The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-09
They Believe the Jury Will Be
HopeIessIy Divided as to His
Guilt or Innocence of Muir
der Charge.
DISAGREEMENT WOULD
MEAN ANOTHER TRIAL.
DeImas Resumed His Address
And Pictured the SeIf-SaCri-
flee of Evelyn in Her Treat
ment of ThaW.

New York, April 9-Attorney Del
tion at the morning session, having
said he would finish by the noon re-
cess. District Attorney Jerome is
suffering from cold and said he
would ask for continuance until tomor-
row when he will take three or four
hours to sum up. AS the long drawn
out trial comes to close little else
is discussed in New York. Habitues
about the court house do not share
Thaw's optimism about the verdict.
They believe the jury is hopelessly di-
vided and that a new trial will be nee
essary
Delmas Resumes Speech.
Delmas began with: Gentlemen /
shall relieve the long suspense of
many weeks and SO far as the defense
is concerned shall place this case in
your hands He then referred brief
ly to how he had shown the early life
of Evelyn, her meeting with White,
her betrayal aI bia hands, her meet
ing with Thaw and how in evidence
he had endeavored to analyze the evi-
dence of Hummel Again he went in
to an attack of Hummels testimony
referring to it as the only thing
against Evelyn's story. May my
eyes never see a high officer of the
people declared Delmas," stand here
and upon the testimony of this con-
yicted felon, whom he examined when
proof of his perjury was open before
him, ask twelve men to return a YER
dict that would make this young wife
a widow. You do believe it in your
hearts for you know no human imag-
ination could have invented the story
of Evelyn Thaw; that no actress day
after day could have stood all the
tricks known to lawyers to break
down the witness unless the story
were true
/ shall now try to depict the effect
that story had on the mind of Harry
Thaw. | shall prove it from his
wife's statements. She says. He said
that no right-minded person would
blame me. that / was only a poor, un-
fortunate girl, but that in spite of
what happened he intended to marry
me any way. | told him it was not
right because Stanford Whites friends
knew of it and that they would sneer
at him and that it would hurt him
with his family. | wanted to marry
him but 1 loved him too much TO let
him make that sacrifice.
Was Sublime Remuneration.
"A sublime remuneration, says the
sneering district attorney. Yes it is
a sublime sacrifice that poor girl,
earning her living by the hard work
of an artists model and actress should
refuse a rich mans offer of marriage
1T may be- continued Delmas,
that man cannot rise to the heighth
of self sacrifice and self abnegation,
but thank God, the creator placed if
the nobler, more tender breast of wo-
mankind the power to rise to those
heights When this power appears in
our daughters it becomes more oT c<r
homes; when it appears in our wives
it becomes the balm of our lives"
Delmas then clinched his assertion
that the story was true by reading
from one of Thaw's letters TO Attorney
Longfellow. the original of which is
in possession of Jerome, in which
Thaw said that he had proposed but
that the girl turned him down because
she didn't want to drag me down
Would Not Lower Thaw.
Yes it was a sublime renuncia-
ton, explained Delmas. in her lit
tie but noble heart this spirit of self
sacrifice rose and she said: Harry,
I won't drag you down. L can't make
you an object of pity at which the
finger of scorn will be pointed. / viii
be all woman can be to you, but |
won't pull you down. The moment
you think it best I will go back TO my |
sad, dreary life and you TO your moth /
er and sisters While / drop lower /
and lower until like SO many others /
disappear
THAT is ALL" said Delmas. "She /
would not marry him because she /
would thus shut him ont OF the So /
,iety 70 which he had been accustom-
"a. Oh sublime remuneration Sor-
lid men may not rise to such con-
eeption, but | say again, thank God,
woman cam