The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-04-11
DELMAS' ELOQUENT PLEA
Terrible Arraignment of Stanford White
and Mrs. Thaw's Mother

said in a message to Congress that
such A crime should be visited with
death. This was one of the suggcs-
tons which Thaw himself made 10
his counsel for his summing up
speech-One of the suggestions which
played SO important part in the pro-
ceedings before the lunacy commits
sion.
Mr.. Delmas declared that God
heard the cry OF the fated child upon
which Stanford White had fixed his
gaze and had determined should be
his. He quoted from Scripture that
he who afflicts a fatherless child
shall PERISH" and declared that
Providence had sent Thaw 10 aNenee
the wrong.
The atterhty declared that Thaw
| was kis wife s only protector-that liz
came into her life when she was on
the downward path, told her that no
matter what the world thought of her
she was to him an angel. He took
her to be his wife, ready to share the
burdens that a mother had helped ID
place upon her daughter
Mr. Delmas atcused Mrs. Nesbit of
having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. He sought 70 PIC
ture to the jury what he termed the
sinister surroundings in which the
girl had been reared and in doing 50
he mercllessly attacked the mother
Mr.. Defmas rose to the highest point
of his address When he Told the Jury
that the girl s mother was the one
who had furnished District Attorney
Jerome with s!ie arrows with which
to ,wo'l:t.u the daughter on cross-ex-
animation crOss-examination
which he declared would live long i'll
the annals Of crimlhai hlstroy, but
which left the girls story unshaken
IN Az It's essential details.
That Evelyn Nesbit's story was
true anG was told to Harry Thaw
formed the subject of argument for
more than an hour. Mr.. Delmss de-
elared the only evidence the district
attorney had to bring against the girl
was the "misscalled affidavit" pro
Irnred BY Abraham Hummel. Speak
ing of Hummel Mr.. Delmas again
drew havily upon HIS bitterest invec-
tive declaring that it would require
more than the word of perjured
man to SEND Harry Thaw to an ig-
nominous death.
Mr.. Delmas then gave a resume cf
Evelyn Nesbit s life from her birth
IN 1854 to the time she met Stanford
White. Continuing, he said:
Brave and courageous, we find
this child Of Is or 16 years of age,
rushing in the day time from studio
to studio, earning $16 to $1S a week,
and at night appearing 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 principles of the honor
able suitOr. He introduced himself
to her family in the guise of ar in
tiuential friend. He won his way into
the confidence of the mother and
established himself in a parental and
protecting attitude in the family, and
when his footing was sure he per-
suaded the mother to absent herself
from the city, assuring her that the
| child would be safe in his hands and
telling her how furtunste it was that
there was such protector to watch
over her. 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,