Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09

shall go down, where so many others
have gone before me, and disappear
from the world
"Yes. she thought. The sneer of the
district attorney is unjustified. The lit
tie girl did sacrifice herself, and did
rise to the heights of sublime renunci-
ation."
Thaw's Mother ExtolIed.
Delmas here read from Mrs. Will
lam Thaws Testimony. and went on:
Did that venerable, gray haired
mother come here to perjure herself?
Did she invent this story which she
says her som told her, or did he tell
an untruth when he confided unto his
beloved mother and told her that he
loved this girl and wanted to devote
his life to her? And all this time that
little girl was going along, using the
talents God had given her to make a
living for herself, refusing to marry
wealthy man who loved her. and whom
she<loved, because she thought it was
the best for him. oh, sublime self
abnegation."
Reads From EveIyn's Testimony.
Delmas read at length from Evelyn's
testimony. recalling portions of her
story, in which she told the effect of
her story on Thaw's mind, and how
during the months in which she was
with him in Europe, his mental suf-
fering seemed to increase.
"Such was the condition of Harry
Thaw's mind when, in the fall of 1908,
he parted from Evelyn in Europe and
sent her back to New York ahead of
him. There, gentlemen, you have the
first dawn of the mental condition
which manifested itself three years af-
'terward. The foundations of his rea-
son were undermined. The storm had
not burst, but the clouds were gather
pass. and from them lightning and
thunder were to burst in three years
and astound the world
Delmas turned again to Evelyn's 'tes
timony, and repeated that part of it
in which she told of having refused to
see him after he had followed her home
from Europe, because of the dreadful
things" which friends of White had
told her about him.
Evelyn told him what had been re-
lated to her regarding putting the girl
in a bath tub and turning hot water
on her, Of using morphine, and tying
girls to bed posts and beating them.
"Thaw.' Delmas added, "shook his
head sadly, and said, Poor Evelyn. I"
Del1nas read also of the girl telling
Thaw that White had taken her to see
Hummel.
-, 40 - IT,
at that time is shown to you gentle-
men by documents of indubitable gem
uineness. The letters which Thaw
wrote to Attorney Longfellow are q
picture Of the sad epoch in his life
they voice vail from suffering
soul, such as has never been voiced
by the dramatist from the days of the
Greeks down to the present time"
Delmas read many letters to which
he had referred commenting upon
them as he read.
Thaw's Pathetic Plea.
eff you don't believe in me as a
gentleman wrote Thaw, there is moth
ing to do. Being honest and faithful
has finished me-. Pages neither Of
poetry nor oratory contain a simpler,
sadder, or more melancholy story Of
desolatior than that which came as
a desert waste on the mind of this
young man when he saw the girl he
loved go back to the man from whose
clutches he had rescued her. In this
condition of mind Harry Thaw left
New York, and went to his mothers
home in Pittsburg. Up to this time
Thaw mad been a man of cheerful
temperament, but the mothers eyes
saw how the change had come"
Delmas then read from Mrs. Will
lam Thaw's testimony regarding the
actions of her son at that time; how
he was moody and quiet, how he did
not sleep. how he often went to the
piano.
DeImas Wakes Eloquent.
"He stuck the chords on the instru-
ment," went on Delmas, until they re-
sounded like wall, until they shud-
dered like the groan of a soul in agony,
until the storm passed from him and
the music grew softer and finally died
away. The loving mother heard his
sobs. she saw him awake until the
gray dawn. He told that mother that
the story was one that he could not
repeat to her, but soon, by the moth
er's art. she won her way into her
sons soul and little by little he told the
story.
"Then, gentlemen, you remember
that awful scene in church. You re-
member the organ was rolling and the
voices were appealing to the Lord God
of Hosts, the God of armies and of
navies, BE with US yet, lest we forget,
lest we forget Forget the voices
rang; forget, the poet has written; but
in Harry Thaw's heart rang voice,
You can never forget, you can never
forget that Thaws innocent little one
is gone from you forever, and has re-
turned to the clutches of those who ru-
med her
Thaw's Mission Revealed.
"This, then was Harry Thaw's men
al condition. Must he give her up?
He could not, he would not. Brave,
courageous, he conceived he had a
mission to perform. The thought of
little Evelyn in those hands was more
han the tortures of hell to him. He
came back to New York to try once
more to save her."
Delnaas then read from Evelyn's tes-
.imony regarding her meetings with
Thaw at this time, of how she refused
,or time to see him, but finally how
hey met and she discovered that the
stories she had heard were not true.
Delmas declared that the stories
about Thaw's alleged wrong doing
we're invented to protect White from
me wrath which he felt was to come
When Harry Thaw had convinced