Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-10

ard the concluding chapter of the trial
Of Harry X. ThaW for the murder Of
Stanford White will have been written
into history. With an appeal to both
the written and the "unWritten law
for the justification of his client, Mr..
DClmas concluded his exhaustive sum
ming up address to the jury this at
ternOOn. When court cOnVencS to-
morrow morning at 11.30 o'clock-onc
hour later than uSual-DiStrict AttOr-
ney Jerome will go before the jury and
in q 3-Or 4-hOur address is expected to
make a plea which will be accounted
one of the best efforts of his life. JUS
tice Fitzergerald would not say Whe-
thor or not he would charge the jury
directly following the district attOr
ney's closing remarks, but the general
impression is that he will do 50. In
that event there seems little doubt hut
that the case will be turned over to the
jury by tomorrow evening.
With the exceptions of the moments
when he was reading from testimony
Mr.. Delmas' speech today was Of sui,'
tanned oratory. He threw about the
form of Harry ThaW the cloak Of
chivalrous kniGnthood. why" he
shouted. SHOULD we vino admire the
| chivalry of the knights of the middl"
ages who went about rcdrossinG
wrongs and rcScuing maidens in dis
trrs;, withhold our sympathy from
this brave man:
bitterly the attorney again aS%ailc''
Stanford White. ne declared Whit"
! -",:ght To- PLAY with ~" girl 50 long IS
nor beauty remained Hud then Wouil
| have thr,Wn her away Like i dir,E
rag to float down lifc'S sewer % a
crave IN the rpttcr's field"
Again he sail Harry Thaw haG
sn;ltchcd the girl from the old lcciicr
who SAW in her but Il toy 30 crafty Il
moments lust AMI then cast aside Z"
70 her way down tile paths Of fallen
women"
With dramatic emphasis Mr.. D"Imas
cried out that when Harry ThiuW say,
Stanford White on the Madison Square
| Roof Garden, the story of his Wifr'E
wrong oycrcamc hn. lie pictured in
an instant,-aS Il dying rlan may pic
rurc his rHst lIc-all that Stanf"rt!
White had dnnc-thc rhin he Ilti
| wrought and he struck. struck as tn"
| Young: struck for the home: struck for
| American wn'acnhond struck for hu-
| mainly and Stanford White fell
| "Ah gentlemen, the advocate we;:t
| On. IF Harry ThaW believed he Wa
| the instrument of Providence. VINO Will
| say he was mistakcn?'
| Mr.. DcInaS discussed but briefly tn"
! Testimony Of the expert witnesses, DE-
| claring that whatever weight might
attach to their uttcrancc was On the
| side Of the defendant. He declared the
burden If proof as to Thaws sanity a,
| the time of the homicide rested WITH
| the prosecution, which had failed 10
| make out its case.
| IL was in discussing Thaw's m"ntai
| state that Mr.. Delmas cam" at lust n
| the "I-nwrittcn law" lie declared the
experts mad been at q loss to classify
| the form of insanity from which ThaW
| suffered.
II will suggest its name" he de-
| clared II would call it. 'Dementia Am
| ericana' it IS a species Of insanity
| which has been recognized in every
state in this union. It is that species
| of insanity which makes the American
man believe his home his wife, his
daughters are sacred. and that who
soever taints the virtue of his thres-
hold violates the highest Of human
! laws"
Twice during his closing period Nj.
| Dclmas was interrupted by assistant
District Attorney Carvan, Mr.. Jcron'o
| being absent from the court room ali
day. Mr. Carvan suggested that Tic
| argument was taking to wide scope
and Justice Fitzgerald called Mr.. Del
mas attention to the fact.
Thaw seemed tonight to be in the
best of spirits and declared to his law
ycrs in the Tombs that he felt his case
was won. He seemed to have no dread
of the assault Of the district attorney
tomorrow.
There was n report today that Mr.
Jerome was i'll, but he appeared at his
office during the afternoon and said
he had been busy for two days prepar-
ing his argument. In view Of the dis
trict attorneys remarks before The
lunacy commission that Thaw is today
hopelessly insane, much interest
attaches to the line of argument h.
he will pursue in asking for the mans
conviction.