Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-09
Inc Western Orator Sends Home His Eloquence 10 Save the
 Life of Harry Thaw
HE SCORED HUMMEL
Dramatic and Forceiul in His Argu. nent Delmas is Working a Won- derful Effect Upon the
 Jury.

New York, April 9.-Not since the day when Evelyn Thaw gave to the world the story of her life has the court room where the final scenes in the Thaw trial are now being enact ed. been SO crowded as 1t was this morning. The attraction was Dolphin M. Delmas, the San Francisco lawyer, who to-day continued his summing up for the defense. MT Delmas began his final plea yesterday after noon and after speaking two and a half hours his voice became so husky as to necessitate an adjourn ment. He was in good voice again when the proceedings were resumed to-day and at the outset promised to be even more effective than he was yesterday.
 Despite the inclement weather, a snow storm raging without. the court room was besieged fully an hour be- fore the time fixed for the opening, A large percentage of the would-De spectators being women. With much difiiculty the police succeeded in keeping the crowd down to the actual seating capacity so that al- though every available bit of space was occupied, good order prevailed while MT Delmas was making his ap- peal to the jurors.
 Members of the Thaw family, in cluding Evelyn Thaw, as usual, were among the carly arrivals. A new figure appeared in the Thaw group to-day. It was that of Mrs Edward Thaw. who accompanied her husband and sister-in-law, the Countess of Yarmouth. Mir and Mrs Carnegie were also present.
 When Mir Delmas arose to resume his argument. he told the jury he would endeavOr to be as brief as pos sible in order to relieve them Of their onerous duties as speedily as consistent with the responsibilities resting upon him.
 When 1 am done," said MT Del mas, 'I shall give the fate of my client into your hands with every confidence"
 MT Delmas declared it would be necessary to cast a rapid glance over his remarks of yesterday in order to connect the trend of his argument.
 The attorney sketched again brief ly what he termed "the sad and de- plorable story of two young people . mishap having overtaken one of them while she was still child"
 "The last act of this life drama re- mains to be enacted" he continued. The state, Mir Delmas said, had at- tempted to set the scene for this last act upon fiimsy superstructure of an afidavit dictated by "a felon-a man convicted of perjury"
 Mir Dclmas quoted briefly from the speech of District Attorney Jerome when Abraham Hummel was up for sentence. At that time MT Jerome urged the maximum penalty of the law on the ground that Hummel had been a menace to the communi- ty for twenty years"
 Mir Delmas next reviewed the story of Evelyn Nesbit told upon the wit ness stand.
 You know. gentlemen of the jury that no human imagination ever in. vented such a story. You know that no actor could have stood as she did unfiinchingly, all the tests known tC skilled lawyers to elicit the truth, un. less she was telling the absolute truth"
 MT Delmas continued: Relying upon intelligence you gentlemen. will take 1t as a fixed fact henceforth that the story she told was true as she told it.
 'T shall now proceed in an effori to depict to your eyes the effect oi this story on the mind of Harry K Thaw. shall prove this to you without using any language of my 0N0- | tudll tcu tou the stois on Evelyn's own words. the words you heard her use on the stand"
 Mr Delmas then read the young Voman's story of Thaw's actions when in Paris in 1903 she told him her story. how he walked the floor and bit his nails and sobbed.
 He also read that portion of her testimony in which she said she had refused his offer of marriage because she loved him SO much that she would not drag him down
 Sublime renuneiation.' says the sneering district attorney in an effort to make you believe that this story is not true. that 1t is impossible" went ou Mir Delmas But shall prove to you beyond the slightest doubt that abe did refuse him and refused him for that reason and that reason alone Man. 1t may be. has not that ereat power of renunciation. but in the eentler breast of woman do VIC flnd that great gift of God. and iH the breast of this little girl existed thls great strength that enabled her to pat aside her one love when she knsw ff vas for the good of the one