The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-10

| sacritcia1 Offering, saying, All is over.
and dismissing the congregation. He
turned his pistol barrel down to indi-
/ cate TO the audience that there was no
danger to them. He then walked
/ slowly TO where his wife stood and
when she said. oh. Harry, what have
you done?' he replied, 1t is all right
dearie, | have probably saved your
life and as he said this he stopped and
! kissed her. When he was disarmed
he said He has ruined my wife When
/ the policeman came he said, He has
ruined my wife
Slew to Save His Wife.
Il have dwelt upon these incidents,
gentlemen. To call your attention to the
! fact that the safety of his wife. whose
menace was implied by the very pres
ence of this man. was dppermost in his
mind. To him this man who had met
/ the young wife upon the street, who
| had followed her to the doctors, who
/ had also followed her to the cafe. again
and to the roof garden, this was the
man who boasted he would get the
young wife away from her husband.
/ So il was that after he had shot, the
/ first great thought that welled up with
7 in him i'm the storm and stress of the
moment was that at last my wife is
safe. | have saved her life And then,
when he answered the officer and said,
/ ne has ruined my wife what was the
/ condition Of his mind. What was it
when. as he was quietly and peaceably
walking down the aisle. he turned and
/ saw the hideous form Of the man who
! had been the cause of so much suffer-
! ing? If you have ever been in mo-
ments of peril you know that mems
minds go back over the past and illum-
! inc it as lightning at night iilumines
the storm clouds. In that flash Harry
! ThaW saw what had ruined his whole
! life. He saw that man as he had been,
/ saw him as he became a friend of that
poverty stricken family; saw him pos
| ing as the protector and friend of that
| beautiful child-whose beauty had at
tracted him; saw him paying money
/ to the mother to leave the city while
he carried out his fiendish plans; saw
! him lure that child TO his vile den; saw
him ply her with wine and saw him
administer the fatal drug; saw him
! dishonOr the child; saw him kneeling at
her feet and kissing the hem OF her
garment and telling her that all women
were bad: he saw her as he himself
had seen her i'll at school.
Struck for Humanity.
He heard again the terrible story as
she told il TO him in Paris: heard again
his proposals of hopeless love; he saw
himself walking the floor and exclaim-
ing oh. God, Oh, God; he saw this
child about to fall again into the hands
of the man from whom he had rescued
her: saw himself leading her to the
altar; he saw his months of happiness
with her: he heard the words. I will
get her back again He saw and heard
ali this and he struck; struck as does
the tigress in the protection of her
young: struck for the home; struck for
American wOmanhood: struck for hu-
mainly, and this man fell.
If Harry Thaw believed he was the
I instrument of Providence. who will say
he was mistaken? Against the great
wrongs that had been daily and nightly
perpetrated, he had appealed TO Mr..
COmstOck (agent of the Society for the
Prevention of Vice., to the district at
tOrney and TO the detectives, and on
that night he raised his eyes to God,
and God at last answered the cry of
the poor, fatheTless child as He had
promised to do thousands of years ago
to the children of Israel He promised
that He would hear and answer their
cries and God redeemed the promise
that those who afflicted the fatherless,
those would He smite and kill with the
sword. destroy their homes. make their
wives widows and their children faith
erleSS.
What was the condition of Thaw's
mind at this time? Men, judge your
fellow men as We would be judged, and
in order 20 judge him rightly, place
yourselves in the spot where he stood
and surround yourselves with the cir
cumstances which surrounded him. Do
this and you will be able to do him
the justice that you promised you
would do to him -
DR.. Hamilton as Witness.
Mr.. DeImas quoted from the record
of District Attorney Jerome's promise
to call DR.. Allen McLane Hamilton as
q witness.
The promise was not fulfilled. The
learned district attorneys official
pledge was not redeemed and DR.. Ham
iltOn was not called by him." said Mr..
Delmas. You nave a right to infer
why he was not called and you have
the right TO bolster up your inference
by the fact that when we called DR..
Hamilton the district attorney objected
to his testifying. What is the infer
ence-that he would have testified that
when he visited Thaw two days after
the tragedy he was insane and knew
not what ne had done.
LAS to the alienists who were called
by the state, he did not cross-examine
them. Why? Because they did not
testify that Mr. Thaw was insane. Mr..
Jerome knew full well if he had asked
that question what their answer would
have been
objection Sustained.
Il must object to this" interrupted
Assistant District Attorney Garyan.
The jury" said Justice Fitzgerald,
cannot speculate as 10 what answers
might have been given"
II am we'll within my rights and the
jury has the right to draw inference"
Does your honor care for argu-
ment?" again interrupted Mr.. Caravan.
81 do not" said the judge. 1.-The jury
cannot speculate on anything outside
the evidence"
II will address myself to you, gem
tlemen," said Delmas, turning from the
bench to the jury, and if l am wrong
1 will take ruling on it.
AIienists in the Case,
THE learned district attorney did not
in any case ask if Thaw was insane;
he asked only if ThaW was laboring I'M
der such and such a defect of reason.
As to DR.. Hamilton, you have A right
to infer that the district attorneys rea-
son for not calling Dr.. Hamilton was