Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-09


began to feel the pangs Of want.
'At 13 she became the family drudge.
assisting her mother. Thus the family
continued moving from place to place
without any fixed habtation.
But nature had endowed her with
the fatal gift of beauty-a beauty which
manifested itself in youth, a gift with
which the mother soon saw means OF
supporting the family.
AT IA years she was In Philadelphia,
already embarked upon the perilous sea
Of an artists model But New York,
the metropolis, was the market where
such natural gifts are most sought and
most dearly paid for, and to New York
the family came. and by the procure
ment of the mother the employment be-
gun in Philadelphia was renewed and
the beautiful child wended her way
through the street from morn till noon
and from noon to eve, from studio to
studio and from artist to artist. and at
the end of the week the scant earnings
she carried to her mother for the sup
port of the family.
Brave and courageous we find this
child at 10 years of age rushing in the
daytime from studio to studio, earning
SIC to SIS week, and at night appear
ing upon the boards and earning an
equal salary.
AT this time we find man whose
hair was tinged with gray, who had an
excellent wife and an accomplished son,
fixing his eyes upon the fated child and
determining to make her his. To win
her he had none of the graces or prin-
ciples of the honorable sultor. He con-
Quoted himself to the family in the
guise of an influential friend.
Poses as a Protector
HE won his way into the confidence
of the mother and established himself
in a paternal and protecting attitude in
the family, and when his footing was
sure he persuaded the mother to absent
herself from the city, assuring her that
the child would be safe in his hands
and telling her how fortunate 1t was
that there was such protector toI
watch over her. The child was left
alone.
81 wish it were in my power to pass
over the scene which followed. 1 wish
1t did not have to be embodied 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 possessed, into one
of these dens this child was lured and
found herself alone with this man, old
enough to be her father the man who
was her protector.
Must tell you how she was led on,
step by step, how she was piled with
wine and drugged and finally become
his victim?
THAT story you have heard from the
childs faltering lips. Better that he i
should never have lived than to have
lived to hear the cries of anguish of the
victim who lay before him. He had
the greatest crime that ever
defiled the image of God.
HE had lured to destruction and had
crushed the child who had trusted
him. He had committed a crime
against the law of this state, a crime |
that the chief magistrate of this coun-
try in message to congress said should
be punished by death.
Bible Quotations
Had this man forgotten that when
our Lord set down a child among his
disciples, he said:
'Whosoever receiveth such a little
child in my name he shall dwell with
me forever, but who shall offend little
one such as this 1t were better that a
millstone were tied about his neck and
he were drowned in the depths Of the
sea-
He, gentlemen, who had erected a
temple to Abraham, had forgotten the
words of a great Jehovah to the chill |
dren of Israel, that he who afflicted a |
fatherless child should surely die.
"Oh, Stanford White, who entrapped |
a child who had no father, who had |
been deserted by her mother and was
left alone In a city's millions, had you
imagined that God would not hear that
cry?
Had you forgotten that retribution
would be at hand? Better had 1t been
for you that you died before that day. |
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 at
tended your obsequies, before your |
name was a byword and before your
genius had been an aggravation of
your crime"
Mr. Delmas next went into a long
discussion as to whether it was true |
that Eveleyn Nesbit had told her story |
to Thaw in Paris In 1903. Reverting |
to the story of the wrong done Evelyn |
Nesbit by White, Mr.. Delmas recount |
ed how White had poisoned the mind |
of the girl by telling her that she had |
committed no wrong.
When Daylight Came
"When daylight came," the speaker
COulluuSu, ne, the DlBI SLTOlB IldT |
went to her apartments and knelt at |
the feet Of this child, kissed the HIem of |
her garment and told her that what |
she had done was not wrong, and that |
the only sin was to be found out He |
told her that if she would refrain from
telling her mother or any one else, all |
would be WELL told her that all wo-
men were wicked; that some succeed |
ed in concealing their vices; piled her !
with wine in the same den of iniquity, |
and their relations continued for a |
period of several months.
Again I ask is this story true or
rather is the story which have related |
to you the story which Evelyn Nesbit |
told Harry Thaw in June 1903, in Paris? |
IF 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 the things she told of actually oc-
cur? That they did you have many
evidences.
I'm the first place you have her
testimony that they did take place. In
corroboration of her statements 1 beg
to call your attention to various things