Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-09
DELMAS HOLDS THE
MOTHER TOACCOUNT
Through Her influence the Ruin Of
Evelyn Thaw Was Primarily
Accomplished.

In the course Of his remarks Mr..
Delmas said:
ooh, unnatural mother that she
was, to desert her girl and leave her
the victim of this gray-haired man,
II and then to come now, in the
hour of her daughters supreme
agony, to steal away the life OF her
only protector.
Does a man who loves woman,
who has lavished his whole being on
her, invent a story which disgraces
in his mind, and in the minds OF the
world, the woman he loves?
These (conficting) statements
came from the lips Of the same man
abraham HummeD upon that wit
ness chair. They were uttered under
the solemnity of his oath, or what
ever solemnity may attach to the
oath of felon-a man convicted
and under sentence for perjury. One
of these statements was a deliberate
falsellood."
NEW YORK, April 9.-After giving
sketch of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's early life
yesterday afternoon Mr.. Delmas said: ION,
better far for Stanford White that he had
hot
never been opened than that he should have
heard the shrek Of his victim. What had
he done, this man whose hair was already
gray? He had committed the most terrible
crime that can be named. He had lured
a poor little child to her undoing. He had
crushed the poor little flower that was
struggling toward the light. He had COM
mitted a crime which the Chief Magistrate
of this republic In his last message to Con-
gress. said should be punished by death.
This man had forgotten that when our
Lord sat down a child among His disciples
He said
Christ's Care for Little Ones.
whatsoever receiveth such little child
in My name he shall dwell with Me for
ever: but who shall offend little one
such as this. it were better that a milestone
were tied about his neck and he were
drowned In the depths of the sea-
He gentlemen who had erected a tenn
pie to Abraham had forgotten the words of
the great Jehovah to the children OF Israel
that he who afflicted a fatherless child
should surely die.
..Oh. Stanford White, VINO entrapped a
child WHO had no father, who had been de-
serted by her mother. and was left alone in
a city of millions, had you imagined that
God would not hear that cry?
Had YOU forgotten retribution would be
at hand?
Better had it been for you that you died
before that day. for you might have died in
the splendor of your fame; or when your
departure would have been deplored by
your family; before your memory had sur
vived to be detested; before your name was
a byword and before your genius had been
an aggravaton Of your crime
Mr. Delmas next went into long dis
cussion as to whether or not it was true
Evelyn Nesbt had told her story to Thaw
In Paris in 1893 That he declared, was the
main question Of the trial.
Mr. Delmas said Mr. Jerome would de-
nounce Evelyn's story false-as the
cunning device of Harry. Thaw's mind. The
district attorney would declare that the
girls love for truthfulness made her revolt
at the idea of swearing to these false
charges against Stanford White, that she re-
fused to sign them in the face of threats
and great physical violence. The first in
quiry. said Mr.. Delmas. should be into the
veracity of Evelyn Nesbit.
Lured on by Wine.
Reverting to the story OF the wrong
done Evelyn Nesbit by White, Mr.. Delmas
recounted how White had poisoned the
mind of the girl by telling her that she had
committed no wrong.
when daylight came" the speaker con-
tlnued. "he. the strong. big man. went to
her apartments and knelt at the feet OF the
child. kissed the hem OF her garment, and
told her that what she had done was not
wrong and that the only sin was to be
found out: told her that If she would re-
frain from telling her mother or any one
else all would be we'll: told her that all
women were wicked: that some succeeded
In concealing their vices, some were found
out
And so he lured her again and again.
olied her with wine in the same den of In
iouIty or others he kept. and their relations
continued for a period of several months.
Again l ask. is this story true, or.
rather. Is the story which have related to
you the story which Evelyn Nesbit told
Harry Thaw In June. 1905. In Paris?
"If she never told Harry Thaw these
things, then when she appeared on the wit
ness stand she was an untruthful witness.
Was Her Story Truep
again II she did tell this story TO Harry
Thaw. was 1t true? Did the things she told
of actually occur? That they did you have
many evidences. In the first place, you
have her testimony that they did take
place In confederation OF her statements
/ beg to call your attention to various
things in the evidence.
You have seen Evelyn Thaw on the
stand. You have for days watched her
manner of testifying. From your expe-
rience as men of the world you can tell
whether or not this child-for child Is she
today-is a cunning actress. who was re-
peating a story she had learned and re-
| hearsed. You her countenance; you
| saw how horror overspread it when she told
| that terrible story.
''You saw the drawn face. you saw the
! courageous. brave. noble little girl strug-
| Cling between her natural feelings of mod