The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-09

brother sent away to school, except TO
remove prying eyes; ...
-Ano her matter I call your atteilt loh
! to-during the year following this Ter
/ ribie event Stanford White contracted
/ to pay Evelyn Nesbit S25 week When
| she was unable to earn living upon
| the stage. The checks which are mere IN
/ evidence show that many of them were
| payable to the mother. 1t has heen ne
ured that the mother receiver az tlie
/ hands of Stanford White IN tnaI yea
| SO. 0O0-an enormous sum to this woman
who had been living in mean lodgings
without enough to eat The distrIGI at
| toTney will tell you that Stanford Nhlle
was then in Strengthened circumstance.
/ Why, then / ask you, was he pdyiI,S
| Evelyn Nesbit's mother $500 A month!
Hummei Employed.
! Mr. Delmas then took up the story
| of Miss SimCnton's return from Europe
I where she had learned EYelyn's story
| She went TO Stanford White and con
| fronted him WITH il. i was then that
White went to Hummel.
That shows that Stanford White
/ saw danger ahead and was ready TO do
| anything TO gain protection. There
upon, as soon as Evelyn returned pa
| per was drawn up to which L VIII REFER
! later.
Gentlemen. do you remember
| Christmas of 1903? Do you remember
that banquet which Stanford White
had arranged in celebration OF Evelyn
Nesbits birthday? Do you remember
that Harry X. Thaw succeeded in res
cuing her from Stanford Whites
clutches, and that White went to the
theatre later and flourishing a revolt
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before morning?
Things like these pay glowing trib-
ute to Evelyn Nesbit's story"
Mr. Delmas had a score or more Of
legal cap sheets. to which he referred
occasionally, and particularly when he
came down to the actual argument as
to the motive Stanford White had in
paying money 20 Evelyn's mother and
in sending Howard Nesbit to school
at his expense,
Fiendish Mother.
When Mr.. Delmas had completed his
denunciation of Stanford White he
launched into q merciless attack on
Evelyn Thaws mother. He first re-
called to the jury that in the early part
of the trial, wnen the name of the
mother was first mentioned, he stated
that he would not cast any reflections
lieving her to have been the helpless
victim of circumstances.
when I said this. gentlemen" Mr..
Delmas continued, Il wish you to bear
in mind that three things had not yet
develOped-that for years after this
crime had been committed, upon this
girl, the mother received $500 a month
from the ravisheT; that the mother had
given to the district attorney a written
statement by which he might torture
the soul of her daughter, by which he
might leave her alone in the world
her father dead, her mother unnatural,
her husband executed.
when I learned that every shaft
aimed at her heart came from culver
supplied by her mother; when l learn
ed that it was the mother who was
pointing out the sore and tender spots
for the district attorney TO attack, and
when / learned that the poor babblings
of a girl in schOol-her diary-had been
furnished by the mother that they
might be used against her, ! retracted,
as I retract now, the statements which
1 made in behalf of the mother.
Worse Than a Beast.
"Oh, unnatural mother that she was,
to desert her girl and leave her the
victim of the lust of this gray-haired
man; to receive for a year the wages
of her daughters downfall; to wear
diamonds bought with such money as
this, and then to come now in the hour
of her daughters supreme agony to
steal away the life of her only protec-
tor.
why. gentlemen OF the jury. beast
protects her young. / have even seen
a little bird, watching over her brood
of young in a dusty road. ruffle her
brave little feathers until she was
twice her natural size, and fly straight
at a pointer who had come running
up, until the dog stood abashed and re-
spected the mother
''Oh, shame upon this woman
Harry Thaw's Love.
Not content with what she has al
ready done, she would take away the
life of the one human being who came
as an angel into the life of this girl
upon the downward path, who told
the girl that whatever she might be in
the eyes of a sinful and debauched
world, he knew her soul was pure.
He said: Yes. ] know that your
soul is pure; l know it was not your
fault; ] know you are an unfortunate
and betrayed girl; but come TO me and
1 will protect you. About your form
will throw the strong arm of a man.
1 will fight the battles of life with you
at my side. No matter what others
may think OF you. l think you are an
angel. To me YOU are fairer than
Rachel at the well or Ruth in the
fields"
Mr.. Deimas halted his address for a
few minutes At this point and sat down
to rest. Juror No II wiped his eyes
with a handkerchief.
Proof of EveIyn's Story.
When Mr.. Delmas resumed he de-
clared that there was documentary evil
ience to prove that Evelyn Nesbit told
Harry Thaw the story of her downfall
in Paris in 1903. He quoted at length
from the letters Thaw wrote from