The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-10

the word of God. .whosoever looketh
upon d woman with lust in his eyes
/ hath already committed adultery. And
| from that time, gentlemen, the haunt
I ing thought was that he might lose
her, and that stanford White was a
/ constant menace TO his home. Horror
never left him. Evelyn. in her testi-
4 nony, says that Mr. Thaw would
wake in the middle of the night and j
! found him sobbing and biting his nails.
1 He was constantly asking me Ques-
| tons. and this happened several times
\ I'm the night
You must remember that one by one
| Harry Thaw had learned specific sto-
ries of other victims of this man. She
/ had told him the story White had told
/ her about the girl in the pie
/ Delmas read Evelyn's testimony re-
/ lating to the pie incident and what
Thaw told her about il. as well as what
she told him about it. He also read
the testimony regarding what Thaw
/ told her of the other girls who, he said,
We're the victims Of White. Thaw had
told her that White ought to be in the
/ penitentiary as he was dangerous
man and was doing untold harm in the
community
In support of his contention that Thaw
took a sincere interest in the welfare
of the girls whom he believed to have
been wronged by White. Mr.. Delmas
produced the codiciI in which Thaw
set aside thousands of dollars TO vim
dictate and redeem and rescue from
life of infamy the various victims of
Stanford White"
Waving the document dramatically
before the jury. Delmas pictured the
drafting Of it upon the very night when
Thaw found all his hopes realized in
L -
wife. On Il az same night, Mr. Delmas
argued Thaw's thoughts drifted back
to the time when his wife was wronged
by Stanford White, and thinking of
the other girls ruined and degraded by
the same person. he sat down and
added the codicil to his will
And Stanford White thought he
would play with this child. now the wife
of Mir. ThaW, in the same manner, and
in the end cast her off like dirty rag
tC float her way down life's sewers into
q pauper's grave. These were the
thoughts that came over him and new
er left him. We admire the chivalry
of the knights of the Middle Ages who
went about redressing wrongs and res
cuing maidens i'm distress. Why should
we withhold our sympathy from this
brave man who was anxious to take a
part in the rescue Of young girls in this
city,
Tried to Save Others.
The efforts of Harry Thaw to pro-
tect the community against the pOllu-
ton of Stanford White did not end
even with the provisions of the will and
ccdlciL So deer was the impression on
his mind. so overwhelming was the i'm
pulse, that he had in the early part of
1906. written a letter to Anthony Com
stock, under whose special charge he
believed the morals of this community
had been placed, telling of Stanford
White and his band. of other denS
where they enticed young girls and
ruined them He called upon the dis
trict attorney. the same man who is
here trying to take this mans life. de- |
handing that he cleanse the city of this !
leprOus sore. He went to the principal /
detective agency that they might ferret |
out the facts, that this man might be /
sent To prison where he belonged, but /
again he was baffled. He did not lose /
courage. He battled on.
And when he told his brave little |
wife about his efforts she. better in /
formed than he was as to the power of |
these people, told him that they were |
too rich and powerful for him and that |
he would never succeed, that they had /
friends who would stop anything he /
tried to do.
Meeting With Stanford White. /
cit was with such thoughts in his /
mind, waging a battle for American /
womanhood and humanity, and baffIed /
by wealth and social position. that 1
Harry Thaw met Stanford White in |
1906.
You remember the incident at Daly's |
theatre when Harry Thaw and his wife 1
and a friend sat i'm box and Stanford /
White came into a box opposite them. /
When Harry looked into those eyes
which had leered upon the poor, man
gled form of the woman beside him,
those eyes into which so many girls
had gazed as they went down to ruin,
his face became as chalk and he trem-
bled with emotion.
she says another time we were go
ing up Broadway i'm an electric ham
HON and Mr.. Thaw suddenly saw
Stanford White. 1 think he had a fit
right there. He cried, sobbed, bit his
rails and carried on like that for fifteen
He moaned, cIenched his
hands. but his agitation showed mostly
in his eyes"
the many infamies' which Thaw be-
lieved White was perpetrating in his
dens Of iniqUity.
Si9ub OEONG lin mdO-
Mr.. Delmas read that part of Eve
lyn's testimony where she stated that
she believed that Thaw was crazy
about Stanford White and that all his
friends held the same opinion
And it was true. The man who had
brooded on this subject for three years,
who had pictures of dreadful horrors
haunting him by day and night, could
not be human TO retain the calmness
Of his reason. Gentlemen, place your
selves in his place; picture to your
selves the horrors he went through and
do justice to Harry Thaw."
1t was 1890 o'clock and Mr.. Delmas
announced that it would be impossible
Tor him to conclude by the usual recess
time, and asked that a recess be taken
until o'clock
Following the recess. Mr.. Delmas
brought the narrative of his arguments
Down to the events of the night of the
tragedy, how Stanford White came
he Of 4 So |