The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-09

| STANFORD White on the street and the
i man stared at her and had the au-
dacity 10 call her by her first name.
She hurried back to the hotel where
her husband was and, like a true wife,
sne tolo MIN what had happened. He
became nervous, angry and excited
ana MADE the girl promise always to
tell him Whenever she met the black
guard
White Followed Her.
| Again in. New. York, the girl driv-
ing ing down Fifth avenue sees the man.
Their hapSomsz cross. He stared at
her and pulled at his moustache and
stared and stared, When her hanson
turned into side street, where she
was going to see a physician. Whites
cab also turned and followed. Again
she related the incident to her hus-
band. ,s..
Now. gentlemen, in May, 1906, just
one short month before Stanford
whites career on this earth was to
May mckenzie had told Evelyn that
White had come to see her at the hos
p!tal When May Mckenzie said to
MIN that Harry and Evelyn seemed to
White said: Pooh, pooh. do not be-
l1eve it. May Mckenzie said, oh, yes,
It is SO, know it myself, and think
IL SO nice Well said Stanford White.
1t Will not last 1 will get her back.''
Harry .Thaw. had cause to become
excited. He had cause to lose his rea-
son. He imagined attempts were be-
ing made to take the girl away from
n1m-the girl who was his lawful wife.
But, armed with his right and in
spired by his God to redeem the pledge
made at the altar, he determined it
should not be so. III
"She was his WIFE," Delmas con-
tinued with renewed force; his hon
this man had said he would get
her back he already saw her pol
luted by his touch. He already fan
cied the crime committed, for he re-
membered that it is written in the word
of God, 'whosoeVer looketh upon woman
with lust in his eyes hath already COM
mitted adultery and from that time,
gentlemen, the haunting thought was
that he might lose her, and that Stan
ford White was a constant menace to
his home. Horror never left him. She,
Evelyn, in her testimony, says that he,
Mr.. Thaw, would wake in the middle
of the night. and I found him sobbing
and biting his nails. He was constantly
asking me questions, and this happened
sometimes several times in the night
Thaw had specific stories of other vic
Tins of this man. She had told him
the story Stanford White told her about
the girl in the pie.'
The Pie Incident.
Delmas then read Evelyns testimony
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.
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.. Delnas produced the
codicil in which Thaaw. set aside thou
deem and rescue from a life of in
fanny the various victims of Stanford
White" 1888 ,=ss-.5-
Waving the document dramatically
before the jury Delnas pictured the
drafting of it on the very night when
Thaw found all his hopes realized in
the ceremony which made Evelyn his
wife. On that same night Mr.. Del
back to the time when his wife was
wronged by Stanford White, and
thinking Of the other girls ruined and
degraded by the same person, he sat
With much emotion Mr.. Delmas re-
ferred to the fate of the little 'tpie
girl" and vehemently continued:
"And Stanford White thought he
would play with this, child. now the
wife of Mr.. Thaw, in the same in
her off like dirty rag to float her
way down life's' sewers into a 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 re-
dressing wrongs and rescuirg maidens
in distress. Why should we withhold
our sympathy from this brave man
l. w1<@,%- l. H.
the rescue of young girls in this city?
Letter to Comstock.
1.-The efforts of Harry Thaw to pro-
tect the community against the pollu- |
ton of Stanford White did not end
even with the provisions of the will and |
the oodicil So deep was the impression |
on his mind, so overwhelming was the |
impulse that he had in the early part !
Of 1906, written letter to Anthony |
Comstoc Under whose special charge |
he believed the morals of this commune |
ity had been placed, telling of Stanford |
White and his band and of their dens
where they enticed young girls and ru-
med them. He called upon the district
trying to take this mans life, demand |
ing 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 belonged, but |
again he was bafI1ed. 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 hey were too rich and
powerful 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, wagirg a battle for American |
and humanity, and batIled
by wealth and social position, that |
Harry Thaw met Stanford White in
1906
The Incident at Days.
you remember the incident at |
Days theater when Harry Thaw and
his wife and a friend sat in a box and |