Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-04-10
THAW SOON
TO KNOW FATE
Jerome D elivers
Brilliant Add,
reSS
READY TO CHARGE JURY
After Short Recess Court
Will Give Case Over---
Verdict BY Morning.

New York, April 10.-lt was District
Attorney Jerome's turn in the ThaW
case today. In summing up the prose
cution's case against Harry X. ThaW,
Jerome disclaimed all intention OF en-
tering into an oratorical contest with
Counsel Delmas. but it Is seldom that
an address more powerful more sub
tie, or more tragic has been heard in
a New York court room. From cold
logic he passed to biting sarcasm and
then invective language with here and
there touch Of pathos. He had the
closest attention Of the jurors and
spectators, including the Thaw family.
Defended Name of Dead Man.
His defense of Stanford White,
whose spirit he said seemed to be hov'
ering in the court room begging to be
heard before it was beckoned away
forever was uttered with impressive
ness and with tears in his eyes.
x, May Go to Jury Tonight
The luncheon recess was ordered at
/ o'clock and at 2:14 o'clock Jerome
resumed. He may conclude in time
for Justice Fitzgerald to charge the
jury today.
Jerome Finishes.
Jerome finished at IS p. m.
Justice Fitzgerald ordered a recess
until 4: Is o'clock before beginning his
charge to the jury.
Crowd Taxed Court Room.
All previous crowds were inslg'
nificant compared to that which
stormed the court room doors
this morning in an effort to hear
District Attorney Jerome sum up the
states case against Harry X. Thaw.
n me court did not convene until
~l1:3O o'clock and the court room was
taxed to its utmost capacity when Mr
Jerome arose to address the jury.
One of Four Verdicts.
He began by telling the jury they
had been wandering through fields o1
romance for two days. He said tnat
the case on trial was not one OF rape
but of murder. He said that an appeal
to the sympathy and passion of the
jury was a broad departure from the
duty of the defense's counsel. There
could, he said, be but one of four yer
diets: Murder in the first degree;
murder in the second degree; man
slaughter, or mot guilty because o1
insanity"
RidcuIed Insanity Plea.
Jerome referred sarcastically to the
"dementia americana" with which Del
4 mas had said Thaw was suffering, ask
I ing If it was higher law under which
man may flaunt woman through
the capitals of Europe for two years
as his mistress, and then commit mur
der He warned the jury that /
would be a violation of their oath tG
consider the subject of Dement'S
americana" declaring it had no statu!
on the Atlantic seaboard.
Attacked Evelyn.
Jerome then made a fiery attack o,
Evelyn, referring to her sarcasticall!
as the "angel child saying that sht
seemed always ready to 60 to ever!
human ogre who had stripped her o
ner virtue"
-. r.
Jerome said that the voice of tn,
murdered man, Stanford White, wa
crying out to him:
Cant you say ore word for me
must ! go down to fires Of nn
heard and undefended?"
EveIyn's Character.
This afternoon Jerome took up thu
character of Mrs Evelyn Thaw. Hi
said that her diary was the key to thu
whole story. Jerome said that tn
police delivered the diary to him tn,
night before he put it in evidence, ant
that 1t did not come from Evelynt
mother as had been charged. He dc
nounced Eyelyn's story as false.
A TenderIoin Homicide.
Jerome said, in closing:
"This is simply a common vulgar
everyday tenderloin homicide
He referred to Thaw's much dis
cussed letters to Attorney Longfelloy
as "erratic and vulgar productions O
the rich illiterate."