The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-09
DENUNClATlON OF
MRS. NESBlT BITTER
Pictures White, the Paternal
Benefactor, Hunting Down an
Innocent Child and, Like a
Fiend, Running Her
Physically and
Morally.

facts were known, to be here try
ing this man, and would be abso-
lutely prohibited by the statutes.
-Delmas quotes Jerome's utterance.
NEW YORK, April sThe trial OF
Harry X. Thaw. charged with the mur-
der of Stanford White Is nearing the
cnd Attorney Dolphin M. Delmas, the
California advocate, this afternoon be-
and after he had spoken for more
than two hours and a half an adj
journment was taken until to morrow
morning. Mr.. Delmas expects to con-
clude before the luncheon hour Is
reached. District Attorney Jerome will
make the closing address Of the trial
on next Wednesday, and Thaws fate
should be in the hands Of the jury BY
Wednesday evening.
Justice Fitzgerald to-day ordered the
jury locked up until the end Of the
trial. In vlewaaof this, the judges
charge to the jury undoubtedly will ba#
delivered Immediately the district at
tcrney concludes. The latter says. his
speech Will occupy not more than three
or four hours. a q as 81 #
Declaring he would not base his plea
upon the "unwritten law" because his
client found ample protection in the
written statutes Of New York, Mr.. d els
mas M made a striking appeal to the sy
spathies OF the jurors, and so far as he &
progressed to-day the subject ot Il
sThaw's insanity at the time he COM
mitted the homicide was not even
limited at. ,'5ss
Evelyn Hears Her Story. Nj
Mr.. Delmas based his argument SOLE
lly upon the story Of Evelyn Nesbtt&
II haw. With flushed checks. but drS;is
eyes, that young woman heard her life
story repeated to the men who are
TO judge her husband, and bowed her
head as her mother was denounced In
the bitterest terms and tones the elo-s
{ quent lawyer could command. 33 Ia
Even a beast protects its 5younE,i's he
declared with scornful emphasis, but
this unnatural mother deserted her
daughter In this city Of millions to
be betrayed by false friend, to be-
lured into gilded palace and there
left the victim of a gray-haired man. q
wounded, bleeding and devoured.
Mr.. Delmas went with great detail
into the life Evelyn Nesbit had led
up to the meeting with Harry Thaw..ss
In all of his remarks he referred to
her as "thls child,"& for child lie said
sho was to-day. Ho told OF Thaw's
great love for her and his efforts to-
rescue her from the clutches OF STAN
ford White" whose achievements in
his profession, the attorney declared
were an aggregation of his crime.
Denounced White.
Mr.. Delmas, before beginning his at-S
tack upon Evelyn Thnw's mother,
poured out torrent Of denunclation
upon the architect who became the
victim Of rhaws pistol. He accused
him OF criminal assault, and then
declared that President Roosevelt had
said in a&message to Congress that
such u crime should be visited with
death. This was one Of the sugges.
tions which Thaw himself made to his
counsel for his summing up speech
one OF tho suggestions which played Il
so important part In the proceedings 4
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
who he had determined should be his.
He quoted from Scripture that. "He}g
who 5atliicts a fntherless child shall per-
ish," and declared that Providence had &
sent Thaw to avenge the wrong.
The attorney declared that Thaw was
his wifes only protector-tknt he came
into her life when she was on the
downward path. told her that no mat-
ter what the world thought OF her
she was to him an angel. He took
her to be his Wife. ready to share tho
burdens that a mother had helped to
place upon her daughter. IN
Wages Of Daughters Ruin.
Mr. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesblt Of
having lived upon the wages OF her
daughtors ruin. He sought to pics
ture to the jury what he termed the
sinister surroundings In which the girl
had been reared. and in doing SO he
mcrcilessly attacked the mother Mr..
fDelmas rose to the highest point OF
his address to-day when he told the
jury that the girls mother was the one
who had furnished District-Attorney
jerome with the arrows With which 4
to wound the daughter on cross-eNnlni-
pation--a cross-eNamlnation Which ho
declared would live long In the an.
nails OF criminal history, but which left
the girls story unslaken In all its
essential details.
That Evelyn Nesbits story was true
and was told to Harry Thaw formed
the subject OF the argument for mora
than an hour. Mr.. Delmas declared
tho only evidence the district attor.
ney had to bring against the girl was
the "miscalled affidavit" procured by #
Abraham Humme Speaking OF Hun.
mel. Mr.. Delmas again drew heavily
upon his bitteres4 inyectiye, and de-
cared that 1t would require more than
the word OF a perjured man to send
Harry Thaw TO an ignomnious death. K
Huinmel was accused by Mr. Delmas
of having committed deliberate per-
Jury upon the stand in the present
trial when he swore he was not actins
as Evelyn Nesbit's counsel and that
no action was contemplated In her be-
half. He said the soscalled affidavit
itself convicted the man Of these
falsehoods.
Quotes Jerome.
M, Delmas began his appeal 70 shs
jury by quoting frona al NJ teraI,se c4 H