The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-09

| you. Why did Stanford White, jus, | at that moment remove the mother this child's only protector, as guardian upon her tender years, as sentinel on her tottering steps. on the slippery | walks of New York? Why was the mother sent to Pittsburg with money furnished by White? Why was the | young brother sent away to school ex- l cept to remove prying eyes
 l another matter l call your attention to: During the year following this terrible event. White contracted to pay Evelyn Nesbit $25 a week, when she l was unable to earn her living on the stage. The checks which are here in evidence show that many of them were payable to the mother It has been figured that the mother received at the hands of Stanford White in that time ss.eo0,-an enormous sum to this wo- man who had been living in mean lodg | ings without enough to eat The dis trict attorney will tell you that Stan ford White was then in strengthened circumstances. Why. then I ask you. was he paying Evelyn Nesbit's mother | $500 month";
 MT. Delmas then took up the story Of Miss Simonton's return from Europe where she had learned Evelyn Nesbit's story. She went to Stanford White ana confronted him with it. It was then that White vent to Abe HummeI That shows," said Mir Delmas. that Stanford White saw danger ahead and was ready to do anything to gain pro- lection. Thereupon. as soon as Evelyn Nespit returned, paper was drawn up to which will refer later.
 Gentlemen, do you remember Christ | mas of 1903? Do you remember the | banquet that Stanford White had ar ranged in celebration of Evelyn Nes- | bits birthday? Do you remember that Harry Thaw succeeded in rescuine her from Whites clutches and that White went to the theatre later and flour ished revolver. swore to take Thaw's life before morning7
 | Things like these pay glowing trf- bufe to Evelyn Nesbits story" MT. Delmas had a score or more of legal sheets. to which he referred oc- casionally and, particularly, when he came down to the actual argument as to the motive Stanford White had in paying money to Evelyn's mother and girl, the mother received $500 a month his expense.
 | Attacks Evelyn's Mother. When MT. Delrnas had completed his | remuneration Of White. he launched into mercfless attack on Eyelyn's mother. He first recalled to the jury that. in the early part of the trial, when the name of her mother was first mentioned, he stated that he would not cast any reflections upon her and held her guiltless, believing her to have been ti.e helpless victim of circum- | stances.
 When I said this, gentlemen" Mir | Delmas continued. 'I wish you to bear in mind that three things had not yet developed-that for years after this rape had been committed upon this in sending Howard Nesbit to school at from the ravisher; that the mother had given to the district attorney a writ ten statement by when he might tor ture>the soul of her daughter, by which he might leave her alone In the world her father dead. her mother unnatur- al. her husband executed.
 "When I learned that every shaft aimed at her heart came from a culver supplied by her mother. when I learn ed that 1t was the mother who was pointing out the sore and tender spots for the District Attorney to attack, and when I learned that the poor babblings of girl in school-her diary--had | been furnished by the mother that they might be used against her, I retracted as I retract now. the statements which l made in behalf of the mother.
 An Unnatural Mother.
 Oh! unnatural mother that she was to desert the girl and leave her tho victim of this gray haired man; to re- ceive for a year the wages of her | daughters downfall; to wear diamonds oought With such money as this, and l then to come now in the hour of her i daughters supreme agony. to steal away the life of her only protector why. gentlemen of the jury a beast 1 protects her young. I have even seen a little bird watching over her brood of young in a dusty road, ruffie her brave little feathers until she was twice her natural size and fly straight at a Pointer who had come running up until the dog stood abashed and re- spected her motherhood.
 "Oh! Shame upon this woman. Not content with what she had ai- l ready done. she would take away the life of the one human who came as an angel into the life of this girl on the downward path. who told the girl that | whatever she might be in the eyes of sinful world, he knew her soul was | pure He said: Yes. I know that your soul is pure; I know 1t was not your | fault; I know you are an unfortunate | and betrayed girl; but como to me and | I will protect you. About your form l wil throw the strong arm of a man I will fight the battles of life with you | at my side. No matter what others
 
 Angel. To me you are fairer than Ra- chel at the well. or Ruth in the fieldsr Juror Wipes Eyes.
 MT. Delmas halted his address for l few minutes at this point and sat down to rest Juror No. 12 wiped his eyes with a handkerchief
 ! When he resumed, Mir. Delmas de- l clared that there was documentary evil | dence to prove that Evelyn Nesbit told Harry Thaw the story of her downfall in Paris In 1903. He began to quote | at length from the letters Thaw wrote from Paris to his attorney, MT. Long, 1 fellow. These letters make many ref erences to the girls life. The attorney | said next Thaw had no occasion to lie | to his mother when he told the. story | in Pittsburg after his return from Eu- rope. In contrast to the mother of Evelyn Nesbit, MT. Delmas pictured the mother of Harry Thaw. He reviewed the testimony she gave on the stand. and pointed to the love and affection she displayed for her son when he be- | gan to display that restlessness which culminated in the tragedy. He spoke | in eulogistic terms of her noble char acter and of the sacrifices she made to | tighten the burden and ease the pain | of her heart-broken boy.
 Mrs Thaw listened to the compli- ments without evincing emotion. Her children sat stolid as ever.
 Evelyn Thaw was only slightly moved by the attack on her mother, and. as a matter of fact, her features were immoble throughout the dura- ton of the address.
 After paying this tribute to Mrs. Thaw. MT. Delmas rehearsed the evil