Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-10
DELMAS CLOSES PLEA
FOR LIFE OF THAW
Graphically Tells The Story Of The
Shooting And Makes Appeal
To The UaWP|tten Law
JERoht's SUMMING UP TODAY
Thought That 1t viii Take Four
Hours for Him to Deliver His Ad-
dress to the Jury-ReIieved Thai.
the Jury viii Get Thaws Case by
Tonight.
(By Associated Press,

(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, April y.-One more
day and the concluding chapters oil
the trial of" Harry K.,i Thaw for Tie
murder of Stanford White will have
becn written into history With an
oratorical appeal to both tho written
and the ''unwrittcn law for the JUS.
tification ofshis client, Dolphin NJ; Del
mas, the California attorney, conciud-
ed his exhaustive summing up adj
dress to the jury this afternoon.
when court conyenes tomorrow ut
1880 o'clock, one hour later than
usual-District Attorney Jerome will
go before the jury and in three or
-FOUR hour address is expected to maler,
n plea which will be accounted one
OF the best efforts of his life. Justice
Fitzgerald would not say today wheth.
or or not he would charge the Jury
Immediately after the attorneys CLOS
ing remarks, but the impression is
that he will do SO. In that event
there seems little doubt that the case
Will be turned over to- the jury by
tomorrow evening.
With the exception of the mo-
ments when he was reading from
testimony, Mr.. Delmas's speech was
one of sustained oratorical effort. Ho
threw about the form of Harry Tnaw
The cloak of chivalrous knighthood.
Why" he shouted. SHOULD we VINO
admire the chivalry of the knights
OF the middle ages, who went about
redressing wrongs and rescuing mai
dens In distress, Withhold our SYM
pathy from this brave MANI"
Bitterly the attorney again assailed
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sought to play with the girl so long
as her beauty remained and then
would throw her. away like dirty
rag to float down lifes sewers to a
grave in the potter's field"
Again he said Harry Thaw had
snatched the girl from the old teacher
who saw in her beauty toy to graft
~ a moments lust and then TO be
cast aside to go her way down the
paths of fallen women" Bringing the
narrative of his argument down to The
events of the night of the tragedy
the 18th of June last-Mr Delmas
told of Thaw and his wife dining at
the Cafe Martin with r. Truxton Beal
and Thomas McCaleb.
Stanford White, by accident or lie.
sign-time now cannot tell-came
into the room where the party sat.
ford White left the place the young
woman called for pencil and wrote
q note to her husband, saying, THE
b. was here moment ago, but
went out again" When Thaw read
this his first thought was of his
Wife He said to her: Are you all
right? When he received her assur-
ance that she was he mastered what
over emotion he may have felt at tnat
time in public place and in the
presence of his friends and the Incl.
dent had not further significance Tor
the time being.
Delmas' Story OF the Shooting.
Thaw had bought four tickets for
q roof garden entertainment that
evening. He went there with his
party, on the way picking up an.
other Fri. md who occupied one of the
seats leaving Thaw without seat.
He, being of a nervous temperament
walked about looking for another
scat. This he found beside the wit
hess. who testified before you, and
sat there about half an hour. Then
he returned to his party, talked about
the play and it's lack of interest. 1hey
left, Mrs. Thaw and Thomas. Mecca.
leb' in front of Truxton Beaie 'and
Thaw following. Mr. Beale-. saw n
friend and stopped to speak to him.
He left Thaw to proceed on ms
way alone. Remember at this point,
gentlemen, the unbroken testimony
of all the witnesses is to the effect
q that the manner and demeanor OF
Thaw was perfectly calm ana com.
posed and that he walked quietly
down the aisle. When he reached the
point of exit, he espied to his right
the form OF Stanford White Stanford
White was then intently looking at
the performance on the stage. Mr..
Thaw turned, walked slowly and
Quietly towards him, faced and fired
three shots which caused his death.
He then slowly and deliberately, and
wish to call your attention to this
circumstance. apparently slight, but
to my mind of greatest significance
as testified to by Meyer Cohen, who
said that as soon as the body of Stan
ford White had fallen to the ground
Thaw turned to the audience, spread
out his arms in the shape of cross
and stood composedly there-a cir
cumstance which has not been dwell
upon by the learned experts called as
witnesses by tho State but which dc.