Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-09
Numerically Scores Stanford White
and Evelyn ThaW's Mother
in Bitter Terms.
BtTRAYtR FEARFuLLY ARRA|GAEO
Lawyer for Defense Says That White
Must Have Known That God Would
Hear Cry of the Outraged Child.
Mother Called Unnatural and Worse
Than a Beast.
my Assoclatcd Press. .

(By Associated Press!
NEW YORK. April S.-'rhc trial oil
Harry *. Thaw, charged with inc
murder OF Stanford White, is nearing
the end. Attorney Dolphin NJ. Del
mas. the California advocate, this al.
ternoon began his closing address to
to the jury and after he had spoken
for more than two hours and half,
an adjournment was taken until to-
morrow morning.
Mr.. DclmaS expects to conclu.:e
before the luncheon hour is reached.
District Attorney Jerome will make
the closing address of the trial OH
Wednesday and Thaw's fate should
DO in the hands Of the jury by We'd
nesday evening.
Justice Fitzgerald today ordered
the jury to be locked uu until the
ond of the trial. In view of this the
judges charge will be delivered i'm.
mediately the district attorney con-
cludes. 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" be-
cause his client found ample protec-
tion IN the written statutes of the
state of New York, Mr.. Delmas made
striking appeal to the sympathies OF
the jurors and so far as he has pro-
crossed the subject of Thaw's insan-
ity ut the time he committed the
homicide was not even limited at.
Mr.. Delmas based his argument
solely upon the story of Evelyn Mes
DIT Thaw. With flushed cheeks. but
dry eyes, that young woman heard
her life history rehearsed to the men
who are to judge her husband and
bowed her head as her mother was
denounced in the bitterest terms and
tones tho eloquent lawyer could COM
mand.
Even beast protects It's young.
he declared with scornful emphasis.
nut this unnatural mother deserted
her daughter in this city of millions
TO be betrayed by false friend, TO he
lured into glded palace and there
lett the victim of n gray haired man.
wounded, bleeding and devoured.-
Mr.. Delmas went with great detail
INTO the life OF Evelyn Nesbit has led
up to the meeting with Harry Thaw.
In all of his remarks he referred to
her as 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
Stanford White" whose achievements
IN his profession, the ATTORNEYS de.
CARED, We're an aggravation of his
crime.
Mr.. Delmas before beginning his
attack upon Evelyn Tnaw's mother,
poured out torrent of denunciation
upon the architect who became the
victim of Thaw's pistol He accused
MN or tho crime of rape" and then
declared that President Roosevelt
had said in message to Congress
that such crime should be visited
with death. This was one of the
suggestions which Thaw himself
made to his counsel for his summing
up spoech-one of the suggestions
which played SO important n part II
the proceedings before the lunacy
commission Mr.. Delmas declared
that God heard the Cry of the chilu
upon whom Stanford White had fixed
his gaze and had determined should
be his. He quoted from scripture
that. He who afflicts a fatherless
child shall PERISH" and declared that
providence had sent Thaw to ayense
the. wrong. .
Thaw EveIyn's Only Protector.
Inc attorney declared that Thaw
was his wifes only protector-that he
came into her life when she was on
the downward path, told her TINT no
matter what the world thought of
hor, she was to him an angel. He
look her to be his wifee, ready to
share that burden that a mother mad
helped to place upon her daughter.
MI. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit of
having lived upon the wages of her
daughters ruin. He sought to bic,
tlre to tho jury what he termed the
sinister surroundings in which the
girl had been reared and in doing SO
ne mercilessly attacked the mother.
Mr.. Delmas rose to the. highest
point of his address today when he
told the jury that the girls MOTHER
was the one who had furnished Dis.
trict Attorney Jerome with the ar.
rows with which to wound the daugh.
Ter on cross examinations cross ex.
animation which he declared would
live long in the annals OF criminaI
history. but which left the girls story
mistaken in all its eessential de.
tails.
That Evelyn Nesbitts story was