The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-02-07
JEROME REVERSED
The Versatile and Erratic Prosecu-
tor Makes New and Unexpected
Moves in Thaw Case.
A DISAGREEMENT POSSIBLE
Justice Bowling Delivered His Charge
Friday Morning and IL Hours De-
liberation Brought NO lndi-
cation of an Agreement.

New York, Jan. 31.-William Tray
ers Jerome, representative of the peo'
pie, made mastery plea Thursday
that Justice be done in the case of
Harry Kendall Thaw. Vindictiveness,
sneers, insinuationS, all were lacking;
logic, analysis and a calm considera-
ton of the facts were their substi-
tutes. 1t was no blind appeal for the
vengeance of the law that Mr.. Jerome
addressed to the jury but ever and al
ways there was the note of fairness,
even at times of mercy.
The year that has elapsed since the
first trial had wrought wonderful
and startling change in the prose
cutor. No longer attempting to shield
the name of Stanford White, he AZ
cepted the story told by Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw as true-all but the drug
ging-and he made frank confession
to the jury that the velvet swings and
mirrored rooms of the studio houses
described by the girl were indeed
miserable reality. No longer attack
ing Evelyn Thaw as skilled adVen-
turess, Mr.. Jerome pleaded for the
girl, because she never had had a
chance for any of the higher, cleaner,
sweeter things of life. The climax
came, however, when Mr.. jerome de-
nounced both Thaw and White in one
breath and classed them as two de-
generates quarreling over woman,
and the woman, the prosecutor de-
clared, knew no more-had been
taught no more by the world-than to
play one against the other until, in
Jealous rage, in blndest hatred, in
vengeance of IAN undeniably gross
wrong done to his wife, Harry Thaw
shot and killed the architect.
New York, Feb. Friday, for q
second time, the fate of Harry K.
Thaw, slayer of Stanford White
passed into the hands of jury of his
peers. The ~ jurors retired at 11:40'
a. m. after listening to charge from
Justice Victor j. bowling who sought
to impress upon them that the burden
to prove the sanity of the defendant
rested upon the prosecution through
out the trial and declared that; if from
all the evidence in the case, the jurors
entertained a reasonable doubt as to
his sanity, the defendant was entitled
to the benefit of that doubt. At the
same time he pointed out the provi-
sions of the statute which provides
that the only persons excused from
criminal responsibility are those who
suffer from such a defect of reason
as either not to know the nature or
quality of their act or not to know
that the act is wrong.
Justice Bowling defined the various
degrees of murder and manslaughter
recognized under the laws and then
added that the jury in its delibera-
lions was not bound by the terms of
the indictment.
The following verdicts are possible
in the case:
Murder in the first degree-penalty
death; murder in the second degree
penalty life imprisonment; man.
slaughter in the first degree-penalty,
not to exceed 20 years imprisonment,
not guilty on the ground of insanity
at the time the crime was committed
probably commitment to an asylum.
At late hour Friday night the
Jury was still out and no word hat
come from the jury room to indicate
in any way the trend of it's deliber-
ations. After the jury went silently
to dinner and returned the guards at
the doors heard no sounds of argyll
ments from the jury room. The jury
called for all the exhibits in the case
before + retired and it is evidently de-
termined to, reach its verdict without
asking for information or further in
structions from the court.