Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09
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girl back once again and resume the
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cred into his apartments, to lure the
girl back once again and resume the
awful work he had done.
But that night a 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 haG been curse to her and
a curse to himself, snatched her from
the old lecher who saw in her but a
toy to crafty moments of lust, and
then be cast aside to go her way
down the paths of fallen women
Holds Attention Of Jury.
Delmas' oratory held the rapt at
tention of the jury and 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 ne
was removed, the girl would be left un-
protected and at the mercy of her
ravisher."
"In 1904 we find the second capital
operation was performed upon this
young girl When she was convalescent
the man who for two years had sought
her hand, and who for four years had
loved her. the man who had told the
girls sad story to his mother, the man
whom she had refused because she felt
that their union would tear him from
his family and social relations. that
man-such was the constancy and
burden Of his love-persuaded, his
mother, whom he adored, to come to
New York and see the girl whose sad
story she already knew and who in her
womanly heart she could but pity. She
came to the little girl and besought her
hand for her son. The little girl who
had withstood the pleadings of the son.
could not resist the pleadings of the
mother, and so. on April 4. 1905, their
parents on both sides consented, and
they met at the altar and were un-
tied.
White Renews Attentions.
Coming to New York, the girl meets
White on the street. the man stared at
her and had the audacity to call her by
her first name. She hurried back to
the hotel where her husband was, and,
like true wife, she told him what had
happened. He became nervous, angry
and excited, and made the girl promise
always to tell him whenever she met
the 'blackguard.' Again in New York.
the girl was driving down Fifth ave-
nue. and sees the man. Their hansoms
cross, he stared at her and pulled at
his lnustache, and stared and stared.
When her hanson turned into side
street, where she was going to see a
physician, Whites cab also turned and
followed. Again she related the Incl
dent to her husband.
''Now, gentlemen, in May, 1905, just
one short month before Whites career
on this earth came to an end, Harry K.
Thaw heard this story: May MacKen-
zie had told Evelyn that White had
come to see her at the Hospital. When
May say to him that Harry and Eve
lyn seemed to be so fond of each other,
White said: Pooh pooh. I do not be-
lieve it. May said, oh yes, it is 50.
I know it myself and l think it is so
nice Well said White. it will not
last long. / will soon get her back
Harry Thaw had cause to become ex-
cited and had cause to lose his reason.
He imagined that attempts were being
made to take the girl away from him
his lawful wife.
White a Menace to His Homo.
But armed with his right and in
spired by his God to redeem the pledge
made at the altar, he determined that
it should not be so.
"She was his wife" Delmas con-
'tinued, with renewed force. his hon
ored wife, and when he heard that this
man. had said he would get her back,
touch. He already fancied the crime
was committed. for he remembered
that it is written in the word OF God,
'whosoever looketh upon a woman with
lust in his eyes, hath already commit
ted adultery And from that time,
gentlemen, the haunting thought was
that he might lose her, that White was
a constant menace to his home. The
horror never left him. She Evelyn,
in her testimony says that he. Thaw,
would wake in the middle Of the night,
and I found him sobbing and biting
his nails He was constantly asking
me questions. This happened sometimes
several times In night You must
remember that one by one Thaw had
learned specific stories of other vic
tins of this man. She had told him
the story White had told her about
the girl in the pie"
Thaw's Work for Fallen Girls.
In support of his contention that
Thaw took sincere interest in the
welfare Of girls whom he believed to
have been wronged by White, Delmas
produced the codicil in which Thaw set
aside thousands Of dollars "to vindi-
cate and redeem and rescue from life
Of infamy, the various victims of STAN
ford White" He said that Thaw's ef-
forts ITO protect the community
against the pollution of White" did not
end with the will and codicil, and then
referred to Thaw's letters to Anthony
-omstock and District Attorney Je-
,ome, informing them of white and
his band and their dens where they en-
iced young girls and ruined them"
The sneaker next touched upon an in
,ident at Daly's theater, when Thaw
and his wife and friend sat in box
and White came into the box opposite
hem. "When Thaw looked into those
,yes," continued Delmas. (which had
eered on the poor, mangled form of the
beside him. those eyes into
which so many girls had gazed as they
went down to ruin, his face became as
,halk. and he trembled with emotion.
You have heard the story, heard it from
he trembling lips of Evelyn herself.
She says another time we were going