The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-09
Mr.. DeImaS Delivers an
Impassioned Speech.
BASES Ills APPEAL
For Thaw's AcquittaI Solely on the
Story Told BY the Deferdant's
Wife--R0asts Her Mother.

New York, April 9.--The trial OF
Harry X. Thaw, charged with the muir
der of Stanford White, is nearing the
end. Attorney Dolphin M. Delmas,
California advocate, on Monday began
his closing address to the jury and af
ter he had spoken for more than two
hours and half, an adjournment was
taken until to-day. Mr.. Delmas ex-
poets to conclude before the luncheon
hour is reached. District Attorney
Jerome will make the closing address
of the trial on Wednesday and Thaw's
fate should be in the hands of the
Jury by Wednesday evening.
Justice Fitzgerald ordered the jury
locked up until the end of the trial. In
view of this, the judges charge to the
jury undoubtedly will be delivered i'm
medlately after the district attorney
concludes. The latter says his speech
will occupy not more than three or
four hours.
Declaring he would not base his
plea upon the "unwritten law" be-
cause his client found ample protec-
ton in the written statutes OF the
state of New York, Mr.. Delmas made
striking appeal to the sympathies Of
the Jurors and, so far as he pro-
gressed. the subject Of Thaw's insan-
ity at the time he committed the homi-
eide was not even hinted at
Mr.. Delmas based his argument
solely upon the story OF Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw. With flushed cheeks, but dry
eyes, that young woman heard her life
history repeated to the men who are
to judge her husband and bowed her
head as her mother was denounced In
the bitterest terms the eloquent law
yer could command.
Even beast protects its young"
he declared with scornful emphasis.
"but this unnatural mother deserted
her daughter. In this city to be be-
trayed by false friend, to be lured
into a gilded palace and there left the
victim of gray haired man, wounded,
bleeding and ,devoured."
| Mr.. Delmas before beginning his at
tack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother,
poured out a torrent of denunciation
upon the architect who became the
victim of Thaw't pistol He accused
him of the crime of rape and then
declared that President Roosevelt had
said in message to congress that
such a crime should be visited with
death. This was one of the sugges-
tions which Thaw himself made to his
counsel for his summing mp speech
one of the suggestions which played
so important a part In the proceedings
before the lunacy commission.
/ Mr.. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit Of
] having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. He sought to picture
to the jury what he termed the sinis.
ter surroundings in which the girl had
been reared and In doing so he mer-
cilessly attacked the mother Mr.. Del.
mas rose to the highest point of his
address when he told the jury that the
girls mother was the one who had
furnished District Attorney Jerome
with the arrows with which to wound
the daughter on cross-examination-
a cross-examination which he declared
would live long In the annals Of
criminal history, but which left the
girls story unshaken in all its essen.
tial details.
That Evelyn Nesbit's story was true
and was told to Harry Thaw formed
the subject of argument for more than
an hour. Mr.. Delmas declared the
only evidence the district attorney
had to bring against the girl was the
''miscalled affidavit" procured by
Abraham Hummel. Speaking of Hum
mel, Mr.. Delmas declared that it
would require more than the word OF
a perjured man to send Harry Thaw
to an ignominious death. Hummel
was accused by Delmas Of having COM
mitted deliberate perjury upon the
stapd in the present trial.