The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-10


/ never read the six best sellers un-
I'll they are four years old. BY that
time they have demonstrated whether
they were worth reading or not
Then we turned, as was inevitable,
TO the great crucial event OF his life,
the one thing that must forever dwarf
other interests in his mind--the trial.
During the trial" he said. and
speaking without a particle OF bitter
ness. the newspapers didn't give me
or my family a fair snow. | don
blame them. for our lawyers wouldn't
let us speak and set things straight
hut a lot was published thar did us IN
Justice. For instance, | was continu-
ally represented as being a dope hend.
when | never took a dose OF dope IN
MY life. was also pictured as soins
on sprees. when ! was lost 10 the
world for days together, whereas T
never was on a spree in my life.
Z don't say continued Mr.. Thaw'
calculating the true inwardness OF
spree. that | haven't drunk too mUcn
OF a night, but ! was always all righ'
bv morning. and didn't even have 10
pick il mp. and that, in my opinion
doesn't constitute q spree
Mr. Thaw." asked. do you think
that the influence OF a great fortune
such as yours is beneficial or baneful
on young NAM
He smiled whimsically as he answer
ed. The popular thing is TO say that
money is a curse and the ruinatin OF
a Young man, but / don't think so.
think great fortune brings with II
great responsibility and that It's
tendency is TO steady a young man
He feels that be has duties to the
world. duties 10 others who are less
fortunate than himself.
THE trouble with money and the
young man in America Is society. In
this country society doesn't mean any
thing. II doesn't lead anywhere. You
start out In IL. and the first thing
YOU know you are up blind alley.
In this country society doesn't en-
courage the rich young man 10 De
anything, or DO anything except spend
his money. In Europe a rich young
man expects TO be something or a
figure. He goes in for the army, or
navy. or politics. That's the great
career-politcs-bu II IS practically
shut to the young millionaire IN
America. He starts out with great en-
thusiasm and everybody laughs at HIM
All he can do is 10 either get IN with
the gang-and he doesn't want TO do
that---or 70 Join a good government
club and become a Joke"
What do you think OF the state
la.ar q II s.
story that Mrs Thaw told ON the wit
ness stand about her treatment by
White was all falsehood?"
| asked.
IT'S so unimportant it's not worth
denying" he replied. Hattie For
sythe never knew Evelyn at all eX
cept in the most casual way. In fact.
| introduced them myself at a little
dinner gave at Sherry's. More than
that. Hattie Forsythe never knew
White at all we'll. The best proof
that Evelyn's story Is true Is that
there were any number Of people
ready to come forward and testify
that she was a pure girl until she
met white. And have got lot OF
affidavits from other women telling
precisely of the same treatment al
his hands. Here's one from woman
who lives In Wisconsin
Jerome put chemist on the stand
who swore there was no known poison
that would act as Evelyn said the
drug did that White gave her, but az
ter that received dozens OF letters
from chemists and doctors all over
the country telling OF not one, but
several drugs that would affect one
that way,
"He was worse. million times
worse. than any Of the men he was