Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-10
AttorneyDiscussesT Thaw':
Crime With Brutal
Frankness.
HOLDS WIFE TO SCORN
RuthlessIy Tears Down ORA
matte Structure Erect
ed by DeImas.

terized the killing of White as simply
a common, vulgar, everyday tenderloin
homicide" and said: Would you gel:-
tlemen acquit 4 cold bloOded, coward.V
murderer on the grounds of Dement'S
Americana >"
He referred to Thaw's much discuss
ed letters to Attorney Longfellow as
the "erratic. vulgar productions Of a
rich illiterate."
New York, April 10.-All previous
crowds were insignificant compared to
the mob which stOrmed the court room
doors this morning in an effort to hear
District Attorney Jerome's sum-up Of
the states case against Harry X. Thaw,
slayer of Stanford White.
Jerome began his address at 11:4O,
by telling the jury they had been wan
dering through the fields of romance
for two days He said the case was
not one Of rape, but of murder.
Scorns Appeal to sympathy.
Jerome said an appeal to the Sympa-
thy and passions of the jury was 4
broad departure from the duty of the
counsel. There could. he said, be but
first degree murder in the second de-
gree, manslaughter or not guilty be-
cause of insanity.
Refers to New Disease.
Jerome referred sarcastcally to de
mentia Americana" asking if it was n
higher law under which a man may
flaunt a woman through the capitals Of
for tUn hiC mi
and then kill He warned the jury it
would be a violation of their oath to
consider "dementia Americana de-
claring it had no status on the Atlantic
seabOard.
Made Attack on Evelyn.
Jerome made a fiery attack upon
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. referring to her
sarcastically as the "angel child" and
saying she seemed always ready to 80
to the human ogre who had stripped
her of her viture" He said it seemed
to him the voice of the murdered
White was crying out to him. Can t
you say one word or must I go down
to the fires of hell unheard. undefend-
ed?"
Jerome denounced Evelyn's story as,
false
Called Cheap Bluff.
Jerome said he had offered evidence
of the photographer who took pictures
for which Evelyn posed, but it was not
rendered with the hope it would be adj
mitted but was Offered to call the
cheap bluff of my learned opponent
from the Pacific slope"
Diary from Police.
After an hours recess Jerome re-
sumed and took up the character OF
Evelyn Thaw. He said Evelyn's diarv
was the key to the whole story. Th5
police had delivered the diary to hin
the night before he put it in evidence
1t did not come from Evelyn's mother
Jerome said:
1--WE all know what the life of tho
stage is. What was Garland running
after her for? Why did Thaw sent
her roses and $50 bills?"
Closing Words of DeImas.
New York. April loft Harry Thav
believed he was the instrument o
Providence, who will say he was mis-
taken?"
Such were the words with which At
toney Delmas began the closing peri
DDS of the final plea to the jury in be
half of the slayer of Stanford White.
Mr.. Delmas' closing plea was d
rect appeal to the unwritten law. Fl
said:
THE district attorney will max
light of the experts because they hav
not defined the species of insanit
from which they say Harry Thaw
suffering. 1t is a species of insani.
which has been recognized in ever
state in this union-from Canada
Mexico from the Atlantic to the p,
cific.
Familiar American Insanity.
"Ah, gentlemen said Mr.. Delma
dramatically. turning to the alienist
who testified for the prosecution, 6
you desire a name for this species
insanity let me suggest it-call it /
mentia Americana
"That is the species of insani
which makes every American man b
lieve his home TO be sacred; that
the species of insanity which max
him believe the honor of his daught
is sacred; that is the species of insa
ity which makes him believe the hon