East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-11
Jerome Continues Speech.

New York, April 11.-Jerome yes
terday in closing, depicted Thaw's ar
rest and conversation at the station,
and pictured again how Thaw located
White on the roof garden and said:
Every act of this man was an act
or sanity, but the witness SAYS he
looked at White and .his eyes were
wild. If a man had just killed an
enemy he hated for years, a man who
had ravished the woman he married.
If he had watched him for half an
hour, what would you expect: that he
would not bristle with premeditation? :?
NO wonder the grand jury returned
an indictment on facts presented"
He then plunged into a severe at
tack on Evelyn, incidentally building
up in his speech a defense for White
who could not offer one in evidence.
He sneered at Evelyn's story of ruin
by White and sarcastically referred to
Evelyn as the ''angel child" and tore
to pieces the whole story of her
wrecking at Whites hands.
The defendants attorneys" con-
tinued the district attorney, "have
said for him, I was insane Let us
examine the story they say made him
insane. direct your attention to a
man, gray haired, with family high
ly esteemed, an acknowledged genius
in his profession, who came into the
life of this girl, but until the night
described by her, did not make her a
single rich gift. did not try to dazzle
her childish imagination by display
OF lavish presents.
Remember the care he also took
OF her. He would not allow her to
drink more than one glass of cham
pagne at a time. Does that look like
ne was man who would try to ply
her with wine for her ruin? Does it
not rather show he was a man merely
to whom her childish beauty appeal-
ed? A man may be wanting in virtue.
hut because he is unchaste II does
not follow that he Is a brute. Be-
cause he loves pleasure it does not
follow that he was trying to make this
child his prey.
Consider that when she attended
his dinners at might, did he send her
home with one of his companions I?
No, he never took a chance that harm
should befall her. He took her home
himself and saw that her mother got
NJ to receive her He has been pic
tured as DR.. Jykell and Mr.. Hyde
as a ravisher of many women. His
life has been pictured as one round
OF sensuahty. For such a man the
stimulus of reciprocal passion is
needed"
He described from Evelyns words
on the stand how she had gone to
Whites den, drinking "drugged"
wine and subsequently going home
with White. He exclaimed, "And the
date of this extraordinary occurrence
she does not remember within three
months. It might have been Septem-
ber, October or November. You men
know women. They do not forget any
thing. You know they remember
every anniversary. And to think she
cannot remember within three months
of the time she was drugged and raw
ishe! What nonsense! And yet the
defense says, Why don't you prove
an alibi?' But when on cross exami-
nation, it appeared that photographs
would fix the date Of ravishment,
when Prof Witthaus was called to
prove that no drug will act as Evelyn
testified what that angel child said
about White. So you cannot go into
the falsity of the story that night,
except as a review of 1t may affect
her credibility. But you cannot pre-
vent that story from having q lasting