The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-09

she loved; she looked upon her own
past and she did not want to bring
reproach upon the man who would have
| married her.
.eDown in her noble heart she said:
| Harry, l love you; and because love
| YOU / do not want to tie my unfortu-
nate existence to yours. so that people
| would point the finger of scorn at you.
| l want to leave you free, and the
moment you think it is best for you I
| will go my way. I will go back and
| earn my own living and you shall be
| free and honored. Go back to your
noble mother and dear sisters, and
| shall go down, where SO many others
| have gone before me, and disappear
| from the world
| yes, she thought The sneer of the
district attorney is unjustified. The lit
| tie girl did sacrifice herself; did rise
| to the heights of sublime renunciation."
| Mr.. Delmas here read from Mrs.
William Thaw's testimony, and went
on: Did that venerable, gray-haired
mother come here to perjure herself?
Did she invent this story which she
saws her son told her? Or did he tell
an untruth when he conhded to his
loved mother and told her that he loved
this girl and wanted to devote his life
to her; and that all this time that lit
tie girl was going along using the tall
ents God had given her to make liv-
ing for herself, refusing to marry the
wealthy man who loved her and whom
she loved, because she thought it was
for the best for him? Oh, sublime self
abnegation"'
Reads From Evelyn's Testimony.
Mr.. Delmas read at length from Eve
lyns testimony, recalling the portions
of her story in which she told of the
effect of her story on Thaw's mind, and
how, during the months in which she
was with him in Europe, his mental
suffering seemed to increase.
Such was the condition of Harry
Thaw's mind when, in the fall of 1903,
he parted from Evelyn Nesbit in Europe
and sent her back to New York ahead
of him. There, gentlemen, you have
the first dawn of the mental condition
which manifested itself three years
afterwards
THE foundations of his reason were
undermined. The storm had not burst,
but the clouds were gathering from the
four points of the compass, and from
them the lightning and thunder were to
burst in three years and astound the
world"
Mr. Delmas turned again to young
Mrs. Thaw's testimony and repeated
that part of it in which she told of hav-
ing refused to see him after he had
cause "of the dreadful things friends
of Stanford White had told her about
him. Evelyn told him what had been
related to her regarding the putting OF
water on her, of using morphine and
tieing girls to bed posts and beating |
them.
.'Thaw," Mr. Delmas added. ''shook |
his head sadly and said Poor Evelyn.
Mr.. Delmas read also of the girl tell |
ing Thaw Stanford White had taken |
her to see HummeL.
what the condition of his mind was
at tfat time is shown to you gentlemen |
81 doeunents of indubitable genuine
ness The letters Thaw wrote to Attor-
ney Longfellow picture the sad epoch
In his hfe-they voice the vail from
suffering soul such as has never been |
voiced by a dramatist from the days
Of the Greeks down to the present time
Reads Thaw's Letters.
Mr.. Delmas real many of the letters
TO which he had referred, commenting
upon them as he read. In one of these
third person, said: He would have
done anything for you, but now. you
must get stronger without him POOR
little Evelyn-yOu have fallen pack into
the ands of the man who poisoned your
life and who is new poisoning your mind
But have no reproaches to heap upon
OH, the sadness of 1t ail-you
nave driven me from your side and no"
you must fight the battle or lie alone
without me-"
'Oh, Stanford White exclaimed
Mr.. Delmas, had that man kept out
If the way with his smooth tongue,
!
evelyn would not have turned from
Ter the man who loved her at the be-
lest of those professional deceivers-
"'If You don't believe in me as a
wrote Harry Thaw. tnere
s nothing to do. Being honest and
afthful has finished me-. The pages
leither of poetry nor oratory contain
| simpler, sadder or more melancholy
tory of desolation than that which
,ane as a desert waste on the mind
# this young man when he saw the
,irl he loved go back to the man from
whose clutches he had rescued her In
his condition of mind Harry Thaw
eft New York and went to his moth
RS home in Pittsburg. Up to this
ime Harry Thaw had been a man of s
heerful temperament. but the moth
RS eyes saw how the change had {
ome.'
Mr.. Delmas then read from Mrs
William Thaw's testimony regarding J
he actions of her son at that time. i
low he was moody and quiet, how he {
i'd not sleep, how he often went to
he piano.
The Mothers Story.
HE struck the chords of the instru-
nent," went on Mr.. Delmas, until
hey resounded like a wall, until they
huddered like a groan of a soul in
gony, until the storm passed from |
i'm and the music grew softer and
nally died away. The loving mother
card his sobs, she saw him awake
ntil the gray of dawn. He told that
mother that the story was one he
ould not repeat to her, but soon, by a |
art she won her way into
Ter sons soul and little by little he
old the story.
''Then, gentlemen, you remember
hat awful scene in the church. You s
emember the organ was rolling and
he voices were appealing to the Lord {
iod of Hosts, the God of armies and ]
f navies. BE with us yet, lest we for
ct, lest we forget
Forget, the voices rang; forget, the t
oct had written; but in Harry Thaw's !
cart rang voice, You can never for i