The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-11

The SALT LAKE IL
| her shame-or misfortune, as the case
may be-to ali the world in the nope
it will shield a worthless life, the peo-
pies just demand?
''That is not the kind OF law you
swore to accept and if you do 1t, men,
you violate your oatbs.7 y
Story of the Killing.
/ Mr. Jerome took up the evidence of
the witnesses upon the direct case. and
with the aid of a diagram, showed the
/ jury how Thaw moved about the ROOT
! garden before and after the shooting
| He referred to the testimony OF James
/ Clinch Smith.
Do you remember TTuxtOn Beale
| and the case Of two men and Wonl-
/ an| Thaw asked Smith.
Perhaps, gentlemen. my learned
| friend from the Pacific slope remem-
| bers it, perhaps he remembers that case
/ Rf dementia Americana.
"Thaw walked deliberately across the
I roof garden and in such a manner that
l his enemy should have no chance to
defend himself, then turned suddenly
and, holding the pistol so close to STAN
| ford Whites head that after he was
dead Mr. Smith, his brOther-in-law, did
not know him because of the powder
marks. and fired once, twice, three
! times" Mr.. Jerome picked up the pis-
! toll from the table and as he spoke the
words punctuated them by pulling the
trigger three times.
Deliberately he shot the man who
had barred him from clubs. who had
once taken from him the woman he
loved and threatened to take her away
again. and then, my learned opponent
tells you he stood with his arms eX-
tended like a priest dismissing a con-
gregation. I did not see anything IN
the evidence about that.
He held the pistol up that the poo
pie present might know that there
would be no more shooting. in order TO
prevent a panic. When the man VINO
arrested him asked him Why he did it,
the prisoner answered. He ruined my
Wife He did not say, ] am the apostle
of God, appointed to kill this raTisher
Of American virgins
No. my friends. this apostle of God
business came after this defendant mad
the advice of my friend. DR.. Evans.
Thaw Was Deliberate.
AIr. Jerome went into details of the
evidence regarding Thaw's actions ana
words after the killing, and said that
there was not one thing that did not
show calmness. GOODNESS and rational
itv.
He was rational, he was calm" went
on the district attorney. He walks mp
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. Here was a man who had
nursed an enmity for three years, who
had glared at his enemy until, after
good dinner and hearing the story OF
two men and a woman in which Trll,l-
ton Beale had figured, deliberately
shoots down his enemy. 1t it any Won
der he was white? Is the killing OF
human being so common that a man
can do il without turning pale?
You locate your enemy, you locate
the man who bIackballed you at clubs,
who you say ravished your wife. who
spread stories OF perversion about you.
YOU shoot him down, and then come
home with your dementia Americana
1t is absurd. Why, the crime bristles
with DECENTRALIZATION. Unexplained. it is
murder 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
blacker than the cloak of midnight
which counsel yesterday threw about
his memory, and | say he still mas
right to believe that the laws of tiiis
Fremeditated Murder.
'sWho made this man the eXecuuOner
of Stanford White? Had he no right
to put his faith i'm the laws OF this
state? Must a man go armed here as
in a mining camp?
There is nothing in this direct case
that does not show cold-biooded, pre-
meditated murder. And to this what
answer is made? I was insane when
I went across the room and fired three
shots into a mans head; l didn't know
it was a pistol 1 held in my hands: l
did not know it was my enemy l was
shooting: / did not know the nature
and quality of my act and did nor
know that it was wrong
Gentlemen, when the law says that
when a man does not know an act is
wrong, he is excusable. ii does not
mean that in his opinion it is not
wrong but that his mental condition
is such that he does not. always know
the act is legally wrong. When the
anarchists in the Chicago Naymarket
threw the bombs they had nothing
against the policemen whom they Kill
ed; they we're simply deluded men VINO
believed il was their duty to kill all
the representatives of law and order,
but they knew that under the law the
act was wrong"
"st. George" and the angel Child"
When Mr.. jerome took up the testi-
mony of Evelyn Thaw. he was very
effective He spoke with much vehe-
mence in defense of Stanford White,
and his words fairly bristled with sar-
casm when he had occasion TO refer to
Thaw as the modern st George and
EVELYN as the "angei child"
White he designated as a man Of
position in the community and a gen
ius. He pointed out that there is not
a particle of evidence to show that
White made any insidious advances to-
ward Evelyn after coming into her life,
that he dazZled her childish mind with
rich gifts; but, on the contrary, he
helped her only by presents of neces-
sary wearing apparel. White. he de-
clared. never piled the girl with wine,
for she herself admitted that he never