Evening journal., 1907-04-09

son would blame me: that I was only
poor unfortunate lite girl but in
spite of what had happened he intended
10 marry me anyway. ! told him it
was not right because Stanford
Whites friends knew OF it-that they
would be able to sneer at HIM and that
It would hurt him with his family But
he would not hear TO me and renewed
his offer Of marriage 7 did not think
il was right. I told him I would go
back to the stage-that would not
tie him down. ! wanted to marry him.
but I could not I loved him too much
TO max that sacrifice. always
Thought It was my talking in this way
which IN part affected him So
Sublime reaunciation, says the
sneering district attorney. sublime
sacrifice that a poor girl earning her
living by the hand work Of an artists
model and actress should refuse a rich
mans offer Of marriage.
''But I shall show you by the evil
dence that YOU cannot doubt that this
sublime remuneration was true; that 1t
was true that h had proposed marri-
age to her. and that she had refused
him: that It WAS true this refusal was
the act OF a noble sacrificing woman.
1T may DE that a man cannot rise
to the heights of self-s1crifice and SELF
abnegation. But, thank God. the
Creator placed in the nobier, more ten
der breast OF womankind power to rise
TO these heights.
When this power appears In our
daughters II becomes the Joy OF our
homes When it appears in our wives
At becomes the balm Of our lives"
Delnas referred 10 one of Thaw's
letters to Attorney Jlougfellow, in
which he said that he had proposed TO
Evelyn IN Paris ia June. but had been
refused because she SAID She could not
drag him down. as proof tnat this part
of the story was true.
"She would not become his wife be-
cause she feared she would shut him
out from his mother and sisters and
from that society to which he had been
accustomed. on. the sublime resigna-
tion of it-men Of sordid affairs may
not arise 10 that conception, hut this
littel girl did rise TO that sublime
height
IF this needs corroboration recall what
his mother testified that he told her. That
she refused him because she did not con-
slider IL a suitable marriage for hlm'-thai
this poor little girl earning her living by
the talent God had given her had refused
the man of wealth-again say dt was the
sublime self-abnegaton. unless this gray
haired mother came here and perjured her
self"
Then the speaker went into the great
main theme Of the defence-the effect OF
Evelyn's story upon the mind Of Harry
Thaw.
How he was continually going over Il
and over again. and how O. was never out
of his mind-such was the condition Of
Harry Thaws mind when he parted from
Evelyn in the fall Of 1908 and sent her TO
America before him. It was the first faint
dawn Of the mental condition which mani
tested itself three years later.
f'He says he went to call on her as
soon as he arrived in New York and
found that in the meantime such things
had happened that when he-the man she
ad loved-called she refused 70 see him
alone He found that her mind had been
poisoned against him. When she did, she
did not care to speak to him. Then she
told him she had heard certain stories thai
he put girl IN q bathtub and turned
boiling water upon her; that he took NOR
phine. that he was crazy.
Delmas made a strong point Of the sad
ness OF Thaw and the detection reflected
in his letters at that time.
Deimas went on at length to describe
Thaw's changed manner when he went "a
Pittsburg-how his mother noticed Il and
at last learned his secret.