The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-04-13

parture would have been deplored b,
your family; when all would have at.
tended your obsequies; before you
name was by-word, and before you
genius had been an aggravation of your
crime."
Mr.. Delmas next went into long dis
cussion as to whether or not it was true
Evelyn Nesbit had told her story te
Thaw in Paris in 1903. That, he declar-
ed, was the main question of the trial.
! MIR. Delmas said Mr.. Jerome would de-
nounce Eyelyn's story as false, as the
cunning device of Harry Thaw's mind.
Reverting to the story of the wrong
done Evelyn Nesbit by White, Mr.. Del
mas recounted how White had poisoned
the mind of the girl by telling her that
she had committed no wrong.
."When daylight came," the speaker
continued, che, 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 anyone else all would be well; told
her that all women were wicked, that
some succeeded in concealing their vices
and 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 re-
lations continued for period of several
months.
"Agaih I ask, is this story true, or
rather, is the story which | have relate
to you the story which Evelyn Nesbit
told Harry Thaw in June, 1903, in Paris?
"If she never told Harry Thaw these
things then, when she appeared on the
witness stand she was an untruthful
witness. Again, if she did tell the story
to Harry Thaw, was it true? Did the
things she told of actually occur? That
they did you have many evidences. In
the first place, you have her testimony
that they did take place confederation
of her statements, beg to call your at
tention to various things in the evidence.
You have seen Evelyn Thaw on the
stand. You have for days. watched her
manner of testifying. From your ex-
perience 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
and rehearsed. You saw her counte-
nance; you saw how horror overspread
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 loves her, the one person she
loves. You saw her strained face; YOU
saw her struggle to tell the truth. You
saw her for days struggling through
which has no parallel
in this or any other country. You saw
her fight for days, inch by inch,
against the man who has 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 |
yon see her hesitate? No.
Under the merciless cross-examination
you heard from her unwilling but truthful
lips that her relations with Stanford |
White, once begun, continued until. her
nature revolted, until God asserted Him
self. Do you need any more proof than
that, that her story is true? If it were |
false would it not have been easier for |
ner to say that the relations were not |
continued? But she told the whole |
,tory-she told the whole truth.
When Mr.. Delmas had completed his
of Stanford White he !
aunched into merciless attack on Eve
yn Thaw's mother. He first recalled to
The jury that in the early part of the
rial, when the name of the mother was
irst mentioned, he stated that he would
lot cast any reflections upon her and
,eld her guiltless, believing her to have
been the helpless victim of fcircums tances.
"When l said this, gentlemen" Mr..
0elmas continued, "I wish you to bear
n mind that three things had not yet
leveloped-that for three years after
his crime had been committed upon this
,irl the mother received $500 month
rom the ravisher; that the moth er had
given to the district attorney a written
statement by which he might torture the
'oul of her daughter, by which he might
cave her alone in the world-her father
lead, her mother unnatural, her husband
executed.
"When / learned that every shaft
timed at her heart came from quiyer
supplied by her mother; when l learned
hat it was the mother who was pointing
,ut the sore and tender spots for the
district attorney to attack, and when
earned that the poor bablings of a girl
n school-her diary-had been furnished
~ the mother, that they might be used
Igai1st her, I retracted, as / retract
low, the statements which made in
,ehalf of the mother.
CALLS HER UNNATURAL.
"Oh, unnatural mother that she was,
n desert her oirl and leave hnr tha viz.