The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-09
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til, overcome piled with wine and drugs,
she became unconscious and the victim
of the man who had lured her there?
Better White Had Not Been Born.
Need recall to yea the terrible scene
you heard torn from the lips Of the IN
fortunate victim? on, better for Stan
ford White if he had never been born.
rather than that he should have seen that
day. He had perpetrated the foulest, the
most cowardly, the most dishOnOrahle of
the crimes that can stain or defsce the
image Of God. He. the strong. the power
ful, had lured a poor. little child to her
undoing. and to crafty a moment Of
passion had crushed the poor little flower
that was struggling toward the light and
toward heaven. He had committed a
crime that the law declares "A felony.
1T is that cowardly crime which the
Chief Magistrate OF this nation recently
said in a message to Congress was a
crime which everywhere should be pun
ished by death.
He who had erected churches and
sanctuaTies crowned by the symbol of re
demDtion. had forgotten the word Of the
Redeemer when He called q little child
and sat Him IN the midst Of them and
said:
who receiveth such a little child in
My name, receiVeth Ne, but whose shall
offend one of these little ones, it were
better for him that a milestone We're
hanged about his neck and that he were
asst Into the sea-
Deserted by Her Neither.
oh. Stanford White" continued Mr.
pelmas. lifting his voice till # rang like
trumpet, did you in the impiety Of
your hard heart Imagine that the cry Of
this fatherless child, heard that night IN
the silence Of this great city--the cry Of
a child deserted by her mother left alone
ia this city OF milllons-dld you imagine
that God would not hear that cry or be
lieve that retribution would not come?
Far better were It for Stanford White
had he died before that day. For then he
might have died at the meridian o. his
spleudor. then public mourning might
have attended his Obsequies; then he
might have died before his name became
la by-word, or his memory would not have
survived only TO be execrated
Mr. Deimas made a considerable pause
here. as the vigor with which he pro-
nounced this eXoriauon seemed 10 take n
good deal OF his strength When he had
recovered himself he went on TO tell how
stanford White. having debased Evelyn
Nesbit, proceeded to do what he could 10
debauch her mind.
He went TO her" he said. ''and knelt
on the floor at her side and kissed the hem
of her dress and told her 20 dry her tears;
that she had done what all women did
and that the only sin was to get found
out. He told her that II she could only
keep the thing locked IN her breast all
would be well-that ali women We're
wicked. only some succeeded in concealing
their vices and others were found out
And so he lured her again and again TO
the same den or to others that he had. and
thus induced her 10 continue for period
Of a couple Of months.
The prosecutor says that this story IS
only a result of the cunning Of Harry
Thaw against which Evelyn's natural
truth revolted. and which he sought 10
have her confirm, but which she refused
20 do"
Truth of EVeIyn'S story.
This brought Mr.. Delmas 10 tell the
Jury thing that had been constantly
stated in the course OF the trial-namely.
that it was for the court to determine
whether Evelyn Nesbit told the story OF
her betrayal TO Harry Thaw. as she testi-
fed that she did. If it appeared that the
story was a true one, ne said, IL would
be a partial proof that she told It 10 her
husband. and he added:
You must decide. gentlemen, whether
she was merely a cunning actress playing
q part that she had learned You saw
her when she came 10 the fatal occur
rences Of that night in the fall of 1901.
You saw how the shadow OF that hOr-
ror overspread her face-how. although
tho reward Of her testimony was the life
of the only human being on earth who
loves her, and whom she loves, she shrank
from the phantom of that horror and
from rehearsing the events Of that night
Il appeal 20 you upon your oath-do
You believe that she was telling the
truth?
You saw her under q cross-examina-
ton that has no parallel ia the history
Of our courts. You saw her fighting
against the man who had sworn TO try To
make her "a widow.
''Dld sou see her falter? You saw the
district attorney. 10 whose talents no one
will render homage more cherfully than
I-you saw him resort to all the strategy
LOT a polished master 70 entrap this poor
girl.
Did she once falter? Was she in a
single instance caught In a contradiction
or a falsehood2 There are upon this jury
men who have served on turies before.
Tell me. you men OF experience, have
you ever in your life seen a witness who
stood the exCruciating test Of cross-eXam-
nation as did this child?
You saw the learned prosecutor eXtOrt
from her lips the confession that her re
lati0ns with Stanford White did not
cease until God asserted Himself in her
and she would no longer be the piaything
the toy, the slave of this man. ] ask YOU.
If this girl had fabricated this story Of
wrong. would she not have sought to
make il more pathetic by saying that her
first fall was the last?'
EveIyn's Mother Denounced.
Mr.. Delmas then turned his attention to
the mother of Evelyn Nesblt whom he
denounced by the aid of every resource
at his command. In this passage the Cal
ifornian was moved TO open the floodgates
of Western oratory as he had not done
before. He said that the evidence showed
that in the year following Evelyn Mes
bits downfall. her shiftless mother, who
had been living on crackers in tenement
house hack rooms, received from Stanford
White the sum of $500.
Why" he said, stanford White was
paying money to the mother OF Evelyn
Nesbit, ] leave You to imagine
After brief reference to the threat
that White is alleged to have made
against Thaw's life, Mr.. Delmas again
turned to Mrs. Hoiman's case.
You viii recall he said. that during
the progress OF the trial. when the part
plaved In this affair nv F,vpIVn'S mother
was spoken Of 1 disclaimed having said
H. n