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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1WR.
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EVELVN THAW BURSTS INTO TEARS
WHEN DELMAS REHEARSES LOVE STOR
He, Pictures Agony , of
Thaw After Hearing
Confession.
Continued from Page One.
and first without addin? any words of
m y Awn in the very language in which
It was told by Evelyn, when she was
testifying before you.
Refers to Her Story.
•She was,, after narrating what took
place In Paris in June. 1903, ‘the effect
of this story on Mr. Thaw was terrl
Me. He said It was not my fault—
that I was simply a poor unfortunate
little girl; that ho did not think any
ttl less of me on account of it, and he
»ld that no matter what happened he
uould always be my friend. He re
cawed his proposal of marriage two
ninths after. He said that I was not
t> blame—that It was not my fault,
if" ‘I told him that even If I did marry
Mm the friends of Stanford White
Jould always laugh at him—that they
knew about it and would bo able to
eer at him after our marriage; that
would not be right for us to get mar-
ed; that it would not bo a good thing
pcause.of his family; It would get him
[nto trouble in his social relations. He
ild he never could marry another
nman and that he wanted to make me
Is honorable wifo.
Renunciation Was Sincere.
He kept pressing me to become his
wife, but I said I could go on the stage.
He said that if some time he met some
one he would be perfectly free to do so.
I loved him so dearly, but during the
whole period I was refusing his otters
if marriage because I loved him. And
I also Tespected him.’
“'Sublime renunciation,' says the
■neerlng district attorney. 'Sublime re-
lusal on her part’ to refuse the hand
if a wealthy man when he ottered her
in honorable union.’
''incredible, he would lead you to be.
leve.
■imposlble.’ the district attorney
mys, and in the same breath intimates
that It is a falsehood from beginning
to end. I shall prove, to you by evi
dence that will convince you beyond
every doubt that this renunciation by
Evelyn was sincere. That the story Is
true, that he proposed and that she re
fused I shnll prove to you. Do you re
call the letters he wrote three months
after this renunciation? He says (This
ivas written In September, 1903): 'Three
months ngo I asked her point blank.
■Ihe thought, but riald she would not,
hat it would shut me out,’ etc.
Mrs. Carnegie's Emotion.
‘The genuineness of this letter is not
laputed; that it was written to Mr.
MOTHER OF EVELYN THAW
DENOUNCED BY DELMAS
New York. April 9.—At the aft
ernoon session of Monday Mr. Del-
mas, in the course of his ad
dress to the Jury, after referring to the
story told by Evelyn Thaw regarding
her downfall at the hands of Stanford
White, said:
‘Must I tell you how she was led on,
step by step; how she was piled with
wine and drugged and Anally became
his victim? That story you have heard
from that child's faltering lips. Better
that he should never have lived than
to have lived to have heard the cries
of anguish of the victim. He had com
mitted the greatest crime that ever
deAled the Inyige of God. He had lured
to destruction and had crushed the
child who had trusted him. He had
committed a crime against the law
of this state, a crime that the chief
magistrate of this country In a message
to congress said should be punished
by death.
"Had this man forgotten that when
our Lord set down a child among His
disciples. He said:
Ho Forgot Retribution.
“'Whosoever receiveth ouch a little
child In My name he shall dwell with
Mo forever, but who shall offend
little one such as this. It were better
that a millstone were tied about his
neck and he were drowned In the
depths of the sea.’
“He, gentlemen, who had erected a
temple to Abraham, had forgotten the
words of the great Jehovah to the
children of Israel, that he who af
flicted a fatherless child should surely
die.
'Oh, Stanford White 1 who entrapped
a child who had no father, who had
been deserted by her mother, and was
left alone in a city of millions, had
you imagined that God would not hear
that cry?
"Had you forgotten that retribution
would be at hand? Better had it been
for you—that you died before that day,
for then you might have died In the
splendor of your fame, when your de
parture would have been deplored by
your family; when all would have at
tended your obsequies; before your
told
name was a by-word and before your
genius had been an aggravation
your crime.''
Says She Told Truth.
Delmas declared that Evelyn
Thaw the whole story of her relations
with White, and that her story was
true In every particular. He based
argument solely upon the story of Ev
elyn Nesblt Thaw.
With flushed cheeks, but dry eyes,
that young woman heard her life story
repeated to the men who are to Judge
her husband, and bowed her head a:
her mother was denounced in the bit
terest terms and tones the eloquent
lawyer could command.
"Even a beast protects Its young"
Delmas declared with scornful empha'
sis, “but this unnatural mother desert-
ed her daughter in this city of millions
to be betrayed by a false friend, to bo
lured into a glided palace, and there
left the victim of a gray-haired man."
One Juror Weeps.
One of the Jurors wept while Delmas
spoke.
Mr. Delmas went with great detail
Into the life Evelyn Nesblt had led
to the meeting with Harry Thaw. In
of his remarks he refererd to her
"this child," for child, he said, she was
today. He told of Thaw’s great love
for her, and his efforts to rescue her
from “the clutches of Stanford White,'
whose achievements in his profession,
the attorney declared, were an aggra'
vatlon of his crime.
Mr. Delmas, before beginning his at
tack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother,
poured out a torrent of denunciation
upon the architect, who became the
victim of Thaw's pistol. He accused
him of the crime of assault, and then
declared that President Roosevelt had
said, in a message to congress, that
such a crime should be visited with
death. This was one of the sugges
tlons which Thaw himself made to his
counsel for his summing up speech, one
of the suggestions which played so Im
portrait a part in the proceedings be'
fore the lunacy commission.
He charged that “Abo" Hummell had
deliberately perjured himself.
Longfellow Is not denied; that Mr.
Longfellow was the trusted friend and
adviser of Harry Thaw Is admitted.
Threo months before September 1903,
when this was written, was in the early
summer of 1903. In this letter he says
she thought she did not want the man
she loved to become an object of scorn.
She looked upon the man Bhe loved and
she did not want the man she loved to
bo pointed at with tho finger of scorn.”
Mr. Delmas brought his voice ulmost
to 0 whisper. Mrs. Carnegie was tho
only member of the Thaw family show.
Ing any emotion. ' The others were
mutely attentive.
Wouldn't Drag Him Down.
'“Oh, Harry, I love you. I love you
so that I will not drag you down. You
shall be free and happy, and I will go
like so many others have rone, my own
way.' ,
“He told her he desired to protect the
child from the vile wrong that had
been done her; that he proposed mar
riage and that she (I quoto the very
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words of tho mother) had re
fused, because sho would not drag him
down. Has this gray-haired and ven
erable mother come here to perjure
herself, or did he deceive her when he
told her tha# he wanted to extend his
protecting arm over the girl whom the
other had betrayed?
“Sublime, indeed, was the renuncla
tlon of this girl, unless the mother of
Harry Thaw has not told the truth
upon this stand. I return to her story
as told in her own words. She says.
He talked altogether too much of this
thing. He did not sleep nights. He
would sit for hours without speaking
or moving, and it was terrible. He
would sit for hours in chair Just biting
his nails, and then In the midst of it he
would suddenly ask me about Stanford
White.’
Harry’s Mental Condition.
‘This, gentlemen, was the condition
of Harry Thaw when in 1903 he parted
from Evelyn Nesblt and sent her back
ahead of him to New York. You have
tho first faint dawn of that mental con
dition which manifested itself threo
years after. The lower in which rea
son held its seat did not topple over,
but its foundations were already begin
ning to be undermined. .
“The storm had not burst forth, but
the dark clouds were gathering from
the four quarters of the horizon from
which lightning and thunder were three
years afterward to Durst forth.
He Called Upon Her.
“She says that he called upon her as
soon as he arrived in New York—the
middle <of November. She had got to
this city in the latter part of October.
In the meantime such things had hap
pened that when the man whom she
oved and whose hand sho had refused,
called upon her she declined to see him
alone, and she says: ‘I saw him at the
Navarre. I would not see him alone.
He came into the room and sat beside
me and said: "What is the matter
with you?" and I said ■'I don't want to
apeak to you because I have heard cer
tain things about you." He said he did
not understand and wanted me to tell
him. I told him that I had heard that
he had run scalding water on a girl
that he was crazy; that he used mor
phine; that he was in the habit of ty-
ng girls to bed posts and beating them.
"'He said, "poor Evelyn: they have
deceived you.” I told him that Mr.
White had token me to Abraham Hum.
mell's office and that they had shown
me papers which they said were filed
In a suit by a young woman against
him. He said "poor little girl. You
can believe them If you wish.” The
Interview lasted ten minutes. At the
parting he kissed my hand and said no
matter what happened he would always
love me and I would be an angel to
him.'
"Gentlemen, I ask you to picture to
yourself the state of mind Harry Thaw
was in when he received such a greet
ing from the woman he loved; the one
he had parted from but a few weeks
ago; the one he had sworn to devote
his whole life to. I ask you to imagine
what his condition of mind was when
he returned to New York and found
that she had had her mind so poisoned
against him again by the man who had
been the cause .of all her misfortune.
Wail from Seared Soul.
She would allow White to fill her
mind with these terrors of Harry Thaw
such an extent that she refused to
see Harry Thaw alone. And what must
have been the condition of mind of
that poor man when he exclaimed, ‘Oh.
poor, deluded Evelyn,’ and stooped and
tlssed her hand and then parted
she believed, forever from her?
'Gentlemen, what was the condition
his mind Is pictured to your eyes by
documents of Immeasurable worth, tell,
ing the story of this epoch In Harry
Thaw’s life. The series of letters that
voiced the wall that came from his suf
faring soul is unparalleled In history
from the time of the Greeks to the
present day.
"He wrote to her the day after he
had kissed her hand and parted from
her—she thought for all tins
wrote, 'Yesterday I saw you believed
everything false people told P'nu. Poor
little Evelyn. You have fallen back
Into the hands of the man who poisoned
your life. I have no reproaches to
heap on your head, for I know you are
honest. I must fight this battle alone,'
wrote. 'I should have bet every cent
the world three weeks ago that no
hypnotism In the 'world could have
made you turn against me.’
Roast for Hummel.
If this man (Hummel), who
upon that chair and perjured himself
your presence, had he kept away
with his smooth tongue and professlon-
trlclu and devices, poor little Evelyn
would !
i the man who loved her and
ready to sacrifice his life for ber.
She would not have broken the vow
which she pledged.
Pages, neither of poetry nor ora
tory. contain a more simple story of
anguish than the one of this young
man, seeing the object of his affections
won from him by this man who bad
destroyed her. He had nothing to live
for—all the ambitions of his life were
gone and whatever could happen was
but a glass of water In the sea in which
ship was battling. He left New York
November for his mother's home. In
Pittsburg, In this condition.
Up to that time Harry Thaw had
been a man of cheerful and sanguine
temperament. His mother saw a
change had come over her son the
moment he crossed the door. His man
ner was entirely different. He had an
absent-minded look, as If he had lost
everything.
night, hod found him sitting upon his
bed fully dressede-how she questioned
him—'It’s no use,’ ho said, ‘I can not
sleep.'
(Evelyn Thaw at this point wiped
tears from her eyes. Sho seemed great
ly affected at this part of Delmas*
pleading for her husband’s life.)
"But even then he would not tell tho
girl's name. And then you remember
the scene In the church and while the
organ pealed; how the sob broke from
his throat and the tears gushed from
his eyes and how when his mnthor
asked him why he. had sobbed he an
swered, 'But for him she might have
been with us today.’ That was the
condition of his mind; that one thing
was even his mind.
"He could not, he would not, forget—
great, courageous, Indomlnltable man
who believes he had a mission to ful
fil, to make one more effort to rescue
her from that Into which Stanford
White had lured her. He caine back
to New York and met her in a drug
store, where the artificial means were
found to Bupply the beauty she pos
sessed and he sold, ‘Oh, these things
are not for you.' And you remember
how afterward they met as mere ac
quaintances In the stseet and passed
the time of day. Here again no words
of mine could supply the picture that Is
furnished by the words or the wife her
self as they fell from her lips on the
stand. She says that when they met
at the Cafe Beaux Arts, ‘I said I was
going to a play and Mr. Thaw said I
looked badly and wished I would not
go to the play. He would pay me any
salary I would lose; that he would send
It through a third party. He begged
me merely for tho sake of my health
not to go to the theater.
Found Stories Not True.
'But I said I would' go; that I
had no other means of livelihood.' You
remember they met a couple of days
afterward and he asked her to tell hint
about the stories that had been told
about hhn. ‘I then told him,’ she said,
'all they had said about hhn and that
he was addicted to morphine and had
many other vices, and he ssld he could
easily understand that they had made a
fool of me. He urged investigation.’
“She could find nothing In the stories.
•I never lie,’ Thaw told her. 'You never
told me a lie In your life,' she said, and
while she was Investigating these sto
ries disseminated by Abraham Hummel
for the protection of Stanford White
he told her all these things had been
disseminated by Stanford White und
his friends.
Saved Her from White.
■When she discovered that these aw
ful stories were untrue, learned that
they had been disseminated by Stan
ford White and 'Abe' Hummell for the
purpose of separating her from the man
who loved her and whom sho loved,
hope began once more to dawn upon
him. The hour of reconciliation was
at hand. The barriers which hsd been
set up between them were one by one
falling to ruin and the two persons
whom God and nature had Intended to
be united were drawing nearer to each
other.
That night In December, 1903, when
Stanford White had spread a banquet
In celebration of the birthday of his
child-victim, the man who had devoted
his life to rescuing her, came to her
and snatched her from the clutches of
Stanford White. It was on that night
that Stanford White, baffled, his plans
disconcerted, went about that theater
In Madison Square hunting for his vic
tim und finding her not, pistol In hand
und with rage In his heart, threatened
to shoot the man who hud baffled his
schemes.
And that night Harry Thaw, as he
walked the streets of New York, found
that his footsteps were being dogged
by hired malefactors in the pay of
Stanford White, and he learned In a
few days of the threat of Stanford
White and his hirelings. From that
moment the dread of his life being ta
ken away by this man added a grim
specter to the one that already had
ben haunting him.
Thought Himself Persecuted
‘And he, from that time, as she re
lates to you, began to think himself
persecuted by Stanford White. He
told her he would probably be set upon
In New York by some one In the em
ploy of Stanford White. He said the
"Monk” Eastman gang had been hired
to kill him and the fear of death con
stantly haunted him. He Impressed
upon her mind that if he was slain he
was to have his death investigated and
spare no pains.
Mother Loved Her.
Delmas related how Thaw had asked
his mother to come to New York to
see Evelyn. The elder Mrs. Thaw, he
said saw the little girl whose sad story
she knew, and assured her she would
be welcomed at the Thaw home. Eve
lyn could not resist the pleadings of
her sweetheart's mother and consented
to wed Harry. ’ He told how the archi
tect had pursued Thaw's wife.
May McKenzie told Evelyn that
White told her he would eventually get
Evelyn to desert Thaw for him.
"Then when she told her husband
what May McKenzie had told her,” said
Delmas. "he became wild and began to
gnaw his fingers. Did he not have
cause to lose that reason?
" 'I stole her once from her mother;
will steal her now from her husband,’
Stanford White said. But between
him and the consummation of that tll't
there remained the strong arm of that
young man (pointing directly at Thaw)
to protect her from his snares.
"She was his honorable wife, dearer
to him than the drops of blood that
clustered around his heart. Stanford
constant menace to his home and his
honor. This haunted tho heart of the
young man. Sho says: ‘I found him
sobbing and biting his nails. He was
constantly asking me questions and
this happened several times during the
night.’ And then one by one he had
lenrned tho specific story of another
victim of this man. He learned it In
Paris as he had heard It from the lips
of Stanford White himself."
Delmas then recalled the story of the
"pie girl" at length.
“Mr. Thaw, ‘she hod said that Stan
ford White ought to be in the peniten
tiary and that she, his wife, should help
him put the man there.'
Turned Down by Jerome.
“Gentlemen, the efforts of Mr. Thaw
to protect little girls against Stan
ford White did not end with the draw.
Ing up of his will and codicil. Hi
applied to the district attorpey In 1905,
the some district attorney who seeks
his life. He was told that he hod bet'
ter leave that subject alone. He called
upon the greatest detectives of the
United States to find out proofs of the
misdeeds of this malefactor and there
again was told that they could do noth
Ing to help him.
'And then he told his wife that Stan
ford White had a great many rich
friends—far richer than he was—who
would Interfere In his behalf, and she
said she thought he would not be suc
cessful In his light. And It was with
these thoughts In his mind, with the
thought that he was waging a battle
against vice in favor of wounded wom
anhood and humanity. In which he was
forever being baffled—it was while this
thought was uppermost in his mind
that he met Stanford White.
Jerome to Speak Wednesday.
"You must picture to yourselves the
condition of Harry Thaw's mind when
you try to discern what was occurring
In Harry Thaw's mind when he looked
into the face of that man—Stanford
White—the man who had brooded over
those pictures of horror for;thrco years
—this man would have been more than
human If he could have preserved a
calmness of reason. Now. gentlemen,
nlaco yourselves In the position of this
defendant. Recall the time, those of
you who have wives, recall the time
that you led tho one you loved to the
J. H, Lunsden.
J. H. Lunsden, aged 34 years, died
Monday afternoon at his residence, 23
Flora avenue. The body was sent to
Griffin, Ga., Tuesday morning at 7
o'clock. He was a member of the Jun
ior Order of United American Me
chanics.
William H. Dunaway.
The funeral services of William H.
Dunaway, who died Monday morning,
were conducted Tuesday morning at 11
o’clock at his residence, 315 Edgewood
avenue. The Interment was In .West-
view cemetery.
Mrs. Lottie Terrell Msrkle.
The funeral services of Mrs. Lottie
Terrell Markte, aged 27 years, who died
at a private sanitarium Sunday night,
will be conducted Wednesday morning
at 10 o'clock in the private chapel of
H. M. Patterson & Son.
Mrs. G.~W.* Akers.
The body of Mrs. G. W. Akers, who
died February 28, was removed from
the vault In Oakland cemetery and sent
to Covington, Ga, for interment. Mrs.
Akers Is survived by her husband, O.
W. Akers.
John Samusls, Jr.
Tho funeral services of John Sam
uels, Jr., who died Wednesday, were
conducted Tuesday morning in the
chapel of Greenberg, Bond & Bloom
field. The Interment was in Westview
cemetery.
Brief News Notes
She told bow sbe, in the dark of White, wben be was un earth, was a
altar, and If possible do this defendant
Justice.
"You remember when the little lady
tells you that her husband on this sub.
Ject had lost his mind—do you remem'
ber in this connection the spontaneous
exclamation of the friends who, on
hearing the shots flred on the Madison
Square Roof Garden, the exclamation:
This Is the act of an Insane man?’"
At this point Mr, Delmas asked for a
recess. At 2 p. m. he will conclude his
summing up. It was announced that
Jerome would not begin his speech un
til tomorrow morning.
TWO MILLION FIRE
IN MANCHURIA
St. Petersburg, April 9.—The big fire
at Harbin, Manchuria, In the avare-
house district, which is said to have
caused a loss of about $2,000,000, has
probably destroyed cotton goods.
Manchuria lmd about six months'
supply of cotton goods and Harbin is
one of the large distributing centers
for that territory.
Logs Lost in Tide.
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 9.—High
water In the Emory river, a tributary
of the Tennessee, caused heavy loss to
the Loomis A Hart Manufacturing
Company, a Chattanooga concern. Over
7,000 logs were swept over the compa
ny’s boom and carried away.
Rev. Kean to Lecture.
Special to The Georgian.
Decatur, Ala, April 9.—On Sunday
afternoon the Rev. Charles F. Kean, of
London, England, will give a free lect
ure at the Young Men's Christian As
sociation hall In New Decatur, taking
for his subject, "Life In the Slums of
London.”
Tho Now York Cotton Exchange has
i light in restrict the manner nf giving
public quotations, according to n de
cision of tho United States supremo
court.
Frank W. Hill, the discharged sten-
ngrnpher of E. H. Ilarriman, charged
with selling tho famous Ilarrlman-
Webster letter to the press, will be tried
Suturday in a New York court.
Thomas H. Clay, aged 65, grandson
of Henry Clay, Is dead at Ills homo in
Lexington, Ky. For years ho was one
of the editors of Tho Youths' Compan
ion.
That the Isle of Pines Is not Ameri
can territory has been officially and
Judicially declared by the supreme
court of the United'States.
By an agreement signed between
thirty-one railroads west of Chicago
and the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers the men are to
get an Increase In pay.
The czar has appointed M. Plchon, a
noted reactionary and anti-Semite, a
member of the council of tho empire.
Tho Rev. E. Hunt, former pastor of a
Presbyterian church In Brooklyn, who
was named In the Bassett divorce suit
In Washington, has quit the ministry.
BOTH HAD THROATS CUT
IN ROW AT ORE MINES.
Special to The Georglnn.
Gadsden, Ala, April 9.—A fight at the
Hammond ore mines resulted In two
of the participants being placed In the
hospital In a serious condition, ami the
third being under bond to appear in the
police court, Lee Smith. Doc Waldrop
and Will Huggln and a brother of Smith
were the men Involved. Smith ami
Waldrop had their throats cut by Will
Huggln, It is said.
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