The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-10


 that man--such was the constancy and burden of his love; persuaded his moth- CT. the mother whom he adored, to come to New York and see the girl whose sad story she already knew and who, in her womanly heart, she could put pity-she came to the little girl and besought her hand for her son. The little girl who had withstood the pleadings of the son could not resist the pleadings of the mother. and SO, April 4. 1905, their parents on both sides consented. and they met at the aItar and were united. Dhe man pledges to the woman before Almighty God. that all through life he would pro- tect her.
 Coming to New York, the girl meets stanford White on the street. and the man stared at her and had the audacity to call her by her first name. She hur- ried back to the hotel, where her hus- band was. and, like Q true wife, she told him what had happened. He be- came nervous, angry and excited and made the girl promise always to tell him whenever she met the blackguard.
 Followed by White.
 Again in New York, the girl. driv- ing down Fifth Avenue, sees the man. Their hansoms cross. He stared at her and pulled at his moustache and stared and stared. When her hanson turned into a side street, where she cab also turned and followed.
 Again she related the incident to her husband. Now, gentlemen, In May. 1906. just one short month before Stan ford Whites career on this earth was to end. Harry Thaw heard this story: May Mckenzie had told Evelyn that White had come to see her at the hos- pital. When May Mackenzie said to him that Harry and Evelyn seemed to be so fond of each other. Stanford White said, Pooh, pooh; I do not be- lieve it. May Mackenzie said: Oh. yes. it is so; I know 1t myself, and I think 1t is so nice.' We'll said stan ford White. it will not last long. I will yet get her back Harry Thaw had cause to become excited. He had cause to lose his reason. He imagined attempts were being made to take the girl away from him-the girl who was his lawful wife.
 But armed with his right, and i'm spired by his God to redeem the pledge made at the altar. he determined 1t should not be so.
 She was his wife," Delmas contin- ued with renewed force. "his honorod wife. and when he heard that this man had said he would get her back, he already saw her polluted by his touch. He already fancied the crime commit ted, for he remembered that 1t Is writ ten in the Word of God: 'whosoever looketh upon woman with lust Tn his eyes hath already committed adul- tery.'
 And from that time. gentlemen, the haunting thought was that he might lose her, and that Stanford White was constant menace to his home. IEor- TOT never left it. She, Evelyn, in her testimony, says that he, MT. Thaw, would wake in the middle of the night and that she found him sobbing and biting his nails. He was constantly asking me questions, and this happens some times several times in the night
 Other Victims of White.
 You must remember that one by one Harry Thaw had learned specific stories of other victims of this man. She had told him the story Stanford White had told her about the girl in the pie"
 MT. Delmas then read Evelyn's tes- timony relating to the pie incident and what Thaw told her about 1t as we'll as what she told him about 1t. He also read the testimony regarding what Thaw told her of the other girls whom. he said, were the victims of White. Thaw had told her, she testified, that White ought to be in the penitentiary, as he was a dangerous man and was doing untold harm in the community.
 ''In support of his contention that Thaw took sincere interest in the welfare of the girls whom he believed to have been wronged by Stanford White. MT. Delmas produced the codi- cil in which Thaw set aside thousands of dollars ito vindicate and redeem and rescue from c life of infamy the vari- nn9 victims of Stafford White
 Waving the document dramatically before the jury, Delmas pictured the drafting of 1t on the very night when Thaw found all his hopes realized in the ceremony which made Evelyn his wife. On that same night MT. Delmas argued. Thaw's thoughts drifted back to the time when his wife was wrong ed by Stanford White, and thinking of the other girls ruined and de- graded by the same person, he sat down and handed the codicil to the witness. With much emotion MT. Delmas referred to the fate of. the litle "pie girl" and vehemently con- tinued:
 And Stanford White thought he would play with this child. now the wife of MT. Thaw. in, the same inhu- man manner and in the end cast her off like a dirty rag to float her way down life's sewers into a pauper's grave. These were the thoughts that came over him and never left him. We admire the chivalry of the knights of the middle ages who went about redressing wrongs and rescuing maid ems in distrises. Why should we withhold our sympathy from this brave man who was so anxious to take a part in the rescue of young girls in this city?
 Letter to Com6stock.
 The efforts of Harry Thaw to pro- tect the community against the poll lution of Stanford White did not end even with the provisions of the will and codicil So deep was the im- pression on the mind of Harry Thaw, so overwhelming and irresistible was the impulse that he had in the early part of 1906, written letter to An thony Comstock, in whose special charge he believed tho morals of this community had been placed, telling of Stanford White and his band and of their dens where they enti ed young girls and ruined them.
 He called upon the district attor- ney. the same man who Is here trying to take this mans life, demanding that he cleanse the city of this lep- rous sore. He went to the principal detective agency that they might fer ret out the facts that this man might be sent to prison, where he belonged. but again he was baffled. But he did not lose courage. He battled on . And when he told his brave littleswife about his efforts. she, better informed than he was as to the power of these people. told him that they were too rich and powerful for him and that he would never succeed. that they had friends who would stop anything he