The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-10

| If you don't believe in me as a
gentleman wrote Harry Thaw, there
is nothing to do. Being honest and
faithful has finished me-.
I DesoIate and Agonized.
/ THE pages neither Of poetry nor of
| oratory contain a simpler, sadder story
of desolation than that which came os
j desert waste upOn the mind of this
young man when he saw the girl he
| loved go back to the man from whose
clutches he had rescued her. In this
condition of mind Harry Thaw left New
York and went to his mothers home in
Pittsburg Up to this time Harry ha I
been a man of cheerful temperament.
but the mothers eyes saw how the
change had come.
| Nv. Delmas then read from Mrs.
William Thaw's testimony regarding
| the actions of her son at that time.
He struck the chords of the piano"
went on Mr. Delmas, until they re-
sounded like wall, until th3y shud-
dered like grOan of a soul in agony,
until the storm passed from him and
the music grew softer and finally died
away. The loving mother heard his
sobs, she saw him awake until the
gray of dawn. He told that mother
that the story was one he could not
! repeat TO her, but soon, by Il mothers
I
soul and little by little he told the
| story.
Lest We Forget"
Then. gentlemen, you remember that
awful scene in the church. You re
member the organ was rolling and the
4 voices We're appealing to the Lord God
of Hosts, the God of armies and Of
navies. be with us yet, lest we for
get. lest we forget
! Forget. the voices rang; forget, the
poet had written but in Harry Thaw's
heart rang a voice. you can never for
get, you can never forget that that in
nocent little one is gone from you for
ever and has returned to the clutches
| of those who ruined her
! This then, was Harry ThaW'S men
| tai condition, Must he give her up?
| He could not. he would not Brave,
/ courageous, indomitabIe man that he
was, he conceived that he had a mis-
sion to perform. The thought of lit
/ tie Evelyn in those HANDS was more
| than the tortures of hell to him. he
came back TO New York to try once
more TO save her"
| Mr. Delmas read from Evelyn's teSti-
mOny regarding meetings with Thaw
! at this time. how she refused for a
time to see him, but finally how they
met and she learned the stories she
/ had heard We're not true.
Dawn of Hope.
when Harry Thaw convinced Eve
/ lyn that these stories were not true,
hope began To dawn again in his heart
/ The barriers which had been set up
| between the two young people We're
| falling into ruins one by one. The two
hearts that God had intended should be
/ one were approaching nearer and near
er until that blessed night of Dec. "a,
! 1903. 1t was q night which might have
meant a new chapter N the misery OF
| this child, bur fate decreel otherwise
/ Stanford White, in a room in the lofty
tower he had builded, had spread
a banquet in honor of the birth
| day of his child victim. 1t was his
| hope amid the surroundings of gran
| deur and treasures OF art he had gath
cred into his apartments t. lure the
| girl back once again and to resume the
awful work he had done
Snatched from Her Betrayer.
But that night the brave 4nan who
| had devoted his life TO the interests
of this girl, snatched her from the
! jaws of DEATH snatched her from the
| snareS of disgrace, snatcled her from
the man who had been a curse to her
and a curse to himself, snatched her
| from the old lecher who saw in her
/ but toy TO crafty 4 moments lust
and then be cast aside - go her way
| down the paths of fallen women
Mr.. Delmas' oratory held the rapt at
| tentiOn of the jury and court rom.
| After Thaw had rescued Evelyn Nesbit
| from White in 1908 he feared thence
/ forth that the architect had designs
upon his life and that, once he was
removed. the girl would be left IN
protected at the mercy Of her Iay-
isher."
Mr.. Delmas turned to the events late
/ in 1904.
Persuaded by His Mother.
In 1904 we find a second capital
operation was performed upon This
young girl. When she was Gonzales
cent the man who for two years had
sought her hand and W1o for -four years
| had loved her, the man who had told
the girls sad story 10 his mother, the
man whom she had refused because She
felt that their union would tear him
from his family and social relations,
| that mal-Such was the cOnstancy and
burden of his Iove-persuaded his
mother, the mother whom he adored,
to come to New York and see the girl
whose sad story she already knew and
who in her womanly heart she could
bui pity-she came TO the little girl and
| besOught her hand for her son.
THE little Girl who had withstOod the
| pleadings of the son. could not resist
| the pleadings of the mother. And SO,
on April ). 1895, their parents consent
ed and they met at the altar and were
united. The man pledged to the wom-
an before the Almighty God that all
| through life he would protect her.
White Followed Her.
Coming 90 New York. the girl wife
meets Stanford White on the street,
and the man stared at her and had the
audacity to call her by her first name.
She hurried back To the hotel where
her husband was, and. like loyal wife,
told him what had happened. He be-
came nervous and angry and made
the wife promise always to tell him
whenever she met the 'blackguard.'
Again in New York. the girl driving
down Fifth avenue sees the man. He
stared at her. When her hanson turn
ed into a side street, where she was
going to see a physician. Whites cab
also turned and followed. Again she
related the incident to her husband.
Now. gentlemen. in May, 1906. just
one short month before Stanford