The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-09


for you, that you died before that day
for then yon might have died In the -sz2len
dor of your fame; when your departure
would have been deplored by your fam
lily; when all would have attended you
obsequies, before your name was by
word and before your genius mad beer
an aggravation of your crime
Story In Paris.
Mr.. Delmas next went into long dis.
cussion as to whether or not it was moi
true that Evelyn Nesbit had told hei
story in Paris in 1903. That, he declared
was the main question of the trial. Mr.
Delmas said Mr. Jerome would denounce
Evelyn's story as false, as the cunning
device of Harry Thaw's mind. The dis
trict attorney would declare the girls
love for truthfulness made her revolt al
the idea of swearing to these false
charges against Stanford White; that she
refused to sign them in the face oil
threats and great physical violence.
The first inquiry, said Mr.. Delmas,
should be into the veracity of Evelyn
Nesbit. Reverting to the story of the
wrong done Evelyn Nesbit by Mr.. White
Mr.. Delmas recounted how White had
poisoned the mind of the girl by telling
her that she had committed no wrong.
Had Done No Wrong.
when daylight came" the speaker
continued, he, the strong, big man, went
to her apartments and knelt at the feet
of this child, kissed the hem of her gar
ment and told her what she had done
was not wrong and that the only sin was
to be found out. Told her If she would
refrain from telling her mother or any
one else all would be well. Told her
that all women were wicked, that some
succeeded in concealing their vices, some
were found out.
And so he lured her and again piled
her with wine in the same den of iniquity,
or others he kept and their relations con-
tinued 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 Nesblt
told Harry Thaw in June, 1903, in Paris?
If she never told Harry Thaw those
things, then when she appeared on the
witness stand she was an untruthful wit
ness.
Story to Thaw.
Again, il she did tell the story to Harry
| Thaw, was 1t true? Did the things she
told actually occur? That they did you
have many evidences.
In the first place, you have here tes-
timony that they did take place. In cor
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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 ex-
perience as men of the world you can tell
whether or not this child-for child she
is today-s a cunning actress, who was
repeating a story she had learned. You
| saw her countenance; you saw how hor-
ror overspread it when she told that ter
nil 10 rAx H. rhA N
that plight for the sake of the one per-
son in the world who loves her, the one
person she loves. You saw her strained
face; you saw her struggle to tell the
truth. You saw her for days struggling
throuhg DISCRIMINATION which has
no parallel in this or any other country.
You saw her fight for days, inch by
inch against the man who has sworn
| to make her a widow. You saw her fight
ing against the arts that the learned and
brilliant man could bring to bear to
break this chids story.
Terrible Ordeal.
"You saw her undergo that terrible or
deal, but did you see her finch? Did you
| see her hesitate? No.
Under the merciless cross -examina
| ton you heard from her unwilling but
truthful lips that her relations with Stan
| ford White once begun, continued until
her nature revoted; until God asserted
himself. Do you need any more proof
than that that her story Is true? If 1t
were false, would 1t not have been easier
for her to say that the relations were not
continued?
Whole Story.
"But she told the whole story--she told
the whole truth.
Zone other question | want to ask you.
Why did Stanford White just at that
moment remove the mother, this child S
only protector, as guardian upon her ten
der years, as sentinel on her lettering
steps on the slippery walks of New York?
Why was the mother sent to Pittsburg
with money furnished by White? Why
was the young brother sent away TO
school, except to remove prying eyes?
another matter | call your attention
to-, During the year following this ter
rible event, White contracted to pay
Evelyn Nesbit s25 a week when she was
unable to earn her living on the stage.
The checks which are here in evidence
show that many of them were payable TO
the mother. 1t has been figured that the
mother received at the hands of Stanford
White in that time $3500-an enormous
sum to this woman who had been living
in mean lodgings without enough to eat.
The district attorney will tell You that
Stanford White was then in Strengthened
circumstances Why, then, l ask you,
was he paying Evelyn Nesbits mother
$500 month";" 81,
Miss Simonton's Story.
mr.. Delmas then took up the story of
Miss Simonton's return from Europe,
where she had learned Evelyn Nesbit s
story She went to Stanford White and
confronted him with it. 1t was then
that White went to Abe Hummel.
That shows said Mr.. Demas, that
Stanford White saw danger ahead, and
w ready to do anything to gain pro-
lection Thereupon, as soon as Evelyn
Nesbitt returned a paper was drawn up
to which l will refer later.
| Gentlemen, do you remember Christ
mas of 1903? Do you remember the ban
quet that Stanford White had arranged
in celebration of Evelyn Nesbit's birth
day? Do you remember that Harry Thaw
succeeded in rescuing her from White $
clutches and that White went to the
theatre later and fiuorlshing a revolver,
swore to take Thaw's life before morn
ing?
Things like these pay glowing tribute
to Evelyn Nesbits story"
Mr. Delmas had a score or more of legal
sheets to which he referred occasionally
AMI particularly when he came down to
the actual argument as to the motive
Stanford White had in paying money
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