Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-10
Thaw Thought of Wife's Safety.


Carnegie my brother-in-law."
Thaw Thought of Wife's Safety.
Gentlemen, l have dwelt upon these acts
and these declarations of Mr.. Thaw at that
time to call your attention to the fact that
the safety of his wife from the menace
which was implied by the very presence of
the man who he might we'll have thought
had followed him to the Cafe Martin, and
who he might well have thought had fol-
lowed him to the garden, the same man
who had followed his wife when she had
gone TO visit DR.. Delavan the same man
who had told May Mackenzie that he would
| still get her away from him-that the first
thought that welled up in his mind in this
| storm and stress was that at last his wife
was safe. Il have saved your life probably
my darling; l have saved you from the man
who has threatened my life-I, the only
| protector that now remains upon earth for
| you."And then when his mind was called by
the officer of the law to what he had done
what was the thought uppermost in his
| mind? He has ruined my wife, And to
the man in the elevator again, He has
| ruined my Wife
| What condition of mind gentlemen. was
Harry K. Thaw in at the time that when
| quietly and peaceaby walking down that
| aisle he turned and suddenly saw the form
the hideous form of the man who had been
| the cause of so much suffering and so much
sorrow to two innocent lives? Have YOU
ever been, gentlemen yourselves in mo-
ments of peril, in moments where your life
rung upon thread? You know that men
think on these occasions with the rapidity
of lightning, or, rather, that their minds
go back over the past and illuminate 1t, as
| does the lightning in the dark night when
1t blazes from the storm laden cloud
In the form that sat there Harry Thaw
saw in that flash of lightning the whole
panorama of-his past life. He saw In the
form of pretended friend and protector
when he had insidiously introduced him
self into this family where poverty dwelt,
lured and attracted there by the form of
the beautiful child, whose very beauty had
tempted him. He saw him laying his
plans in order to ingratiate himself into
the confidence of the mother and of the
child. He saw him planning to send the
mother away-the sole protector of this
unprotected and fatherless girl He saw
him paying her money to absent herself
from the city, while he could perpetrate the
deed of shame which he had deliberately
planned. He saw him Turing the poor
child to his den of vice and to his den of
infamy. He saw him in1aming her youth
full imagination by the objects of splendor
and Of sumptuous luxury which were there.
He saw him plying her with wine He
saw him administering to her fatal drug
He saw her mind wandering and her senses
losing their power and their consciousness
And he saw her next she lay dishonored
nd
| leering with lust and his form still tremu-
lOus with passion.
He saw him the next day going upon
his knees and kissing the hem of her
garment. He saw him poisoning her mind,
telling her that all women were bad He
| saw her stretched upon her bed of sickness
when she was at school. He saw and he
knew his love and his devotion for her. He
| saw her in Paris, when he lifted her up
tenderly in his arms and carried her as a
mother carries her hrst-born. He heard gain
| the proposal of honorable marriage which
| he had then made to her. He heard her re-
! fusal. He heard once again the agol1zin
| accents of the story which she told him
| He saw again the chamber in which he was
] pacing back and forth during the whole OF
| that terrible night, exclaiming to God "Oh.
/ God; oh, God, in your goodness why could
! you permit such an infamy 10 be perform
/ ed?" He saw him renewing his vows OF
/ love and his offers of marriage. He saw her
! coming back TO New York. and saw this
| same man, by SANDER and Infamous stories
| poisoning her mind against him, the only
| man who loved her, who could protect her
| He saw her about to fail once again into
| his hands. He her rescued from thai
! fate by himself, restored to him. He saw
| her when he led her to the altar and made
| her his bride.
| He went over the happy months when he
| had lived with her at his mothers house
| And he saw this same man, and he heard
once again the accused words, Il will
get her back again. And there he was
and there he had followed him. And his
mind reeled and the tower where his reason
sat enthroned topped over and he knew
not, reasoned not, struck; struck as does
the tigress strike the man, the invader
who comes to rob her of her cub: struck for
| the purity of home; struck for the purity
| OF American maidens; struck for the pur-
| ity OF American wives. struck. And who
! Shall tall that If no heIiarod t{,noalf ~,