The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-11

tors until o'clock III the morning anu then went to Thaw's apartments Again he made up with her; again he had told her that he would put his stalwart arm about her and they would go through life side by side. So Sir Galahad had lived with her as his mistress in Paris, going to the Dead Rat and Cafe de Paris, and doing cakewalks at o'clock in the morning. This is the Sir Galahad who almost within the sound of his wifes voice asked James Clinch Smith if he was very much married? And if he did not want to meet a 'buXom brunette when he was going to Europe and would be glad to put him next
 ''This, gentlemen, was the St. George who was going out into the world and rescue from the dragon American wom- anhood
 Tenderloin Homicide.
 "There is in this case every element of the simply vulgar, everyday Tender loin homicide.
 "If the defendant were any person but the rich Harry Thaw of Plttsburg; if he were the son of a padrone in Eliza beth street; if Stanford White were not a leading architect but Chinaman in Mott street; if this girl were a chorus girl in a Bowery theatre how long would the brainstorm or the paranoia theory be listened to?
 "There were two ordinary men in this case. and between them was tigress urging them on. With Thaw she was seduced by White; with White she was the victim of Thaw's perversion. Why, men, there are the same old elements here that have made criminal history ever since the world began.
 "This angel child comes here and weaves web of lies like this to fool you Ito induce you to aeauit a cold-blooded, cowardly murderer on defense or de- mentia Americana
 "She herself tells you she was con- stantly egging him on. She told him Stanford White was trying to get her back that he had followed her. "In Paris she received letters from Stanford White. After she returned from | Europe, Thaw himself accused her of | having resumed relations with White. I Why Shouldn't He Hate White? Why shouldn't he hate Stanford White |? 1 Why shouldn't he fear him? Why should not he be angry when he talked about ] him? He would glare at his enemy in l the theatre, but smile on others. He would even sit at the table with Dilling- ham. who told Evelyn the stories of his perversion.
 "Is there anything in all this evidence 1 to show that when Harry Thaw shot and killed Stanford White he did not l know the nature and quality of his act | or that the act was wrong?" ! Mr. Jerome reviewed the letter Thaw l wrote from Paris and Pittsburg to At | torney Longfellow and which were in troduced to show the effect of Evelyn s l story on the young mans mind.
 Rich Illitesate. 1 He declared that the letters showed all ! through them the writer's appreciation i of legal rights and wrongs.
 "They are nothing more," he continued "than the cratic and vulgar productions of a rich iliterate who always had his | own way in life until he was locked UT l in the city prison"
 The will and codicil were next taken uI and discussed. The will showed a cow ardly fear of death, declared the prosecu tor, but nothing more.
 Cowardy Man.
 ''So you see, gentleWen," he went on 1t was easy for such a cowardly man
 S this to withhold his 'dementia Amer
 ,ana' for three years and then kill tn,
 ictim who could not see him approach.
 Now, turn to the mothers testimony
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