Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-09

read abstracts from the letter which Thaw wrote Attorney Longfellow in September, 1903. In this letter Thaw wrote that he had proposed marriage to Evelyn, but she had re- fused point blank, because "she said 1t would shut me out from my rela- tives."
 The genuineness of this letter" MT Delmas argued, cannot be de- nied What then did it mean when Thaw wrote to MT Longfellow that Evelyn would not marry him?
 ''Is it not true that she had re- fused him? Thaw wrote that she thought first and then rejected his offer. Yes, she thought. She looked upon the man she loved, she looked upon her, own past and she did not want to bring reproach upon the man who would have married her.
 Down in her little and noble heart she said: Harry, love you, and because love you I do not want to tie my unfortunate existence to yours, so that people would point the finger of scOrn at you; want to leave you free and the moment you think it is best for you, I will go my sad way. will go back and earn my own living, and you shall be free and honored'
 Yes, she thought. The sheer of the district attorney is unjustified. The little girl did sacrifice herself, did rise to the heights of sublime re- nunciation."
 MT Delmas here read from Mrs William Thaw's testimony, and went on:
 Did that venerable gray haired mother invent this story which she says her son told her? Or did he tell an untruth when he confided to his loved mother and told her that he loved this girl and wanted to de- vote his life to her? And all this time that little girl was using the talents God had given her to make a living 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." MT Delmas then read from Eve lyn's 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 men, tai suffering seemed to increase. Mir Delmas will finish his address to the jury in Thaw's defense to-day. Then there will remain nothing more but District Attorney Jerome's ad- dress to the jury and Justice Fitzger- aids charge. The case should sure ly go to the jury by Thursday and the probability is that it will be sub mitted to them Wednesday after noon. MT Delmas spoke for two and a half hours yesterday, reviewing the evidence and putting upon it the de- fense's construction. He had prac- tically finished with this portion of his address when court adjourned last night. Yesterday he had not mentioned the subject of insanity, but had devoted himself entirely to an attempt to show that the evidence proves that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw told the truth on the stand when she said she told the story to Harry Thaw in Paris in 1903 and that the story was true. He also took occasion to de- nounce Evelyn's mother :n the bitter est terms. He fiatly accused Abra- ham Hummel of committing perjury on the witness stand and waxed elo- quent when detailing the debarred attorneys record.
 To-day Mir Delmas got down to the actual story of the shooting and ar gued that Thaw was insane at the time he committed the homicide. Yesterday he eulogized Evleyn Nes- bit Thaw, calling her one of the bravest and truest women the world had ever seen and, fiayed Stanford White mercilessly.
 He had expressed his sfntention of not bringing into the case the "un-