The daily sentinel., 1907-04-10

powerful and convincing portions of
the mighty plea and argument made
by Napoleon Delmas, the brilliant
chief counsel for Harry X. Thaw,
made before the jury on Monday ar-
ternoon and yesterday:
Must Refer to the Dead"
In the performance of my duty
it will be necessary to refer TO the
dead. I will do so in all respect, but
there are cases where the memory of
the dead must give way to the needs
of the living. For those who are left
behind. for the widow who mourns
for the son, have nothing but sym
pathy. Gladly would l suspend. if
possible, the law that the sins of the
father must descend for three and
four generations.
The Saddest Story Ever Told.
"The story is that of two young
people whom fate. by inscrutable de-
cree, had determined to link together
to be united and walk through life
in the company of one another. The
story covers only a few years. 1t is
the saddest. most mournful and most
tragic story which the tongue OF man
has ever uttered or ear of man ever
heard. Let me begin briefly with
her story-one filled with incidents
with which a volume might over
flow, or which might be written by
the vivid Imagination of the most
gifted novelist.
"She was born on Christmas eve,
1884, in the city of Pittsburg, Pa.
The first years of her childhood saw
her lose her father and natural pro-
tector, and left her in charge of a
mother who early manifested that
character of frivolity and eNtrava-
gance which were to lead to such de-
plorable consequences. When the
girl was 10 years of age the family
found itself in Strengthened circum-
stances; they began to feel the pangs
of want.
"At 13 she became the family
drudge, assisting her mother. And
thus the family continued moving
from place, without any fixed hab-
itatlon.
Fatal Gift of Beauty.
But nature had endowed her with
the fatal gift of beauty beauty
which manifested itself in early
youth. a gift with which the mother
soon saw means of supporting the
family.
at IA years she was in Philadel-
phia, already embarked on the per-
ilous sea of an artists model. But
New York. the great metropolis. was
the market where such natural gifts
are most sought for and most dearly
paid for, and to New York the family
came. and by the procurement of the
mother. the employment begun in
Philadelphia was renewed here, and
the beautiful child wended her way
through the streets from morn till
noon till eve, from studio to studio,
and from artist to artist, and at the
end of the week here scant earnings
she carried to her mother for the
support of the family.
Brave and courageous, we find
this child, at 10 or 16 years of age,
rushing from studio to studio, earn
ing SIG to SIS a week, and at night
appearing upon the boards and earn
ing an equal salary.
Hair Hinged With Gray"
"At this time we find a man whose
hair was tinged with gray who had
an excellent wife and an accomplish
ed son. fixing his eyes upon the fated
child and determining to make her
his. To win her, he had none of the
graces or principles Of an honorable
suitor. He conducted himself to the
family in the guise Of an influential
friend. He won his way into the
confidence of the mother and estab-
lished himself in n paternal and pro-
tecting attitude in. the family, and
when his footing was sure he per-
suaded the mother to absent herself
from the city. assuring her that the
child would be safe in his hands and
telling her how fortunate It was that
there was such a protector to watch
over her. The child was left alone.
wish It was in my power to pass
over the scene which followed; wish
it did not have to be embodied in my
argument to you; but my duty gives
me no choice. In one Of those dens
fitted up with all the beauty and
taste which this man Of genius pos
sessed, into one of these dens this
child was lured and found herself
alone with this man, old enough to