Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18

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prolonged defending some sensational
caused his fellow lawyers dub him weeping Willie"
All that before the "Thaw Case" engufed him Twice
great popular vote swept him into the Office Of
ney. Midway OF his in that office Harry Thaw
killed Stanford White
For time Jeromes energy prosecuting
accused murderer member Of of the richest families in the
country blinded the public to his neglect keep mis- anteec
ton promises Thus Jerome before the
will follow this trail metropolitan Street Railway
rupon) elect it leads to the Republican oganza
ton. will follow it II It leads into the ranks Of the
formers"
who had elected Jerome realized how the Metropolitan
Street Railway and other corponsts Thereafter in
editorials and cartoons public addresses Weeping Willie
became Sleeping Willie"
What had put Jerome into a sound slumber?
There had been candidate who had spoken plainly
the people When rafting
the sod OF the white slaves of the crowded Side
hurled the facts the teeth Of his and told them that
through their SNUG competency their failure do their
citizens they were responsible, his fight
When he promised the fear
criminals in high places criminals the heads
poaons criminals who controlled debauched
when he named famous millionaire the
and pledged that he would follow the trail matter where
1t led, he believed
But when in 19oS the close his second
OF the office Of District Attorney, Mayoray
bee buzsing his branasked New audience to listen
to him. he Kissed and hooted almost the point
Jerome's Career Affected by 1.-THE Case"
To this day multitude listened to Jeromes daring and
nery arraignments of the mighty believe kept his
pledges and had not after false he
Governor and then President but they pcuresquey
put 1t, Jerome couldn't be elected dog-cacher"
His friends declare that Jerome still
honest that dishonest penny palm
What is the matter with him? They
His vanity his unalterabe obstinacy-and the Thaw
Case"
Keeping Harry behind dominant idea of
Jeromes life He always willing sacrifice anything to
that end The obsessed h entirely
geraed magnitude in his mind Slapped his energies had
so many others. and left him time for other work"
So great had been the decline he an
peaed before Canadian court to procure exadon
the escaped Harry Thaw. first denied recognition
He was even arrested for playing game poker.
And this the "Thaw Case" has done for Jerome"
The silvertonsued courtly Dolphin NJ. Delmas
tngushed member OF the California
Thaws at prncey retainer to restore to Harry Thaw his
Mr. Delmas large of his lucrative practise
the Pacific York. frankly expecting to e
tabh himself among the mighty of his profession Eastern
metropolis
He gracious, dignihed figure among lawyers
either side In that ttaland he went back his neglected
Pacific Coast without having made apparently the
slightest the forces which and the
Has the name of Dolphin M Delmas
rising regulations discussed either the the West
since the "Thaw Case" ured him into its circle?
Colonel Franklin Bartlett and A Russell Peabody
the brunt of the complicated defense
and of the Thaw family financial entangemens
who engineered Mrs Mary Copey Thaw repuated plan
to get Evelyn Nesbit Thaw for the
marriage to Harry Thaw both dead after OF
worry and struggle Killed by the Thaw Case without
say their friends.
ExJudge W. NJ X. Ocott authorities
Harry Thaw defense authority disputed
bothered afterwad by continual calls his time nfoma
ton came under the malgn influence of the "hoodoo"
Ex-Governor Frank Black. "Thaw Case" lawyer sick
when he entered the He is dead partly
from its worries
John B. Gleason another OF Harry Thaws lawyers the
tim Of endless litigation in attempts collect unpaid
The late Governor of New York William Suzer mentioned
In nf
moved from office Scott of State Prisons for
meeting him with the
And then he himself thrown of the Governorshp
These merely contributory evidences activity
the malignant influence of the
The Stanford White tragedy enacted Its roof
been the beginning the Madison
for the structure continent
home of the fashionable New Show,
and Buffalo Bills OF great conventions International
letic events.
1t has been that the controlling
famous structure tired OF meeting huge annual deficits will
down and modern office its site.
the morunes suffered by those intimately associated
with the Thaw family accident might be construed by
supersous indicate that the
cerned in them Dr. Wiley the Thaw family physicians
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