The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-11


/ from the diary which are in record as
evidence. These passages, the district
attorney argued, clearly show that the
mind of the angel child was not as
simple as Mr. Delmas would have the
1 jury believe.
/ Wanted 10 Be an Actress.
/ There is one quotation / wish 10
read to you because in il 1 believe lies
/ the whole key 10 this tragedy. A girl
/ who is good and never has had any
/ scandal against her. is fortunate, she
I writes. The girls here tat SCHOOL, are
| all just Of that kind. There is not one
| of them who viii ever be anything.
/ When I say anything l mean just that.
They will perhaps be good wives and
| mothers. but I want TO be a good act
| ress first. 1t was the desire OF this
/ girl TO be good actress that caused
| her to play between these two men un-
| til she brought one of them TO his
I grave. This child, who did not believe
| in the chastity of women, went to Paris
on Thaw's money with Whites letter OF
credit in her pocket.
she goes 10 Paris in the frame of
mind her diary indicates. She was fully
| convinced that there was no virtue IN
wumankind because, as counsel would
have you believe her virtue had been
destroyed. This is the angel child built
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timony he has constructed his whole
case. RE tells you this child so loved
Thaw that she renowned mis- offer OF
age-renounced him to go back
to the S1S week of the studio and the
SIS of the stage.
The HummeI Affidavit.
This is the child who Travelled
through all Europe with st. George,
who told her there was chastity among
women-St. George, who gave her her
first moral horizon. What does she do
when she leaves him? She comes back
to America. landing on Saturday. comes
back on Thaws money. She does not
see Stanford White on Sunday, but on
Tuesday We find her at Abraham Hum
meIS office with him. There she was
making an affidavit. Sufficient is it
now that you see her signature imme-
diately opposite the date, Oct. p, l9O3
IF you don't believe anything else in
that affidavit. the date is sufficient. II
shows that within twenty-four hours
after she had seen Stanford White, the
ogre who had piled her with wine AMI
seduced her. he had completely under
mined her great love for Thaw-the
love which led to her remuneration OF
the man. Poor little Evelyn poor in
deed the woman whose great love was
Undermined in twenty-fOur hours by
stories of perversion-undermine by
the man who had ravished her, Of all
men on earth.
Thaw's Honorable Court"
Mr.. Jerome referred to the girlish
costume Evelyn has worn throughout
the trial. saying she was dressed as
girl of is. What such a costume had
to do with the great issues involved he
could not say. Young Mrs. Thaw
smiled.
How does Thaw come into the life of
this young woman We first flnd him
wrapping $50 notes about the steam of
American Beauty roses and throwing
them over the footlights. We find him
attending her at a chorus girls dinner.
I'VE find him offering weak mother
a competence to help him win the
daughter He was paying honorable
court to her, says Mr.. Delmas. Are
men who are paying honorable court TO
women i'm the habit of wrapping $50
bills around the roses they send them?
He sends her to a hospital and then
furnishes money to take her abroad.
And in Paris he asks her to marry him.
When she said no, he asked, is it be-
cause Of Stanford Whittier Did this
come to him as a shock? Had he heard
gossip in the TenderlOin which led him
To suspect her relations with White?
Thaw as Bad as White.
4 said it in no sneering way, that if
the story of her supreme remuneration
was true, there was nothing like ii in
the history or literature. She had moth
ing before her but a lfa of hard work.
Here was a man she loved, here was
a haven of rest, and because she loved
him so well she cast it all aside. Here
was a poor, innocent child whom this
Sir Galahad would take to his arms,
to cherish and protect her against the
infamy of White. And what did this
Sir Calahad do but take this angel
G. n and fiaunt her through nearly
every capital of Europe as his mistress.
Ef stanford White is to be painted
black for what he did to Evelyn Mes
bit then there is no color black enough
to paint this Sir Galahad that took
this angel child and despoiled her
"Dementia Amerlcana-that is what
they call if. Fine specimen of the high
or unwritten law"
Mr.. Jerome then directed his atten-
ton to the Hummel affidavit.
Hummel No Angel.
81 don't think Hummel is an upright
man." he said. L was after him for
years and finally got him. He will go
to jail IL 1 can put him there and he
will stay there if l can keen him there.
Anything that comes from his hands
can justly be viewed with suspicion,
but in this affidavit there also figure
two reputable clerks, Snydecker and
jacobson. Snydecker testified that he
witnessed the affixihg of the signature
by Evelyn Nesbit He asked her if she
had read the affidavit. and if what was
contained therein was true. She an
swered yes, and then signed 1t. The
defense had every opportunity to call
Jacobson to refute this. but they did
not do So
Mr.. Jerome picked up the photo
graphic copy of the signature and last
page Of the affidavit and pointed out
| to the jury how il would be impossi-
BILE to piece together Evelyn's sigma
ture with that OF he affidavit. The date
CT the affidavit was there, as was tho
name of Snydecker.
The affidavit in brief, the district at