The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
MRS. THAWOVERCOME.
Wife Of Whites Slayer Affected
by DeImas' Summing Up.
EvELYN's MOTHER is SCORED

In Dramatic Plea to Jury California
Lawyer Denounces Abe Hummel and
Says Better That Slain Architect Had
Never Been Born.
New York, ApIl 9.-Making Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw tht%nain issue in his APP.
peal, portraying her as a child lured
to her fate by a man of genius, who
had better never have been born, and
calling upon the jurors to decide
whether the young wife played an ac-
tress' part on the witness stand or by
her manner forced upon them the con-
viction of the truth of her story, Del
~ X. Thaw, made a forceful summing
up address to the jury.
Around Evelyn he built the founda-
lions of the defenses argument that
Harry Thaw should not pay with his
life for shooting Stanford White. To
Mr. Jerome he referred as the merci-
less district attorney" saying that he
had been unable through days of try
ing cross examination to force one adj
mission that reflected upon her verac
ity or to disprove one important de-
tail of the story she had told.
Speaking deliberately and impressive
ly, Mr.. Delmas turned against the
state the very argument Mr.. Jerome
had used in suggesting the appoint
ment Of lunacy commission, the find
ings of which the prosecutor vainly
tried to have rejected by the court.
MIR. Delmas' Speech.
PitilessE Mr.. DeImas handled the
memory Of Stanford White. After de
scribng Evelyn's life as ii model and
her change to stage life he said
I'll could not be long before the
tempter came He won his way into
the confidence of the mother with
paternal attitude toward the family"
Referring to the night Evelyn says
she was drpgged he graphically de-
scribed the apartment to which she
had been invited and exclaimed:
"Oh. Stanford White. did you in the
unpiety of your hardened heart mag
inc that the cry of that fatherless
child, sounding alone in this city of
millions, did you imagine God would
not hear that cry?
Better that Stanford White had
never been born"
Evelyn was overcome by emotion as
the recital progressed. Her eyes filled
with tears. and then unable to check
her sobs. she buried her face in her
handkerchief as. Mr. Delmas told OF
how nature had endowed her with the
fatal gift of beauty"
"Oh, Unnatural Motherl"
Referring 10 Evelyn's mother, Mr..
Delmas said
ooh. unnatural motherl You who
received the wages Of her downfall
for year. now in the hour of her
supreme agony you come to the aid
of the prosecution. have seen poor
little bird with brood Of young ones
playing in the middle of dusty road,
and | have seen pointer dog dash
upon the little group. have seen the
mother dash with fury straight at the
great dog. who stood abashed at the
exhibition of mothcrly devotion. oh.
shame! Not content with what she
had done, she tries to take away the
life of one who came like an angel TO
this little girl and said Whatever a
censorious world may say about you,
believe in the purity of your heart
Come. will protect you l will care
for you. My strong arm shall be about
you. for | love you better than Rachel
by the we'll
The references to Abe Hummel We're
exceedingly bitter. Slow speaking, his
voice low, vet intense, seldom rising so
that 1t could be heard by those seated
ia the rear of the room. the great
pleader from the Golden Gate said
Hummel was as priest who had be
smirched the altar at which he had
sworn to administer. His professional
life was pathway strewn with vic
Tins Of his rapacity.
Report Confirmed.
Before the jury was brought in Dis
trict Attorney Jerome asked that the
report Of the lunacy commission be not
confirmed He had no argument to Of
fer For reply Justice Fitzgerald
reached for the report, which lay on
his desk, and confirmed it.
Mr.. Jerome will have his innings to-
morrow, and the case will probably go
to the jury on Thursday
The Same In the Long Run.