The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-11

YOU that there does not exist drug such
as this angel child would have you be-
Acve was employed TO bring about her
ruin. But my learned opponent from the
tographer who took these pictures for
which Evelyn herself said she posed upon
the night before she was outraged. l
knew that this evidence would not be
admitted. | knew that even If the coun-
sci for the. defense had not objected. the
learned Judge would have ruled IL out
IL was offered TO call the cheap bluff OF
my learned opponent.
80 strange Is ii that this angel child
lhis glrl of the Chorus-should believe
what she says Stanford White told her
about Ill women being bad and some
simply so fortunate as not TO be found
out. Does what she did afterwards ap
mans common sense2 Contrast her ac-
tion with that OF other girls. Was she
brought up any more carefully than your
age and think what such a thing we
have heard would have meant to them.
fro mthis mana Does she abhor him?
NO" Numbered 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
yirginity She met him time and again,
and. far from repclling those fearful ac-
tions, we find her. by her own words.
stairs while White was talking with a
friend upon the floor above.
Whites Letters Were Barred.
This dragon preying upon female vir-
tue wrote this angel child letter after
letter scores OF them. Some of them
were Identified. but was a single one put
in evidence and read1 No. There is
nothing to show you that these letters
contain anything that was bad Would
not some of these letters contain some
thing to indicate the vicious character.
the evil disposition of this very wicked
man?
But they contained nothing of the sort.
Now contrast this with the modern ST.
George who led the. angel child back
Into the paths OF virtue In November,
1903. writing her letters in which he dis
cussed sexual peryersion.
oh that we might try this case be-
fore jury permitted TO hear all the evil
dence. | have not been permitted by
law TO show to you where Stanford White
was the night after the pictures were
taken Of this angel chIId-the night she
says she was raped.
LAS | have sat here In this courtroom
unable TO raise hand in reply TO some
of the things that have been uttered. IT
OF Stanford White calling from the spirit
world asking me II | could not utter one
word for him-'must ! be blackened as
by the fires of he'll. unheard and unde-
Mr.. Jerome paused for a few moments
and then continued:
NOW gentlemen, let us see WIl1t all
this girl herself says of the horrible de
mon who ruined her. She says. Outside
OF this one awful thing ! admired Stan
ford White. He had most extraordinary
personality. What an extraordinary
panegyric that is coming from those lpsl
stanford Whites lips are sealed by
death and by the rules of evidence But
man To whom such a tribute is paid by
the girl he so brutalIy seduced?
Gentlemen. ] am not here TO defend
IAnI l.a1f lad 70.
say that there Is a difference between un-
chastity and brutality; there is a differ
ence between the man OF the world and
the brute who ravishes. Her own words
have ruined the theory that Stanford
White was brute Has she been so en-
llghtened 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 % years OF age, and
SIT In that chair and describe the man
who raVlshed her as a girl Of 16, In the
remarkable way that she has done?
stanford White was a wealthy man,
a man who found enjoyment. God knows
sees this child blown into his circle You
have looked upon the girl in court. and
YOU can well draw the picture at the time
that she went to apply for q position in
the 'Flor0dora' chorus and was told by
the manager he was not conducting a
kindergarten or n baby farm,
Declares That Evelyn Led.
1T was natural that rich man like
stanford Wnsie moving In the circle In
which he did should have tried to help
this girl. II was natural that he should
give her the little gifts OF wearing ap-
pare which tended to her comfort. There
Is nothing IN his conduct consistent with
the theory that the relations between the
two were not pure. | do not know now
II was, and neither do you. except as this
girl tells us; and. gentlemen, | must ad-
NIT in all solemnity that she does not
tell the truth. You have no evidence out
side of her own story that the relations
between her and White were impure And
the char9cter of her story may best be
judged by her statement that all of her
experiences with this man were against
her will-that they were all rapes. yet we
find her voluntarily In his rooms waiting