Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-10
THE THAW TRIAL.
Continued from Page One.)

to make you believe that this story is
not true. that it is impossible" went
on Mr.. Delmas. But l shall prove to
you beyond the slightest doubt that
she did refuse him and refused him for
that reason and that reason alone.
Man, it may be. has not that great
power of remuneration, but in the
gentler breast Of woman do we find
that great gift of God and in the breast
of this little girl existed this great
strength that enabled her to put aside
her love when she knew it was for the
gooG Of the one she loved"
Mr.. Delmas then referred to and read
abstracts from the letters which Thaw
wrote to Attorney Longfellow in Sep
tember 1903 In this letter Thaw wrote
that he had proposed marriage to Eve
Ign but she had refused point blank
because "she said it would shut me out
from my relatives"
THE genuineness of this letter" Mr..
Delinas argued, cannot be denied
What then did it mean when ThaW
wrote to Mr.. Longfellow that Evelyn
would not marry him.
SIS it not true that she refused MN
'rhaw wrote that she thought first and
then rejected his offer. Yes she
thought. She looked upon the man she
loved. she looked upon her own past
and she did not want to bring re-
proach upon the man who would nave
married her
Down in her little and noble heart
she said: Harry, | love you anu pc
cause | love YOU | DO not want 10 lie
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that people would point the finger oil
scorn at YOU; I want to leave you Tree
ard the moment you think it is best lor
Won I will go my sad way. | VIII go
back and earn my own living anu you
shall be free and honcr1d.
yves. she thought. The sneer OF the
district attorney is unjustified. The lit
tie girl did sacrifice herself. did rise e.
the heights Of sublime remuneration.
Mr. Dclmas here read from Mrs. Will
liam rhaw's testimony and went on:
did that venerable gray-haired
mother invent this story which she
saws nor son told her? Or did he tell
an untruth when he contided to his
loved mother and told her that he loved
this girl and wanted to devote his life
TO hGl ANA all lIlIo liiIIC hh''S i'NeA>
girl was using the talents God had
given her to make a living for herSeit
refusing to marry the wealthy man
who loved her and whom she loved, De
cause she thought it was for the besl
for him. Oh, sublime self-abnegatlon.
MI Delmas then read from EveiHh
testimony recalling the portions OF mel
story in which she told Of the effect Oh
IL,
her story on Thaws mind and how our
ing the months in which she was WITH
him in Europe his mental suffering
seemed to increase.
"Such was the condition Of Harry
Thaw's mind when in the fall OF l5o'
he parted from Evelyn Nesbit IN Eu-
rome and sent her back to New iorF
ahead of him. There. gentlemen Jol
have the first dawn Of the mental con
dition which manifested itself three
years afterward.
1.-The foundations of his rea Son were
undermined. The storm had not burst
but the clouds We're gathering from tbs
four POINTS OF the compass anu iron
them the lightning and thunder were
10 burst in three years and astoundet
the world"
Mr. Dellnas then repeated that part o.
Mrs. Thaw'.; story i'll which she told o.
ha ving refused to see him after he mac
followed her home from Europe. because
Of the dreadful things" friends OF Stan
ford White had tod her about him,
Mr. pemas read also Of the girl telling
Thaw that White had taken her to scy
Abraham Hummel.
What the condition of mis- mind at that
time was is shown you. gentlemen bH
documents of irdubitable senuincnt-S
The letters Mr. rhaw wrote to Attorney
I.ongfelow voice the wall from . SUI.
fering soul as has never been voiced bj
a dramatist from the days OF the Greek:
down to the present tune
Air. Delmas read many o. the letters t,
which he had referred. IL one OF then
Thaw, speaking of himself in the thit,
person, said: He would have done any
thing for you. but now YOU must &c
stronger without him. Poor little Eve
Ign, You have fallen back into III,
hands Of the man who poisoned your life
and who is now poisoning your mind"
eff you don't believe in me as Il gen
tlcman. wrote Harry rhaw, there |:
nothing to do Being honest and faithful
poetry nor oratory contain simpler
sadder or more melancholy story of desc
lation than that which came as a descr
waste on the mind of this young maj
when The saw the gill he loved go bacl
to the man from whose clutches he ha,
rescued her. In this condition OF minC
Harry Thaw lett New York and went Z
his mothers home i'll PittsburE. Up t
this time Harry Thaw had been MAJ
of cheerful temperament. but the moth
ers eye saw how the change had come.
Mr. Demas then read from Mrs. Viii
liam Thaw's testimony regarding the &C
+ions of her son at that time. how h'
was moody, how he did not sleep, how
ale often went to the piano.
He struck the chords Of the instru
ment" went on Mr.. DelmaS. until they
shuddered like the groan of a soul il
agony until the storm passed from hin
and the music grew softer and finally
died away. The owing mother heard hi
sobs. she saw him awake until the era,
of dawn. He told that mother that TIL
story was one he could not repeat to her
but soon by mothers art she won he
way into her sons soul and little by lit
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