Show I I iII I 0 S I INFLUENCE OF UNWRITTEN LAW LAWWILL I WILL LEAVE HARRY TRA THAW W FREE i J j B Hy By the lie til Re Hl Thomas r olY New Nl York FI Feb h. h 17 If 17 I 17 If I were a Thaw juror I would vote voto to let the defendant nt go o free rree t I would do this not liot In accordance with wih time the tw evidence but hut In spite of or the J e evidence ence AccordIng AccortI Accord Ing to lo the evidence which I believe no imo noone one ono attempts to a dispute Thaw killed Stanford While hut but In all al the time Rm same I would vote voto to 10 clear him A And 11 I would do it this In it 11 obedience I Ito human human hu hum- to 0 a higher command than micro mere man man ordinance I would do tin It In obedience obedi ence to the Lime old eternal law of decency de de- de and right t-ight lr is older than thann mu I n any nimy IY statute and amid more obligatory than any ammy mud dictum um mim of ur tim the l. l common law told th time the If II Evelyn Ne Thaw truth I when giving her Imer hP days day's test lest lest- I- I mony mommy Stanford White was ono one of the lit worst VOISt men who r ever vt I lived a a a human ghoul cold blooded tl remorseless i lc with wih no nn more con conscience limn thon a n gUn mon H I ster tot le Did K elii X hi Tell Truth If II Evelyn Nesbit Thaw tells Untruth Un lw truth then Limeri there lieu was wa enacted In iii that room a n crime del dyed deep in infamy a as s the annals annal of human depravity can show a crime from which even cven the time devils In lim hell hel might have turned In shame minnie There o rIlo was no room on out this beautiful ful Cui til earth tarth for fm fol the th man mann who thus lured etl that hint little gIrl Into limit that room drugged her and then timen murdered lcd her soul If H Stanford White did what Evelyn bit bil Thaw char charges es him with wih having done then ii b by the same sante an anold old oil law ia of decency and right t he Il his I the living claim chain to a among ly By that thai atrocious blooded old 01 he hemn honor Innocent murder of or an mn made t himself an outlaw that lint Is to tt tl himself beyond the lie vale or ot sy say placed tl human protection and amid human coltS con con- S I d erat ion The Tue years year 11 passed CSt on and amid If Evelyn the time truth thu N Thaw tells imer hounded lust hr n. n r rafter still hounded houndt her White 11 after she mime had become a wife anti a aCer sincere aspirant tot for 01 a 1 better bettel life And AnI AnIa he Item her tracks It was while was vaS on a I see seeking sec to annoy her after he ime he hUll hud despoiled her lieu that the time husband fired the shot which i is responsible fl for time trial that lint Is IR now on Nature a I mu-c mu TI Than em ii Contention CI That 1 shot time hiot-time the shot ended the earthly ly career of o 1 Sin Stanford White I was me-was was dictated by ly the til lit holiest t Instinct that lint husbands husband's hUM hus t vcr ever warmed a mans man's heart heart heart-a heart heart- a bands band's veneration of hi his wife's wIC wife wife- I antI S ii hood When hen that hunt shot was fired and went like a shaft of fato latt straight home to toUs tl I I Us its mark mk God and the UH al angels el and amid fHI all al time the company of Ir it th the ble blest t and antI all Cl manly manly manly man man- ly men anti and pure women on the tIme footstool footstool footstool foot foot- stool felt fel that something beautifully right anti and proper hail had been mated Where here Is Js the Limit man mon po possessing even en a modicum of time the spirit that should belong helon be lx lon long to every Iy husband who would not mint have hav lout done precisely el what Thaw did Nature Nature Is iJ gem bigger and anti wiser and better than cOI conventionality and before her outraged sanctities the statutes statutes are arc as a threads in the path of or th the giant |