Show ARGUMENTS BEING MADE IN IDA W CASE Jerome ThinKs Witnesses Generally Truthful Ac- Ac Accuses c ses Eve Evelyn yn V H PLAINS Au Aug 7 Closing Closing ar arguments were heard by Justice Mills MilIs today in the application of Harry K Thaw for his release from Mrs frs Josiah Thaw tho prisoners prisoner's sister sister-in sister law law was the only member of ofte the te family party not present when court convened Thaw looked e oven even n paler than usual His chair touched Jerome's and he set this features v i evident determination to show no emotion under the storm which he expected to descend upon his head Mr Jerome began bejan with saying sayin that Justice Mills must be bo perfectly familiar famil famil- jar with tho the case and therefore he would not to go over oYer the evidence evi dence in detail Witnesses Credible Speaking of the credibility of the I witnesses and their bearing bearin- under cross examination ho he said he believed all did their best to tell tho the truth except ex cx- Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw I I do not think think he lie declared that this girl was deliberately and and- intentionally falsifying That she told her husband d the story of her injury at the hands of Stanford White I Inave have nave no doubt Mr Jerome then passed directly to the question of Thaws Thaw's sanity He lie acknowledged that modern science did not attach extreme importance tl to influence influence influence in in- fluence of ot heredity in diseases nevertheless never nover- he declared this influence must bo be f considered consider d in assessing sW tb the defendants defendant's defendants defendant's defend defend- ants ant's t mental dc condition He r summoned td up Thaws Thaw's family history with the declaration that when a member broke he or she broke in their weak spot spot tho tho mind Under strain they de developed developed de- de eloped imbecility or epilepsy Thaw Family Peculiar Let me mo point out now that the whole Tha manifested what mi might ht be called peculiarity From such a stock the average man of the world would say without any assi assistance assistance assist assist- tance t- t ance from alienists I Well you would get et a 8 pretty sort of a child out ont of that family Su ie Merrills Merrill's story of receiving lar large e sums of money from Thaws Thaw's attorneys attorneys attorneys at at- and of his living at her house with various women the district attorney attorney ney said was undisputed Here Mr Jerome laid down his notes and recited from memory various wild acts of the prisoner testified to at the he former trials His alle alleged ed attempts at sui suicide suicide sui sui-I cide in in Paris and his proposition to commit com eom I mit suicide with his w wife e in New York I were held up particularly as evidence I of a diseased mind No No normal mind i would want a a. wife to tell the terrible story Evelyn Thaw told on the stand I I asserted J Jerome eromo While the district attorney spoke Mrs Thaw read a magazine Once she I leaned over and made madea a su suggestion estion to Mr which the latter noted down Thaws Thaw's love of the dramatic was I pointed out by Mr Jerome a as a strong characteristic tic of his alleged mania It ItI received its stron strongest illustration in inthe inthe inthe the shooting of White said Jerome Jeromo Th The I district attorney declared that he placed pared little reliance on the tho testimony of Dr Evans Evan Thaws Thaw's chief alienist and asked the tho court to disregard it Thaw Uncanny If a person had come in here from Mars continued the prosecutor and saw Thaw on the stand he would haVe hav realized something was the matter with him It was unwholesome it was wa un un- un canny I call caU your attention to his attitude attitude attitude at at- toward his act A man roan of sound mind w uld have said laid Yes I killed him but he be did a great reat wrong to the woman I and I hated him hum It was wron wrong I know Jerome Jerome's B a voice roso for the first time Mrs Thaw laid down 11 her magazine and she abe and tho the prisoner and his counsel coun coon ad sel held a whispered conference The district attorn attorney y w went nt on The situation is is about this thie Here is a man whom heredity has proven to tobe tobe tobe be bad h he is a man whoso childhood was that of nf a highly nervous ners sort We find him marrying this girl and there was nothing a after ter the marriage to ex ex- cito cite his jealousy We Wo see him bins pursuing thin this idea of injury to young Ameri American an U girls Referring erring to Mrs Thaws Thaw's attack on on him in II The The Secret Unveiled Un Jerome said J We se see in tins this the same color that runs all Ill through the sons son's 5 behavior It seems 10 me it would not be safe to turn this man loose looe until there has lIas been ample opportunity to submit bunto him bun to medical examination from day to today dav day for a lon long period Jerome tErome finished his bis up at 11 1135 35 tho court having no objection objection objection ob ob- ob- ob to the length of his speech |