Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-04-11


dali Thaw's fate is In the hands of the
Jury. The trial. which had been in
progress since Jan. %. came to an end
last night when the twelve men who
are to pass upon Stanford Whites
SLAYER retired to deliberate upon YER
diet
The jury, it is said, We're eight for
scquittal when locked up for the night.
Even the four men who are for CON
viction favor a verdict of murder i'll A
lesser degree than will carry with it
the death penalty.
Thaw fears. it is said, that the jury
will disagree.
In the life of Harry Thaw the day
will go down as the most trying he has
ever experienced From the opening
of court until the jury retired the fates
dealt numerically with him. Begin
ming with District Attorney Ieromes
final argument and throughout tie
Judges charge Thaw had to listen to
scathing attack upon his wild life
and to Il narrative of hard facts which
stripped his deeds of the halo of
chivalric glory which his own attor-
neys had thrown about them.
The Judges charge. lasting about an
hour. was "a concise and intelligible
outline of the law and gave to the
Jury the alternative of rendering any
one of the following four verdicts:
Murder in the first degree, murder in
the second degree, manslaughter in the
first degree or not guilty on the ground
of insanity.
The Judge also informed the jury
that an Illusion, unless the Illusion, If
true. might result in the injury of the
man suffering it. could not be accepted
as an excuse. Altogether the charge,
while consisting principally of COM
plete explanation of the law, was con-
sidered by those who have followed
the trial as adverse to the defendant.
This fact was indicated by exceptions
which the attorneys for the defendant
took because the judge had failed to
include any of their prayers.
The district attorneys summing up
evoked many comments of praise from
those who heard it,
He declared at the outset that ro-
ia the issue; it was not question of
Stanford Whites character or Evelyn
Thaw's sufferings; it was plain mat
ter of fact homicide.
"A common, cowardy Tenderloin
murder" as he termed it.
The novel plea of 'dementia Ameri-
cana" made by Attorney Delmas at the
very close of his argument was at
tackled by the district attorney, and he
repeatedly referred to it in tones OF
sarcasm.
Mr.. Jerome dealt mercilessly with
Evelyn Thaw, to whom he referred as
the "angel child" and to Thaw, whom
he termed alternately "St. George" and
''Sir Galahad."
OF Abe Hummel he said:
II don't think Hummel is an upright
man. For many years | worked to get
him. and now I've got him. Any ono
that SAYS I've made any bargain will
uummel tells deliberate falsehood
He'll go to Jail and stay there just as
long lis L tSH httlt Nun thttV w =
dirty blackguard blackmailing career.
Gentlemen of the jury" said Mr.
Jerome, won have been wandering
through mere field of romance 70
two days. The life Of a human beins
is not to be judged on such premise
The issues here cannot be determined
by quotations from the Scriptures
THAT is not the crime on trial here
You have been enjoined by the cour
TO make up your verdict solely from
the evidence.
.rhis is no action between the exec
utors of Stanford White and this dc
fendant. 1t is not a trial TO determine
whether EVELYN Nesbt was ravishe'
by Stanford White. 1t is not trial 0
rape. 1t is an issue between the pee
pie of New York and Harry K. Thau
and 1t is to determine whether what h
did was justifiable or excusable 0
whether he should be punished for it.
eff we are going into the propositio
Of sympathy in this tsisil 4 can \