The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-11


these pictures for which Evelyn her
self said she posed upon the night be-
fore she was outraged. l knew that
this evidence would not be admitted /
knew that even if the counsel for the
defense had not objected. the learned
Judge would have ruled 1t out. 1t was
offered to call the cheap bluff of my
/ learned opponent.
SO strange is it that this angel
child'-this girl of the chorus, should
| believe what she says Stanford White
told her about all women being bad,
and some simply so fortunate as not to
De found out. Does what she did AFTER
ward appeal TO YOUR sense? Can II APP
peal to any mans common sense? Con
| trast her action with that of other
girls. Was she brought up any more
carefully than your own daughters
have been brought up? Go back to
when they were 10 years of age and
| think what such a thing as we have
heard would have meS mt to them. What
does this girl do2 Does she shrink
from this man? Does she abhor him?
Visits to the Tower.
mo" Numbered the district attor-
ney. She meets him again and again.
I Eight or nine times she goes to the
tower and to the Twenty-fourth street
house with this human ogre who had
stripped her of her virginity. Sine met
him time and again. and far from re-
pelling those fearful attacks. we find
her, by her own words, at one time
undressing i'm a room downstairs while
White was talking with a friend upon
the floor above
This dragon preying upon female
virtue wrote this angel child letter
after letter. scores of them. Some of
them were identified, but was a single
one put in evidence and read? No.
There is nothing to show you that these
letters contained anything that was
bad. Would not some of these letters
contain something to indicate the
vicious character, the evil disposition
of this very wicked man?
But they contained nothing of the
sort. Now contrast this with the mod
ern st. George who led the angel
child back into the paths of virtue in
November. 1905. writing her letters in
which he discussed sexual perversion.
''Oh, that we might try this case be-
fore jury permitted TO hear all the
evidence l have not been permitted by
law to show to you where Stanford
White was the night after the pictures
were taken of this angel child'-the
night she says she was raped.
Stanford White Defended.
AS I have sat here i'm this court
room unable to raise hand i'm reply to
some of the things that have been ut
tered, it has seemed to me |. have
heard the voice of Stanford White call
ing from the spirit world asking me if
could not utter one word for him
must I be blackened as by the fires Of
hell. unheard and undefended?'
Mr. Jerome paused for a few mo-
ments and then continued:
Now, gentlemen. let US see what ell
this girl herself says of the horrible
demon who ruined her. She says Out
side of this one awful thing / admired
Stanford White. He had a most ex-
traordinary personality What an ex-
traordinary panegyric that is coming
from those lips
stanford Whites Iips are sealed by
death and by the rules of evidence. But
what are we expected to believe of a
man to whom such a tribute is paid by
the girl he so brutality sedueed?
Gentlemen, I am not here to defend
Stanford White, but I am compelled to
say that there is a difference between
unchastity and brutality: there is a diff
ference between the man of the world
and the brute who ravishes Her own
words have ruined the theory that
Stanford White was a brute. Has she
been 50 enlightened by this modern St.
1tOEER Aldl al last she mas come 10
believe that all women are not I'M
chaste and yet she can come here, but
% years of age. and sit in that chair
mad describe the man who ravished her
as a girl of Is in the remarkable way
that she has done?
Dead Man Interested in Evelyn.
stamford White was wealthy man.
a man who found enjoyment, God
rt-1, -, Ia r
pie. He sees this child blow into his
circle. You have looked upon the girl
in court, and you can well draw a pic
ture at the time that she went to ap-
ply for position in the Florodora cho-
rus and was told by the manager he
was not conducting kindergarten or
a baby fair.
1T was natural that rich man. like
Stanford White. moving in the circle
in which he did. should have tried to
help this girl. It was natural that he
should give her the little gifts of wear
ing apparel which tended to her COM
fort. There is nothing in his conduct
consistent with the theory that the re-
latiOns between the two were not pure
do not know how il was, and neither
do you, except as this girl tells us, and,
gentlemen. ] must submit in all solem-
nifty that she does not tell the truth.
IO0 ilc1Nt ~ tNitatilCt OulSiue OF her
own story that the relations between
her and White were impure. And the
character of her story may best be
judged by her statement that all of
her experiences with this man were
against her will-that they were all
assault-yet we find her voluntarily in
his rooms waiting and willing for the
awful attacks of this monster"
Evelyn on "The Great White Way"
Discussing the life Of Evelyn Nesbit.
Mr.. Jerome said
we know what this sort of life
the life of the stage-is. We pass along
the great white way of this city and
see something of it,
Mr.. Jerome called attention to the
early youth ct which Evelyn Nesbit
made her appearance on that motor
ious thoroughfare." Now. why do you
think Garland was paying her atten-
tions?" he asked, land he a married
mo-