The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-10

/ cate to the audience that there was no
danger to them He then walked
slowly to where his wife stood and
when she said. oh. Harry, what have
you dOne?' he replied, 1t is all right,
I dearie, I have probably saved your
| life and as he said this he stopped and
! kissed her. When he was disarmed
he said He mas ruined my wife When
] the policeman came he said. He has
: ruined my wife
cIew to Save His Wife.
! 4 have dwelt upon these incidents,
gentlemen, To call your attention TO the
/ fact that the safety of his wife, whose
menace was implied by the very pres
ence of this man, was uppermost in his
mind. To him this man who had met
the young wife upon the street, who
/ had followed her to the doctors, who
/ had also followed her to the cafe. again
ana 10 the roof garden, this was the
man who bOasted he would get the
( young wife away from her husband.
! So it was that after he had shot. the
I first great thought that welled up With
/ in him in the storm and stress Of the
moment was that "A last my wife is
| safe. ! have saved her life And then,
when he answered the officer and said.
he has ruined my wife. what was the
condition of his mind. What was it
when, as he was quietly and peaceably
walking down the aisle. he turned and
saw the hideous form of the man who
had been the cause Of 50 much suffer
ing? If you have ever been i'm mo-
ments of peril you know that mems
minds go back over the past and illum
inc it as lightning at night illumines
the storm clouds. In that flash Harry
Thaw saw what had ruined his whole
life. He saw that man as he had been,
z Ii Il
poverty stricken family: saw him pos
ing as the protector and friend of that
beautiful child-whose beauty had at
tracted him; saw him paying money
to the mother to leave the city while
he carried out his fiendish plans; saw
him lure that child to his vile den; saw
him ply her with wine and saw him
administer the fatal drug: saw him
dishonor the child: saw him kneeling at
her feet and kissing the hem of her
garment and telling her that all women
were bad; he saw her as he himself
had seen her i'll at school.
Struck for Humanity.
He heard again the terrible story az
she told it to him in Paris; heard again
his proposals Of hopeless love; he saw
himself walking the floor and exclaim-
ing oh, God, Oh. Cod. he saw this
child about to fall again into the hands
of the man from whom he had rescued
her, saw himself leading her to the
altar; he saw his months of happiness
with her: he heard the words, I will
get her back again He saw and heard
all this ard he struck; struck as does
the tigTess in the protection of her
young: struck for the home: struck for
American wOmanhOOd; struck for hu-
mainly, ana this man fell.
IF Harry TbaW believed he WAS the
instrument of Providence, who will say
he was mistaken? Against the great
wrongs that had been daily and nightly
perpetrated. he had appealed to Mr..
COmstOck (agent of the Society for the
Prevention of Vice., to the district at
tOrney and to the detectives. and on
that night he raised his eyes to God. !
and God at last answered the cry of
the poor, fatheriess child as He had
promised to do thousands of years ago
to the children Of Israel. He promised |
that He would hear and answer their |
cries. and God redeemed the promise |
that those who afflicted the fatherless |
those would He smite and kill with the 1
sword, destroy their homes. make their !
wives widows and their children faith /
erless.
What was the condition of Thaw's !
mind at this time? Men. judge your |
fellow men as We would be judged. and |
in order 10 judge him rightly, place
yourselves in the spot where he stood 4
and surround yourselves with the cir !
cumstances which surrounded him. Do /
this and you will be able to do him /
the justice that you promised you |
would do to him So
Or. Hamilton as Witness.
Mr.. Delmas quoted from the record /
of District Attorney JerOme's promise /
to call DR.. Allen McLane Hamilton as
q witness.
The promise was not fulfilled. The
learned district attorneys official /
pledge was not redeemed and DR.. Ham
itOn was not called by him. said Mr. |
Delmas. You nave a right 10 infer
why he was not called and you have
the right to bolster up your inference
by the fact that when we called DR. /
Hamilton the district attorney objected |
to his testifying. What is the infer
ence-that he would have testified that |
when he visited Thaw two days after
the tragedy he was insane and knew
not what he had done.
AS to the alienists who were called
by the state, he did not cross-examine
them Why? Because they did not
testify that Mr.. Thaw was insane. Mr.
Jerome knew full we'll if ne had asked
that question what their answer would
have been"
Objection Sustained.
II must object to this" interrupted
Assistant District Attorney Garvan.
The jury" said Justice Fitzgerald.
cannot speculate as to what answers
might have been given"
Il am well within my rights and the
jury has the right to draw inference"
Does your honor care for areu-
ment? again interrupted Mr.. Garvan.
Il do not" said the judge THE Jury
cannot speculate on anything outside
the evidence"
Il will address myself to you. gen
tlemen," said Delmas, turning from the
bench to the jury, ''and if l am wrong
| will take q ruling on it.
AIienists in the Case.
The learned district attorney did not
in any case ask If Thaw was insane.
ne asked only if Thaw was laboring un-