Milford chronicle., 1907-02-08

MRS. HARRY K. THAW.
impulse to kill. When the deed wa!
done Thaw made no move to escape
its consequences, but holding the ia
tai revolver aloft stood as if mutely
proclaiming to the world: "The deed
is done; it was right; it was not
wrong"
Thus Thaws counsel outlined his
case to the jury, after the prosecution
had occupied less than two hours in
relating through eye witnesses the mar
rative Of the tragedy
Story of Killing of White.
Mr.. Garvan. in telling the story Of
the alleged murder occupied less than
10 minutes, and the prosecutions en-
tire case was kept within two hours.
With the exception of young White
and the cOrOner's physician who per-
formed the autopsy and described the
wounds on Whites body, the only per-
sons called to the stand by the state
faere five eye-witnesses. They were
cross-examined briefly by Attorney
Dolphin Dalmas, Of the defense, who
thus appeared actively IN the proceed
ings for the first time The witnesses
related the deliberate manner in which
Thaw approached White, faced him
end fred. They repeated Thaw's as
sertion HE ruined my wife" and Mrs,
Thaw's remark to her husband, Yes, |
but look what fix you are In now" To |
this last remark Thaw replied: |
"Dearie, have probably saved your
life"
1t was brought out that Thaw looked
back at his victim as he walked away
with staring look In his eyes"
Mr.. Caravans outline of the states
testimony was the briefest possible
story Of the crime He told how White
went to the roof garden on Madison
Square Garden to see the initial pro-
duction of a summer musical comedy.
and then related in simple language
the incident of the killing.
The people claim" he concluded,
that 1t was a cruel, deliberate. mali.
eious, premeditated taking of human I
life. After proving that fact to you. (
we will ask you to find the defendant '
guilty of the crime of murder in the I
first degree" >
SSi9tne GIRLS Expert c
Thaw's attorneys endeavored in vain O
to place before the jury evidence tend
ing, it was said, to prove a strain of r
insanity in the collateral branches Of 2
the defendants family but they were
blocked. at every point by District At. "
torfey Jerome whose objections were T
upheld BY the rulings of Justice Fitz- a
gerald, T
The defense did, however, get before Il
the u men in the box the testimony H
If an expert that in his opinion Harry o,
rhaw was suffering from insanity" nj
he night of the tragedy Mr.. Jerome
undertook to break down the evidence hi
If the alienist-Dr c. c. Wiley. of
for three hours put h,
lin through a cross-examination as
evere as was ever heard in New
FORK court. The prosecutor was re-
sptless in his attack, and before he P,
ad finished DR., Wiley protestingly de- le
Jared; or
Il didn't come here as an expert. le
anne as a witness to a fact, and have HI
cen converted into an expert without ia
eing prepared for it. II,
The district attorney astonished ed
very one by his intimate knowledge tn
medicine and its technical phrase du
Iogy, demonstrating the care with in.
hich he had prepared himself to meet be
le very defense which Thaws counsel tn,
ave entered in his behalf Mr.. Je-
'me searchingly inquired into Dr.
Tiley's record as a physician and as
! expert on insanity. He hurled vol Dis
VS. of technical questions at the wit. the
sss, who at times sat mute. and at de1
her times declared he could not an att
yer, or gave evasive replies. Often roa
brought upon himself sharp warn cas-
g from the district attorney to make Ost
reply and not an argument mo
DR.. Wiley testified that he predicated dro
S opinion as to Thaw's insanity upon pirt
5 actions the night of the tragedy. lea