Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-10
DEMENT1A AMERICANA.


Each mention OF "dementia Amer-
cana was uttered by Mr.. Jerome with
a. sarcastic injection.
"Denlentla Americana. men," he said,
has no place in your verdict. You
swore 70 take no higher law than the
law OF your state.
'Dementia Americana-what Is the
dementia Americana which waits and
glares at it's enemy for three years
and then kills." II waits three long
years and grows bitter and then Strikes
Dem entia Anlerica,la-that faunts
the woman for whom 1t kills through
the capitals of Europe for two years as
It's mistress. Is that the higher law
No. gentlemen, the higher law does not
hinge itself under the hem Of a wo-
mans skirt
Dem entia .Anericana-ls that tha
law which puts a woman UP to tell of
her sha me-or misfortune. as the case
may be--to all the world In the hope IL
Will shield a worthless life. the peoples
just demand7
THAT is not the kind Of law YOU
swore TO acce pit and II YOU do II, men,
you violate Your oaths-'
Mr.. Jerome took UP the evidence of
the witnesses upon the direct case, and
with the aid OF a dia gram, showed tho
jury how Thaw moved about the ROOF
garden before and after the shooting,
He referred 70 the testimony OF James
Clinch Smith.
".Do you remember Truston Beale
and the case of two men and wo-
man. Thaw asked Smith.
perhaps, gentlemen my learned
friend from the Pa life slope relne1l-
bers 1t, perhaps he remembers that
case Of denentia Americana
''Thaw walked deliberately across the
roof garden and In such manner that
l,s1t chr tT
fend himself. then turned suddenly and
holding the pistol so close to Stanford
Whites head that after he was dead
MIR. Smith, his brother-ln-law, did not
know him because of the powder
marks, and fired once, twice, three
times" MI Jerome picked zap the pis-
tol from the table and as he spoke the
words, punetuated them by puliihs the
trigger three times.
THAw'S ACT DELIBERATE.
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 extend-
ed like a priest dismssng a eongrega-
ton, ] did not see anything In the evil
dence about that.
He held the pistol up that the people
present might know that there would
be no more shooting. in order to prevent
a panic When the man who arrested
him asked him why he did 1t. the prls-
orer answered He ruined my Wife He
did not say, ] am the apostle Of God,
appointed to kill this ravisher OF Am
erlcan virgins.
.No, my friends this apostle OF God
business came after this defendant
had the advice OF my friend, Dr.
| Evans
MIR. 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 callnness. GOODNESS and RAJ
tlonality,
-He was ra tional he was calm went
on the district attorney.
Mi. Jerome made a fiery attack upon
Evelyn NesbIt Thav- referring 10 her
sarcasticaly as the angel child" say
ing she seemed always ready 10 go 10
the thurman ogre who had stripped her
| OF her virtue"
Jerome denounced Evelyn's story as
| false.
Luncheon recess was ordered at p
| IN. to 2 o'clock.