The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-04-10
PLEADS JUSTIFICATION.
Mr. Delmas Made a Striking Ap-
peal to Jurors Sympathies.
Declared EveIyn's Evidence Had Not
Been Shaken, Although Her Unnat-
ural Mother Furnished Mr.. jerome
With Arrows to Wound Her-Called
HummeI a Deliberate Perjurer.

has begun to fall on the dramatic
trial of Harry X. Thaw, charged with
the murder of Stanford White. At
torney Dolphin NJ Delmas, the Cali
fornia advocate, began his long antici-
pated address to the jury yesterday
afternoon and after he had spoken
for more than two hours and half,
adjournment was taken until this
morning.
Mr.. Delmas expects to finish his
speech before the luncheon hour is
reached. District Attorney Jerome
will 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 testimony by
Wednesday evening.
Justice Fitzgerald ordered the jury
locked up until the end of the trial.
In view of this hardship upon them,
the Judges charge to the jury will un-
doubtedly be delivered Immediately
after the district attorney concludes
his speech. The latter says he will
take up but three or four hours.
No Appeal to Unwritten Law.
Declaring that he would not base
his plea upon the "unwritten law"
because his client found ample justi-
fication in the written statutes OF the
state of New York, Mr.. Delmas made
a striking appeal to the sympathies of
the Jurors. But so far as he went the
subject of Thaw's sanity or insanity
at the time he committed the homicide
was not even limited at.
Mr.. Delmas grounded his argument
solely upon the story of Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw. With flushed cheeks but
dry eyes that young woman heard her
life history repeated to the men who
are to Judge her husband and bowed
her head when her mother was de-
nounced in the bitterest terms and
tones the eloquent lawyer could COM
mand.
Even a beast protects it's young
he declared with scornful emphasis,
but this unnatural mother deserted
her daughter in this city of millions to
be betrayed by false friend, to be
lured into a gilded palace and there
left the victim of gray-haired man,
wounded, bleeding and devoured."
Mr.. Delmas went with great detail
into the life of Evelyn Nesbit which
led up to the time of her meeting Har-
ry Thaw.
He always referred to her as this
child" for child, he said, she was to-
day. He told of Thaw's love for her
and of his efforts to rescue her from
"the clutches of Stanford White"
whose achievements IN his profes-
sion, the attorney declared, were an
aggravation of his crime.
Before beginning his attack upon
Evelyn Thaw's mother, Mr.. Delmas
excoriated the architect who became
the victim of Thaws pistol He ac-
cused him of the "crime of rape
and then declared that President
Roosevelt had said in message to
congress that such a crime should be
visited with death. This was one of
the suggestions which Thaw himself
made to his counsel for his summing
up-one of the suggestions which
played so important a part in the pro
ceedings before the lunacy commits
sion.
Mr.. Delmas declared that God heard
the cry Of the fated child upon whom
Stanford White had fixed his gaze
and had determined should be his
He quoted from the Bible that "he
who afflicts a fatherless child shall
perish" and declared that Providence
sent Thaw to avenge the wrong.
The attorney paid a glowing tri-
butte to the love which Thaw and his
wife bear each other. He declared
that Thaw is the girls only protec-
tor-that he came into her life when
she was on the downward path and
told her that no matter what the
world thought of her, she was to him
an angel. He took her to be his
wife, ready to share the burdens that
& mother had helped to place upon
her daughter.
MercilessIy Attacked the Mother.
Mr. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit OF |
having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. He sought to picture |
to the jury what he termed the sinis- |
ter surroundings in which the girl |
was reared and in doing so he merci.
Iessly attacked her mother. Mr.. Del. |
mas made the climax Of his address
the statement that the girls mother
Eas the one who furnished District At.
torney Jerome with the arrows with |
which to wound the daughter on cross |
cross-eXamination, he |
declared, that would live long in the an.
nails of history, but which left the |
girls story mistaken in all its es.
sential details.
That Evelyn Thaw's story was true
and was told to Harry Thaw formed
the subject of the argument for more
than an hour Mr. Delmas declared
hat the only evidence the district at
.orney had to bring against the girl
was the "miscalled affidavit" conjured
by Abraham Hummel.
Speaking of the latter, Mr.. Delmas
again drew heavily upon the bitterest
ldjectives OF his wide vocabulary and
asserted with emphasis that it would
require more than the word of per.
jured man TO send Harry Thaw to an |