The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-09

on which they had been uttered beef
some trivial discussion on some insignia
cant topic instead of a debate, the issu
of which is life or death, and had you
after so hearing them, heard the SAM
lips make an appeal to prove that tn,
law demanded forfeit of the life of ;
man about whom they were spoken
these words might not have filled vol
with amazement.
Onerous Task.
IL is to prevent such a conclusion il
this case" went on Mr.. Delmas, tina
l have undertaken the performance o.
the onerous task before me. In this tasl
1t will be my duty to give you all tn,
help in my power in deciding the ques
tion before you. In the performance o.
my task it is perhaps not improper tC
say that I shall make no attempt to in
fiuence your passions no attempt to max,
your sympathies overbalance your judg
ment.
II shall not call on such a f1imsy thing
as the 'unwritten law
"This defendant finds his justification
in the written law. in the statutes oil
this state. In the written law he finds
it necessary to protect his life and his
liberty.
I'm the performance of my duty it will
l will do so in all respect possible, but
there are cases where the memory OF
the dead must give way to the needs
of the living. For those who are left
behind, for the widow who mourns for
the son l have nothing but words OF
sympathy. Gladly | will admit the law
that the sins of the father must descend
for three and four generations. The story
Is that of two young people who by the
fate of an inscrutable decree had deter
mined to link together, to be united and
wal, through life in the company OF
one another
Sad and Tragic Story.
THE story covers only few years. II
is the saddest, most mournful and most
tragic which the tongue of man has ever
uttered or ear of man ever heard Let
me begin briefly with her story-one filled
with Incidents with which a volume
might overflow, and which might come
from the most vivid Imagination of the
most gifted novelist. She was born on
Christmas, 1884, in the city of Pittsburg
Pa The first years of her childhood saw
her lose her father and natural protector
and left her in charge of a mother who
early manifested that character of frivol-
ity and extravaganza which were to lead
to such deplorable circumstances. When
the girl was ten years of age the fam
lily found itself in Strengthened circum-
stances they began to feel the pangs
of want.
assisting her mother. And thus the fam.
lily continued moving from place to place
without fixed habltation.
Fatal Gift of Beauty.
But nature had endowed her with the
fatal gift of beauty-a beauty which man.
Tested itself in early youth, gift witt
which the mother soon saw means oil
support for the family.
AT IA she was in Philadelphia, already
embarked on the perilous sea Of modiste'
model. But New York, the great metrop-
oils, was the mart where such natura
gifts are most sought and most dearly
paid for, and to New York the family
came and by the procurement of the
mother the employment begun in Phila-
delphia was renewed here, and the beau
tiful child wendell her way through the
streets from morning till evening, from
studio to studio, and from artist to artist
and at the end of the week the scant
earnings were carried to her mother for
the support of the family.
Brave and courageous went this child
at 10 or 10 years of age, rushing in the
daytime from studio to studio, and al
night appearing upon the boards and
earning an equal salary.
To Make Her His.
''At this time we find a man whose hair
was tinged with gray, who had an excel
lent wife and accomplished son, fixing his
eyes upon the fated child and determining
to make her his. To win her he had none
OF the graces or principles of the honor.
able sutton. He conducted himself into
her family in the guise of an Influential
friend. He won his way into the conf
dence of the mother, and established him.
self In a paternal and protecting attitude
In the family, and when his footing wa.
sure he persuaded the mother to absent
herself from the city. assuring her thai
the child would be safe in his hands, anC
telling her how fortunate 1t was that there
was such a protector to watch over her
The child was left alone. / wish 1t were
In my power to pass over the scene whict
followed; | wish 1t did not have to b,
embodied In my argument to you, but my
duty leaves me no choice. In one of those
dens fitted up with all the taste which
this man of genius possessed. in one o.
these dens this child was lured and found
herself alone with this man, old enough
to be her father, the man who was hei
protector.
With Wine and Dragged.
Must l tell you how she was led on
step by step; how she was piled will
wine. and drugged, and finally becam,
his victim? That story you have heart
from that childs faltering lips. Better
that he should never have lived than t.
have lived to have heard the cries of an
guish of the victim who lay before him
He had committed the greatest crime tina
ever defiled the image of God. He hat
lured to destruction and had crushed tn,
child who had trusted him. He had com
mitted a crime against the law of thi.
state, crime that the chief magistrate O.
this country in a message to congress.
said should be punished by death.
HAD this man forgotten that when oul
Lord set down a child among His dis
ciples He said:
"Recelveth Little Child"
whatsoever receiveth such a littl,
child in my name, he shall dwell will
me forever, but who shall offend littl'
one such as this, 1t were better that ,
milestone were tied about his neck. ant
he were drowned in the depths of tn,
sea-
HE, gentlemen, who had erected tenn
pie to Abraham had forgotten the words
of the great Jehovah to the children o.
Israel that he who afflicted fatherles.
child should surely die
"Oh, Stanford White, who entrapped {
child who had no father, who had beer
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 retributior
would be at hand? Better had 1t beer
CLEAR-HEADED.
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