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Show THE THAW MURDER CASE, At this writing it looks as though the ury in the Thaw case- would fail to agree. If that were to prove tfue we hope that District Attorney Jerome will move the dismissal of the case. Certainly the country does not want another two months' trial of the Thaw case. Enough mischief has been done by it already. That trial should have been closed in three days, or at the farthest a week. It should have been behind be-hind closed doors, for it has revealed a state of society, so-ciety, not common, we hope, but which is possible among the rich in our great cities, who never earned their money, and among old reprobates, who, as life grows near to its close, exhaust every means to supply sup-ply themselves with some new excitement and some new incentives to vice. White, Thaw, and his beautiful but morally irresponsible irre-sponsible wife are not worth the exposure and the wrong that is, done by such an exposure. It would be better to dismiss the case and have it as quickly as possible forgotten. If they had been common people of the slums the "matter would have been closed and the parties forgotten for-gotten weeks ago. That the man who was killed was distinguished in his profession, that his murderer was a degenerate son of an over-rich sire, and that the woman involved was very beautiful, count for nothing in the moral effect upon the country. It is one of those cases where. the most that is needed on all sides isorgetfulness. The trial has developed that the man murdered was blessed at home with a magnificent wife; that the mother of the murderer was a too good woman, so good that she never checked her rattle-brained son in the least ; and that the woman who was the cause of the trouble, trou-ble, while passing beautiful, was of a shamefully low stock, as revealed by the actions of her mother. It is a pitiful case; pitiful in itself, altogether pitiful in the effect it has had upon, irresponsible men and women all over this country. The trial was mostly a travesty on justice. No matter how much of an effort was made to conceal the real motive of the defense, it is clear enough that it was simply to be an appeal to the "unwritten law," and to disguise dis-guise the fact that the "unwritten law" had no application ap-plication whatever in this case. Really, the defense has been to clear the prisoner by that same beautiful beauti-ful face which set two men crazy, and which waits for more conquests. It is one of those cases which makes men ask, "Is civilization a failure!" ' ' : ! |