The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-01-31

In svery way insane--and that II took
| two days for the condition to clear up.
e there any analogy. however. between
way In which rhaw walked up to stan
ford White on the roof garden at Mad
ison Square and killed the man who
had wronged him In ss deadly way
as one man can wrong anotherT'
Take the evidence Of that night
with you to your deliberations" con-
tinued Mr.. Jerome.
OufIines the Motive.
Remember the calm, the tender SOL
fcitude OF Thaw when his wife rushed
| up to him and asked him what had led
him to the hatred OF his victim--and
said: It's all right. dearie: have prob
ably saved your life There was the
motive. gentlemen-there was no man
| raving In maniaeal delirium as Thaw
ravsd In London. The analogy does not
| exist"
Mr.. Jerome dwslt at length upon the
| testimony Of Mrs. William Thaw, the
DEFENDANTS mother. who. he said. OF all
persons In the world could have told
| the real history Of the boy. who would
have been excused had she attempted
might have recited.
"But," he pointed out, "there was
nothing Of any Irrational conduct In
/ the mothers testimony until Thaw
came home In 1908 after Evelyn Mes
| bit. the girl he loved with devotion
that seems to me presented q strong
contrast to the girl herself, had been
| taken away from him and was again
| In the hands Of the man who had
wronged her Is there anything unus-
| ual In his depression? Was II not nat
ural9 There 10 no doubt about his de-
! votion to this young woman who had
been taken away from him through
1 tales which accused him of beihg an
| eccentric ricksty pervsft. What 10
there in the mothers testimony to show
| the life insanity Of this defendant? No,
she gave no such evidences even at this
time when her boys life may be in
| danger"
Mr. jerome also declared that q
| mother with the strength Of character
of Mr.. William Thaw never would have
| consented to her sons marriage had
she believed hfrn insane. He read
again to the jury the afEidavit made
| BY Mrs. Thaw last year. in which she
declared that for four generations in
/ the direct line Of descent, there had
| been no epilepsy or trace 81 insanity
In the family OF the defendant. This
| afidavit, the District Attorney assert
| ed. swept forever out OF the case all
i the talk OF heredity. Mr.. Jerome fin
ally entered upon detailed eonsid-
Grafton Of the story toid ~ Evelyn
whether she was drugged or not is
not material" he said. FOR my part
I do not believe It. But ! am con-
Paris. she told him the story she says
she did. Drugged or not. that she
i was wrCnged---grossiy wronged--is
| wholly true That the places In
| Twenty-Eecond and Twenty Fourth
streets she mas described to you ex-
| listed is as true as that you are sit
ting here. That they were maintained
| some Of whom still live in this city
| and whose names have been mentioned
| here's the absolute truth. That they
| were maintained for gross orgies II
true. But the issue 10 not whether
Stanford white deserved death. We
cannot 50 into that--we have no right
10 consider It."
Tribute to Evelyn.
Mr.. Jerome here caused another deep
| surprise by paying an unexpected tri-
butte to Evelyn Thaw and heaping de-
| nunciation upon the man who sought
TO shield his miserable life .beiaind her
| shame.
oPoor little creature he said, @ahe
never had . chance In life for any OF
the higher. cleaner. swseter things. At
fifteen she was drifting around the
studios and theatres, the bread-winner
for the family. In Paris. a. she tells
| you. she refused Harry Thaw because
OF her shame snd because OF her love
for him. How does he repay that
lover
''That miserable man makes her his
companion ana drags her through Eu-
Fope and rows with her mother be-
cause she win not become q party to
the shameful proceedings. Is that ir-
rationale ANY evidence of insanity
there2 No. But depravity deprAvity
always.
1T Harry Thaw, altar hearing that
awful story from the girl he loved.
had gone out ana killed her seducer,
he might not have Justified himself In
court OF law, out no certainly would
have found justification in some high
| er forum. ~.
"But the skulking coward did moi
kill. Years went by and Stanford
white does other things that make
him hate him. Finally he finds White
when his head is turned away. when
there is no protection near, and then he
shoots. Oh, the miserable man who sits
here in his sanity; who sat here last
year in his sanity and twice allowed
his wife's shame, IN all it's sordid max.
edness, to be spread upon the rec
ords OF this court. There he sits. mis-
cradle man. seeking to save and shield
his miserable life both In her shame.
| What do you think OF such mani Mr.
Idttleton, when he said the American
people were Iiber&l and broad minded
was right. But is It observation-disclosures
to let such q creature as this skuilI
behind the pettieoat Of the wife he has
held up in all her helpless shame2
"A bald. worthless pervert. that's
what he is. To my mind this whole
trouble comes from two degenerates
uuarreling over a woman. And the wo-
man played one against the other.
That was all she know; all her train
ing had taught her. AS to the Abe
Hummel testimony know Hummel as
we'll or better than anybody else, and
I say to you frankly, that / don't be-
Iieve the contents of the affidavit he
made are true. I put 1t in merely "a
show you that after her experiences
with Thaw In Paris, Evelyn Nesb!t was
again in stanford Whites hands and
the motive for his death had been
formed"
Mr.. Jerome fiercely assailsd the in
sanity experts of the defense. declar-
ing II was q crying shame that experts
can be purchased to testify to any
thing. Their evidence. he declared
served one purpose and that to ,empha-
size its utter worthlessness. Not one
| statement made by them, he declared
was worthy of credeuce.
| A COwardly Murder.
Concluding his argument, Mr.. Jerome
denounced the killing of Stanford
White as a cowardly murder. But he
told again of the three degrees of guilt
That were permissible, according as the