The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-10
DELMAS LEAVES THAW'S
FATE IN HANDS OF JURY
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God, and IN the breast of this little
| girl existed this great strength that
| enabled her 10 put aside her one love,
when she knew it was for the good of
the one she loved"
EveIyn's Great Love.
Arguing along this line TO further
demonstrate Evelyn's Sublime renun-
citation" Mr.. Delmas referred to and
read abstracts from the letter which
! ThaW wrote to Attorney LongfelloW
/ in september, 1903. In the letter Thaw
wrote that he had proposed marriage to
! Evelyn, but she had refused because
! ''she said ii would shut me out from
my relatives"
THE genuineness of this letter" Mr.
! Delmas argued. cannot be denied.
( What, then, did it mean when Thaw
wrote to Air. Longfellow that Evelyn
would not marry him?'
! is it not true that she had refused
! him? Thaw wrote that she thought
I first and then rejected his offer. Yes,
/ she thought. She looked upon the man
she loved, she locked upon her own
past and she did not want to bring re-
proach upon the man who would have
married her.
{ Harry, / love you md because l love
{ YOU | do moi want 10 tie my unfortu-
nate existence To yours. So that people
would point the finger of scorn at you.
I | Wart To leave you free, and the mo-
ment you think il is best for YOU l
/ viii go my way. l will go back and
earn my own living and you shall be
/ free and hOnored. Go back TO your
noble mother and dear sisters and
shall go down. where so many others
] have gone before me. and disappear
{ from the world"
Jerome's Sheer Unjustified.
Yes. she thought The sneer of the
district attorney is unjustified. The
/ little girl did sacrifice herself Did
/ rise to the heights Of sublime renuncia-
( tim.
Mr.. UclnaS read from Mrs. William
/ Thaw's testimony, and went on:
! Did that venerable gray-haired
mother come here to perjure herself
/ Did she invent this story which she
| says he~ son told her? Did he tell an
urtruth when he confided To his loved
] mother and told her that he loved this
girl and wanted to devote his life TO
] her. and that all this time that little
! girl was going along using the talents
/ God had given her to make a living FOR
herself, refusing To marry the wealthy
man who loved her and whom she
/ loved, because she thought il was the
/ best for him. Oh, sublime self-abnega-
/ ton"
! Mr.. Delmas read from Evelyns testi-
mcny recalling the portions of her
story in which she told of the effect Of
Of her story on Thaw's mind.
such was the condition of Harry
! Thaw's mind when he parted from
E'ValX-D i'm E'rfpope and eapf ba,, hacl-
New York ahead of him. There. gem
tlemen. you have the first dawn of the
mental condition which manifested IL
self three years afterward.
Clouds Were Gathering.
The foundations of his reason we're
undermined. The storm had not burst,
but the clouds were gathering from the
four points of the compass and frOI.
them the lightning and thunder were
to burst in three years and astound the
world"
Mr.. Delmas turned again to
young Mrs. Thaws testimony And re-
peated that part of it in which she told
of having refused to see him after he
had followed her home from Europe
because of the dreadful things"
friends Of Stanford White had told her
about him. Evelyn told him what had
been related 10 her regarding the put
ting of a girl in a bath tub and turn
ing hot water on her. and tying girls
to bedposts and beating them.
'Thaw,' Mr.. Delmas said, 'shook his
head sadly and said: Poor Evelyn q"
Mr.. Delmas read also Of the girl tell
ing Thaw that Stanford White had ta-
ken her to see Hummel
Driven to Desperation.
What the condition of his mind was
at that time is shown to YOU, gentle
men. by documents of indubitable gen.
uineness. The letters Thaw wrote 10
Attorney LongfellOW picture the sad
epoch in his life-they voice the vail
from suffering soul such as has never
been voiced by a dramatist from the
days Of the Greeks down TO the present
time"
Mr. Delmas read many of the letters
to which he had referred. commenting
upon them as he read. In one If these
letters, Thaw, speaking IF himself in
the third person, said:
He would have done anything for
You, but now you must get stronger
without him. Poor little Evelyn, you
have fallen back into the hands of the
man who poisoned your life and who
is now poisoning your mind. But l
have no reproaches to heap upon yau-
but. oh, the sadness of it all-you. have
driven me from your side and now you
must fight the battle of life alone
without me-
oh. Stanford White exclaimed Mr.
Delmas, had the man kept out of TIE
way with his smooth tongue, profess
sional tricks and devices. poor lille
EVELYN would not have turned from her