The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-10

! White was a constant menace to MS
home. Horror never left him. She, Eve
1 Ign, in her testimony says that he, MI
Thaw, would wake in the middle of the
night and that she found him sobbins
and biting his nails. He was constantly
asking me questions and this happened
some times several times in the night!
You must remember that one by one
Harry Thaw had learned specific stories
of other victims of this man. He had
told him the story Stanford White had
told her about the girl in the pie.
Mr.. Delmas then read Evelyn's testi-
mony relating to the pie incident and
what Thaw told her about it, as well as
what she told him about it. He also read
the testimony regarding what Thaw told
her of the other girls, whom he said
were the victims of White. Thaw had
told her, she testified. that White ought
to be in the penitentiary, as he was a
| dangerous man and was doing untold
harm in the community.
Dramatic Appeal.
! In support of his contention that Thaw
took a sincere interest in the welfare of
the girls whom he believed to have been
wronged by Stanford White, Mr.. Delmas
produced the codcl in which Thaw set
aside thousands of dollars, Ito vindicate
and redeem and rescue from life of in
fanny the various victims of Stanford
White"
Waving the document dramatically be-
ing of it on the very night when ThaW
| ing of 1t o nthe very night when ThaW
found all his hopes realized in the cere-
mony which made Evelyn his wife. On
| that same night, Mr.. Delmas argued,
Thaw's thoughts drifted back to the
time when his wife was wronged by Stan
ford White, and thinking of the other
girls ruined and degraded by the same
| l., Il, ot,1 lo,, JaI fhn,
Gil TO the witness. With much emotion.
| Mr.. Delmas referred to the fate of the
| little 'pie girl" and yehmently con-
/ tinued:
And Stanford White thought he would
| play with this child, now the wife of Nj
Thaw, in the same inhuman manner and
! in the end cast her off like a dirty rag
to float her way down life's sewers into
pauper's grave. These were the
thoughts that came over him and never
| left him. We admire the chivalry of the
knights of the middle ages. who Went
about redressing the wrongs and rescuing
maldens in distress Why should we with
| hold our sympathy from this brave man
who was so anxious to take a part in
| the rescue of young girls in this city?
Pollution of White.
THE efforts of Harry Thaw to protect
| the community agains tthe pollution of
!
provision of the will and codicil. So deep
was the impression on the mind OF Harry
I Ihaw, so overwhelming and irresistible
was the impulse that he had in the early
part of 1906 written a letter to Anthony
Comstock, under whose special charge he
believed the morals of this community had
been placed, telling of Stanford White
and his band, and of their dens where
they enticed young girls and ruined them.
He called upon the district attorney,
1 the same man who is here trying to take
this mans life, demanding that he cleanse
! the city of this leprous sore. He went
/ to the principal detective agency that they
| might ferret out the facts that this man
might be sent to prison, where he be-
longed, but again he was baffled. But he
/ did not lose courage He battled on. And
| when he told his brave little wife about
| his efforts, she, better informed than
| he was as to the power of these people,
told him that they were too rich and pow
erful for him, and that he would never
succeed that they had friends who would
stop anything he tried to do
| 1T was with such thoughts in his mind,
waging a battle for American woman
hood and humanity and baffled by wealth
and social position that Harry Thaw
met Stanford White in 1906.
Incident at Days.
| you remember the incident at Days
! theatre when Harry Thaw and his wife
and friend sat in a box and Stanford
| White came into a box opposite them.
When Harry Thaw looked into those eyes
| which had leered on the poor, mangled
| form of the woman beside him, those eyes,
into which SO many girls had gazed as
| they went down to ruin, his face became
| as chalk, and he trembled with emotion.
| You have heard the story from the trem-
bling lips of Evelyn herself.
She said, Another time we were going
up Broadway in an electric handsom, and
at Herald Square Mr. Thaw suddenly saw
Stanford White. l think he had fit right
| there. He cried, sobbed bit his nails and
| carried on like that for fifteen minutes.
| He shook and trembled all over He
moaned, cenched and unclenched his
hands. but his agitation Showed mostly
| In his eyes.
| This condition Delmas attributed to
the many infamies which Thaw be-
| ieved Stanford White was perpetrating
In his dens of iniquity.''
Mr. Delmas read that part of Evelyn s
testimony where in response to questions
asked by Mr. Jerome. she stated that she
believed that Thaw was crazy about Stan
| ford White, and that all his friends held
tho same opinion.
| And It was true" declared the speak
or THE man who had brooded on this
subject for three years, who had pictures
of dreadful horrors haunting him by day
and in the stiffness of the night, could
not be human to retain the calmness OF
his reason Gentlemen. place yourselves
in his place, picture to yourselves the hor-
rors he went through and do justice TO
Harry Thaw."
| 1t was 1890 o'clock, and Mr.. Delmas
| announced that he found it would be I'M
i possible for him to conclude by the usual
recess time as he had expected to do, and
| asked that n recess be taken until
| o'clock.
The recess was ordered.
/ Night of Tragedy.
Following the recess. Mr.. Delmas
brought the narrative of his argument
down to the events of the night of the
| tragedy-the 25th of June, last. He told
of Thaw and his wife dining at the Cafe
| Martin with Truxton Beale and Thomas
| McCaleb
stamford White, by accident or de-
| sign-no one can ever tell, came into
| the room where the party sat. Thaw did
| not see him. but when Stanford White
left the place, the young woman called
for a pencil and wrote a note to her
husband.
1.-THE b. - was here a moment
ago. but went out again
| when Thaw read this his first thought
| was of his wife. He said to her, Are
YOU all right" When he received her
assurance that she was, he mastered
| whatever emotions he might have felt
at that time in a public place. and in
the presence of his friends and the in
| cident had no further significance for the
time being.