Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-04-17
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Terrible Arraignnlent of Stanford White
and Mrs. ThaW's Mother

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I.such a crime should be visited with
death. This was one of the sugges-
|, ,tions which Thaw himself made to
his counsel for his summing up
speech-one of the suggestions which
played SO important part in the pro-
'ceedings before the lunacy commits
sion.
Mr.. Delmas declared that God
heard the cry Of the fated child upon
which Stanford White had fixed his
gaze and had determined should be
his. He quoted from Scripture that
sshe who afiicts fatherless child
shall PERISH" and declared that
Providence had sent Thaw to avenge
the wrong.
The attorney declared that Thaw
! was his wife's only protector-that lie
came into her life when she was Oh
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
burdens that mother had helped TO
place upon her daughter.
Mr.. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit OF
having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. He sought to pic
ture to the jury what he termed the
sinister surroundings in which the
girl had been reared and in doing so
he mercilessly attacked the mother.
Mr.. Delmas rose to the highest point
of his address when he told the jury
that the girls mother was the one
who had furnished District Attorney
Jerome with the arrows with which
to wound the daughter on cross-ex-
animation = a cross-e1amination
which lie declared would live long in
the annals Of criminal histroy, but
which left the girls story mistaken
in all its essential details.
That Evelyn Nesbit's story was
true and was told to Harry Thaw
formed the subject Of argument for
more than an hour. Mr.. Delmas de-
clared the only evidence the district
attorney had to bring against the girl
was the "misscalled affidavit" pro-
cured by Abraham Huramel. Speak
ing of Hummel Mr.. Delmas again
drew havily upon his bitterest invec-
tive declaring that it would require
more than the word of a perjured
man to send Harry Thaw to an ig-
nominous death.
Mr.. Delmas then gave resume Of
Evelyn Nesbit's life from her birth
in 1884 to the time she met Stanford
White. Continuing, he said:
"Brave and courageous, we find
this child of Is or Is years of age,
rushing in the day time from studio
to studio, earning SIG to $1S week,
and at night appearing upon the
boards and earning. an equal salary.
cat this time we find man whose
hair was tinged with gray, who had
an excellent wife and an accomplished
son, fixing his eyes upon the fated
child and determining to make her
his. To win her he had none Of the
graces or principles of the honor
able suitor. He introduced himself
to her family in the guise of an in
fuential friend. He won his way into
the confidence .of the mother and
established himself in parental and
protecting attitude in the family, and
when his footing was sure he per-
suaded the mother to absent herself
from the city, assuring her that the
child would be safe in his hands and
telling her how furtunate it was that
there was such protector to watch
over her. In one Of those dens fitted
up with ali the beauty and taste
which this man of genius possessed; !;
into one Of these dens this child was
lured and found herself alone with
this man, old enough to be her father,
the man who was her protector.