The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-11

spoke the words punctuated them by pull
ing 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 extended. like
priest dismissing a congregation. ! did
not see anything in the evidence about
that"
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 absolute calmness, GOODNESS, and
nationality.
He was rational. he was calm and
cool went on the district attorney. HE
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. Here was "a man who had nursed
an enmity for three years; who for three
years had glared at his enemy until, after
a good dinner and hearing the story of
| two men and woman in which Truxtun
/ Beale had figured. deliberately shoots
down his enemy. Is it any wonder ne
w. WhiteE Is the killing of z human
| being thing so common that Il man can
do it without even turning pale?
You locate your enemy, you locate the
man who blaekmailed you at clubs. who
you say Tavished your wife. who spread
stories of peTversion about you, you shoot
him down and then come here with your
| 'demcntia Americana II is absurd
Why the crime bristles with premedita-
| ton.
Murder In First Degree.
Unexplained il is murder in the first
degree. A man shoots down his enemy.
who. no matter how bad he may be, is
entitled 90 the protection Of the law. Let
him be blacker than the cloak Of mid
night, which counsel yesterday threw
about his memory. and I say he still had
a right 10 be where he was the night of
the 18th Of last June. He had a right to
believe that the laws of this community
would protect him,
WHO made this man the executor Of
Stanford White? Had he no right to put
his faith IN the laws of this State? Must
a man go armed here as In a mining
campo
There is nothing in this direct ease,
gentlemen, that does not show coId-blood- /
ed, premeditated murder. And TO this
wat answer is made? I was insane
when ] went thirty feet across that room
and fired three shots into a mans head /
| did not know il was a pistol j held in /
my hand. ] did not know It was Stanford /
White. my enemy. I was shooting. ] did
not know the nature and quality OF my
act, and 1 did not know that il was (
wrong
When Mr. Jerome took up the testimony
Of Evelyn Nesbit ThaW he was very ef- I
fective He spoke with much vehemence in /
defense of Stanford White. and his words /
fairly bristled with sarcasm when ne had 1
occasion to refer to Thaw as the modern I
st George" and Evelyn as THE Angel /
Child"
White Designated Genius.
White he designated as man of posi-
ton in the community and genius. He
pointed out that there IS not d particle OF I
evidence to show that White made any
insidious advances toward 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 necessary wearing apparel White he
declared, never piled the girl with wine,
for she herself admitted that he never
permitted her 10 drink more than one
glass.
Mr.. Jerome rounded out his defense Of
White with the declaration that a man /
may not be virtuous, he may be unchaste
but II does not follow that he is a brute"
Mr.. Jerome paused for a few moments
and then continued:
Now. gentlemen, let us see what this
girl herself says of the horrible demon.
She says Outside OF this one awful thing
/ admired Stanford White. He had q most
extraordinary personality.
What an extraordinary panegyric that
coming from those lips
Stanford Whites lips are sealed by
death and by the rules OF evidence. But
what are We expected TO believe against
a man 10 whom such a tribute is paid
by this girl?
Gentlemen. ] am not here to defend
Stanford White, but ! am compelled to
say that there is difference between
and brutality; there is a differ
aRce between the man of the world and
the brute.
COntradicts Brute Theory.
Her own words have ruined the theory
hat Stanford White was a brute Has
ihe been so enlightened by this modern
g. George that at last she has come 10
believe that all women are not unchaste.
md yet she can come here but twenty
wo years of age, and sit IN that chair
md describe the man who debased her as
3 girl of sixteen in the remarkable way
hat she has done?
stanford White was a wealthy mana
nan who found enjoyment. God knows
Why OF how, in this class of people. He
aw this child blow into his circle. You
lave looked upon the girl in court and
-ou can We'll draw the picture of her at
he time she went to apply for position
n the 'Fl0rOdora' chorus and was told By
he manager he was not conducting a
or a baby farm.
1T was natural that a rich man like
stanford White, moving i'm the circle IN
7sich he did, should have tried to help
his giri-heiped her TO the extent that
rhen she was out of work he would give
er money. II was natural that he should
i've her the little gifts Of wearing apparel
rhich tended 10 her comfort There is
Othing I'm his conduct consistent with the
leory that the relations between the two
'ere not pure.
Declares EVeIyn's story False.
Il do not know how IL was. and neither
o you. except as this girl tells us-and.
I must submit In all solemnity
hat she does not tell the truth. Youl
ave not a scintilla OF evidence outside
f her own story that the relations be-
Veen her and Stanford White We're inn
ure. And the character of her story
lay best be judged by her statement
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