The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-31
MAY KNOW HIS
FATE BY NIGHT
JUDGE WILL DELIVER CHARGE
TO THAW JURY EARLY
TO-DAY.
JEROME S MASTER PLEA
Was no Blind Appeal Fo Vengeance
OF the LaW--Sometimes Note
Of Mercy War Struc, BY
Prooecuto'.

| New York, jan 3a.--Prosacuting
/ Attorney Jerome male a master Plea
today that justice be done ia tho case
Iof Thaw. It was no blind appeal fol
vengeance OF the law that jerome al
dressed to the jury but ever and az
ways there was a note oI fairness
and even at times Of mercy.
/ No longer attempting ta Shield tag
name ii Stanford Whee, he accepted
the story told b. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
as true In all but the drugging and
iae made O frank confession tc jury
| that the velvet swings and mirrored
rooms cl the studio houses described
| BY the girl, were indeed d miserable
realit,'
no longer attacking Evelyn Than
as e skilled adventures Jerome
ipleaded for the girl because she never
had chance fer any Of the highe4
cleaner or sweeter things of life. The
climax came, however when jerome
denounced both Thaw and White in
one breath and classed them as tive
| ldegenerates quarreling over q w0
man And the woman, tho prosecutor
declared, fnew no more has beea
taught no more BY the world-than to
,lay one against the other until, in a
jealous rage, in the biindest hatred, in
5engeance 81 IAN undeniably gross
wrong done his wife Harry Thaw
shot and killed the architect
Justice Dowlng will begin his
charge ais soen as court conyenes to
morrow. The case will go t. the jury
Immediately and Thaw may know his
latc before night.
jerome turned willing car tc the
Itastiinaar sef ,ilsanity. PLACED before
Ethe jury and en1phasi2M ii In r mum
Der or instances. He admitted Tnaw
had always been physically weak and
thatpat times his mind had been un-
strung. And while at no point was
there a direct offer of compromise IN
the prosecutors speech, there was no
tably an Indication that he would not
feel that Justice had been misdrected
lis verdict of some lesser guilt than
murder in the first degree should be
the elimination of the jury's deliber.
aticn,
To render verdict OF not guilty on
the ground cf insanity. the proseeu
tor declared, 1t would be necessary
ander the statutes and decisions OF
the court appeals for the jurors to be-
lieye Thaw was SO insaue that ne did
not know it wasfa pistol he had in his
hand when he fred with perfect and
deadly aim three bullets into the
body of his victim; that he must have
been so insance as not to knew the
man he killed was Stanford White
the one man in the world whom he
hated and had a motive for vengeance
against: that he must have been so
insane as nos to know it was against
the law to take a fellow beings life;
that he must have been so insane as
net to know what pclice officers want
ed with him when he voluntarily sur
rendered himself into their custody,
and asked to be taken quickly to the
station house with the request that
his brother in-law and an attorney be
sent for; and. lastly. that he must
have been so insane as not to know
inat nature cr quality of his act or
that the act was wrong.
Lacking in the essentials, the in
sanity OF the defendant. conceded to
have manifested itself at certain
times. had no standing under the Law.
Partial qs incipient insanity. which
does not rob the sufferer OF perception
Of the acts he commits. has no recog
aition CT tae Jaw.
Concluding his icnk address, Jerome
denounced Thaw IN the bitterest
terms as 2 coward splking behind
tbe petticoats of his wife. attempting
to shield and save HIS worthless life
behind her shame.p
''Twice in his sanity" declared the
prosecutor. he had set in this court
room aud had her bare the shamc
IN all its pitiful nakedness. to all the
world. Is such man worthy Of even
the slightest consideration at your
hands