The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-09

Brave and coura geOus, We find this
child at 10 years of age rushing in the
daytime from studio to studio, earning
Sl6 To SIS a week. and at night appear
ing upon the boards and earning an
equal salary.
Stanford White Appears.
At this time we find man whose
hair was tinged with gray. who had an
excellent wife ana 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
OF principles of the honora BILE sutton. He
conducted himself to the family in the
guiSe Of an influential friend He won
his way into the confidence of the
mother and established himself in 3
p1ternal and protecting attitude in the
family, and when his footing was sure
ne persuaded the mother TO absent her
self from the city, assuring her that the
child would be safe in his hands and
telling her how fortunate it was that
there was such a protector to watch
over her. The child was left alone. /
wish it were in my power TO pass over
the scene which followed. / wish ii did
not have to be embodied in my aTgu-
ment 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 % be her father.
Crime of Crimes.
Must / tell you how she was led on.
step by step, now she was piled with
wine and Grugged, and finally became
his victim. That story you have heard
fro mthe chid's faltering lips Better
that he should never have lived than
10 have lived to have heard the cries
of anguish of the victim who lay before
him He had committed the greatest
crime that ever defiled the image of
Cod He had lured to destruction and
had crushed the child who had trusted
him. He had committed crime against
the law. against the law of this state.
a crime that the chief magistrate Of
this country in a message to congress
said should be punished by death.
Had this man forgotten that when
our Lord sat down a child among his
disciples, he said: 'WhOsoever receiv-
eth such a little child in my name ne
shall dwell with US forever but who
shall offend a little one such as this. Ii
We're better that a milestone were tied
about his neck and he were drowned
in the depths of the sea.
Forgot the Words of Jehovah.
He. gentlemen, who had erected a
temple to Abraham had forgotten the
words OF the great Jehovah to the ehl-
dren of Israel, that he who afflicted
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 city Of millions. had you
imagined that God would not hear that
cry?
Had you forgotten that retribution
would he 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
name was a byword and before your
genius had been an aggravation of your
crime"
Mr.. Delmas next went into a long dis
cussiOn as to whether it was not true
that Evelyn Nesbit had told her story
to Thaw in Paris in 1903.
Poisoned the Girls Mind.
Reverting to the story of the wrong
done Evelyn Nesbit by White, Mr.. |
DelInas recounted how White had poi- |
''AACt AtA1 hliAiAI VI NllG Siil DN lelllES
her that she had committed no wrong
when daylight came" the speaker
continued, he, the strong. big man.
went TO her apartments ami kneit at
the feet of this child, kissed the hem
of her garment and told her that what
she done was not wrong and that the
only sin was TO be found out. He told
her that if she would refrain from tell !
ing her mother or anyone else. all Il
IL l. IN.
were wicked, that some succeeded in |
their vices, some were found |
out.
And so he lured her again and again, |
piled her with wine in the sanla den Of |
iniquitY or others he kept. and their re- |
lations continued for a period of sew
eral months.
Again I ask. is this story true. or
rather is the story I have related to you
the story which Evelyn Nesbit told
Harry Thaw in June, 1903, in Paris2
Evelyn Thaw's Testimony.
IF she never told Harry Thaw these
things, then when she appeared on the
witness stand she was an untruthfill |
witness Again, if she did tell this
story to Harry Thaw, was il true? Did |
the things she told of actually Occur?
That they did. you have many evi- 4
dences. In the first place. you have her |
testimony that they did take place. In |
of her statements I beg
to call your attention to various things
i'm the evidence. You have watched her |
manner of testifying. From your ex-
perience as men of the world, YOU can |
tell whether or not this child. for ch.'d
she is today, IS a cunning actress, who |
was repeating a story she had learned |
and rehearsed. You saw her coun- |
tenance; you saw how horror over |
spread it when she told that terrible |
story. Gladly she put herself in that |
plight for the sake of the one person |
in the world who loved her. the une |
person she loved You saw her
strained face. you saw her struggle 10 |
tell the truth. You saw her for days
through a cross-examinafion !
which has no parallel in this country
or any other country. You SAW her /
fight for days inch by inch against the !
man who had sworn TO make her a !
widow. You saw her fighting against
. /.