Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-09
He Says Mrs Nssbit Lived on Wages Of
Der Tauehtel's Ruin.
SEVERE ATTACK ON HUNWEL TESTIMONY
Lawyer Also Says Stanford Whites Great
ness Aggravates Bis Crime.
Mr.. JEROME WILL SPEAK WEDNESDAY,
Mr. DeImRs VIII Conclude Mt the
Morning session-Dr. Hamilton
IL Not Allowed to Finish
His Testimony,


NEW YORK, April s.-The trial Of Harry
/ X. Thaw, charged with the murder OF
Stanford white, is nearing the end. At
torney Dolphin NJ Delmas the California
advocate this afternoon began his closing
address 10 the jury, and after he had
| spoken for more than two hours and
/ half an adjournment was taken until to-
morrow morning Mr.. Demas expects to
/ conclude before the luncheon hour Is
| reached. District Attorney Jerome will
make the closing address on Wednesday
and Thaw's fate should be In the hands OF
the jury by Wednesday evening. Justice
Fitzgerald today ordered the jury locked
up until the end OF the trial The judges
charge to the jury undoubtedly will be de-
| livered Immediately after the district at
torney concludes. The latter says his
speech will occupy not more than three or
four hours.
Declaring he would not base his plea
upon the 'unwritten law" because his
client found ample protection IN the written
statutes OF the state OF New York, Mr..
Delmas made a striking appeal to the
sympathies OF the Jurors and so far as he
progressed today the subject OF Thaw's in
sanity at the time he committed the homi-
eide was not even hinted at
Mrs. Holman bitterly Denounced
Mr.. Deimas based his argument solely
upon the story Of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
with flushed cheeks, but dry eyes, that
young woman heard her life history re-
peated 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 eloquent lawyer could
command
Even beast protects its young" Mr..
Delmas declared with scornful emphasis.
''but this unnatural mother deserted her
daughter in this city of millions to be be-
trayed by a false friend to be lured into
a gilded palace and there left the victim
OF a gray-haired man, wounded. bleeding
and devoured."
Mr. Delmas went with great detail into
the life Evelyn Nesbit had led up 10 the
meeting with Harry Thaw. In all OF his
remarks he referred to her 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 STAN
ford White, whose achievments in his pro-
fession were an aggravation of his crime'
whites Crime worthy of Death.
Mr. Demas before beginning his attack
upon Evelyn Thaw's mother, poured out a
torrent OF denunciation upon the archI-
tect who became the victim Of Thaw's
pistol. He accused him Of the "crlme OF
criminal assault" and declared President
Roosevelt had said in a message TO con-
gress that such crime should be visited
with death. This was one Of the sug-
gestlons which Thaw himself made to his
counsel for his summing up speech-one Of
the suggestions which played so import
ant part in the proceedings before the
lunacy commission.
Mr. Delmas declared that God heard the
cry OF the fated child upon whom STAN
ford White had fixed his gaze and had de-
termined should be his. He quoted from
scripture that He who affiicts a fatherlesa
child shall perish" and declared that Prov
idence had sent Thaw to avenge the wrong.
The attorney declared Thaw is his wife $
only protector-that he came into her life
when she was on the downward path told
her that 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 mother had helped to place
upon her.
Mr Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit OF hav-
ing lived upon the wages OF her daughters s
ruin. He sought to picture to the Jury
what he termed the sinister surroundings
in which the girl had been reared and In
doing so no meroilessy attacked the
mother. Mr. Delmas rose to the highest
point Of his address today when he de-
clared the girls mother was the one who
had furnished District Attorney Jerome
with the arrows with which to wound the
daughter on oross-eKaminaton-a cross
examination which, he declared, would live
long in the annals OF criminal history, but
which left the girls story unshaken in ali
it's essential details.
Abe HummeI Called Perturer
That Evelyn Nesbits story was true and
was told to Harry Thaw formed the sub
ject Of the argument for more than an
hour. Mr.. Delmas declared the only evil
p dence the district attorney had to bring
against the girl was the miscalled anidaviI
procured by Abraham Hummel. Speaking
OF Hummel, Mr. Delmas again drew heav-
q fly upon his bitterest invectives and de-
- clared that It would require more than the
word OF a perjured man TO send Harry
Thaw 70 an ignominous death. Hummel
; was accused by Mr.. Delmas OF havlns
! committed deliberate perjury upon the
D stand in the present trial when he swore
no was not acting as Evelyn Nesbit's coun.
sci and that no action was contemplated
T. in her behalf. He said the so-called am
: davit itself convicted the man Of these
falsehoods.
] Mr. Delmss devoted practically all Of his
address today 10 q resume OF the evidences
/, OF certain witnesses. He will have many
more comments 10 make along this line
, before he comes TO his final plea for the
defendants life.
Court Room is Crowded.
The court room was crowded. Justice
Fltzgeralds injunction that absolute quiet
must be maintained was hardly necessary
for there was interest IN every utterance
OF the attorney. In the throng we're many
attorneys OF note some OF whom have
- Travelled many miles 20 be present al the
climax ~ a trial which for length and sus,
70 tained interest has no equal
e All Of Thaws family were In the court
p room They sat unmoved as usual
g throughout Mr.. Delmas' argument Thaw
e turned 20 them from time 20 time as his
e attorneys seemed 20 strike some telling