Evening journal., 1908-01-30
JEROME CLOSING
FOR THE STATE
Large Crowd Hears the Dis
triCt Attorneys Final Ad-
dress in ThaW Trial
ASKS MURDER CONVICTION
By THE JOURNALS Special wire.

BY THE JOURNALS Special Wire.
NEW YORK. Jan. sO-This was
Jerome's day in the Thaw trial, the
doughty prosecutor who has, accord
ing to Littleton, more of a desire to
ruin Mrs. Harry Thaw in the eyes of
the public. than to send her husbond
to the electric chair, began summing up
for the State soon after court con-
vened. He stated before entering the
court room that he did not expect to
talk very long and that he would finish
by the middle of the afternoon session.
1t is Justice Dowlings intention.
however, unless the prosecution should
conclude much earlier than usual, to
defer charging the jury until to-mor-
row morning.
District Attorney Jerome was early
on hand. and took a seat at counsel
table. which he had we'll fanked with
the peoples exhibits and the transcript
Of the evidence.
The crowd, despite the near-zero
weather. was even larger than that Of
yesterday, and the police had to fore
IDLY handle some of the more obstre-
UCIOuE
saets within. Every seat available
was filled long before Justice Dowling
ascended the bench and it was esti-
mately fully 1000 persons were turned
away.
There was a good representation Of
the theatrical and society world in the
court room, chief among them being
Cecilia LOTUS. Robert Hilliard,
Charles Dillingham;. Richard Harding
Davis, Robert J. Collier. and Mrs.
Jackson Gounaud.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw smiled jubilantly
at Littleton and Dan OReilly as she
took her seat
Jerome Slaps at Middleton.
1t was 1857 o'clock before Justice
Dowling arrived and Thaw entered the
court room.
In opening his case Jerome took oc-
casion to reply to Littleton's charge
that he had been lacking in courtesy
to the defense's witness. You are
not passing on any sneers by the dis
trict attorney, nor my attitude toward
the woman in the case." he said. "That
is not evidence Harry X. Thaw is
being tried for the killing of Stanford
White. He declares he was insane
at the time of the killing. That Is
what this jury is to determine. Not
whether he was insane in Paris, in
Rome or in the United States.
I shall not attack the learned
counsel for the defense. It has become
so customary for attorneys from the
Mountains of Tennessee. the panhandle
Of Texas and even the sunny slopes OF
the Pacific to assail the District At
| torney that I see no reason to answer
personal attacks
Il contend that the burden thrown
on the defense Of showing that Harry
X. Thaw was insane has not been sus-
tained"
Here Jerome explained the law COW
ering the degrees of murder, dwelling
especially on the fact that there is no
hard and fast rule as to the time in
which premeditated may rule. He de-
clared that so long as it was proved
that time had been given sufficient to
permit the arrival at decision to kill
whether that time was FIVE minutes OF
/ five months, did not enter into the legal
/ questions involved.
Jerome recited the verdicts the jury
might, as he termed 1t, legally return
as follows:
Murder in the first degree. penalty
death.
Murder in the second degree, penalty
life Imprisonment
Manslaughter in the first degree
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