Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-30

crime of rape should always be pun
ished with DEATH"
Thaw read several other extracts in
Guiding letters he received in person
and editorial comment.
From the sheets in his hands ThaW
read also quotations from the Bible
and from the poets on the subject OF
wrongs to young girls and children.
Find that thing about st. George,
ordered Jerome.
This proved to be the following note
addressed to Delnlas
The book l send you is Percy Reli.
lues about st. George with a verse
marked"
WAS your idea that Delmas should
'iken you to ST. George?" asked Jerome
mo, the story as l remember it was
about the dragon. ] think ST George
was travelling about and he came tc
the country the dragon was ravaging,
and Thaw went on to tell the familiar
story.
1.-THE idea,'' he said, was that Mr.
v htc was to be lkened to the dragon.
Jerome dropped the clippings and
held up a little note containing per
ana INK drawing.
Are you willing this should be
shown"
Most certainly not"
"Why not?"
Because it is addressed to my wife
and only proper for her to see
Don't you want US to find out
whether you are crazy or not?"
"Yos"
"Then why don't you want this let
ter read? Isn't this an obscene let
ter?" demanded Jerome holding it out
TT might be if written to another
mans wife, but not written to mine"
Thaw was asked to identify gold
hat pin with a miniature dogs head
at the end. He said he had seen it be-
fore.
WAS it ever the end of a Whip" in
quired Jerome.
'It might have been the handle of
a parasol,' said Thaw. -.
The examination of the alienists' re-
port was postponed while Jerome re-
turned to the notes Thaw gave Attor-
nev Delmas to aid him in the first trial.
From these he read the following eX-
tracts from letters received by Thaw
during the trial:
young man, you have intuitively
and fearlessly antagonized the red
dragon of Holy Writ. See Rev. XII"
"The objectionable wrong, the Of
fence no true man can condone-the
violation of maiden
"A woman close to the sun, woman
with diadem of IL stars about her
head and a moon beneath her feet.
Thaw denied that he had ever re-
ferred to White as the red dragon" as
one OF the aiienists alleged.
Some Of the letters made ready by
Thaw and turned over to Delmas were
coherent and Jerome asked the witness
what value he thought they could
have.
Thaw's reply was that some of these
exhibits were rubbish and some of the
letters might have been written by
cranks, but they contained ideas that
he thought Delmas might possibly use
One letter referred to White as
Grizzly" and Tnaw as ''too1 of the
Almighty"
This was a suggestion" said Jer-
ONE, ''for Delmas to refer to, you as
tool of the Almighty"
No said Thaw quickly. II put a
cross opposite the word grizzly, think
ing it might prove useful in speaking
of White y
In another place Tliaw told Dalmas
to read Gladstone's book on the Bull
garian atrocities.
jerome read document given him by
DR.. Hamilton, who alleged that it was
copy of proposed letter to the news
papers submitted to him by Thaw dur
ing his first examination by the alien
lists. The letter condemned certain
class of wealthy men in New York,
who, It said, made a business of ruin