Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-13
D. M. Delmas,

Who moved 5000 miles to direct Harry Thaw' s
Defense.
Thaw case in every particular, from the
selection of the jury to the examination and
cross-examnation of witnesses. For this
purpose he has been admitted to practice In
the state of New York, on the motion of
former Judge Augustus ]. Van Wyck, en-
tered last Friday in the appellate division
OF the supreme court.
Will Live in New York.
Regardless of what may be the outcome
of the trial. Mr.. Delmas will abandon his
residence in California and continue the
practice of his profession in New York. He
was brought into the Thaw defense by a
cotere of Californians backed by the sug-
gestion of Joseph McKenna, associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, and by John G. Johnson of Phila-
delphia, regarded by many as the foremost
corporation attorney In the country, and
who three weeks ago was named IS an adj
visory counsel in the Thaw case, which
position he refused.
The California lawyer will dominate the
trial throughout and with the full consent
and understanding which has been entered
into with Clifford w. Hartridge, the attor-
ney of record and the personal counsel Of
Thaw. Notwithstanding the number of
names which have been printed from time
to time, as having something to do with
the case, the only lawyers who will take
part in the preparation and the actual
trial, outside of Mr.. Delmas, will be Mr..
Hartridge, Mr.. Gleason and Mr.. Peabody.
AS to the retaining fee, the estimate by
eastern lawyers who know the western law
yer's ability, is that the understanding
yesterday morning could not have been far
short of 100000, but of that the principal
would say nothing. He admitted frankly in
the Yale Club at 10 o'clock last night that
he had been retained for the defense and
expected to go to trial on December g.
Defended Truxton Beale.
Mr.. Delmas is striking personality. He
has been called the Napoleon of the bar In
the west, not only because of his resource
fitness, his>readiness to meet emergencies,
his magnetism, his tireless aggressiveness
and his courage. but because of his remark
able facial and bodily resemblance to the
first consul.
He is fifty-fve-the age when judgment
and enthusiasm are about equally balanced
in well-nourished human organsm-and
his professional associates who have
watched his rise regard him as just near
ing the zenith of his intellectual powers.
The prediction is made from California that
York will be a surprise to the practitioners
who know him only by reputation.
It is rather a remarkable coincidence that
Mr.. Delmas should have been the advisory
counsel of Truxton Beale, who was tried
for enforcing the "unwritten law in San
Francisco when he was charged, in connec-
ton with Tom Williams, with shooting
Frederick Marriott, editor of the San Fran
cisco News Letter. for publishing a scurri-
lous paragraph concerning Miss Marie Oge,
who subsequently, became Beale's wife.
Truxton Beale was one of the witnesses of
the tragedy on the Madison Square Roof
Garden. Thomas McCaleb. the "interna-
tional clubman," was with him. He, too. is
a Californian. and was in San Francisco
when Beale and Thomas H. Williams
president of the California Jockey Club, de-
ofl ich inff with
to magistrates. Beale was defended in
court by Peter Dunn, the associate Of Henry
C. McPike. now the law partner of Delmas.
Mr.. Delmas was offered big fee by the
Southern Pacific railway to become it's gen.
eral counsel, and declined. He was paid
$50, 600 by Claus Spreckels to defend a libel
suit He received fee, variously estima; ed
at from 1900 to $150.OO0, in the Fair will
contest. and something like the same
amount In the Parker will case and in the
Martin case, both of which were as famous
in their way<as the fight over the Fayer-
weather millions and over 0ae estate Of A.