Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-09

ish" and declared that Providence had
 sent Thaw to avenge the wrong.
 The attorney paid glowing tribute
 to the love which Thaw and his wife
 bear each other. He declared that
 Thaw is the girls only protector; that
 he came into her life when she was on
 the downward path; told her that, no
 matter what the world thought of her,
 she was to him an angel. He took her
 to be his wife, ready to share the bur
 dens that mother had helped to place
 upon her own daughter.
 MT. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit of
 having lived upon the wages of her daughters ruin. He sought to picture
 to the jury what he termed the sinis-
 ter surroundings in which the girl had
 been reared, and in doing so he mer- cilessly attacked the mother MT. Del mas rose to the highest point of his
 address when he told the jury that the girls mother was the one who had fur nished District Attorney Jerome with the arrows with which to wound the
 daughter on cross examination, cross examination which he declared would live long in the annals of criminal history, but which left the girls story unshaken in all its essential details.
 That Evelyn Nesbit's story was true and was told to Harry Thaw formed the subject of the argument for more than an hour. MT. Delmas declared the only evidence the district attorney had to bring against the girl was the mis- called affidavit" procured by Abraham Hummel. Speaking of the latter, Mir. Delmas again drew heavily upon the bitterest adjectives of his wide vocab- ulary and asserted with emphasis that 1t would require more than the word of perjured man to send Harry Thaw to an ignominious death. Hum- mel was accused by Mir. Delmas of having committed deliberate perjury upon the stand in the present trial when he swore he was not acting as Evelyn Nesbit's counsel and that no action was contemplated in her behalf. He said the so called affidavit itself convicted the man of these falsehoods.
 Delmas declared there must be some thing more than "this wretched Hum- mel affidavit upon winch to convict Harry Thaw. He denounced Hummel as man ready to commit crime for money.
 He denounced .Hummel as liar. as a perjurer, as scoundrel and as man who was absolutely unworthy of belief. He handled Jerome with kid gloves, spoke of him as wonderful cross examiner, but insisted that he had not done his full duty when he permitted Hummel to commit positive perjury.
 He swore he had never been attor- ney for Evelyn Nesbit.' he said, yet on the back of this very paper which lay before the district attorneys eyes when this man was on the stand are the words Howe X Hummel, attor- neys for plaintiff
 ''On the paper itself are these words, Evelyn Nesbit, plaintiff, versus Har- " K. Thaw, defendant This man perjured when he told you he was l not her counsel, perjured when he said | he was not her attorney. perjured when he told you no action was con in her beha:. What was the reason for the drawing of this pa per? It is simple. Miss Simonton had returned from Europe and went to Stanford White with the story Evelyn Nesbit had told her. He knew that what he had done would eternally dis grace him if it became known; that it might send him to prison.
 Upon it's face this paper proves that the man who dictated it committed perjury on the stand. I know that he ! is convicted felon. I know that there are now two indictments against i him for procuring false testimony"
 And you. gentlemen" Delmas con- tinued. ''are asked upon this mans testimony to make this poor child widow by sending this defendant to an ignominious death.'
 MT. Delmas' voice had grown quite husky by this time, and he asked for an adjournment.
 All of Thaw's family were in the courtroom. They sat stolid. as usual. throughout the course of MT. Delmas' argument. their features betraying no emotion which they might feel. Thaw n.,I t. his attorney seemed to strike some telling blow. and they smiled back a reflection of his own pleasure. Thaw also turned frequently to his wife. who in the last stages of the trial. as in the first. seems to be standing the brunt of the storm. She had a responsive smile ready for his every look Want American Forces Withdrawn.