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

played upon by both sides. Have you
thought of the widow in Cambridge
and the fatherless boy in Harvard?
mention this. men, that you may see
that the question of sympathy has
naught to do with the issues here.
There are sympathies perhaps which
you cannot prevent from arising with
in you. but they must not influence
your verdict.
whether you believe the story told
by this girl whether you believe in the
sublime renunciation she made OF
Thaws offer of marriage for another
whim, your sympathies are bound TO
assert themselves in one form or ali.
other There is here every element to
arouse your passion You can't help
it. But when you retire TO consider
your verdict you must lay it aside and
guide yourself solely by intellectual
processes.
you did not swear to bring this de-
mentia Americana into the case"
Mr. Jerome sarcastically repeated the
title Mr.. Delmas had given to Thaw's
form of insanity. He hissed it through
his teeth every time it occurred in his
argument.
"IIe was rational: he was calm and
cool" went on the district attorney.
"He walks up to his enemy after care
fully locating him and carefully takes
aim. He does not take any chances OF
hitting any one else. You are told his
face was white Here was man who
had nursed an enmity for three years,
who for three years had glared at his
enemy until after Il good dinner and
hearing the story of two men and Il
woman in which Truxton Beale had
figured ne deliberately shoots down
his enemy. Is it any wonder he was
white? Is the killing of q human be-
ing thing so common that a man can
do it without even turning pale?
"You locate your enemy, you locate
the man who blactballed you at clubs,
who you say ravished your Wife, who
spread stories of perversion about you.
you shoot him down and then come
here with your dementia Americana.
1t is absurd Why, the crime bristles
with reconciliation. Unexplained, 1t IL
murder in the first degree. man
shoots down his enemy, who, no mat
ter how bad he may be. is entitled to
| the protection of the law. Let him be
| blacker than the cloak of midnight
which counsel threw about his mem
ory. and say he still had right to he
where he was the night of the 2oth of
last June. He had right to believe
! that the laws of this community would
! protect him.
"Dementia Americana, men, has no
place in your verdict. You swore to
take no higher law than the law of
your state.
"Dementia Americana. What is this
! dementa Americana which waits ana
glares at its enemy for three years ana
then kills? 1t waits three long years
and grows bitter and then strikes.
"Dementa Americana, that haunts
the woman for whom it kills through
the capitals of Europe for two wears
as its mistress. Is that the higher
law?
"No, gentlemen, the higher law does
not hide itself under the hem of Wo
mans skirt.
"Dementia Americana. Is that the
law which puts Il woman up to tell OF
her shame or misfortune, as the case
may be, to all the world in the hope il
will shield worthless life from q
peoples just demand?
'.'rhat is not the kind of law YOU
swore to accept. and if you do it, men
you violate your oaths.
"Thaw walked deliberately across
the room and in such Il nanner thai
his enemy should have no chance, nc
opportunity, 10 defend himself, thei
turned suddenly and. holding the pisto
so close to Stanford Whites head thai
!after he was dead Mr.. Smith, his
brother-in-law. did not know him he
cause Of the powder marks. fired once
twice, three times
Mr.. Jerome picked up the pistol from
the table in front Of him and as b,
spoke the words punctuated them b,
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