Show cAl CRISIS IS IE REACHED i IN MURDER IN-MURDER MURDER TRIAL Jerome Springs Sensation Just Before Close of Session in Thaw Case BATTLE OF ATTORNEYS ON Law in of Stanford White Appears After Delmas Delmas Del- Del mas Defeats Prosecutor By fly William Hi tel New Nc York Mardi March 11 In ln In a n day of the tho sharpest legal lighting that the tho Thaw trial has lisa witnessed D Delmas toda today balked balke Je Jerome's Jo- Jo rome's romes efforts at r rebuttal on 01 three thre of the the most vital I points of or the thai easo vit ouo Time The I record In lie Eth Ethl 1 Thomas cas ort tK kept from frOn tho thor jury jur the tho second attempt at- at tempt tc to got Jol the lie Hummel affidavit admitted ad ad- was frustrated and the testimony of Prof ProC the lie eminent gist i that no drugs exist would produce pro pro- duce luco tho tlc lie effects de described b by Mrs Mr Irs Evelyn ivelyn Continued on Pago PIO T Two l 1 A i J l r o H j r i I. I U CRISIS IS REACHED I IN MURDER TRIAL Continued from Pa Page e One N slit Thaw In her Hory atory of oC Stanford Whites White's brutality was ruled out O as us imma I Ethel Thomas Is the lie girl bill who I Is said s-ald lo to have brought suit against st Thaw for Cor acts I of oC brutality as unspeakable as those at to lo White hite Jerome's attempt loet to lo get et the tile facts before the jUr Jury through h 1 Frederick V. V W. W Longfellow Thaws Thaw's Wg former counsel to Illustrate the he point that Thaw could not have gone craz crazy over the tile stor story I told him ii b by Evelyn since It was wa manifest by rt reason of oC the Kind Thomas ThumaN ease that the tho defendant was a ware aware o of similar acts long lon before thu th all nl nil night ht In Interview III iii- with Miss lIss Nesbit In Paris lonal s a i liar Bill Invoked Invoke the tile privilege o of counsel cl for fOI Longfellow and was sustained Similarly Simi timi- Ian larl Jerome sought Hought through lolI Longfellow t to establish the fact that thai the Hummel af- af lu had been given Iven I by Miss s Nc to the witness after she hc had recovered It IL from Irom rom Hummel Longfellow aenied that he had ever seen een the thC doc document In the tho matter of or the tile testimony mon mony Jerome went Into Inlo a n pit o of his own digging Delmas Invoked a against him the law recently referred to lJ by Jerome during due dur In lug ing the thc examination o of young Mrs I Thaw Tha that thai her hr testimony could not nol be contradicted contra contra- and antI Justice upheld the contention of the defense Balked In these efforts to lo break bral down the tile defense built hullt up around Thaw Jerome Jerome Jerome Je Je- Je- Je rome at the lie closing session of oC the day a sprung SIrun a decided sensation b uy In ns Ing James Clinch Smith a ln law of oC Stan Stanford Cord White as a i witness for the tile state slate late rh The rIle greatest legal Jeal combat of oC the da flay day was wag thereupon precipitated and It was still sOil waging without apparent advantage to either cither tide side when whoa the recess for Cor the theda da day was wall taken The Tile contention of or Delmas Del Del- mas alas is JIS that Mr Ir Smith a tall severe SC mil mil- looking chilI chap could only be 00 Introduced wh when n the thc main cuts call of oC the state was wal being presented He lie was as pret pre lire t nt n nt on Madison S Square Garden roof on tile the night whet when Stanford White was shot allot and arid saw aw and talked wl wUn wih h Thaw for Cor some sometime sometime sometime time previous to t tile the shooting r of uC Vital Importance ills His te testimony which has 1185 to mb II ilo with what wha t Thaw then said laId is of or the thic most vi vital vital vital vi- vi tal Importance It may n H as Dolman pointed point point- ed fd out not knowing the nature of oC the thc testimony U Smith Ix hi to give be ie o of such lUch a t the whole line of oC the time defense de lie cost may have to be iC changed challed at tIlls late lain II day I HP I P Ii lr urged iy I in and ChOi eloquent eloquently nl I.- I. I ly that the din district trie I na nas nu no right after nUel announcing his hili ca Case CaMe c closed to tu in introduce In iii- t a n new witness to lo whose story toly the defense e can make no reply How critical the tue l I iS Smith self indicated In the tile few remarks he lIe mauv matl before beCore being halted h by Delmas Thaw he said stood III in the rear and u gazed intently o over or r the of or the f tecLa pec- pec pecla la lOIs tors Jerome argued with similar ness that the lie witness x flaying just returned returned re rc- re- re turned from Europe h he W was i tra trav traveling v. v cling eling at tile the time the state pr presented Its Its- case there hat hia been no opportunity until now lIoW for tor or hl hii his itol to lo be lie placed before heror I 1111 ho JUr Jury lie He demanded In ill the Interests 01 oi truth that all of oC the fuels facts ma may be placed before the Jury jur that the court should ho ex exercise ec- ec the lie dl discretion given to It b by the law and permit Smiths Smith's testimony to be beI heard I He lie quoted the CarlI case In iii which Recorder after both tho state and the thc defense had closed permitted permitted per- per lilt tho state to lo reopen Its ca case e and put pUl in tn l c evidence ence letters withheld until that time because of this Hit presumption that the lit defendant lint would be put on the lie stand and which were directly responsible when the lie ea case e went to lo the lIe Jury jur of oC securing a I verdict of oC guilty guilt H of If Three Men ll h It was vas a most dramatic period of oC the trIal tillS this brilliant battle between Jerome and ahil Delmas Delmas Delma urging the thc great re- re that rested upon him charged d with wilh responsibility for or the the- life UCe of oC tile tho n man flail an at nl the lie bar Jerome a admitting hi lii I earnest earliest tones that list responsibility ye ct cL Ul urging I In Ing the lie r al Interest of oC the lie people of or lie state late of N Ncr York v arc at nt stake slake j J J Justice s Filz Fitzgerald erald hl his chair drawn rori forward for for- j i ward hl his brow contracted an and his ills whole hole manner Indicating the depth of oC the tile re re- I he lie realized had suddenly sudden udden ly been thrust upon him I B Uy By all odds It Is one o o- othe the thc gravest t problems hems lems thai lint Justice Fitzgerald ha has faced I since the lie beginning of or the thc trial the seventh sev sev- eI e I week tiC of which Wl was Inaugurated to to to- today day Court adjourned In or order er that hat Jerome might prepare a memoranda of or authorities author author- ties lies In support of his Ills cont contention The argument ar- ar ihl be finished d tomorrow mornIng morn morn- Ing In- Inand and Ju Justice Fitzgerald will then thou an an- his decision Certainly the lie proceedings lo today a once mor took on the lie form orm of oC a Judicial proceeding pro pro- cu ceding in ill which tho lie life liCe o of a human hInl being be h- lug ing was was han hanging In the balance tel eel el having 1111 done one with quibbling the experts ex ex- p having been nunS flung to the rear of or orthe the line like ordnance that list hall had served erl 1 its Ill purpose th hand hantl to han hand lighting was isas begun tiff Off MI III Jerome romo opened hl hH hits a attack HUliCk I ong- ong Cell ow hut but lit 15 we have c seen got little out otil of or him ll Uy By of or those curious chances chanc Delmus took up u a position at atthe atthe attile the tile of fir the lie JUl Jui- Jury box hox Just between et trIO the and the witness witness' chair and there he stood all day for or he lie waon was wa wason on on oil his lila feet most of oC the tine time line like a a which Iho tho district at attorneys attorney's at- at torney's 11 at attacks tucks fell Cell harmless Jerome started in like hike a whirlwind a hill but the lie Inc's Incessant nt objections of ut flashes of Jr of with hits hit of oC laws per- per tiji nl ti I oil s logical 1 sal sallies lies Inh in- in h with judicial rulings from the lie court and well well- wehl-ut wehl ut rex leti toni rom Jerome n at length lenth tired d out the tho prosecutor and iti h lie permitted d Ix to go ivi I ii I C y I filet fact that 1 he lie had hind hoped to prove out Jilt of ur till ii mouth tim of r t the clean clean- cut eUl shilling lawyer I ruled out of or the he record Thereupon Dennis who viiu took rim Thaw w t I to o I time tenderloin eta station iou the lie night of or the lie shooting was called to the tho tl to lo testify to con cr conversations l he lie had with th the prisoner ol cr rJ test test- was as in III a 11 mla measure damaging to lo tor r time theory of r if Thaws Thaw's insanity Tak lak Iak me mile from tho lie crowd he lie swore Thaw had stud said to him as aM lh they y reached avenue u 1 I I asked him at Fl Fifth avenue If Ir he lie s I knew what whaL he lie had lund done Wright right fur fur- Cur I II i swore and timid hc said he-said said ald yes I asked LIk d him him If IC ho lit knew who vimo h he liC killed and amid then he ho heald said ald he lie would joIa say ii milling until he Ill had hiatt J reached the tho station house I I He lIe of offered me tue a cigar asked me mc for 01 or a alight light und anti wanted me roe to to tako him mini to toI I the tho station In a cab f j r t- t |