Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28
10 IN 70 THINK
THAW WAS MAD.
RESULT OF OBSERVATION OF
DEFENDANT IN THE
COURTROOM.

very appearance i'm court sustains
the assumption, for he looks the role
in every madhouse respect. No one
with eyes i'm his head and judgment
unmade up would take Thaw for a
normal man. For all he sits quiet
and wordless, he throws off an i'm
preston of bedlam like an exhala
ton. And the jury, with every 9th
er soul in court has been affected b.
It,
The manner and the look of Thaw
have not been formally offered i'm evi-
dence Nevertheless, there is no one
concerned about the case, whether
as juror or spectator who failed to
incorporate them with the testimony
he has listened TO. and make then
an important element i'm his concey-
ton of the tragedy and its causes.
They are decided quality i'm tina
trial-equation from which Justice be
tween State and defendant is the ex-
pected result The show them to be-
lie, and prove that Thaw is insane OF
their testimony and the madhous.
impression which he furnishes. is t.
poison his prospects with "A doubt
that may have in it all fthe deadly
malice of so much arsenic
Twelve days were consumed I'm
catching the jury. Since then the
evidence-taking has eaten it's slow
way far into the third week Dur-
ing the latter period the Jurors
while giving their ears to the wit
nesses, have never had their eyes OF
Thaw Now, the eve as an avenue
through which information NAV be
received is tremendously more i'm
portant than the ear. You NAV test
this on yourself If one relate TO
you the story OF a man run over bv
a Broadway car. you feel a conven-
tional horror when some day you
see a victim crushed beneath the
wheels of that yellow iuggernaut
his broken body dragged mayfair tn
cruel half of a block. YOU will iump
about in your sleep for a twelve.
month. And that marks the differ
ence between hearing and seeing.
The jurors have heard the experts
but they have seen Thaw In bring
ing the jurors to a conclusion that
Thaw was crazy when he shot White
down, the latter experience on their
inquiring parts has exerted the larg.
er force. For the defense to mega
tive that impression and show the
jurors by its own experts" that
Thaw, as he sits before them-weird.
uncanny, the feeling OF wiidness IN
his atmospheric perfectly sane is
to invite a peril it might better avoid
1t is merely to walk a tightrope: il
is TO walk a tightrope and pass ?
fellOwgymnast who meets Won mil.
way coming from the other end. II
may well be that the jurors are no
such equilibrists of the mental. Con
vince them that Thaw is sane today
and their inclination will be to ar
que a criminal saneness in that for
mer red occasion Of the Madison
Square roof
This determination to reconcile
the irreconcilable has ever been pop
ular. Folk are forever trying TO
make wine and water from the same
jar. Men, otherwise sound. expend
their lives in seeking to solve the
problem of how TO be drunk and re.
main sober at one and the same
time. These hopeful experimental
lists have ever failed and Mr.. Del
mas and his learned brothers for the
defense, before going too far with
their insanity plea and the expert"
evidence to uphold IT,. might best
consider the lesson of those failures
The insanity Of New York in it's
origin, is really understood. The
town has no home and therefore
lacks the sanity OF a home life IT,
lives In pigeonholes called various
tenements. fats or apartments. as the
rental therefore climbs in fits degree
from positive fo comparative. and
from comparative to- superlatve r.
invests its hours after business in
barrooms. theatres. cafes. clubs and
gambling dens
When 81 may no longer keen IT'S
eyes open OR hold up its sleepy head
the town crceps on TO its pigeon
holes whether tenement fat or apart