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'v THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1WR. 5 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 Eiseman Bros. The Old Reliable Manufacturing Clothiers Established 1865 THE BOY! H E HERE Is a completeness nbout the Juvenile Department at Eiseman Bros, that makes the word ‘‘department" fall far short of being the correct definition. It is In reality a big store, occupying the entire second floor of their pala tial building, easily and conveniently reached by elegantly appointed ele vators. OWEVER exclusive your tastes may be, in the selection of the "Boy's" cloth ing, your highest ideals will And complete harmony in realization at this Juvenile store. 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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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