The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-10
ing in his dens of iniquity."

| questions asked by MT. Jerome. she 1 stated that she believed that Thaw | was crazy about Stanford White and that all his friends held the same l opinion.
 And 1t was true" declared the ! speaker. "The man who had brooded on this subject for three years. who I had pictures of dreadful horrors l haunting him by day and in the still ness of the night, could not be human 1 to retain the calmness of his reason. l Gentlemen. place yourselves in his place; picture to yourselves the hor- TOTS he went through and do justice | to Harry Thaw."
 It was l2:30 o'clock and MT. Delmas
 announced that he found that it would i be impossible for him to conclude by | the usual recess time as he had ex- | pected to do, and asked that a recess be taken until o'clock.
 | The recess was ordered.
 1 Following the recess. Mir. Delmas | brought the narrative of his argument | down to the events of the night of l the tragedy--the 25th of June last. He
 told of Thaw and his wife dining at the l Cafe Martin with Truxton Beale and l Thomas McCaleb.
 l Stanford White. by accident or de- 1 sign--no one can ever tell-came into
 the room where the party sat. Thaw did not see him. but when Stanford | White left the place the young woman l to her husband.
 l "The b. was here a moment ago, | but went out again"
 l When Thaw read this his first | thought was of his wife. He said to her. Are you all right? When he
 received her assurance that she was.
 he mastered whatever emotions he I A-y r.. | lie place and in the presence of his friends and the incident had no fur
 ther significance for the time being. | "Thaw had bought four tickets for | a roof garden entertainment that even l ing. When he went there with his party and on the way picked up an- other friend. who occupied one of the seats, leaving MT. Thaw without a
 seat. He. then of the nervous temper ament walked about looking for an- | other seat. This he found beside the witness Smith, who has testified be- | fore you and sat there about half an | hour engaged in such idle conversa- | ton as I suppose befits men who call | themselves men of the world or soci-
 ety men; men who are not seriously
 engaged in solving the serious prob | lems in life.
 | He was not agitated: his conver-
 sation went on in its usual tenor. He
 knew MT. Smith was a brother-in law | of Stanford White but he did not in | clude him in the aversion he felt for | Stanford White. Then he returned to his party, talked about the play, dis cussed its lack of interest. talking of leaving what had turned out to be at
 best a tedious pastime.
 l They left Mrs. Thaw and Thomas
 McCaleb in front. Truxton Beale and
 Thaw following. Mir. Beale saw a friend and stopped to speak to him. | He left Thaw to proceed on his way alone. Remember at this period, gen. | tlemen. the unbroken testimony of all | the witnesses Is to the effect that the | manner and demeanor of Thaw was perfectly calm and composed and that l he walked quietly down the aisle When he reached the point of exit. he
 espied to his right the form of Stan | ford White.
 White Intent On Performance. stanford White was then intently | looking at the performance on the stage. He was about twenty feet to | the left of Mir. Thaw. MT. Thaw then l turned, walked slowly and quietly to-
 wards him. faced him. and when he had faced him, fired three shots which | caused his death. He then walked slowly away and deliberately, ana I wish to call your attention to the | circumstance-appare slight but to | my mind of the greatest significance ns testified to by Meyer Cohen. who | said that as soon as the body Of Stan- | ford White had fallen to the ground. Thnw turned to the audience. spread out his arms in the shape of cross and stood composedly there-a circum- | stance which has not been dwelt on bv inc learned experts called as wit | oesses by the State. but which denotes | the character of the execution that | took place. | "Mr Thaw stood as a priest might | have stood after some ceremony Oi | sacrihciaI offering. saying, All Is over, | and dismissing the congregation tie | turned his pistol barrel down to in- | dicate to the audience that there was | m danger to them: he then walked | slowly to where his wife stood and when she said Oh, Harry. what have | you done he replied. It's all rlgh', | dearie, I have probably saved your | life.
 "As he said this he stopped and kiss ed her. When he was disarmed he | said, He has ruined my wife. When the policeman came. he said. He has ruined my wife have dwelt on these incidents, gentlemen. to call your attention to the fact that the safety of his wife. whose menace was Implied bv the very presence of this man, was unnermost in his mind. To him this man who had met the young wife on the street who had followed her to the doctors had also followed her to the Cafe Martin and to the roof gar den.
 This was the man who had been
 boasting that he would get the young
 wife away from her husband. So it
 was that after he had been shot the first great thought that welled up
 within him in the storm of stress of
 the moment was that at last my wife
 Is safe. I have saved her life
 Condition of Mind.
 And then when he answered to the
 officer and said He has ruined my
 wife what was the condition of his mind? What was 1t when as he was
 quietly and peaceably walking down
 the aisle he turned and saw the hid
 eous form of the man who had been the cause of so much suffering? If
 You have ever been in moments of peril you know that mems minds go back over the past and illumine 1t as light ming 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, | he saw him as he became a friend of the poverty stricken family; saw him laying plans to ingratiate himself in that family; saw him posing us the | nrotaator and friend of that haa ttIfrf