Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-09


 outset I want to say that we will not appeal to so shadowy a thing as the unwritten law. We find ample protec- tion for this defendants life and this defendants right in the written law, and to that law we shall come as the horn of the altar.
 II regret that it shall be my duty to refer to one who is dead. For the wid- ow who mourns and for the son who survive have only sympathy. Gladly would refrain from saying the things which I must say. I would that this task did not rest upon my hands.
 ''Gentlemen. the story to which you have listened is the story of two young people whom fate had determined should link their lives together. It is the most mournful, the most tragic and the saddest story that the ear of man has ever heard in court of jus tice.
 Let me begin with the story of the young woman, whose life has been as full of tragedy as though it were writ ten by the gifted hand of Shakespeare. The first years of her childhood saw the death of her father and left her intrusted to a mother who then re- vealed a character of frivolity and ex- travagance which was later to lead to such deplorable circumstances. Hun ger and want came to this child. At twelve years of age she was the brave, courageous little drudge of a family that moved from place to place with out fixed habitation like wandering Arabs. But nature had endowed her with the fatal gift of beauty. and at fifteen we see her in that perilous oc- cupation. an artists model
 Mir Delmas made striking appeal to the sympathies of the jurors. and % far as he progressed the subject of Thaw's insanity at the time he com mitted the homicide was not even hint cd at Mir. Delmas based his argument solely upon the story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. With flushed cheeks. but dry eyes. that young woman heard her life history repeated to the men who are to judge her husband and bowed her head as her mother was denounced in the bitterest terms and tones the eloquent lawyer could command.
 "Even a beast protects its young." he declared. with scornful emphasis. but this unnatural mother deserted her daughter in this city of millions to be betrayed by a false friend. to he lured into a gilded palace and there left the victim of a gray haired man. wounded. bleeding and devoured.
 Mr. Delmas went with great detail into the life Evelyn Nesbit had led up to the meeting with Harry Thaw. In all of his remarks he referred to her as this child" for child he said she was today. He told of Thsw's great love for her and his efforts to rescue her from "the clutches of Stanford White whose achievements in his profession. the attorney declared. were an aggravation of his crime. Mir. Del mas before beginning his attack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother poured out a torrent of denunciation upon the arcili- tect who became the victim of Thaws pistol He accused him of the crime of rape and then declared that Presi- dent Roosevelt had said in a message Co congress that such a crime should be visited with desth. This wss one sf the suggestions which Thav him self made to his counsel for his sum- ming up speech. one of the suggestions which played So important a part in the proceedings before the lunacy con- mission Mir Delmss declared that God heard the cry of the fated child upon whom Stanford White had fixed his gaze and 1. he'd determined should be his. He quoted from the Bible that he who 10jcfs . fsfherIess child shall per ]