The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-10
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would not have turned from her the
man who loved her at the behest of
those professional deceivers.
Melancholy Story.
" If you don't believe in me as gem
tleman wrote Harry Thaw, there is
nothing to do. Being honest and faithful
has finished me. The pages neither of
poetry or oratory, contain a simpler,
sadder, or more melancholy story of
desolation than that which came as a
desert waste on the mind of this young
man when he saw the girl he loved go
back to the man from whose clutches he
had rescued her, in this condition of
mind, Harry Thaw left New York and
went to his mothers home in Pittsburg
Up to this time Harry Thaw had been
a man of cheerful temperament, but the
mothers eyes saw how the change had
come" ,
Mr.. Delmas then read from Mrs. Will
liam Thaw's testimony regarding the ac-
tons of her son at that time, how he
was moody and quiet, how he did not
sleep, how he often went to the piano.
Groan of Soul.
''He struck the chords of the instru-
ment." went on Mr.. Delmas, until they
resounded like a wall, until they shud-
w GU iiNe BIOdn OF soul IN agony,
until the storm passed from him and
the music grew softer and finally died
away. The loving mother heard his sobs,
she saw him awake until the grey of
dawn. He told that mother that the
story was one he could not repeat 10
her, but soon by a mothers art, she
won her way into her sons soul, and lit
tie by little he told the story
Then, gentlemen, you remember that
awful scene in the church. You remem-
Der the organ was rolling and the voices
were appealing to the Lord God of hosts,
the God of armies and Of navies be with
us yet, lest we forget. lest we forgetr
Forget, the voices sang; forget, the poet
mad written; but in Harry Thaw's heart
rang voice you can never forget you
can never forget that that innocent little
one is gone from you forever and has
returned TO the clutches of those who
ruined her
This then, was Harry Thaw's mental
condition. Must he give her up? He could
not; he would not. Brave COURAGEOUS,
man that he was, he con-
ceiVed that he had a mission to perform.
Inc thought of little EVELYN in those
hands was more than the tortures of hell
to him. He came back to New York to
try once more to save her"
Meetings With Thaw.
Mr. Delmas then read from Evelyn's
testimony regarding her meetings with
Thaw at this time, OF how she refused
for a time to see him, but finally how
they met and she discovered the stories
she had heard were not true.
Mr., Delmas declared that the stories
about Thaw's alleged wrong doing were
invented to protect White from the wrath
he felt was to come.
IT.
lyn that these stories were not true, hone
began to dawn again In his heart The
barriers which had been set up between
the two young people were falling into
ruin, one by one. The two hearts that
Coo intended should be one, were ap-
preaching nearer and nearer until that
blessed night of December p. 1903.
ut was night which might have
meant a new chapter to the misery of
this child, but fate decreed otherwise.
Stanford White, in a room in the lofty
tower he had builded, had spread a ban
auet in honor of the birthday o. his child
victim. 1t was his hope amid the sur
roQndings of grandeur and treasures of
arr he had gathered into his apartments
to lure the girl back once again and
to resume the awful work he had done.
From Jaws Of Death.
"But that night the brave man who
had devoted his life to the interests of
this girl, snatched her from the jaws of
death, snatched her from the snares of
disgrace; snatched her from the man who
had been a curse to her and a curse to
himself; snatched her from the old lecher
who saw in her but a toy to crafty
moments lust, and then he cast her aside
to go her way down the path of a fallen
woman"
Mr fn-xy hall fI,a ut
tention of the jury and the court room.
After Thaw had rescued Evelyn Nesbit
from White in 1903 he feared thence
forth that the architect had designs upon
his life and that once he was removed,
the girl would be left unprotected at the
mercy of her ravisher."
Mr.. Delmas turned TO the events late in
1904
a In 1904 we find a second capital oper-
alton was performed upon this young
girl. When she was convalescent, the
man who for two years had sought her
hand and who for four years had loved
her. the man who had told the girls sad
story to his mother; the man whom she
had refused because she felt their union
would tear him from his family and So
cial relations-that man such was the
consistency and burden of his love, per-
suaded his mother. the mother whom
see the girl whose sad story she already
knew, and who in her womanly heart
she could put pity-she came to the little
girl and besought her hand for her son.
The little girl who had withstood the
pleadings of the son could not resist the
pleadinss of the mother. And so on April
4. 1905. their parents on both sides con-
scented, and they met at the altar and
We're united The man pledges to the
W. hafrra limo all
through life he would protect her.
Coming to New York, the girl meets
Stanford White on the street and the
man stared at her and had the audacity
to call her by her first name. She hurried
back to the hotel where her husband
was and like a true wife she told him
what had happened. He became ner-
vous, angry and excited and made the
girl premise always to tell him whenever
she met the blackguard.
On Fifth Avenue.
again in New York. the girl driving
down Fifth avenue, sees the man. Their
handsoms cross. He stared at her and
pulled at his mustache and stared and
stared. When her handsom turned into
a side street, where she was going to see
a physician, Whites cab also turned and
followed. Again she related the Incl
dent to her husband. Now, gentlemen
in May, 1906, just one short month be-
fore Stanford Whites career on this
earth was to end, Harry Thaw heard
this story:
May Mackenzie had told Evelyn that
White had come to see her at the hos
pital When May Mackenzie said to him
that Harry and Evelyn seemed to be so
fond of each other Stanford White said:
Pooh. pooh l do not believe it May
Mackenzie said: oh, yes, it is so; |
know it myself and | think 1t is so nice
Well said Stanford White, 1t will not