The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-13
CLOSING ARGUMENTS
ARE HEARD IN TtiAW CASE
In his closing address TO the jury
District Attorney Jerome said
VULCAN Tenderloin Crime.

Vulgar Tenderloin Crime.
Men of this jury, there is in this
case every element of the simple, yul-
gar. everyday tenderloin homicide.
If the defendant were any person but
the rich Harry X. Thaw of PittspGrs;
If he were the son OF a padrone in
/ uzabetl street. If Stanford White
Wele lot a leading architect, but
Chinaman in Mott street; ii this girl
were a chorus girl In BOwery thea
lcr. how long would the brainstorm.
or the laronla theory be listened to-
There we're two ordinary men II
this ,ase and between thra, was Il
tigensa ar6!ns them on. With Thaw
sl4' Was s. 'uced by White. giih
White she was the victim of Thaw's
perverslon Why. men. there are the
same old elements here that have
made criminal history ever since the
world began
'Thaw loved his wife all right.
loved her in his own brute way.
There is the scene in the church
when the music moved him and he
shed tears Where was the delusion
there He was not violent and wor-
ried on the day of his marriage.
Why, Evelyn was not 81, and he was
afraid her mother would not give her
consent. Did Thaw show delu-
sion? Didn't it rather show IA sense
of the requirements of the laws?
What one of the many people who
who must have known him during
his life had been called here to show
that he was ever irrational?
mo one Did his mother say he
was ever irrational? No. She SIM
ply said he was nervous and de-
pressed. and after we hear of what
happened before he left New York.
don't wonder.
Experts as So Much Junk.
Now, for the witnesses. First,
DR.. Wiley | see Mr.. Delmas doesn't
place him among his experts. He
seems to treat these experts as so
much junk. If he puts seven in one
basket against six in the other he
seems TO think the seven will win |
had the delusion that quality count
ed for something. and that it was not
merely matter of quantity.
Taking up the testimony of the
defense's medical witnesses one by
one, Mr. Jerome spoke contemptu-
ously of nearly all of them.
DIR. Evans told you that Thaw
suffered from exaggerated ego he
said. That is merely another name
for vanity DR.. Bingham, when
asked about it said Thaw nearly al
ways had a great opinion of himself.
Something About Iirainstorms.
DIR. Evans also told you Thaw
had a brainstorm; better term
would be paronia of a millionaire
No one ever heard of brainstorm
before. and Evans may have wanted
to make of it classic phrase. Well,
ne at ltuSl StCCCCutu III
it known the world over. For two
days you will recall we tried to find a
definition for brainstorm, but could
find none.
I'VE were told that Thaw was like
a rudderless ship which had lost its
balance. was cast off its moorings,
and the nearest we get to a deflni-
ton was mental definition. a
psychic explosion.
when Dr. Wagner took the
stand he said DR.. Evans explanation
of Thaw's state of mind when he
killed White was good one. When
| asked him if he knew of similar
ease recorded in medical literature,
out of the many cases he said he
knew. he cited only one.
Now. let us come back to the kill
ing There is not in any of the acts
OF that night one thing that shows a
lack of appreciation of what he was
doing You remember the CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Smith? Was there
anything irrational there? And after
the killing. did he say that he was
the agent Of the Almighty God. who
had been directed to make away with
this rayisher of American woman
mood? No, he said: He ruined my
wife There was nothing said about
Providence until after his consulta-
ton with my friend. DR.. Evans. IN
the words, He ruined my wife, he
expressed motive for his crime.
But there was nothing irrational
there. And there was nothing IRA
tional about anything he did that
night When he got to the station
house ne gave a fictitious name.
THAT was not the insane mantle
agent Of Providence. the one man
chosen OF God 10 ayenge woman
that was not a man glorying In a
righteous act.
As to Dementia Americana.
mfr. Delmas said he would not APP
peal TO such a shadowy thing as the
unwritten law But he ended by an
appeal to 'dementia Americana
which, he said. afflicted the whole
nation. He might have better ad-
hered to his original purpose, be-
cause If this man were insane you