The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-09
Argument In the Thaw Case
Monday Afternoon
Was Only Preliminary to Real
Work of Defense.
NEARING THE CLOSE.
May 60 to the Jury "a Early as
Wednesday Evening.
Longest and Most Expensive
Murder Trial in New York.

New York. April Dolphin NJ
DeImas spoke for two and hail
hours yesterday. reviewing the evil
dence and putting upon it the defense
construction He had practicaIIy
finished with this portion Of his al
dress when court adjourned last night
devoting himself entirely TO an attempt
to show that the evidence proves that
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw told the truth on
the stand when she told the story 70
Harrv Thaw in Paris in 1903, and that
the story was true He also TOOK DC
casfou to deuouuce Evelyn's mother n
the bfttereSr terms as woman VIZ
had lived on her daugh terS shame ne
farIv accused A Abraham H Hummei OF
committing perjury on the Wltn5sS
stand and waxed eloquent Wheh -
failing the debarred attorneys record q
That every possible effort Will DC
made TO secure a verdict goes without
SAYING The case has been me Ions
est and rnCst expensive muFdeF "a
ever held IN Na- York and Justice u
gerald will not allow the jury 10 20 4A4-
III there Is absolutely no chance OF lneI
agreerrert- Even IL they Do report Ina
they car not agree as those WHO AaS
been following the trial Glossy con- |---
dartiv believe IL is probable that JUS
tice FYtzzsrsId will send them oacA 20
the Jury room and keep them there IN
I'll the last hope Of an agreement Is
gone -+.-.sv
Pursuing his argument YESTERDAY
afternoon Mr. Dslnas said
He Quotes Scripture.
Had this man forgotten that when
OUR Lord set down child among MS
disciples, He said: 'WhosoeTer re-
he shall dwell with me for ever, but
who shall offend q little one sucn as
this il were better that mlLSpone
we're tied about his neck and ne were
drowned in the depths o. the seas
a+Ha, gentlemen. who had erected
temple 10 Abraham. had forgotten the |
words OF the Great Jehovah 70 the
children Of Israel, that he who ar1lcteo /
q fatherless child should surely ale-
sOh. Stanford White. who entrapped !
q child who had 10 father, VINO had 1
been deserted by her mother, and was /
left alone in a city OF mlLLlons. hao
you imagined that God would not hear
that cry2
Had YOU forgotten that retribution
would be AT han62 Better had II been
for you that you died before that day,
for then you might have died In the
spIeudor of your fame. when your de-
parture would have been deplored by
your family; when all would have at
tended your obsequies, before your
name was a byword. and before your
genius had been an aggravation of
your crime
Mr. DeImas next went into a long
discussion as 10 whether it was not
true that Evelyn Nesbit had told her
story 10 Thaw in Paris in 1903. That |
he declared. was the main question OF
the trial MI. Delmas said MT.
Jerome would denouuce E,velyn's story
as false, as the cunning device OF
Harry Thaw's mind The district at
love for truthfulReSs made her revolt
Il the idea Of swearing to these false
charges against Stanford White: that
she refused to sign them in the face Of
nd nh
The first inquiry. said Mr.. DeInas,
should be into the veractty of Evelyn
Sesbit-
Reverting to the story OF the wrong
Delmas recounted how White had
poisoned the mind OF the girl by tell
ng her that she had committed no
wrong.
continued. he the strong big man.
vent to her apartments and kneIt at I
he feet of this child. kissed the hem |
II her garment and told her that what
ne had done was not wrong and that
he only sin was to be found out
Told her that IL she would refrain /
rom telling her mother or any one | ]
.lse all would be we'll Told her that !
III women we're wicked. that some
ucceeded in conceaIing their vices, I
OEe were found out
Lured Her Again and Again.
And so he IUred her again and
gain piled her with wine in the same /.
len OF intquity or others he kept, and
nelr relations continued for a period .
Il several months
Again I ask. is this story true or
athsr IS the story which I have re-
ared TO you the story which EVELYN
Sesbit told Harry Thaw in June, 1903.
Z Paris2 .
IF she never told Harry Thaw these
atngs then when she appeared on the
FlrcsSs stand she was an untruthff1I I
Tltnsss- Again IL she did tell this story I
0 Harry Thaw was il uUe2 Did the I
n1ngs she told of actually occur; that :
zey did you have many evidences In
ne first place you have her testimony
hat they did take place In corrobora- =
lon of her statements beg to call
our attention to various things in the !
ytdence- You have seen Evelyn Thaw !
4 the stand You have for days watch :
Z her manner IN testtfying From your T
Experience as men OF the world you ]
Al tell whether or not this chfIz-for
hid she IS tOday-is cunning actress :
no was repeating q story she had / Z