The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-08
Hearing Is Ended and Justice Mills Will Decide Case
 Next Thursday
JEROME WASTES NO TIME
 IN CLOSING ARGUMENT
Thaw's Attorney Makes Strong Pleas for Prisoner Against the Hor- TOT of Being Confined in
 Matteawan Asylum.

New York, August 7.-(speelaI) )-Harry Thaw's fate now rests with Justice Mills and the outcome will be known next Thursday morning when the court has promised to file his decision The case ended today when MT Jerome and MT Morschauser summed up before Justice Mills.
 MT. Jerome took just one and halt hours to present his side of the case, while MT. Morschauser argued for three hours.
 Once, after apologizing to the court for the time he was consuming, Justice Mills replied: Take all the time you need, Mir. Morschauser: think it is help full to me"
 MT. Jerome wasted no time in hyper bole. Part of the time the audience was in tears.
 Each lawyer took hng at allenists. MT. Jerome vented his wrath on Dr. Evans, one of Thaw's specialists, when he said:
 T am not impressed with the truth fulness of pr. Evans and l think his tes- timony should be corroborated
 MT. Morschauser vented his inveetive on Dr. Flint and Dr. Hirsch, particularly the latter Of him he said:
 Your honor, you surely can give little notice to the testimony of man who has openly admitted that he is trying to 'blacken the name of our Savior the name of Him who has been our com- fort throughout civilized generations. the simple loving Nazarene. How can you believe any testimony he might give? Then, this same man spoke of facial ex- pressions If I were a doctor I would not mention facial expressions with face like he possesses"
 Jerome Delinquent.
 Morschauser also made the statement that If MT. Jerome had been half as active in expressing the dens of vics maintained by Stanford White as he had been in prosecuting rhaw the murder would never have happened. He also took a fling at Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
 Your honor" said he, you saw this woman on the witness stand; you heard her pleading that she had been forced to come here and desired not to testify, while the night before she had been with Jerome and Dr. Flint giving them all the things she could think of. But when she was told she had a privilege she refused to accept it. I know your honor will not be fooled"
 Morschauser was not the only one to take a whack at the former chorus girl, for Mir. Jerome spoke of her in bitter terms He had been stating to the court that he would find the testimony of the witnesses of the first trials authentic and honest.
 But there is one who was otherwise said the district attorney. t'1 do not think that the girl was deliberately falsi- flying. I think she did tell her husband what all bad women tell but I believe her story to him to have been false.'
 credibIity of Witnesses.
 After opening his address to the court, Mir. Jerome said he was embarrassed as to what to say, that the whole matter simply bore on the credibility of fhe wit nesses, that when the test had been taken as whole and carefully read through there were no witnesses who were delib- crate falsihers. He said that the passage read from Dr. Deifendorf's book about paranoia could not have fitted better If it had been written expressly for Thaw's case He took up the question of hered- ity. and pointed out the family strain.
 Let me point out now" he said. that the whole Thaw family manifested what might be called peculiarty. From such stock. the average man of the world would say, without any assistance from alienlsts Well. you would get a pretty rickety sort of child out of that fam fly"
 The district attorney pointed the stories of alleged whipping by Thaw of women. He said that 1t seemed strange that the stories of Ruth Lambert. Ethel Thomas and others seemed to fit through like shadows. and while no direct evidence had been brought out about them, they seemed to show Thaw's trend of mind.
 He said that Thaw proved his love of being the central figure in everything and his fondness for the dramatic in his plan for the suicide of himself and Evelyn at the Waldorf, and his attempted suicide in Paris.
 Morschauser Begins.
 It was II 40 when Jerome finished, and as he talked Mrs. Thaw read a book. Occasionally when he made pointed al lusions she would look at him bitterly. MT Morschauser began immediately upon MT. Jerome's closing and talked until the court announced recess for an hour for luncheon. Resuming at 80 o'clock. MT Morschauser argued until 3;30 o'clock.
 Among other things he said
 ''If this man had any taint of insanity. with all he has been through, trials, incar- cerations and the treatment and disap- pointments he has received. he would surely be insane now'
 MT. Morschauser pointed out how there had been friction between the Mattea- wan authorities and Thaw which had arisen mainly because he had wanted to get out on a writ of habeas corpus, and thereby had naturally placed himself on one side and the doctors on the other.
 He told of several times Thaw could have escaped when in Poughkeepsie had he so desired. but always displayed the characteristics of honor.
 T would not for the sake of the fam fly. for my own sake and the courts