Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-11

the defense 10 allow the prosecution IL
contradict Evclyhs story and then do
elared that when he made move 10
avail himself OF II the doors were closed
ATTACK ON EvELYNs CHARAC-
TER.
II called learned chemist" the dis
trict attorney continued. ITO prove To
You that there does not exist a drug
such as this angel child would have
you believe was employed to bring
about her ruin. But my learned oppOn-
ent from the Pacific slope objected.
called the photographer who took these
pictures FOR which Evelyn herself said
she posed upon the nigh before she was
outfa sed, knew that this evidence
would not be admitted. knew that
even II the counsel fOl. the defense had
not objected the learned Judge would
have ruled It out, IL was offered to
call the cheap blu1 OF my learned OPP
poncnt.
$50 strange it ii that this angel child
This girl of the choruS-should believe
what she says stamford White told her
aoont all women being bad and some
simply so fortunate as moi to be found
out, Does what she did afterwards APP
peal TO Your sense? Can 1t appeal to
any MANS common sense7 Contrast
her action With that OF other girls Was
she brought UP any more carefully than
So9r own daughters have been brought
upg Go back to When they were I6
Sears OF age and think what such
thlng as we have heard would have
meant TO them What does this girl
90 Does she shrink from this tuan2
Does she abhor him2
No. Numbered the district attorney
she meets him again and again Eight
or nine times she goes to the tower and
TO the Twenty fourth street house with
h,1 f,A t-ts,E "a l..
OF her vllginity. She met him time and
again, and, far from repeIllng those
tearful actions, We find her by her own
WORDS, at one time undressing In a room
downstairs while White was talking
WIN friend upon the floor above
RMS dragon prey1ng upon female
virtue wrote this angel child letter
after letter, scores of them. Some OF
Them We're Identified. but was single
one put In evidence and read /? No.
Lhere Is nothing TO show you that
these letters contain anything that was
pau Would not Some of these let
ters contain something 10 Indicate the
vicious character. the evil dlspo stion
or this very wicked man?
But they contained nothing of the
sort. Now contrast this with the mod
ern st George who led the angel
child back into the paths Of virtue
In November, 1908. writing her let
N~'' ~ llti ulSCuSNbu sexual per-
version.
."oh, that we might try this case
before jury permitted to hear all
The evidence | have not been per
mitted by law 10 show to YOU where
Stanford White was the night after
the pictures We're taken of this angel
chfld'-the night she says she was
raped
AS have sat here in this court.
room unable to raise a hand in reply
10 some OF the things that have been
uttered, II has seemed to me ] have
heard the voice of Stanford White
calling from the spirit world asking
me if 1 could not utter one word 1oI
him--'mlIst ] be blackened as by the
hres of hell. unheard and undefend-
ed?'''
Mr. Jerome paused for a few mo-
ments and then continued:
EVELYN's PRAISE OF WHITE.
Now. gentlemen, let us see what
all this girl herself says of the hor-
rible demon who ruined her. She
says Outside of This one awful thing
i admired Stanford White He had
q most extraordinary personality.
What an extraordinary panegyric that
Is coming from those lips.
stamford Whites Hips are sealed by
death and by the rules of evidence.
But what are We expected 10 believe
OF man To whom such a tribute is
paid by the girl he so brutally Sc
duced7
Gentlemen, am not here to de-
fend Stanford White. but L am COM
PEELED to say that there is a difference
between unchastity and brutality;
there is a difference between the man
OF the world and the brute who raw
lshes. Her own words have ruined
the theory that Stanford White was
a brute Has she been so enlightened
by this modern St George that at last
she has come to believe that all wo-
men are not nnchaste7 And yet she
can come here, hut 20 years of age.
and sit in that chair and describe The
man who raylshed her as a girl OF 16.
in the remarkable way that she has
done2
Stamford White was a wealthy
man, man who found enjoyment.
God knows why or how. in this class
OF people, He sees this child blown
into his circle. You have looked up
on the girl in court, and YOU can well
draw the picture AT the time that she
went to apply for q position In the
Florodora chorus and was told by
the manager he was not conducting a
kindergarten OF a baby farm.
1T was natural that a rich man like
Stanford White moving in the circle in
which he did, should have tried 10 help
this girl 1t was natural that he should
give her the little gifts OF wearing APP
parel which tended to her comfort
There Is nothing in his conduct consist
emit with the theory that the relations
between the two We're not pure ! do
not know how II was. and neither do
You, except as this girl tells us; and,
gentlemen, | must admit In all soIen-
nifty that she does not tell the truth,
You have no evidence out side at her
own story that the relations between
her and White were impure. And the
character OF her story may best be
Judged by her statement thet all OF her
experiences with this man weye against
her wlll--that they We're all Tapes yet
we find her voluntarily In his rooms
waiting and willing foT the awful at
tacls Of this monster
THE STAGE LIFE.
Discussing the life of Evelyn Nesblt.
Mr.. Jerome said;
1--WE Know what this sort of life--the
life of the stages We pass along the
great white way of this city and see
something OF IT."
Mr., Jerome called attention to the
early youth at which Evelyn Nesbit
made her appearance OH that notori-
think Garland was paying her atten-
lions" he asked and he married
mani
Even Thnw followed her up win
American beauties and presents Of
money. Sure, her home life did not
contribute much toward the shapInR Of
a career, but do not wish To Judge the
mother harshly.
Let me read you passage from