The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-09
Mastery Summing Up of the Evidence
for and Against Harry
K. Thaw.
Bitter SCOTn for Mother of Betrayed G-POweru Aragn
nent of Stanford White.

der of Stanford White, is nearing the
end. Attorney Dolphin NJ. Delmas. the
California advocate, this afternoon be
after he had spoken for more than two
hours and a half an adjournment was
taken until tomorrow morning. MI
Delmas expects to conclude before the
luncheon hour is reached. District At
torney jerome will make the closing
address on Wednesday, and Thaw's
fate should be in the hands OF the jury
by Wednesday evening. Justice F'itz-
gerald today ordered the jury locked
up until the end of the trial The
I judges charge to the jury undoubted-
/ ~ will be delivered Immediately after
the district attorney concludes. The
latter says his speech viii occupy not
more than three or four hours.
Striking Appeal to Jury.
Declaring he would not base his plea
upon the ''unwr:tten law" because his
client found ample protection in the
written statutes of the state of New
York, Mr.. Delmas made a striking ap-
peal to the sympathies of the jurors
and so far as he progressed today the
subject of Thaw's insanity at the time
be committed the homicide was not
even limited at.
Mr.. Delmas based his argument sole
" upon the story of Evelyn Nesbit
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 as her mother was denounced in
the bitteTest terms and tones the elo-
quent lawyer could command.
Scorn for EVeIyn's Mother.
Even a beast protects its young"
Mr.. DelmaS declared with scOrnful en-
phasis. but this unnatural mother de
serted her daughter in this city of mil
lions to be betrayed by a false friend
TO be lured into a gilded palace and
there left the victim of gray-haired
man. wounded, bleeding and devoured -
MIR. Delmas went with great detail
into thefife Evelyn Nesbit had led UP
to the meeting with Harry Thaw. In
all of his remarks he referred to her
as this child" for child he said she
was today. He told of Thaw's great
love for her and his efforts to rescue
her from the clutches of Stanford
White. whose achievements in his pro-
fession were an aggravation of his
ycrime."
Torrent of InvectiVe.
tack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother pour
ed out a torrent of denunciation upon
the architect who became the victim of
ThaWS pistol. He accused him of the
crime of assault" and declared that
President Roosevelt had said in a mes
sage to congress that such a crime
should be visited with death. This was
one of the suggestions which Thaw
himself made to mis- counsel for his
inc e. IL
tons which played so important q part
in the proceedings before the lunacy
commission.
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 scripture that he who af-
flicts a fatherless child shall perish"
and declared that Providence had sent
Thaw to avenge the wrong
The attorney declared Thaw is his
wifes only prOtector-that he came
into her life when she was on the down.
ward path, and told her. 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
a mother had helped to place upon her.
Lived Upon Wages of Sin.
MI DVtitictS dttbiStu mis-. NtShl OF
having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. He sought to picture
to the jury what he termed the sinister
surroundings i'm which the girl had been
reared, and in doing SO he mercflessly
attacked the mother MFR. Delmas rose
to the highest point of his address to-
day when he declared the girls mother
was the one who had furnished Dis
trict Attorney Jerome with the arrows
with which to wound the daughter on
cross-examination, a eross-exanination
which he declared would live long iii
the annals of criminal history. but
which left the girls story mistaken in
all it's essential details.
That Evelyn NesbitS story was true
and was told TO Harry Thaw formed the
subject of the argument for more than
an hour Mr.. Delmas declared the only
evidence the district attorney had to
bring against the girl was the mis-
called affidavit procured by Abraham
Hummel.
HummeI Accused.
Speaking of Hummei. M Deluas
again drew heavily upon his bitterest
invectives. and declared that it would
require more than the word of per-
jured man to send Harry Thaw TO an
ignominous death. Hummel was ac-
cused by Mr.. Delmas of having COM
mitted deliberate perjury upon the
stand in the present trial when he
swore he WAS not acting as Evelyn
Nesbit's counsel. and that no action
was contemplated in her behalf He
said the so-called affidavit itself con-
victed the man of these falsehoods
Mr.. Delmas devoted practically all of
his address today to a resume of the
evidence of certain witnesses. He will
have many more comments to make
along this lire before he comes to his
plea for the defendants life
The court room was crowded. Justice
F'itzgeralds injunction that absolute
quiet must be maintained was hardly
necessary, for there was interest in