The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-09
DelmaS Rises TO the Height Of
ElOQuence
COURT ROOM Is PACKED
Leading Lawyer for Defense Refers Il
Sublime Sacrifice" Of Evelyn in
Refusing Rich Mans Offer Of
Marriage.

New York, April o--Just before he
entered the court room this morning,
Dolphin Michael DeImas announced that
he would surely conclude his address,
begun yesterday, for the Thaw defense
at this mornings session. The crowd
that gathered TO hear him was the hsgg-
est that could be packed in the court
room.
Delmas. was in excellent voice and had
his listeners attention at once Thaw
never took his eyes from his face. After
the brief opening remarks, he took up
The effect OF Eyelyn's revelations regard
ing Stanford White on Thaw's mind
quoting some Of the most telling por-
tions of her testimony. He referred pa
thetically to the sublime sacrifice that
the poor girl, earning living BY hard
work as an artists model and as actress,
should refuse rich mans offer OF mar
riagep
1T may be- be continued, "that man
cannot rise to heights of self-sacritice
and f-abnegation, but, thank God, the
Creator has placed in the nobler and
more tender breast of womanlSind the
power to rise to those heights
"She would not become his wife be.
cause she feared il would shut him out
OF his mothers and sisters society and
society he was accustomed to. Oh the
sublime resignation of tiff this
needs corroboration recall what his
mother testified that he told her, that
she refused him because she did not
consider it suitable marriage for him.
Recess wg5 taken at 1890 until two
o'clock, when Delmas concluded his
summing up. IL was announced that
Jerome would not begin his speed
until tomorrow morning
In opening his argument, Mr. Delmas
based his plea solely upon the story of
Evelyn Tbaw. With flushed cheeks but
dry eyes, that young woman heard her
life history repeated TO the men who
are 10 judge her husband and lowered
her head az her mother was denounced
IN the bitterest terms and tones the
eloquent lawyer could command.
Even beast protects its young" he
declared with scornful emphasis. "but
this unnatural mother deserted her
daughter in this city of millions to be
betrayed by a false friend, to be lured
into 3 gilded palace, and there left to be
the victim Of a gray.haired man, wound.
ed. bleeding and devouredp
Mr. Delmas went with great detail
into the life Evelyn Nesbit had led up
60 the meeting with Harry Thaw. In
ell Of his remarks he referred to her as
+this child" for child, he said, she was
today. he told Of Thaw's great love
fer her and his efforts TO rescue her from
sths clutches of Stanford White" whose
achievements in his profession, the at.
torney declared, were an aggravation of
his crime.
Mr.. Delmas before beginning his at
tack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother, poured
out q torrent Of denunciation upon the
architect. who became the victim OF
Thaw's pistol lie accused him of the
@erime of rape" and then declared that
President Roosevelt had said in a mes.
eare 60 Congress that such crime should
t. visited with death. This was one
= ths suggestions which Thaw himself
made 10 his counsel for his summing up
fpceeh-~one Of the suggestions which
PLAYED 40 important a part in the pro.
csedings before the lunacy commission.
Mr. Delmas declared that God heard
The cry Of the fated child upon whom
stanford White had fixed his gaze and
lad determined should be his. lie quoted
from the Bible that she who afiicts a
fstheficss child shall PERISH and de.
slafrd that Providence had sent Thaw
to aseuee the wrong
IAs attorney safd a alo,tfnrs {r;b,,t I,
90 the love which Thaw and his wife
hsaf ssch other. He declared that Thaw
j TIE girls only protector that he came
iaio hfr life shen she was ON the down
wafd pata. told her that no matter what
tie World thought Of her she was to
hiai an angel he took her 60 be his
wife. ready 10 share the burdens that
mother had helped 30 place upon her
daughter.
Air. Dslmas accused Mrs. Nesbit Of
having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. He sought to picture
ta the Jury what he termed the sinister
surroundings ia which the girl had been
REARED. and IN doing So he mercilessly
attacked The mother AFR. Delmas rose
ts ne hizhe-t point Of bis address yes
tsrdsv when he told the Jury that the
grFs mother was the one who had fur.
rished District Attorney Jerome with
fhs arrows with which 20 wound the
daughter on cross s-eNaminatioa--a cross.
examination which, ho declared. would
Ese bong IN the annals OF criminal his
tafv. bat which left the girls story
unshaken in Ell its essential details
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