The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-09

fatal girt Of beauty beauty which man
Tested Itself In youth. n gift with which
he mother soon saw means OF supporting
he family.
"At fourteen she was In Philadelphia,
already embarked upon the perilous sea
of an artls<s model But New York, the
great metropolis. was the market where
'uch natural gifts are most sought and
most dearly paid for, and TO New York
he family came. and Ivy the procurement
,f the mother, the employment begun In
Philadelphia was renewed. and the beau
Aful child wended her way through the
streets from morn I'LL noon and from
rom artist to artist, and at the end OF
The week the scant earnings she carried
TO her mother for the support OF the
amily.
Brave and courageous, we nnd this
child OF fifteen years OF age rushing in
the daytime from studio 10 studio earn
Ing S16 to SIS n week, and at night ap-
pearlng upon the boards and earning an
equal salary.
''At this lime we find a man whose hair
was tinged with gray, who had an en-
cellent wife and an accomplished son,
fixing his eyes upon the tated child and
determining to make her his. To win
her he had none Of the graces prln-
ciples of the honorable sultor. He CON
Quoted himself to the family in the gulse
of an influential friend He won his
nnd established himself in a paternal and
protecting attitude In the family. and
when his footing WAS sure he persuaded
the mother 10 absent herself from the
city, assuring her that the child would
be safe in his hands, and telling her how
fortunate il was that there was such
protector Ia watch over her. The child
left alone. / wish IL were in my
power 10 pass over the scene which fol-
lowed. l wish It did not have 10 be en-
bodied In my argument TO you, but my
duty gives me no choice, In one OF those
dens fitted up with all the beauty and
taste which this man of genius pos
sessed. into one of these dens this child
lured and found herself alone with
this man. old enough TO be her father.
the man who was her protector.
Story of Girls Ruin,
Must ! tell you how she was led on,
step by step. how she was piled with
wine and drugged. and finally became his
Victim That story you have heard from
the child's faltering lips. Better that
be should never have lived than To have
lived to have heard the cries of anguish
had committed the greatest crime that
ever defiled the Image Of God He had
lUrcd 10 destruction and had crushed the
child who had trusted him. lie had com
mitued crime against the law, against
the law of this State. a crime that the
chief magistrate OF this country In
message TO Congress said should be pun
HAD this man forgotten that when our
Lord set down child among his disci-
Piles lie said: 'Whosoever receiveth such
n Httle Cnlld IN my name ne Shau dWcll
with Me forever. but who shall offend
little one such as this, it We're better
that mllstone We're tied about HIS neck
and he were drowned in the depths OF
the sea
lie gentlemen. who had erected a
temple 10 Abraham, had forgotten the
words OF the Great Jehovah 10 the chill
dren OF Israel, that he who afflicted
fatherless child should surely die.
"Oh, stanford White. who entrapped a
child who had no father, who had been
alone in city of millions. had you imas-
ined that God would not hear that cry?
Had you forgotten that retribution
would be at hand? Better had II been
for then you might have died in the !
splendor Of your fame. when your de-
parture would have been deplored by your
family. when all would have attended |
your obsequies: before your name was a |
hyword and before your genius had been |
an aggravation OF your crlmeH
Mr.. Delmas next weht into q long dis |
cussion as to whether 1t was true that |
Evelyn Nesbit had told her story 20 Thaw !
In Paris In 1903,
RevertIng TO the story of tho wrong |
done Evelyn Nesbit by White, Mr.. Del |
mas recounted how White had poisoned |
the mind OF the girl by telling her that |
she had committed no wrong.
Encouraged Her In Sin.
when daylight came" the speaker
continued, 'he. the strong, big man, went |
of this child. kissed the hem of her gar |
ment and told her that what she done ]
was not wrong and that the only sin |
was 10 be found out. He told her that
If she would refrain 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, |
piled her with wine in the same den of !
iniquiIy or others that he kept. and their |
relations continued Tor a period of sew
eral months.
Again l ask You, is this story true or |
rather Is the story which has been re- !
lated TO you, the story which Evelyn |
Nesbit told Harry Thaw in June, 1903: |
in Paris?
III she never told Harry Thaw these |
things, then when she appeared on the |
witness stand she was an untruthful |
witness. Again. If she did tell this story |
TO Harry Thaw. was it true? Did these |
things she told OF actually occur2 That
they did, you have many evidences. In |
the first place. you have her testimony
that they did take place. In corrobora
ton OF her statements ! beg 10 call your
attention 10 various things in the evil
dence. You have watched her manner |