The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-04-12

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| clared that the only evidence the dis
| trict attorney had TO bring against the
! gird was the 'miSscalled affidavit"
| procured by Abraham Hummel
| Speaking Of HummeI Mr.. Delmas
| again drew heavily upon his bitterest
| inVective and declared that it would
require more than the word Of a per-
| jured man to send Harry Thaw %
! an ignOminOus death. Hummel was
| declared by Mr.. Delmas Of having
committed deliberate perjury upon
| the stand in the present trial when he
| swore that he was not acting as Eve
/ lyn Nesbits counsel and that no ac-
! ton was contemplated in her behalf
! He said that the so called affidavit
itself convicted tn" man Of falsehoods.
Nj Delmas began his appeal 70 the
jury by quoting from an utterance Of
District Attorney Jerome during the
! triaI. He said:
We have no right, if the real facts
were known, 10 be here trying this man
and would be absolutely prohibited
! ~ the statutes.
Had you heard these words" con-
t.nuad the attorney, from some ire
sponsibIe bIabbler instead Of from all
official charged with Il great public
duty; had they been spoken in a place
where idle men resort to indulge in
idle talk instead Of in a tribunal
where the justice presided in solemn
ity; had the occasion on which they
were uttered been some trivial discus
sion on some insignificant topic in
stead Of debate the issue Of which
is life or death and had you after SO
hearing them heard the same lips
make an appeal to prove that the law
demanded forfeit Of the life OF the
man about whom they were spoken,
these words might not have filled YOU
with amaZement.
1t is to prevent such a conclusion
in this case" went on Mr.. Delmas, !
that | have undertaken the perfor- |
nance Of the onerous task before me
In this task it will be my duty to give |
you all the help in my power in de- !
Gliding the question before YOU" |
Mr.. Delmas then gave a resume of |
Evelyn Nesbit's life from her birth in |
1884 to the time she met Stanford |
White. Continuing he said, Brave |
and courageous, we find this child of :
II or 16 years Of age, rushing in the !
day time from studio to studio earn
ing SIC to SIS a week, and at night
appearing upon the boards and earn
ing an equal salary.
'At this time we find a man whose
hair was tinged with grey, who had !
an excellent wife and an accomplished |
son, fixing his eyes upon the child |
and determining 20 make her his. To |
win her he had none of the graces or {
principles of the honorable SuitOr. He |
introduced himself into the family IN |
the guise Of an influential friend. He |
won his way into confidence Of the I
mother and established himself in a
paternal and protecting attitude in the |
family, and when his footing was sure
he persuaded the mother to absent !
herself from the city, assuring her !
that the child would be safe in his |
hands and telling her how fortunate
it was in having such a protector to
watch over her In one Of those dens
fitted up with all the beauty and taste
which this man of genius possessed
into one of these dens this child was
lured and found herself alone with
+ ri f0 ho foil
er, the man who was her protector.
Must ] tell you how she was led
on step by step, how she was piled
with wine and drugs and finally be-
come his victim? That story yod have
heard from that child's faltering lips.
heard the cries of anguish of the vic
tim who lay before him. He had
committed the greatest crime that ev-
er detiled the image of God. He had
lured to destruction and had crushed
the child who had trusted him. He
had committed q crime against the
law, against the law Of this state,
crime that the chief magistrate Of
this country, in a message to con-
gress, said should he punished by
death.
Had this man forgotten that when
| our Lord sat down a child among his
disciples he said: "Whosoever re-
/ ceiyeth such a little child in my name
| he shall dwell with me forever, but
who shall offend a little one such as
this it We're better that a mill stone
We're tied about his neck and he were
drowned in the depths Of the SEA"
He gentlemen, who had erected
| temple TO Abraham had forgotten the
| words of the great Jehovah to the
! children of Israel, that he who afflict-
| ed a fatherless child should surely
| die