The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-04-12


your presence i'm this court At the
outset | want 10 say that we will not
appeal 10 so shadowy a thing as the
mwritten law. We find ample proiec-
tion for this defendants life and this
defendants right in the written law,
and to that law we shall come as the
horn Of the altar.
81 regret that it shall be my duty To-
refer TO one who IS dead. For the Wild
ow who mourns and for the son who
survive l have only sympathy Gladly
would | refrain from saying the THINKS
which I must say. l would that this
task did not rest upon my hands.
"Genilemen. the story TO which you
have listened IS the story Of two young
people whom fate had determined
sbould link their lives rbgether. 1t is
the most mournful. the most tragic
and the saddest story that the ear of
man has ever heard in court OF jus.
tice.
let me begin with the story OF The
Young woman. whose life has been as
ful Of tragedy as though st We're writ
tcn hy the gifted hand Of Shakespeare
The first years of her childhood sa"
the death of her father and left heI
infrusted 10 a mother who then re
vealed a character Of frivolity and ok
travaeance which was later TO lead %
such deplorable circumstances. Hun
Ger and want came 90 this child a
twelve years Of age she was the brave
courageous little drudge Of a family
that moved from place 10 place with
ONT fixed hahltation like wanderlni
Arabs. But nature had endowed bel
with the fatal gift Of beauty. and %
fifteen we see her I'm that perilous oc
cupatlon. an artists model"
Mr. Delmas made striking appea
10 the sympathies Of the jurors. an
So far as he progressed the subject o
Thaw's insanity at the time he com
mitted the homicide was not even hint
cd at Mr.. Delmas based his arglimoi
SOLELY upon the story Of Evelyn Nesb'
Thaw. With flushed checks. but dr
ewes. that young woman heard h'
life history repeated 10 the men wl
are 10 Judge her husband and boWe
her head ms her mother was denounce
I'm the Interest terms and tones th
eloqucnt lawyer could command.
"Eren a beast protects its young
he declared. with scornful emphasis
.hnt this unnatural mother deserte
her daughter I'm this city of millions
he betrayed 10y a false friend, To D
lnrea into a gilded palace and ihei
left the victim Of a gray haired mai
+ wounded. bleeding and devoured.
Mr. Delmas went with great deia
into the life Evelyn Neshit had Ted o.
to the meeting with Harry Thaw.
an of bis remarks he referred to hI
as "this child" for child De said 81
, was today. lie told Of Thaw's gree
love for her and his efforts TO reset
! bor from "the clutches Of Stanlol
WHITE whose achievements in ID
I profession. the attorney declared. we
an aemavation Of his crime. Mr p'
mas before beginning his attack up
! EVELYN Thaw's mother poured ont
r torrent of denunciatlon upon the are.
Z tact who became the victim of ThaW
ni-fol. lie accused him Of the 'crli
of rape" and then declared that Pre-
dent Roosevelt had said IN messa
II 10 congress that such crime shou
p, he visited with death. This was o
Of tie suggestions which Ihaw h'
IS self made TO his counsel FOR bis en-
e ming up speech. one Of the suggestlC
which played so important a part
the proceedings before the lunacy co
mission.
" Mr.. Delmas declared that God he'
the CRY Of the fated child upon VIII
:. Stanford White had fixed his gaze q
10 had determined should be his.
quoted from the Bible that "he IS
amlcts fatherless child shall p
L lsh~ and declared that Providence B
T. sent Thaw 70 avenge the wrong.
The attorney paid a glowing trlo
10 the love which Thaw and his vs.