The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-09
DELMAS BEGINS HIS
 ADDRESS TO JURY

the family and when his footing was sure. he persuaded the mother to ab- sent herself from the city, assuring ner that the child would be safe in his hands and telling her how fortu- nate it was that there was such a protector to watch over her.
 Would Pass Over Scene. The child was left alone. I wish 1t were in my power to pass over the scene which followed: wish 1t did not have to be embodied in my arxu- ment to you; but my duty leaves me no choice. In one of those dens filled up with all the beauty and taste which the man of genius possessed into one or these dens, this child was lured and found herself alone with this man, old enough to be her fatner, the man who was her protector.
 Must I tell you how she was led on step by step; how she was piled with wine and drugged and finally be- came his victim. That story you have heard from that child's falterinr lips, Better that he should never have lived than to have lived to have heard the cries of anguish of the victim who lay before him. He had committed thA greatest crime that ever defiIed the | struction and had crushed the child who had trusted him. He had com mitted a crime against the law of this State, crime that the chief magis- trate of this country tn a. message to Congress said should be punished by death. ''
 Had this man forgotten that when disciples He said:
 Whosover receiveth such n little cnlid in My name he shall dwell with Me ever, but who shall offend a little one such as this 1t were better that mill stone were tied about his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea- VI
 He. gentlemen. who had erected a temple to Abraham had forgotten. the words of the great Jehovah to the children of Israel. that he who af nicted fatherless child should surely
 "oh, Stanford White, who entrapped child who had no father, who had been deserted by her mother and was cry? ''e'' 'ha'
 Retribution At Hand.
 Had you forgotten that retributfon would be at hand? Better had if been for you that you died before that day, TOT 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 byword and before your genius had been aggravation Of your crime"
 MT. Delmas next wont into a long | discussion as to whether or not was not true that Evelyn Nesbit had told Gt f4 | That he declared was the main uues- tion. of the trial MT. Delmas said MT. Jerome would denounce Evelyn's story as false, as the cunning device of Harry Thaw's mind. The district attorney would declare that the girls love for truthfulness made her revolt at the idea of swearing to these false charges against Stanford White; that she refused to sign them in the face of threats and great phyiscal violence.
 The first inquiry, said MT. Delmas, should be into the veracity of Evelyn Nesbit Reverting to the story of the wrong done Evelyn Nesbit by White MT. pelmas recoutned how White had poisoned the mind of the girl by tell ing her that she had committed no wrong.
 When daylight came," the speaker continued, "he the strong, big man went to her apartments and knelt at the feet of this child, kissed the hem of her garment and told her that what she had done was not wrong and that the only sin was to be found out. Told her that if she would refrain from telling her mother or any one else all would be well. Told her that all women were wicked, that some suc- ceeded in concealing their vices, some were found out,
 And so he lured her again and again, piled her with wine in the same den of iniquity or others he kept and their relations continued for a period of several months.
 Again I ask Is this story true, or rather is the story which I have re- lated; the story which Evelyn Nes- bit told Harry Thaw in June, 1903. in Paris.
 If she never told Harry these things then when she appeared on the wit ness stand she was an untruthful wit ness. Again, If she did tell the story to Harry Thaw was it true? Did the things she told actually occur? That they did you have many evidences"
 "In the first place, yeu have her tes- timony that they did take place. In corrobration of her statements, beg 1 to call your attention ta various things in the evidence. You have seen Eve- | lyn Thaw on the stand. You have, for | days, watched her manner of testify 1 ing. From your experienced as men of | the world. you can tell whether or not | this child-for child she is today-is a cunning actress, who was repeating a story she had learned; you saw her countenance: you saw how horror overspread 1t. when she told that ter rible story. Gladly she put herself in that plight for the sake of one of the persons in the world who loves her, the one person she loves. You saw her strained face; you saw her struggle to l tell the truth. You saw her for days struggling through a cross-eXamina- ton which has no parallel in this or any other country. You saw her fight for days inch by inch. against the man who had sworn to make her widow. You saw her fighting against the arts that that learned and brilliant man could bring to bear to break this child's story
 You saw her undergo that terrible ordeal. but did you see her finch Did you see her hesitate? No.
 Evelyn and White.
 Under the merciless cross-examina~ tion. you heard from her unwilling but truthful lips that her relations with Stanford White, once begun, continued until her nature revolted; until God asserted Himself. Do you need any more proof than that her story is true? If it were false, would it not have bean easier for her to say that