Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-10
WATERBURY, EVENING DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 1907
MT. Delmas here read from Mrs. wil-

| liam Thaw's testimony and went on:
 "Did that venerable gray haired moth CT come here to perjure herself? Did she invent this story which she says her son told her? Or did he tell an untruth when he conflded to his loving mother and told her that he loved this girl and wanted to devote his life to her? And all this time that little girl was going along using the talents God had given her to make living for her self. refusing to marry the wealthy man who loved her and whom she loved because she thought It was wrong.
 "Oh, Stamford White" exclaimed Mir. 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 room the man who loved her at the behest of those professional deceivers.
 Then. gentlemen. you remember that awful scene in the church. You re member the organ was rolling and the voices were appealing to the Lord God I of hosts, the God of armies and of navies, Be with us yet, lest we forget, lest we forget
 Forget, the voices rang forget, the poet had written, but in Harry Thaw's heart rang voice, You can never for get: you can never forget that that in- nocent little one is gone from you for ever and has returned 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 mis- sion to perform. The thought of little Evelyn in those hands was more than 1 the tortures of hell to him. He came back to New York to try once more to save her"
 | MT. Delmas then read from Evelyn's testimony regarding her meetings with Thaw at this time, of how she refused for time to see him, but finally how they met and she discovered the sto- ries she had heard about him were not true.
 Mir. Delmas declared that the stories about Thaw's alleged wrongdoing were invented to protect Stanford White from the wrath he felt was to come..
 When Harry Thaw had convinced Evelyn that these stories were not true, hope began to dawn again in his heart The barriers which had been set up between the two young people were falling into ruins one by one. The efforts of Harry Thaw to pro- tect the community against the pollu- tion of Stanford White did not end even wits the provisions of the will and codicil. In the early part of 1906 he wrote letter to Anthony Comstock, under whose special charge he believed the morals of this community had been placed, telling of Stanford White and his band and of their dens where they enticed young girls and deaowered them.
 He called upon District Attorney Jerome, the same man who is here trying to take this mans life. demand ing that he cleanse the city of this leprous sore. but was told to let the matter drop
 He told of demonstrations of agita- tion on the part of Thaw until finally Evelyn came to the conclusion that Harry had become insane on the sub ject of Stanford White. MT. Delmas read that part of Evelyn's testimony where in response to questions asked by Mir. Jerome, she stated that she be- lieved Thaw crazy about Stanford White and that all his friends held the same opinion.
 "And it was true" emphatically de- clared the speaker. "The man who had brooded on this subject for three years. who had pictures of dreadful horrors haunting him by day and in the stiffness of the night, could not be human to retain the calmness of his reason. Gentlemen, place yourselves in his place. Picture to yourselves the horrors he went through and do justice to Harry Thaw."
 hcmCMuci. kcublcLntus Hc tuuu- dered, ''the law is human law. vio- late no law when ask you to take the oldest of laws-the golden law-the | law that is at the foundation of all | laws-'Do unto others as you would | that they should do unto you
 'Ah. gentlemen. recall the language of that great book in which is con tained the wisdom and the religion of | the people of old. and say to you. Is Jonathan to die for ridding Israel of this disgrace? Is Jonathan to die for working this great salvation in Is- rael?
 God forbid, Not hair of his head shall fall to the ground. for he walked with God on that day.
 And now. with all solemnity. gen tlemen. leave in your hands the fate of Harry K. Thaw."
 At the close Thaw seemed to he in the best of spirits and declared to his lawyers in the Tombs that he felt his case was won.
 Tn view of the district attorney's re- marks before the lunacy commission that Thaw is today hopelessly insane. much interest attaches to the line of argument he will pursue in asking for the mans conviction.
 One more day and the concluding chapters of the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White will have been written into history. Justice Fitzgerald would not say whether or uot he yould charge fbe iurv dfroct,r