The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-12
DIFFICULT TASK
FOR Mr.. DELMAS
HE WANTS TO GET EVIDENCE OF
WHITES OTHER oELfN-
ouENcEs BEFORE JURY.

3 4 s. :
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The partici.
lar question which may soon be an
swered In this memorable trial is
whether or not District Attorney Je.
rome viii be able TO hold Brother Del
mas in check by pleas for the dead
when the Californian hits the TRAN Of
Whites misdoings with children or
girls Of immature years. Il is cur.
rent report that the lawyer has in his
possession facts which, he may not be
able, even with his eminent capacity
of getting at results by going Ground
the rules OF evidence. to get before the
jury. There would be no excuse for
his proving or attempting to prove
that a certain girl had been ruined by
White in his studio unless he could
have the fact brought out as part
of conversation which was related
to Thaw and had the effect Of helping
to drive him crazy. No girl will come,
into court now to testify against tne
jerd as Evelyn Nesblt did. except to
save life. and there is no other life
at stake but Harry Thaw's. Evelyn
Nesbit had evidently heard the names
OF some Of these girls and she may
have given them to Harry Thaw, in
which event Mr.. Deimas will estab.
lish the number, but the witness will
not be permitted to give the names,
except privately to District Attorney
Jerome. She may have given them
n the same way 10 Brother Delmas,
ut there is lisfe chance that the
'ames wifi be allowed to reach the
onblic ear. There Is. however, al
eaay more scandal in the case than
Justice Fitzgerald relishes. and Mr..
ferome is greatly worried and dis.
,Seased at Mr.. Delmas' success in
bringing out the particulars of Stan.
ford Whites studio bedroom. framet
IN costly French mirrors, with a sup.
ply of champagne ready to be opened
without the necessity Of his leaving
the building. The details OF the cur
taiaed side room, with concealed en-.
tr9nces and exits, and the furnish.
fngs of the room, which White him.
self decorated, might have been left
out OF the story, in the opinion of Mr..
jerome, without Weakening the case
OF the defense. Such particulars only
served to inture him who cannot de-
fend himself; but Mr.. ,Delmas, who
hasn't thick. heavy jaw for moth
ing. is bent apparently upon showing
to the jury that White ought to have
been, killed, and II he has free rein
In the course upon which he is en-.
tered and is not restrained by the
court, he ,xlil get in all the evidence
to that effect possible.
A point which Lawyer Delmas VIII
seek to bring out in. attempting to
strengthen the several pleas for the
defense is TINT unless Thaw had kill.
ed White. White would probably have
killed Thaw. His client was clearly
of that opinion, though he seemed TO
have been little undecided as 10,
whether 1t would he himself of Mrs.
Thaw whom White would Stay. The
finding of a revolver in Whites stu.
do. along with feminine wearing ap!
parel, for which the architect could
have had no use, will serve to lend
color to the contention, taken with
the testimony of Whites threat to XIII
Thaw. as given by the laborer Bow.
man last week. It has been asserted
that White was armed when he was
killed, and that the police concealed
the fact because OF a desire to protect
so prominent cltizea from the charge
Of going about the streets armed with
a deadly weapon. No proof that
White was armed when shot has been
given, and. considering that he was
of nearly twice the size Of Thaw and
more than twice his strength, there
was no reason for his carrying a gun
with which TO Kill the Pittsburger, un.
less White was rank coward. Ply.
sicaiiy. he could have broken Thaw In
two and spanked him without being
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