Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-09
DELMAS HITS STRAIGHT
AND HARD IN ADDRESS

the girl was the "miScallGd affidavit
procured by Abraham iummel. Speak.
ing of Hummel, Mr. Delmas again
drew heavily upon mis- bitterost in.
vectives and declared that il wouM:
require more than the word of per.
jurcd man to send Harry Thaw to an
ignominious death. Hummel was ac-
cuscd by Mr.. Delmas of having com.
mittcd deliberate perjury upon the
stand in the present trial when he
sworo he was not acting as Evelyn
NcsbitS counsel and that no action
was contemplated in her behalf. He
sad the socalled affidavit itself con-
victCd the man of these falsehoOds.
Quotee9the District Attorney.
Mr.. Delmas began his appeal to
the jury by quoting from an utter
ancc of District Attorney Jerome dur.
ing the trial. He said: 1--WE have
no right. il the real Iacts were known
TO be here trying this man. and would
be absolutely prohibited by the sta
tutes.'
Had YOU heard these words" CON
tinned the attorney, from some ir-
responsible babbler, instead of from
an official charged with great pun
lie duty; had they been spoken IL a
place where idle men resort TO in
dulge in idle talk instead of in Il tri-
bunal wherein justice presided in So
lcmnity; had the occasion on which
they were uttered been some trivial
one: an Insignificant topic instead of
debate. the issue of which is life or
Death, and had you after so hearing
them heard the same lips make an
appeal to prove that the law demand.
cd forfeit of the life of the man
about whom they were spoken. these
words might not have filled you with
amaZement.
1T is TO prevent such n conclusion
i'm this case" went on Mr.. Delmns.
that | have undertaken the perform
ance Of the oncrous task before me.
In this task it will be my dutv to
give you all the HELM in nv power
in deciding the question before YOU.
MIR. Delmas then gave n resume O..
Evelyn Nesbits life from ner birth
up to the time when sho met Stan.
ford White, continuing he said:
Brave and courageous, we find this
child of Is or 16 years of age, rushing
in the daytime from studio 10 studio
earning from SIG to SIS week aud
III hlsht appearing upon the DoarCs
and earning an equal salary"
Numerically Scores White.
"At this tine we find man whose
hair was tinged with grey, who had
an excellent wife and an accomplish.
cd son, fixing his eyes upon the faied
child and determining to make her
his. To win her he had none of the
graccs or principles of the honorable
suitor. He introduced himself into
hor family in the gutse of an iniuen-
tial friend. He won his way into the
confidence OF her mother and estab-
lshed himself in a paternal and pro-
tecting attitude in the family, ana
when his footing was sure he per-
suadcd the mother 10 absent herself
from the city, assuring her that the
child would be safe in his hands ana
telling her how fortunate ii was tina
there was such protector to watcI
over her In one of those dens fitted
mp with all the beauty and taste
which this man OF genius possessed
into one OF these dcns this chilli
was lured and found herself alone
with this man, old enough to be her
father. the man VINO was her protect
or:
Must | tell YOU how she was led
on, step by step, how she was piled
with wine and drugs and finally pc
came his victim? That story YOU have
heard from that child's faltering lips.
Better that he should never have liv.
cd than to have lived to have heard
the cries of anguish of the victim,
who lay before him. He had commits
tetd the greatest crime that ever de.
filed the image of God. He had lured
to destruction and had crushed the
child who had trusted him. He had
committed a crime against the Jaw,
against the law of this State, a crime
that the Chef Magistrate of this
country in Il message to Congress
said should be punished by death