The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-09
BITTERLY DENOuNcES SLAIN
ARCHITECT AND MOTHER OF
EVELYN THAW.
HUMMEL ALSO SCORED
Called Perjurer-Throng in Court
Room Listens With Bated
Breath--Expect Verdict
This Week.


New York, April S.-The trial o
Harry X. Thaw. charged with tht
murder of Stanford Whie is nearing
ar end. Attorney Delmas this after
neon began his closing address to the
jury and after he had spoken fol
more than two hours and half. ad
iournment was taken until tomorrow
Dclmas expects to conclude before
the luncheon hour.
Jerome will make his clssing ad
dress Wednesday and Thaw's fate
should be in the hands Of the jury
Wednesday evening.
Justice Fitzgerald today ordered the
jury locked up until the end of the
trial In view of this the judges
charge to the jury will undoubtedly
be delivered Immediately the district
attorney concludes
Declaring hat he would not base
his plea upon the ''unwritten law
because his client found ample pro
lection In the written statutes of New
York, Delmas made a striking appeal
to the sympathies of the jurors and
so far as he progressed today the
subject of Thaw's insanity at the time
he committed the homicide was not
even hinted at.
Arguments Solely on Wfe's Story
Dclmas based his arguments solely
upon the story Of Evelyn Nesbit
'rhaw. ~
With flushed cheeks. but dry eyes,
that young woman heard her life
history repeated TO he men who are
to judge her husband and bowed her
head as her mother was denounced
In the bitterest terms and tones the
eloquent lawyer could command.
In the performance Of my duty it
will be necessary for me ta~@efer to
ihe dead 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, /
have nothing but words of sympathy,
hlduiS Nohiu sA1pthA IA pJnoibit
the law that the sins of the father
must descend for four generations.
"saddest of All Stories"
"The story is that of two young
people whom fate, by inscrutible de-
cree. had determined to ling together,
to be united and walk through life in
the company of one another. The
story covers only few years. 1t 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 filed with incidents with
which a volume might overflow, or
which might be written by the vivid
imagination of the most gifted novel
list
"She was born on Christmas Eve.
1884. in the city of Pittsburg. Pa. The
first years of her childhood saw her
lose her father and natural protector.
anu left her In charge of mother
who early manifested that character
of frivolity and extravaganza which
were TO lead to such deplorable con-
sequences
Even a beast protects its young,
he declared with scornful emphasis,
"but this unna ural mother deserted
her daughter in this city Of millions
10 be betrayed by a false friend. TO
be lured into gided palace and
there left the victim of a gray haired
man. wounded. bleeding and de-
youred."
Delmas went with great detail into
the life of Evelyn N'esbit and led up
10 the meeting with Thaw. In all his
remarks be referred TO her as this
child" for child he said she was to
DAY. He told OF Thaw's great love for
her and his eff rts to rescue her from
the clutches of Stanford White.
whose achievements in his profes
sion, the attorney declared. were an
acgravalioB of his d-ime."
Denuncistion for White.
Delmas before beginning his attack
upon Evelyn Thaw's mo, her poured
cut a torrent OF denunciation upon
the architect who became the victim
nf Thav's pistol. He accused him OF
the crime Of rape" and then de
clarcd President Roosevelt had said
in a message to congress that such a
crime should be visited with death.
This was one OF Tlfaw's suuuuum
This was one of the suggestions
which Thaw himself made to his
counsel for his summing mp speech
ore Of The suggestions which played
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