Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-04-09
upon the story Of Evelyn Nesbit

~ upon the story Of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw.
Mr.. Delmas declared that God heard
the cry OF the ia,ed child upon whom
Stanford White mad Fixed his gaze and
hsd determined should be his. He quoted
from Scripture that "He who afiiets a
istherless child shall PERISH" and de-
clared that Providence had sent Thaw to
aveDge the wrong.
The attorney declared that Thaw is hid
wife's only pgoteetor-thst he came into
her life when che was on the downward
psih, told her that no matter what the
world thought Of her, she was 10 him az
angel. he took her 10 be his wife, ready
to share the burdens that mother had
helped to place upon her daughter.
Even beast protects its young" he
declared, with scorDful emphasis, "but
this unnatural mother deserted her
daughter in this city OF millions TO
be betrayed by a false friend, to be
lured into q gilded palace and there left
the victim of agrny-hsired man, wounded
bleeding aud deyonted. ~ =
Mr.. Delmas went with great detail into
the life Evelyn Nesbit had led up to the
meeting with Harry Thaw. In all OF
his remarks he referred to her IS "tbe
child" for child he said she was today.
He told of Thaw's great love for her
and his efforts to rescue her from "the
clutches of Stanford White" whose
achievements 10 his profession, the at
torney declared, were an aggrsvstion OF
his crime.
Mr.. Delmas before beginning bic at
tack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother,
poured out torrent Of denunciation
upon the architect who became the vic
tim of Thaw's pistol. He accused him
Of the "crime of rape" and then de-
Glazed that President Roosevelt had said
In a message to Congress that such q
crime thould be visited with death.
This was one of the suggestions which
Thaw himself made 10 his counsel for
his snmming-up speech - one OF The
suggestions which played so important q
pant in the proceedings before the lunacy
| commission
White was charged With building al
iars. saL cluaries and churches, while he
determined Evelyn Ntsblt should be his
and that he Was a dttpoiler Of childhood.
Delmas quoled the scriptures to the
| effect that "He who affilcls fatheFless
child shall perish"
The 1nmmel affidavit vas denounced
a. the work Of a perjnrer and fel0n and
the cfowning act Of Il life of misdeods;
fnmmel committed perjury in an eiior!
- send Thaw to death.
The following are some Of DelmAs's Pc
roations: ooh, 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 ret
ribution would be at hand? Better bad
it been for you that you died before that
day, for then you might have died 10 the
splendOr of your fame; when your depart
ture would have been deplored by you'
family: when all would have attended
your obsCquies; before your name WAS q
by-wOrd, and before your genius had been
an aggravation OF your crime
"Oh, shame upon this woman Eve
Ign Thaw's mother Not cOntent with
what she has already done, she would
take away the life OF the Que human
being who came as an angel into the
life of this girl on The downward path.
"The word of the common ielon- Abra'
ham Hummel-s petjurer, was all the
prosecution had brought forth to show
Evelyn's story false. 1t Is a melancholy
picture-that OF man in the declining
years of life, when The time is approach
ing when LIES sun is setting, browning
a life slreSn along its entire path with
misdeeds by one crowniDg act Of intamy
in resorting TO perjury in an attempt
70 deprive n fellow-being OF life. THAI
Wretchel little man,