The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-11

to a client, he should be more careful in seeing what goes out Of ms ha"us'
 Diary From Poftce.
 For the information of the counsei. let me say," Jerome continued, that this book was given to me by the po- lice of the city of New York
 He then proceeded to read the sev- eral passages from the diary whicn are in record as evidence.
 These passages. the District Attorney argued. clearly showed that the nina of the '.anRel child" was not as simple and as unsophisticated as MT. Delmas would have the jury believe. There is one quotation [ wish to read 10 you because in 1t I believe lies the who1e key to this tragedy:
 "A girl, who Is good and never has had a word of scandal against her IS fortunate,' she writes. The girls here (at sohooD are all just of that kind. There is not one of them who will ever be anything. When l say any thing I mean just that. They wili' perhaps, be good wives and mothers, but I want to be a good actress nrst' It was the desire of this girl to be good actress that caused her 10 play between these two men. until she brought one of them to his grave.
 This child, who did not believe In the chastity of women, went to Paris on Thaws money, with whites letter of credit in her pocket.
 She goes to Paris In the frame of mind her diary indicates. She was fully convinced, she says. that there was no virtue In womankind because, as counsel would have you believe, her virtue had been destroyed.
 'eThis is Angel Child"
 This is the angel child built up by MT. Delmas and on whose testimony he has constructed his whole case He tells you this child so loved Thaw that she renounced his offer of marriage renounced him to go back to the $lS a week of the studios and the SIS of the stage.
 This is the child who travelled all Europe with St. George-St George. who told her there was chastity among women-St George who gave her first moral horizon. What does she do when she leaves him? She comes back to America, landing on Saturday; comes back on Thaws money. She does not see Stanford White on Sunday, but on Tuesday, we find her at Abraham Hum meps office with him.
 There she was making an affidavit and that affidavit I shall refer to later. Sufficient is it now that you see her signature--hsr own signature---fmfne' diately opposite the date Oct. 27. 1903.
 
 in that affidavit, the date is significant. She shows that within twenty-four hours after she had seen Stanford White, the ogre who had piled her with wine and seduced her, he had com plately undermined her great love for rhaw--that which led to her renuncia- tion of the man.
 "Poor little Evelyn-poor. indeed, the woman whose great love was un- dermined in twenty-four hours. 5y stories of perversion--undermin by the man who had ravished her, of all men on earth"
 Comments On Costume.
 Mir. Jerome here referred to the girl ish costume Evelyn had worn through out the trial. saving she was dressed as girl of sixteen. What such costume had to do with the issues in- volved. he could not say.
 Young Mrs. Thaw smiled.
 How does Thaw come into the life of this young woman? We first find him wrapping s notes about the stem of American beauty roses and throwing them over the eootlights. We find him meeting her at a chorus girls dinner.
 "We find him offering a weak mo- ther a competence to help him win the daughter. He was paying honorable court to her." says MT. Delmas. Are men who are paying honorable court to women in the habit of wrapping s bills around the roses they send them? He sends her to a hospital and then furnishes the money to take her abroad. And in Paris, he acks her to marry him. When she says No he asked: Is It because of Stanford White? Did this come to him as shock Had he heard gossip In the tenderloin, which led him to suspect her relations with White?
 q said and said it In no sneering way. that If the story of her supreme renunciation was true there was noth- ing like 1t In history or literature. She had nothing before her hut life of hard work; here was a man she loved, here was a haven If rest and because she loved him SO well she cast IL all aside.
 Haunted aS Mistress.
 There she was. a poor innocent child whom this Sir Galah1d would take to his arms. cherish her and pro tect ner against tn" infamy of White. And what did this Sir Galah1d do, but take this angel child and Haunt her through nearly every capital of Eu-