The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-11

were Is years of age and think what such a thing as we have here would have meant to them. what does this girl do? Does she shrink from this man? Does she abhor him?
 No" thundrede the district attorney "she meets him again and again. Eight or nine times she goes to the tower and to the Twenty-fourth street house with this human ogre who had stripped her of her Virginity
 She met him time and again. said Mir. Jerome, and far from repelling these fearful attacks We find her, by her own words, at one time undressing in a room down stairs while White was talking with a friend on the floor above.
 This dragon preying on female virtue wrote this angel child letter after letter, scores of them. We have shown them to be in the possession of the defense. Some of them were identified-but was single one put in evidence and read? No. There Is nothing to show you that these many letters contain something to indi- cate some vicious character, the evil dis position of this very wicked man.
 Angel Child.
 But they contained nothing of the sort Now, contrast this with the modern street ogre who led the angel child back into the paths of virtue in November 19O3
 
 sexual perverson.
 "Oh, that we might try this case be- fore jury permitted to hear all the evil dence. I have not been permitted by law to show to you where Stanford White was the night after the pictures were taken of this angel child the night she says she was raped.
 "As I have sat here in this court room, unable to raise a hand in reply to some of the things that have been uttered, it has seemed to me I have heard the voice of Stanford White calling out from the spirit world asking me if could not ut ter one word for him. Must I be black ened as by the fires of hell unheard and undefendedT
 Let's See What She Says.
 MT. Jerome paused for few moments and then continued.
 Now, gentlemen, let us see what all this girl says of the horrible demon who ruined her. She says, Outside of this one awful thing, I admired Stanford White. He had 6 most extraordinary personality What an extraordinary panegyric that is, coming from those lips
 Stanford Whites lips are sealed by death, and by the rules of evidence. But what are we expected to believe of a man to whom such a tribute is paid by the girl he so brutally seduced?
 'Gentlemen, am not here to defend Stanford White, but I am compelled to say that there is a difference between unchastity and brutality, there is a diff ference between the man of the world and the brute who ravishes.
 Her own words have ruined the theory that Stanford White was a brute. Has she been so enlightened by this modern St. George that at last she has come to believe that all women are not unchaste, and yet she can come here but 22 years old and sit in that chair and describe the man who ravshed her as a girl of IS in the remarkable way that she has done?
 Stanford White.
 Stanford White was a wealthy man a man who found enjoyment. God knows why or how, in this class of people. He sees this child blow into his circle. You have looked on the girl in court, and you can well draw the picture of her at the time she went to apply for position in the Florodora chorus and was told by the manager he was not conducting kindergarten or a baby farm.
 Tt was natural that rich man like Stanford White, moving in the circle he did should have tried to help this girl, help her to the extent that if she was out of work, would give her money. It was natural that he should give her the little gifts of wearing apparel which tended to her comfort There is nothing in his conduct consistent with the theory that the relations between the two were not pure. and there is nothing inconsis-
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