men, and
whenever you doubt you can say that
is reasonable doubt, the benefit OF
which the law says you must give to
Judge once said that 1t is better that
nincty-nine guilty men should escape
rather than that one innocent man
should be punished. If there is one
chance In hundred that this de-
j PENDANT was of such unsound mind MS
not to know the nature of his act then
you must give him the benefit Of that
doubt.
"Dementia Americana"
Il IT ask you in the name OF the law
which invoke, ask you in the name
of humanity, ask you in the name
Of religion to resolve whatever doubt
!, you may have in favor of this do
! fendant.''
!, 1t was in discussing Thaw's mental
: state that Mr. Delmas came at las,
to the "unwritten law"
The district attorney will make light
of the experts because they have not
defined the species Of insanity from
; which they say Harry Thaw Is suf-
: fering," he declared.
\ IT will suggest It's name. would
: call 1t 'dementia Americana 1t Is {
a species of insanity which has beer
{ recognized in every State of the Union
y 1t Is that species Of insanity which
! makes the American man believe hi:
: home. his wife,, his daughters. are
9 sacred, and that whatsoever stains thu
7 virtue OF his threshold violates ths
a highest of human laws. 1T Is q