Show MASTERFUL EFFORT IM IN N THAU THAW HAW DEFENSE Chain of Testimony Hanging About Defendant Is Broken RESPECTS PAID TO JEROME 1 Says District Attorney Exceeded Exceed Exceed- ed Duty in Attack on Witness BY LANGDON SMITH S New York Jan 29 For For about hours loda today Martin W W. Littleton stood La in n the forum of or the criminal court Barr Harry Thaw for the tho murdel murler mur mur- del ler of Stanford White Seldom has hasi hasa a i summing u up been so o masterful or forceful when when- the matter of or its construction construction con con- is considered Mr Littleton fastened upon the minds of ot the Jury the he facts of or the murder as seen from his ils ii standpoint Link by link Ink he broke he tho chain of testimony hanging about the he neck of the defendant Witness B after witness was trussed upon the lance aiice of ot the speakers speaker's oratory riddled and ind cast aside It was as the time one great lay day for br the defense The age aged Mrs Thaw listened and a a. taint paint smile came Into her bloodless face ace Later on she sho wept while others seemed on time the wings wing's of hope The Flie Immense and Intense egotism of ot tarry larry Thaw Thac came to the surface In a no ty disregard of counsel court or or Mrs Evelyn elyn Thaw rha sat t in her old seat seal with the Thaw family a small blue bundle white faced Intent lonal lon lon- al 1 U is ats alwa always 8 Taken as a a. whole the summing up vas was a a. credit even to Mr Littleton There were no windy aeroplanes of oratory no lofty flights of rhetoric His Hla HI alk was clear and convincing While this scene was vas being being- enacted In En n the courtroom Mr Ir Jerome with a tl between n his lips was in his Ruts Rutgers street home Ho Ito read sheet after fter sheet of ot Mr Littletons Littleton's speech made nade few comments smoked deeply Hore Flore was another great summing up In process ot of construction a speech of refutation the Intent of which was Vas the life Ife of or Harry Thaw W. At midnight the light Hunt In tn Mr Me 11 Jerome's room was still sun burning Court Room Killed Filled tJ Wh When Mr lr Ir Littleton began his there was not nol a a 0 vacant nt seat scat in the court room Mr Ir Littleton paId paia a a. tribute trib trib- the C of the tho Jury lury H Hs H's i hat hat- to patience t ute cont r e them for I n attention Ho a that ho he would ow that th tiles plea T ot of I. I f was Vo 1 not ih 1 ht i t Y an American boy would not ask from froma a Jury The Tho speaker then went on to trace the taint of ot Insanity In the Thaw ta am I I y Mr r. r Littleton held UD UP tho the letter written written written writ writ- ten to Beck by Mrs William Thaw andas and at ng ho continued his voice rang rans- with a SUI sudden If i you J passion s read that letter written b by that mother when her bo boy was In school leO how can you OU retire to the jury room arid and say this th Is boy was as other than Irresponsible Could tho mother have ha any my object In writing the letter then The speakers speaker's voice trembled and anti there here was a ft gleam of oC tears In hl his hla eyes es JI hesitatingly brokenly ho continued You have watched him In his Journey jon down to IG IC years cars old Have you an any doubt about Nm Have I given you that in your our mind tends to show how the defendant Is Insane You don dont don't t have to establish that Continued on 00 Pace Inte Two L I MASTERFUL EFFORT IN THA THAW V DEFENSE Continued Page Our fact tact beyond a R. reasonable doubt but I feel Ceel that I have gone goho oven ovon further Mr r Littleton then paid his respects to the conduct of oC the tho prosecution With much earnestness earnestne s he lie went on of if I I have tried tiled m my case and the district ills dis attorney has availed 1 himself only of Innuendos I want you ou to hold the district attorney just as an hard to the rule of or proof as you ou hold inc me I have not tried to smile or sneer at nt evidence ence This is a groat root burden for tor the district attorney to sustain and I want you to see to it that he lie sustains it not b by in- in and Insinuation but by lIy facts In In m my opening I challenged the district die dis attorney to produce a single physician physician physician phy phy- in this city who will swear this defendant was not In insane anc on June 25 Dl Did ho lie produce an any any Not ono one Come down to 1906 two months bo- bo tore fore the unfortunate occurrence on tho roof garden You have tho the testimony of a 3 physician who found oun him on a atrain atrain atrain train from Albany lying on his cot half hat dressed lessed muttering Shyster Shyster Shyster The New York Central runs Into nto the tho Pennsylvania What did he lie mean b by this term Shyster It W was waa M but the blind maniacal remembrance of f the tho few years before beCore the events o of his ils life lire In connection with wiLl Abe HummeL Hummel Hum Hum- mel meL At the beginning of or tho the afternoon session he took tock up tho the Evelyn Thaw III I I I I I I i I I I I I I I I I I I features of oC the thc case During this part of if f his hiM speech he arose t to the limit of his denunciation of tho the acts of the prosecution After Arter dwelling upon thoI tho the I tt testimony of or Miss Alice Fletcher who vho had JH known Thaw for 01 twenty years Jie he said that In the two years that have elapsed since sluice thO th the district attorney had only In showing Harry Barry Thaw met Ev Evelyn lyn NesbIt v while she hc was appearing In a a. New y York r. r went with her ler to Paris yv h n the she he heas was as ordered there for for a sur- sur 1 ical 1 operation because of oC Injuries sue sus tamed at school and that when whon there Thaw marriage mania to h her r and heard hf-ard from her the stor story of the tho wrongs she sho had received at the hands of or Stanford Stan Stan- ford rord White l for Cor Mrs T Thaw nu To T o district attorney has cultivated and acquired an antipathy a against Mrs Thaw There se seems ms to be a lot of sava savI sav- sav a agony ery In the wa way ho he attacks lion her ho he l I In in my belief exceeding his duty of office I dont don't care whether you count countI this son person moral or that Uia per person on mor mor- al Nevertheless when hen we try a Case caso In this countr country when a 4 woman Is on the tho stand she site Is entitled to tho thio same consideration the same gentility the tho same ame courtesy and the same sarno propriety should be accor accorded ed to ono one as Is accorded to the other Whether the district at attorney at- at torney transcended those proprieties In InI her I cannot sa say lIe He has rather been Intent on destroying this womans woman's character than con con- the jury that Bar Hary Thaw tas was as sane on the night of or the tho shooting There seC to be n a wl wish h to assail her for tor the tho purpose of oC showing that Ehe he Is a a. person unworthy of oC belief bellet and one would think it was as Mrs Thaw who la is being UJ tried d instead of or Harry Thaw After scouring the whole world for tor evidence to Impeach her he hc finally pulls out of the tho dark cell of or a prison a man who had bO been n convicted of a crime and antI sentenced to prison In this very er court room noon Now ow one thins thing more he ho continued It Is Iii the duty of ot the tho attorney to tu e establish this mans mana responsibility If rc ho he ha has failed Calle It id is your dut duty to acquit tic uc- quit him upon that ground I do not believe I I cannot cannot my my Intellect in In- In will not permit m my heart will not cherish It It nor m my mind observe It that it-that that this Jury will bring In a v ver r- r diet dict any other than that this defendant ant was not responsible for his conduct on the night of oC the thu of or 1906 I confidently expect that you will bring In ro other verdict and I believe that you OU will weigh welsh this evidence manfully and with the rear fear of or God Got 1 In 1 your hearts I leave the destiny of or this tItle defend defend- ant ant life liCe or death In your our hands |