Connecticut western news., 1907-04-11

priest in bestowing his benediction to signify to his flock that all is well. He had struck for the home, for purity and for the protection of American womanhood."
 The effort, although delivered with a prodigious outlay of physical strength and nerve force, was, according to the expression of lawyers and spectators who heard 1t, a disappointment. | They were almost unit in declaring that the California advocate was over doing it or, as one attorney remarked, rubbing it in too thick"
 1 Again Denounces HummeI. MT. Delmas again denounced Abra- ham H. Hummel, calling him a con- victed felon, and commented at length on what he termed the plot of this | lawyer and White to injure Thaw. The story of the 'pie girr' was also refer red to, as was the scene in theater when Thaw saw White in box across from where he and Evelyn were sit l ting. The codicil to Thaw's will writ | ten on the night when he could first call Evelyn his honorable wife showed l how deeply the girls suffering had sunk into the heart of her savior, and he then resolved that the specter,. the monster, should be put out of the way. Then MT. Delmas told of Thaw's eff forts to cleanse the city of that foul spot of leprosy' and how he appealed to the Pinkertons and to Comstock and even to Jerome, the dis~ict attorney, to help him and how he failed misera- bly, His wife had told him the fight was useless. She knew. White had too many powerful friends. And so the battle for the purity of American wo- manhood was lost.
 AS MT. Delmas continued it became more and more noticeable that he was not holding his audience. He quoted at length from the story told by Eve lyn on the stand and made many touching references to the noble, white haired mother who had read the very soul of her boy and had done all she could to aid him in his task of saving beautiful child from a fiend who sought to drag her down to the depths. Evelyn's story was true, he declared. The mothers story was true in spite of
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 Put Yourself In His Place.
 MT. Delmas kept on making refer ences to that child' and her noble recommendations" the great, noble man that snatcned her from the clutches of "the monster;;" how the story told Ill Paris of her ruin had stirred Thaw to hox hn inh hod scended upon him and how the tenn pest gathered in his brain and swelled and gained impetus until it burst forth thunder and lightning and startled the whole world.
 'Put yourself in his place." he shout ed, pleading with the jurors to think of the time when they first met the women they loved. Put yourself in his place." he repeated, "and then go and do justice to Harry Thaw." This remark gave rise to some comment be- cause of the fact that MT. Delmas in beginning his address had declared he would make no appeal on the grounds of the "unwritten law" He seemed to have forgotten this, however, for fur ther on in his plea he attempted dra- matic reference to the days of old, when noble men went around rescu ing helpless maidens and were wor- shiped for their deeds. The lawyer argued that Thaw was as noble and as brave as any knight that ever drew a sword.
 "The alienists have told you that Thaw was insane" he said, when he shot Stanford White. They did not tell you what sort of insanity he had, but I tell you that those who have homes, wives and children know that it was the sort of insanity that makes a man believe that the sanctity of his home and the virtue of his wife are sacred"
 "Dementia Americana" was counsePs description to the jury of the species of insanity which afflicted Thaw when he shot White. Ut is the insanity that stays the creatures who betray your daughter, ruin your wives, pollute your honor,'' said MT. Delmas. Ut is the law of humanity, whatever may be the law written upon the statute books"
 Agent of Providence.
 In a manner like that of a preacher exhorting his flock to repent of their sins MT. Delmas concluded his argu- ment with the following appeal:
 "I will ask you to label that species of insanity which Thaw suffered from by a name that makes a man believe whoever brings pollution in his home must look to God for any future bene- fits he may expect. The law, gentle men, is human law. You are men of flesh and blood, men of families, and you have led wives to the altar, and violate no law when I speak as that Great One has spoken when he said, Do unto others as you would they would do unto you.' 1 recall that great book in which is contained all the wisdow and religion of the ages, and I say, Shall Jonathan die for working this great salvation in Israel? God forbid! No hair of his head shall | fall to the ground, for. on that day he wrought with God. I now, with all solemnity, leave into your hands the | fate of Harry K. Thaw."
 "Wait For Jerome!"