The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-10

to her regarding the putting of girl In bath tub and turning hot water on her, of using morphine and tying girls to bed posts and beating them.
 Thaw." MT. Delmas added, shook his head sadly and said, Poor Evelyn
 MT. Delmas read also of the girl tell- ing Thaw Stanford White had taken her to see Humme1.
 What the condition of his mind was at that time is shown to you. gentle men, by documents of indisputable genuineness. The letters Thaw wrote to Attorney Longfellow are the sad epoch in his life-they voice the wall from suffering soul such as has never been voiced by a dramatist from the days of the Greeks down to the present time" MT. Delmas read many of the letters to which he had referred, commenting upon them as he read. In one of these letters Thaw, speaking of himself in the third person. said
 He would have done anything for you, but now you must get stronger without him. Poor little Evelyn-you have fallen back into the hands of the man who poisoned your life and who is now poisoning your mind, but I have no reproaches to heap upon you-but oh, the sadness of 1t all--you have driv- en me from your side and now you must fight the battle of life alone without me-"
 Calls Up Stanford White.
 oh. Stanford white," exclaimed MT Delmas. Had that man kept out Of the way with his smooth tongue, pro- fessional tricks and devices. poor little Evelyn would not have turned from her the man who loved her at the be- hest of those professional deceivers.
 "If you don't believe in me as gentleman wrote Harry Thaw. there Is nothing to do. Being honest and faithful has finished me- The pages neither of poetry nor oratory contain simpler, sadder or more melancholy story of desolation than that which came as desert waste on the mind "f this young man. when ne saw the girl he loved go back to the man from whose clutches he had rescued her. In this condition of mind, Harry Thaw left New York and went to his mothers home in Pittsburg. Up to this time Harry Thaw had been man of cheer ful temperament, but the mothers eyes saw how the change had come"
 MT. Delmas read from Mrs. William Thaw's testimony regarding the actions of her son at that time, how he was moody and quiet, how he did not sleep, now he often went to the plano.
 "He struck the chords of the fnstru- ment," went on MT. Delmas. -unti they res1unded ike a wall, until they shuddered like groan of soul in agony. until the storm passed from him end the music grew softer and H. nally died away. The loving mother heard his sobs, she saw him awake until the gray of dawn. He told that mother that the story was one he could repeat to her. but soon. by moth- er's art. she won her way into her sons ies she had heard were not true.'' story.
 Awful Scene in Church. q "Then, gentlemen, you remember that awful scene In the church. You TO- member the organ, was rolling and the voices were appealing to the Lord God of hosts, the God of armies and of navies. Be with us yet, lest we forget. lest we forget Forget! the voices sang; forget; the poet had written; but in Harry Thaw's heart rang a voice You can never forget. you can never forget that that innocent little one is gone from you forever and has re- turned to the clutches of those who ruined her.
 'This, then, was Harry Thaw's men, tai condition. Must he give her up? He could not, he would not. Brave, courageous, indomitable man that he was. he conceived that he had a mission to perform. The thought of little Evelyn in those hands was more than the tortures of hell to him He came back to New York to try once more to save her"
 Mr. Delmas then read from Evelyn's testimony regarding her meetings with Thaw at this time, of how she refused for a time to see him, but finally how they met and she discovered the stor- ln. =AA haI h r1 xrynr mt krtt
 Mr. Delmas declared that the stories about Thaw's alleged wrong ooIng were invented to protect White from the wrath he felt was to come.
 When Harry Thaw convinced Evelyn that these stories were not true hope began to dawn again in his heart The barriers which had been set up be- tween the two young people were fall ing into ruin. one by one. The two hearts that God had intended should be one, were approaching nearer and near or until that blessed night of Decem- Der 24. 1903.
 Tt was night which might have meant a new chapter to the misery of this child, but fate decreed otherwise, Stanford White In a room in the lofty tower he had builded, had spread banquet in honor of the birthday of his child victim. It was his hope amid the surroundings of grandeur and treasures of art, he had gathered into this apartments to lure the girl back once again and to resume the awful work he had done.
 Thaw's Dramatic Reappearancel
 But that night the brave man who had devoted his life to the interests of this girl, snatched her from the jaws of death, snatched her from the snares of disgrace, snatched her from the man who had been a curse to her and a curse to himself snatched her from the old lecher who saw in her but a toy to gratify a moments lust and then he cast her aside to go her way down the paths of a fallen wo- man."
 MT Delmas' oratory held the rapt attention of the jury and the court room.
 After Thaw had rescued Evelyn Nesbit from White in 1903, he feared thenceforth that the architect had de- signs upon his life and that once he was removed the girl would be left unprotected at the mercy of her rav- isher."
 Mr. Delmas turned to the events late in 1904.
 "In 1904 we find a second capital operation was performed upon this young girl. When she was convales- cent the man who for two years had sought her hand. and who for four years, had loved her, the man who had