The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-04-08
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finds ample protection of his rights and
his life. In the performance of my
task it will become my duty to speak
of the dead. l shall not be unmindful
of injunctions as to the departed.
Only that which is good should be
spoken, but l cannot forget the cir
cumstances under which the living de-
mand that the truth be told no matter
how it blights the memory Of the dead,
or how painful it is to the survivors.
"Of the survivors l have only words
of sympathy to speak. 1 wish 1 could
remove the cloud which henceforth
must darken their careers that I
could suspend in Case of the son the
memorable law that sins of the father
will be visited upon the third and
fourth generations. The story to which
you listened for so many weeks is one
of two young people destined by an in
scrutable fate to be united and pass
through life together Their story is
the saddest most mournful ever told
in court Of Justice
The attorney took up Evelyn's story
from her birth on Christmas Eve, 1884,
through her childhood and poverty.
Delmas said the girl was endowed
with beauty at Is and her mother saw
in this beauty a means of existence.
He told of her taking the child to
Philadelphia, securing her employment
as an artists model, then to work
He told of Whites desire to possess
h 1~,,t I'D t,o
child. he won the confidence of the
mother and the daughter in the capa
city of a protector. The lawyer said
he wished it was in his power to pass
over the scenes next succeeding.
Il wish l was not compelled to re-
call how this man lured this beautiful
child to den respondent with the
works of his genius. How he who was
more than old enough to be her father
led her step by step, to, when, over
come by wine and drugs, she became
the unconscious victim of this man.
Need recall the scene given here with
so much pathos by her own lips? All,
Better for Stanford White he had
never been born than that he had seen
that day! Better that his ears had
never opened than that he should have
heard the shrieks of his victim! He
had perpetrated the foulest. most cow
ardly of sins. He had committed a
crime which the chief executive of this
nation, in his last message to congress
said should be punished by death.
HE who had erected affairs sanctu-
aries and churches crowned with the
emblem of redemption-had he for
gotten the words of the Redeemer:
whatsoever receiveth this little child
in my name. receiveth me?" He who
erected temples to the God of Isaac and
Abraham and Jacob; had he forgotten
the words Of the Jehovah: "Ye shall
not afflict a fatherless child for if it
Cry unto me. shall surely hear, and
my wrath shall wax hot and will kill
you with my sword and your wives
shall be Widows?
Did White ina ine in his hardened
heart that God would not hear the
cries of that fatherless child in the ST.
lence of a great city? Did he imagine
that He had forgotten His promise and
His decree? Better for him had he died
before that day when death might have
been deplored by his family when
memory might not have survived only
to be desecrated.'
Gentlemen. is the story true? Or is
it true that Evelyn told il to Thaw in
Paris in 1903? This is one of the great
est questions you must answer. The
district attorney tells you it is a fab
rication of the girls mind: that he
tried to make her make a written
statement of it. n confederation of her
story, call attention to things you OBJ
served as she told her story. You saw
the horror in her face: her courageous
struggling with emotions: saw her
compose herself and resume. l ask you
on your oath, was she playing a part?
Delmas continued grilling the mother
and called her an unnatural parent.
e said even an unreasoning beast
protects it's young.
Delmas was still talking when a re-