Evening star., 1908-01-30
THAW SANE ENOUGH,
AYERS Mr.. JEROME

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and consuming hate of the man he killed.
Thaw believed that White had drugged
| and mistreated his wife: he knew that
White had kept him out of a New York
club: he knew that White had threatened
his life. if the stage door man Is to be
believed. and he knew that just a month
before the tragedy White had told May
Mackenzie that he heard Thaw and Eve
lyn were not living happily together and
he would get the girl back.
Changed View Of White.
1T matters not whether you believe the
girls story Of the drugging or not" de-
clared Mr.. Jerome. 1.-The relations of this
| middle-aged married man with the Girl
of fifteen cry out to heaven and no de-
cent man can say a word in defense.
certainly have no Intention OF doing So
| But with all the things have pointed out
| to you. if there was no motive In the
heart Of this defendant l can imagine
! nothing that can create a motive.
| In his speech last year Mr.. Jerome pas
sionately defended Stanford White. de-
clarins that his spirit lowered ever near
] the courtroom crying out to be heard In
defense, crying for some one to tell the
| truth and protect character Evelyn Nes-
| bit had sought to blacken.
| The prosecutor today took up ono by
| one the acts of Thaw the roof garden
and Immediately following the tragedy
| and asserted they all pointed to a full
knowledge of what he was doing; that
| his eyes fell upon "the monster who had
done him many wrongs, against whom he
| had many grievances, and the premedi-
tated murder came to startle the whole
world. Thaw's movements were charac-
| terized by the utmost deIiberation, Mr..
Jerome said. I'VE find Thaw armed on
the garden-srmed for single purpose
armed for the man he walked up to and
killed by three bullets.
Thaw Was Responsible.
rs there anything insane about ali Of
this? He was nervous as a chil,; lie had
fits of tantrums he didn't like algebra:
he was always pale with staring eyes:
he may have had outbursts here and
there; but what has all that to do with
this case? You are to consider only IL
Thaw had the capacity to know he had
pistol I'm his pocket If he knew 1t was
Stanford White toward whom he was
walking. and IL he knew the act was
| against the law. That is all.
THE law specifically says that a weak
or disordered mind is no defense for
criminal responsibility. Partial or in
cipient insanity is no excuse when the.
accused is capable of forming a correct
perception of the nature or quality of his
act. That is all. Concede that Thaw was
crazy on the train, concede that he was
crazy in LONDON. III Monte Carlo. In
Paris. in Pittsburg, where you will. but is
there any contention here that Thaw has
been crazy during all of his thirty-six
years of life? Is there any contention
that he has been crazy during the two
years he has been in the Tomhs? Is
there any contention that he is crazy as
he sits there before you? Then why
crazy when he calmly and deliberately
| shot Stanford White?
Benefit of the Doubt.
Mr.. Jerome reviewed in great detail the
| evidence presented to many alleged IRA
| tional outbreaks by Thaw, and declared
| he could find in them no trace of BRAIN
storm or manic-depressive insanity.
| But If you gentlemen can," he added.
| fit of it. We all have had tartrums in
our childhood when we were slighted, but
| were We insane? No. We received that
| best of medical treatments good. sound
| spanking"
| The day of the tragedy found Thaw
| playing bridge whist at the Whist Club
with Capt. Wharton. John A. Drake and
John B. Gleason. On other days in the
| immediate vicinI,y of the crime he played
| with Charles NJ. Schwab.
Are these nlen who WOULD gamble with
an insane or an irrational man and win
| his money or lose theirs 10 him? No
| They are not brought here to say he is
| irrational Why not?''
hours District Attorney Jerome asked that
recess be taken. Justice bowling announc
! ed that. having In view the comfort of
| the jury, who would be kept in the jury
room until a verdict was rendered. he
| would not charge them as to the law until
| tomorrow morning.
Calls Abe Hummel Vermin.
When Mr.. Littleton, in his argument
yesterday. came to the point of Thaws
life where he met Evelyn Nesbit. he con-
| demned District Attorney Jerome for his
| treatment of the young woman on the
| witness stand.
Il don't know what the judgment of
you gentlemen may be as to her morals
| or as to any reprehensibility of conduct
| either with Stanford White Mr..
| Thaw.'' he proceeded, but the district
attorneys manner toward her, in my
Judgment, exceeded anything she de-
| served.
| There always was the note of savagcry
and bitterness in his examination of her
and In his comments upon her before this
| jury which were not justified by the
| that Mr.. Jerome has been more intent
| upon destroying this young woman than
| proving that Thaw was sane.
IF l ware the district attorney and
ildQ no OtheT testimony 10 destroy a
! young woman with than that of a mis-
cradle little convict-the very vermin of
| the New York BARI would hesitate a
long time before asking twelve of ray
| fellow -citizens to hear the testimony of
| perjurer whom | convicted myself
This girl was brought up in poverty
and was put upon the stage at fifteen.
| She told you of her G perience What
was strange about it? Haven; you heard
| of such things before? Thaw came into
her life and loved her. He proved his
| love in the greatest way any man can
| With all that the district attorney show
| ed you about her. what rif IT did he have
| to bend all his activities against her,
| vent all his bitterness upon her and for
get all his duties as to proving the sanity
of this man.
why should this district attorney take
| this young woman as she sits croucning
in the witness chair and. pacing up and
down this inclosure. bitterly assail her
and then hold up to you as model to be
believed this moral wretch. this rat of the
New York bar. the lowest vermin known
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