Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-04-11
DELMAS' ADDRESS
The Brilliant California Attorney
Spoke for Two and One half
Hours to the Thaw Jury.
BASED UPONEvELYM'ss
Bitter DenunclatIon for white, Hum
mel and Mrs. Thaw's Mother
Providence Sent Thaw to
Avenge the Wrong.

New York, April 9.-The trial OF
Harry X. Thaw, charged with the
murder Of Stanford White is nearing
the end. Attorney Dolphin M. Del
mas the California advocate Monday
afternoon began his closing address
to the jury and after he had spoken
for more than two hours and half
an adjournment was taken until Tues
day morning. Mr.. Delmas expects
to conclude before the luncheon hour
is reached. District Attorney Jerome
will make the closing address on
Wednesday and Thaw's fate should
be in the hands Of the jury by We'd
nesday evening" Justice Fitzgerald
Monday ordered the jury locked up
until the end Of the trial. The judges
charge to the jury undoubtedly will
be delivered Immediately after the
district attorney concludes. The lat
ter says his speech will occupy not
more than three or four hours.
Declaring he would not base his
plea upon the "unwritten law" oe-
cause his client found ample protec-
ton in the written statutes OF the
state of New York, Mr.. Delmas made
striking appeal to the sympathies
Of the Jurors and SO far as he pro-
crossed the subject Of Thaw's insan'
Ity at the time he committed the
homicide was not even limited at.
Mr.. Delmas based his argument
solely upon the story of Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw. With flushed cheeks, but
drv 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 COM
mand. :,
gwen a beast protects its young,
Mr. Delmas declared with scorntui
emphasis, "but this unnatural mother
deserted her daughter in this city
of millions to be betrayed by a false
friend. to be lured into a gilded palace
and there left the victim Of a gray
haired man, wounded, bleeding ana
devoured."
"Mr Delmas went with great de-
tail into the life Evelyn Nesbit had
led M to the meeting with Harry
Thaw. In all of his remarks he re-
ferred to her as this child" for child
he said she was today. He told Of
Thaw's great love for her and his er-
forts to rescue her from "the clutches
of Stanford White, whose achieVe-
ments in his profession were an ag'
gravation of his crime"
Mr.. Delmas before beginning MS
attack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother
poured out a torrent of denunciation
upon the architect who became the
victim of Thaw's pistol. He accused
him of the crime of rape" and de-
clared President Roosevelt had SAID
in a message to Congress that such
a crime should be visited with deatn'
| This was one of the suggestions which
Thaw himself made to his counsel Tor
his summing up speech-one Of the
suggestions which played so impor'
tant a part in the proceedings before
the lunacy commission.
Mr.. Delmas declared that God
heard the cry Of the fated child upon
whom stanford white had fixed his
gaze and had determined should b
his. He quoted from scripture that
"he who afflicts fatherless child
shall perish" and declared that Prov
idence had sent Thaw to avense the
wrong.
The attorney declared Thaw Is hii
wIfe's only protector-that he came
into her life when she was on down
ward path. told her that no matter
what the world thought Of her she
was to him an angel. He took her tc
be his wife ready to share the bur
dens that a mother had helped tC
place upon her.
Mr.. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit o.
having lived upon the wages Of hei
daughters ruin. He sought to picture
to the Jury what he termed the sins
ter surroundings in which the CIR
had been reared and in doing 90 b
nercilessly attacked the mother. NJ
Delmas rose to the highest point oil
his address when he declared the
girls mother was the one who had
furnished District Attorney Jerome
with the arrows with which to wound
the daughter on cross examination
which he declared would live long IN
the annals of criminal history but
which left the girls story mistaken
in all its essential details.
That Evelyn Nesbits story was
true and was told to Harry Thav
formed the subject Of the argument
tOr more than an hour Mr.. Delmas
declared the only evidence the eis
trict attorney had 10 bring against
the girl was the miscalled affidavit
procured BY Abraham Hummel Speak
! ing Of Hummel, Mr. Delmas again
drew heavily upon his bitterest In
vectives and declared that II would
require more than the word Of a per
jured man to send Harry Thav % e.