Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-09

| New York, April S-The curtain be
| gan to fall on the dramatic trial Of
| Harry \. ThaW, charged with the muir
| der Of Stanford White. Attorney Del
| phin NJ. Delmas, the California advo-
| cate began this afternoon his long an
| t1clpated address to the jury and after
| he had spoken for more than two hours
| and half, en- adjournment was taken
| until tomorrow morning. Mr.. Delmas
| expects to conclude before the luncheon
hour is reached. District Attorney
! Jerome viii make the closing address of
| the trial On Wednesday and ThaW's
| fate should be in the hands of the IL
men who have listened to the testf-
mony, by Wednesday evening. Justice
| Fitzgerald today ordered the Jury
| locked up until the end Of the trial. In
view Of this hardship placed upon them.
| the judges charge to the jury rmdOuht-
| eddy will be delivered Immediately after
the district attorney concludes. The
latter says his speech will occupy but
| three or four hours.
Declaring that he would not base his
| plea upon the 'unwrtten law" because
his client found ample justification in
the written statutes of the sovereign
state Of New York. Mr.. Delmas made
a striking appeal TO the Sylnpathies Of
the jurors and 50 far as he progressed
today the subject Of Thaws insanity at
the time he committed the homici,I,,
was not even l?Etcd at Mr.. DelIn2r
based his argument solely unun th;.
story of Evelyn Neslft Thaw. WIS
flushed checks hut dry eyes. tho voil,ic.
woman heard her life history rcncated
To the men who are to judge her hu.-
band and lowered her head as her mo
ther was denounced in the bittorc&t
terms and tones the eloquent lawyer
could command.
Even = beast projects its young" ha
declared with scornful emphasis. but
TINS unnatural mother deserted hcr
daughter il this city Of millions IL ID
betrayed hy a false friend. to he Iurcl
INTO q @ildCd palace and there left tie
victim of Il gray-haircd man, wounded
bl'Cdin" and dovourcd."
MI. Dc'maS went with great detail
into the lif" Of Evelyn Nosbit led up to
the meeting with Harry Thaw. In all
of his remarks he referred to her as
this child" for child, he said. she was
today. He told of Thaw's great love for
lor and his efforts To rescue her from
tie clutches Of Stanford White"
who's" achievements i'll his profession.
tho attorney declared, were IN aggra
walton Of his crime.
Mr. Delmas before beginning his a.
tack upon Evelyn Thay's mother. po1r-
cd out Il torrent of denunciation 1non
the architect who became tho victim of
ThaW's pistol. He accused him OF the
crime Of rape" and then declared tina
President Roosevelt had said i'm q mes
sage to Congress that such n crime
Should be visited with death. This
was one Of the suggestions which Thaw |
himself made to his counsel for Ms
summing up speeches-one Of the srls |
gestionS which played 50 important 4 |
part in the proceedings before the lun-
acy commission.
Mr.. nelmaS declared that God heard |
tho cry of the fallen child upon whom
stanford White had fixed his gaze ana |
had determined should be his. HI
quoted from the Bible that "Ho who af- |
flicts fatherless child shall perish"
and declared that Providence had sent
ThaW to avenge the wrong.
The attorney paid a glowing tribute
10 the love which Thaw and his wife
bear each other He declared that
ThaW is the girls only protector-that
he hid come into her life when She was
on the downward path. told her that ~
matter what the world thought Of her.
she was to him an angel He took ner
TO be his wife. ready to share the bur
dens that mother had helped to'place
upon her daughter.
Mrs. De!mas accused Mrs. Ncsbit of
having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. lie sought to picture to /
tic jury what he termed the sinister sur |
roundingS in which the girl had been
reared and in doing 50 he mercilessly at 1
tackled the mother. Mr.. De!Tnas rose to
the highest point Of his address today
when he told the jury that the girls
mother was the one who had furnished
District Attorney Jerome with the ar
rows with which to wound the daughter
on cross-cxamination-a ss-examina- !
ton which he declared would live long in
the annals of criminal history. but which |
left the girls stoSy mistaken in all its |
essential details.
That Evelyn Nesbit's story was true