The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-09

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spread it when she told that terrfbIs
story Gladly che put herself in thai
! plight for the sake Of the one person
in the world VINO loves her. the one
ed face: you saw her struggle TO tell
\ the truth You saw Ter for days strug-
Cling through a cross-examination
which has no parallel in this Or any
other country. You saw her fight for
days inch by inch against the man who
has sworn TO make her a widow. You
saw her fighting against the arts that
that learned and brilliant man could
story
She Never FTfnched.
You saw her Undergo that terrible
ordeal but did you see her finch. did
You see her hesitate? No Under the
merCtIesi G. discrimination you heard
from her unwilling but truthful lips that
ner relations with Stanford White. once
begun. continued until her nature re-
you need any more proof than
that that her story is true? If It were
false would it not have been easier for
her TO say that the relations We're not
continued? But she told the whole
stoTy-s;le told the whole truth
.AOue other question I want to ask
you Why did Stanford White just at
that moment remove the mother, the
chiId's only protector. as guardian upon
her tender years. as sentinel on her tot
terfug steps on the slippery walks of
New York? Why was the mother sent
to P.ttsburg with money furnished by
Stanford Winter Why was the young
brother sent away to school. except TO
remove pryfng eyes2
Another matter call to your atten-
ton During the year following this
terrible event, Stanford White contract
ed to pay Evelyn Nesbit SIS week
when she IVES unable to earn her living
on the stage The checks which are
here in evidence show that many of
them were payable to the mother II
has been figured that the mother re-
ceived at the hands Of Stanford White
in that year So. 509-an enormous sum
to this woman who had been living IN
mean Lodgings without enough to eat
The district attorney viii tell you that
Stanford White was then in Strengthen
ed circumstances. Why then ask you,
was he paying Evelyn Nesbtt's mother
$500 a month";"
Thaw's Life Threatened
Mr. DeImas then took up the story
Of Miss SimOntou's return from
where she had learned Evelyn
Nesbit's story. She went to Stanford
White and confronted him with it, II
was then that White went to A. H !
that Stanford White saw danger
ahead and was ready to do anything /
20 gain protection Thereupon, as
;oou as Evelyn Nesbft returned. a pa
per was drawn up TO which will re-
'er later
Gentlemen, do you remember 1
Christmas OF 1903? Do you remember
he banquet that Stanford White had i
lrranged in celebration Of Evelyn Mes
tits birthday? Do you remember that
Harry Thaw succeeded in rescuing her
rom Stanford Whites clutches, and /
hat White went to the theater and,
a revolver, swore to take /
Harry Thaw's life before morning?
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tie to Evelyn Nesbit's story"
Mr.. DeImas had q score or more of
=gaIcaD sheets, to which he referred
and particularly when he
o the motive Stanford White had in
aging money TO EveIyn's mother and
! sending Howard Nesbtt to school at
IS expense
sOh, Unnatural Nfother!''
When Mr.. Delmas had completed
Is denunciation of Stanford White, he
luuched into a merciless attack on
.veIyn Thaw's mother He first re-
allied TO the jury that IN the early part
Z the trial. when the name of the
lother was first mentioned. he stated
nat he would not cast any reflections
pom her and held her guiItless. be- |
ewing her to have been the helpless
ictfm OF circumstances
When I said this, gentlemen" Mr.
'elmas continued, ST wish you to bear
mind that three things had not yet .
eveIoped. That for years after this |
utrage had been committed, the
lother received $500 a month from
lie perpetrator; that the mother had
wen the district attorney a written !
by which he might torture
light leave her alone in the world her
-ther dead. her mother unnatural
er husband executed.
When I learned that every shaft
lined at her heart came from a CULVER
applied by her mother; when learn {
] that It was the mother who was !
ointing out the sore and tender spots |
u the district attorney to attack. and I
hen learned that the poor babbIings
q girl in SChOO-her dtary-hadf I
cen furnished by the mother that
ley might be used against her, re-
acted as retract now the state
tents which I made IN behalf of the r
Lcrher.
''Oh- unnatural mother that she was. t
desert her girl and leave her the r
ctim of the lust Of this gray-haired :.
ian: to receive for q year the wages 7
her daughters downfall: to wear '
iamonds bought with such money as +
lis. and then to come now. in the hour
; her daughters supreme agony to v
cal away the life OF her only pro- .
.ctor. Z
a Beast Protects It's Young. =
why. gentlemen of the jury. a
East protects her young have even =
.e1 a little bird watch ing over her
rood OF young in a dusty road rufT7e
ar brave little feathers until she was a
vice her natural size and fly straight
a pointer who had come running up, 4
1til the dog stood abashed and re- II
,ected the mother. q
"Oh. shame upon this WOMAN
Not content with what she has al a
lady done, she would take away the Oh
e Of the one human being who came ,
an angel into the life of this girl on
ie downward path. who told the girl :!
lat whatever she might be in the eyes
sinful and debauched world he
new her soul was pure
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