The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-10
MATCHLESS oRATORY.
DeImas Concludes His Powerful Plea
for Harry Thaw.

| New York. April 9.-Not since the
day when Evelyn Thaw gave to the
world the story of her life has the
! court room. where the final scenes of
! the Thaw trial are now being enacted,
! been so crowded as it was today. The
attraction was Dolphin NJ, Delmas, the
San Francisco lawyer, who today con-
! tinued his summing up for the defense.
! Mr.. Delmas began his final plea yes
terdav afternoon and after speaking
I two and half hours his voice became
50 husky as to necessitate an adjourn
( ment. He was in good voice again
when the proceedings were resumed to-
! day and a the outset promised to be
even more effective than yesterday.
! Despite the Indictment weather.
! snowstorm WithOUt-the court room
was besieSed an hour before the time
! for the opening, a large percentage of
/ the spectators being women.
With much difficulty the police sue
! ceeded in keeping the crowd down TO
! the actual seating capacity, SO that al
! though every available bit of space was
occupied. good order prevailed while
NJ. Delmas was making his appeal
/ to the jury.
! Members of the Thaw family. as
usual. were among the early arrivals.
/ Evelyn Thaw was a trifle late but ar
:
/ fences. \ new figure appeared in the
/ Thaw group today. 1t was that of Mrs.
/ Edward Thaw. who accompanied her
/ husband and sister-in-laW. the Coun-
tess of Yarmouth. MI and Mrs. Car
negie also We're present.
District Attorney jerome was again
absent today during Mr.. Demas
! speech.
/ When Mr.. DeImas arose to resume
Z It l,.,
would endeavor TO be as brief as pos
1 sible in order not 10 tax their patience
and to relieve them of their onerous
/ duty as speedily as consistent with the
responsibilities resting upon him.
Confidence in the Outcome.
! when I am DONE" said Mr.. Delmas,
/ Il shall give the fate of my client into
4 your hands with every confidence.
! Mr.. Delmas said il would be neces-
sary 10 cast q rapid glance over his re-
marks Of Yesterday in order to con-
meet the threads of his argument.
/ The state, Mr. Delmas said. had at
/ tempted to set the scene for the last
act in the tragedy upon the flimsy
! basis Of an affidavit dictated by "a
| felon-a man convicted of perjury
Mr.. Delmas quoted briefly from the
| speech of District Attorney jerome
when Abraham Hummel was IN for
sentence. At that time Mr.. Jerome
urged the maximum penalty of the law
upon the ground that Hummel had
been a menace to the community for
twenty years.
OF the story of Evelyn Nesbit told
upon the witness stand, Mr.. Delmas
! said:
You know, gentlemen of the jury.
that no human imagination ever in
vented such a story. You know that
no actor could have stood as she did,
unflinchingly, all the tests known TO
| skilled LAWYERS to elicit the truth, I'M
! less she WAS telling absolute truth.
Effect of EVelyn's Story Upon Thaw.
4 shall now proceed in an effort TO
depict to YOU the effect of this story
upon the mind Of Harry Thaw. | shall
prove this TO YOU without using any
| language of my own. / shall tell You
/ the story in Evelyn's own words. the
! words you heard her use u9on the
! stand
/ Mr.. Delmas then read dramatically
| the young wOman's story of Thaw :
j actions when. i'm Paris in 1903. she told
/ him the story. how he walked the
/ floor biting his nails and SOObing.
| He also read that portion of her tes-
timony in which she said she had re-
fused Thaw's offer of marriage be-
/ cause she loved MIN so much that she
would rot drag him down.
sublime :enunciatiOn, saws the
sneering district attorney, in an effort
| to make ycu believe that this story is
not true: that it is impossible But l
shall prove to you that il is true; |
shall prove to you beyond the slightest
doubt that she did refuse him, and re-
| fused him for that reason alone. Man,
it may be, has not that great power Of
| pronunciation. but in the gentler breast
/ of women 90 we find that great gift of
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