The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-09
DELMAS CONCLUDES
Says He Will Give the Fate of His
Clinet Into the Hands of the Jury
With Every Confidence jerome
Absent While Speech Proceeded.

| new 1Ork, April 9.-NOt since the
day when Evelyn Thaw gave to the
| world the story of her life has the
court room been so crowded as il
was today. The attraction was Del
mas, who today continued his sum
ming up for the defense. Delmas be
ligan his final plea yesterday after
| noon, and after speaking two and q
half hours his voice became so hus
| ky as to necessitate adjournment. He
was in good voice again today when
the proceedings were resumed. Dis
trlct Attorney Jerome was again alb
sent during Delmas' speech When
Delmas arose to resume his argument
he told the jury that he would en-
deavor to be as brief as possible in
order not to tax their patience
when l am DONE" said Delmas, 81
shall give the fate of my client into
He then briefly ran over his address
of yesterday in order to connect his
argument.
Delmas told of the condition of
Tnaw's mind when he returned to
Pittsburg, how his mother noted the
change that had come over him. He
depicted Thaw's mind in church,
when" he said ''the organ was roll
ing and voices were appealing to the
Lord God of Hosts, the God of armies
and of navies, to be with us yet, lest
we forget" Forget, the voices rang,
Forget the poet had written but il
Harry Tnaw's heart rang the voice,
You can never forget, you can never
forget that little innocent one WAC
is gone from you forever, and has re
turned to the clutches of those who
ruined her. This, then was Thaw's
condition could triu
and came back to New York to try
once more to save her"
Delmas declared that the stories
about Thaw's alleged wrong doings
were invented to protect White from
the wrath which he felt was to come.
Delmas' oratory held the rapt atten-
ton of the jury and people in the
court room. He told how Thaw got
his mother to come to New York. and
thus finally persuaded the girl to
marry him.
After calling attention to Evelyn's
story again, he said: 81 shall now pro-
ceed in the effort to depict to you the
effect of this story upon the mind of
Thaw. l shall prove this to you with
out using any language of my own
l shall tell you the story in Evelyns
words, words you heard ner use up
on the witness stand" Delmas then
dramatically read the young woman's
story of Thaw'S actions when in 1908
she told the story, how he walked
the floor biting his nails and sobbi1g.
He also read tnat portion of ner tes-
timony in which she said that she re-
fused Thaw's offer of marriage, be-
cause sne loved him so that she re-
fused to drag him down. This he
said was proved by Thaw's letters to
Attorney Longfellow. De1mas read
from the testimony of the elder Mrs.
Thaw, and asked the jurors if they
believed that this venerable gray
herself?"
He read at length from Evelyn's
testimony showing the effect of her
story upon Thaw. saying tnat they
undermined the foundations of his
reason, but that the storm did not
burst at that time.
Delmas told of approaches made
by White after the marriage and of
his telling May Mackenzie that he
would win Evelyn back to him. He
referred to the pie girl incident
and said that Thaw's will was evi-
dence that he was making an effort
to protect the community against the
pollution of White.
DelmdS did not compete Ills ldIh
this morning, aid continued this aft
ernoon. In conte1ding tnat Thaw was
insane when he shot White, he re-
viewed exhaustively the testimony ad
duced on this subject. He told the jul
ry that the prosecutions alie1ists
would not have testified that Thaw
was not insane if they had been ask
ed that question. He concluded at
3:17 and court adjourned until to-
morrow.