The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-10

thought, She looked upon the man shc
and she did not want 20 bring reproacf
upon the man who would have married
her,
Evelyn as a Martyr.
Down in her noble heart she said
Harry. ! love YOU and because ] love
YOU l do not want to tie my unfortu-
nate existence TO yours, so that people
would point the finger OF scorn ut you
! want 10 leave you free, and the moment
You think Il best for you / will go my
way. | Will go back and earn my own
living, and YOU shall be free and hon
orcd. 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 unjustlhed. The lit
tie girl did sacrifice herself. Did rise TO
the heights OF sublime renunciation.'
Mr., Delmas read from Mrs. William
Thaw's testimony, and went on:
Did the venerable, gray -haired moth :
er come here TO perjure herself? Did
she invent this story which she says her
son told her? Did he tell an untruth
when he confided to his loved mother
and told her that he loved this girl and
wanted TO devote his ltfe to her and that
all this time that little girl was going
along using the talents God had given
her TO make = living for herself, refusing
to marry the wealthy man who loved her
and whom she loved. because she thought
it was the best for him. on, sublime
-abneCationi"
Mr.. Delmas read from Evelyns testi-
mony, recalling the portions Of her story
in which she told of the effect of her
story on Thaw s mind
"Such was tho condition Of Harry
Thaw's mind when he parted from Evelyn
In Europe and sent her back 10 New
York ahead of him. There. gentlemen,
condition which manifested itself three
years afterward.
Mental Storm Brewing.
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
MIR, Delmas turned again TO young Mrs.
Thaws testimony and repeated that part
of it in which she told of having refused
TO see him after he had followed her
home from Europe, because of the
dreadful things" friends OF Stanford
White had told her about him. Evelyn
told him what had been related 10 her
regarding the putting of a girl in n bath
tub and turning hot water on her. and
tying sirlS to bedposts and beating them.
'Thaw.' Mr.. DemaS added, shook his
head sadly and said:
" Poor Evelyn
Mr. Delmas read also Of the girl telling
Thaw that Stanford White had taken
her 10 see Hummel.
What the condition his mind WAS al
that time is shown 10 You, gentlemen by
documents OF indubitabe genuineness.
The letters Thaw wrote 10 Attorney
Longfellow picture the sad epoch In his
life-they voice the wall from suffer-
ing soul such as has never been voiced
10y dramatist from the days Of the
Greeks down TO the present time.
Mr.. Demas read many of the letters
to which he had referred. commenting
upon them as he read. In one of these
letters Thaw. speaking Of himself in the
third person. said:
He would have done anything for you,
but now YOU must get stronger without
him Poor little Evelyn you have fallen I
back into the hands of the man who pol |
soned your life and who is now poisoning !
your mind. But / have no reproaches !
10 heap upon you-but. ON. the sadness |
OF 1t all-you have driven me from your |
side and now YOU must fight the battle
Of life aloEe-without meE
"Ob. stanford WhIte" exclaimed Mr.. |
Delmas. had the man kept out OF the ]
way with his smooth tongue, professional !
Thaw would not have turned from her
the man who loved her. a, the behest OF |
those professional dcceivers
II YOU don't believe In me as gen
tIeman' wrote Harry Thaw. there Is
nothing TO do. Being honest and faithful
has finished me-
Saddest of Stories.
THE pages neither OF poetry nor OF
oratory contain n simpler sadder story
OF desolation than that which came as a
desert waste upon the mind OF thls younS
man when he saw the girl ne loved go
back TO the man from whose clutches he
had rescued her In this condition of
mind Harry Thaw left New York and
went 10 his mothers home In PittsburG.
Up TO this time Harry had been man
Of cheerful temperament. but the
mothers eyes saw how the change had
Mr. Delmas then read from Mrs. VIII
liam Thaws testimony regarding the ac-
tions Of her son at that time
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went on Mr.. Delnas. until they resound-
ed like a wall, until they shuddered like
q groan of soul in agony, until the
storm passed from him and the music
grew softer and finally died away. The
loving mother heard his sobs. she saw
him awake until the gray OF dawn. He
he could not repeat TO her; but soon, by
s mothers art. she won her way into her
sons soul and. little by little. he told the
Then, gentlemen, you remember that
awful scene In the church. You remem-
Der the organ was rolling and the voices
were appealing 10 the Lord God of Hosts.
the God Of armies and navies, BE with
us yet. lest we forget. lest we forget.
Forget. the voices rang; forget. the
poet had written; but In Harry Thaw's
heart rang a voice: You can never for
get; you can never forget that that nno-
cent little one is gone from you forever
and has returned to the clutches Of those
who ruined her
':This. then. was Harry Thaw's men
tai condition. Must he give her up? He !
could not he would not. Brave, courage
Gus indomitable man that he was he
that he had a rasslon 70 per-
form. The thought OF little Evelyn In
those hands was more than the torturcs
Of hell TO him. lie came back 10 New
York 10 Try once more to save her"
Mr.. Demas read from Evclyns testi-
mouy regarding meetings with Thaw al
this time. how she refused for time to
see him. but finally how they met and
she learned the stories she had heard
were not true.
White Still the Pursuer.
when Harry Thaw convinced Evelyn
that these stories were not true hope be-
gan 10 dawn again In his heart The
barriers which had been set up between
the two young people were falling into
ruins one by one. The TWO hearts that
God had intended should be one were
approaching nearer and nearer until that
blessed night OF December "a, 1908 II
was night which might have meant a
new chapter In the misery OF this child
ri nrh rule t-,,lI !