The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-10

VI AitoSt PROFESSIONAL utttiNEIS-
" If you don't believe in me as a
gentleman wrote Harry Thaw. there
Is nothing TO do. Being honest and
faithful has finished me.
Desoiate and Agonized.
The pages neither of poetry nor Of
ordUory contain a simpler. sadder story
Of desolation than that which came as
a desert waste uDOn 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
PittsbUrs. Up to this time Harry h.
been man of cheerful temperament.
but the mothers eyes saw how the
change had come
Mr.. Delmas then read from Mrs
William ThaW'S testimony regarding
the actions of her son at that time.
He struck the chords of the piano.
went on MI. Delmas. until they re-
sounded like a vail. until they shuu-
dered like Il gTOan 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 of dawn. He told that mother
that the story was one he could not
art. she won her way into the son S
soul and little by little he told the
story
Lest We Forget
Then. gentlemen, you remember that
awful scene in the church. You re-
member the organ was rolling and the
voices We're appealing to the Lord God
of Hosts, the God of armies and Of
navies, be with us yet, lest we for
get, lest we forget,
Forget. the voices rang. forget the
poet had written; but in Harry Thaw'e
heart rang a voice. you can never for
get. you can never forget that that in
nocent little one is gone from you for
ever and has returned to the clutches
Of those who ruined her.
This. then, was Harry Thaw's men
tai condition. Must he give her up?
He could not, he would not Brave,
courage Gus, indOmita BILE mau that he
was, he conceived Chat he had a mis-
sion to perform. The thought of lit
tie Evelyn in those HANDS was more
than the tOrtures Of he'll to him he
came back to New York to try once
more TO save her"
Mr.. Delmas read from EveIyn-s testi-
mohy regarding meetings with ThaW
at this time, how she refused for a
time TO see him. but finally how they
met and she learned the stories she
had heard were not true.
Dawn of Hope
When Harry Thaw convinced Eve
lyn that these stories were not true, |
hope began to dawn again in his heart |
The barriers which had been set up
between the two young people were
falling into ruins one by one. Tho two
hearts that God had intended should be |
'ne were approaching nearer and near |
ar until that blessed night of Dec. u, |
lsGS. 1t was a night which nigh have
meant n new chapter IN the misery OF /
this child, but fate dec~ee1 otherwise. /
stanford White, in a room in the lofty I
lower he had builded. had spread /
banquet in honor of the birth |
lay of his child victim. 1t was his
nope amid the surroundings of gram /
1eur and treasures of art he had gath /
cred into his apartments To lure the /
girl back once again and to resume the /
awful work he had done.
snatched from Her 6etrayer.
But that night the brave man who !
had devoted his life to the interests /
IF this girl. snatched her from the 4
laws Of death, snatched her from the /
inares Of disgrace. snatched her from |
nv man " tlU lldu DtNtl Il tllfSft ~ IeE I
md a curse TO himself, snatched her
rom the Old lecher who saw in her
1ut toy TO crafty n moments lust
md then be cast aside To go her way
Town the paths of fallen women
Mr.. Delmas' oratory held The rapt at
ention of the jury and court rom.
After Thaw had rescued Evelyn Nesbit
rom White in 1908 he feared thence
orth that the architect lad designs
lpOn his life and that, once he was
the girl would ''be left IN
at the mercy of her raw
sher."
n 1904
Persuaded by His Mother.
In 1904 we find a second capital
was performed upon this
Dung girl When she was GONZALES
ent the man who for two years had
ought her hand and VINO for four years
lad loved her, the man who had told
he girls sad story to his mother, the I
nan whom she had refused because She
cit that their union would tear him
rom his family and social relations.
hat man-such was the constancy and
urden of his love-persuaded his
mother. the mother whom he adored
0 come to New York and see the girl
those sad story she already knew and
'hO in her WOmanly heart she could
VI pity-she came to the little girl and
esought her hand for her son.
The little girl who had withstOod the
ieadings of the son, could not resist
he Dleadings of the mother. And so,
n April ; 1895, their parents consent
q and they met at the altar and were
nited. The man pledged to the wom-
n before the Almighty God that all
Trough life he would protect her.
White Followed Her.
Coming 20 New York, the girl wife
leets Stanford White on the street.
nd the man stared at her and had the ,
udacity to call her by her first name.
he hurried back 10 the hotel where ,
er husband was, and, like a loyal wife,
I'D him what had happened. He be- !
anne nervous and angry and made ,
he wife promise always to tell him !