The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1907, Page 3

‘ Nixola Greeley- Smith Predicts That shel Twelve Men Will Prefer to Believe the| Tragic Story ot Her Downfall Totd by} Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. YOUNG WIFE, FACE WAXEN PALE, MORE HUMAN THAN AS WITINESS.! Compared With Her the Elder: Mrs. Dhaw Seemed a Picture of Serenity—Argu-! ment Stronger Than Oratory in. Del-J mas’s Summing Up. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. | HE-end-of the-Thawr‘tria! israt T hand. This week) will see the denouement of the. zreat- est drama ever witnessed in an American court. To-day will bring the end of Delphin Delmas’s great speech, halted midweyy by the set- ting of yesterday's ‘stm, which re- fused to stand still that the legal battle for a man's life might be fought out Before a courtsroom packed -with men prominent at the New York bas, who filled every chair and o¢- cupied alll the available standing- room in the adjoinmg chamber, , whose coors had been thrown open! to command a view of the impres~ sivé scene, \the manif fromsCaliforvia | began a great speech. If 1 werel on Harry Thaw's jury that address: .wouldtinterest andrswayt me more by its argument than by4 its oratory. hi argument Mr. Delmas fs clea, logical and wonderfully plausible. His fame, however, has been won as an orator, and as an orator he has the defects.of his qualitiesias well as the qualities of his defects. His language is not objectianabiy| flowery, like that of many orators, but what flowers oftspeech’he employs strike me as being of the hardy perennial: sort, that hawe.come up smilfng every year since Cicero. The professional word juggler would not ifivd it difficult to pick serious flaws in Mr. Delmas’s address, but-there ismonie of his sort on the jury, and there canbe nosdoubt that the lawyer’s#words will bave a deep effect upon them. “He's puttting {n too mach of that soft stuff!" saidea lawyers who sat} next me yesterday to a brother member of the bar. Perhaps, for that’ lawyer, perhaps for me, he was, But the jary listened attenttvedy through-) yout the attorney's rhetorical recapitulation of Evelyn Thaw's story, andsot course Mr, Delmas knows juries better thansyou oréI possiblyjcan. THAW AND HIS FAMILY. For a while during this recital the munecles wf Harry? Thaw's face | mworked convulsively and gave the spectator a faint idea of ‘what he must Pave looked like when, as Evelyn Thaw testified, he sobbecy and wept and Dit his nails over the story of wrong she told him. Scarcely ten minutes} later he lapsed into his more usual apathy,.and actually yawned several! thnes during Mr. Delmas's impassioned plea for his lite Behind Thaw, 2 biack vet! emphasizing her waxen ‘pallor, his wife @vetyn, the frail cause of the tragedy, leaned far forward from the seated} phalanx of Thaw’s relatives, her round chin xesting in fher gloved hand./ For the first time she who Mr, Delmas told the jugy was to Harry Thaw “fairer than Rachel, fairer than Rutb{’ seemed, in a, measure tom gustify her reputation for beauty. Her long, hazel eyes were stretches | to their widest with interest and anxiety, her full mouth was a vivid| carmine. She, seemed less cold, more human than at ary Ume duying| the trial. Compared with her, the elder Mra Thaw, who sits bealde her, * peems the picture of serenity. She, as well as Evelyn Thaw, has bene- fited by the enforced rest entailed by the appointment. ofim lunacy com- mission. From the entire line of Thaw women sqemed toyemanate a new*con-| fidence and hope, perhaps inspired by the comn#ission's verdict that) Harry Thaw is now sane. The pretty Courttess of Yarmouth, the sweet, : earnest and yearning face of Mrs. George Carnegie, Thaw's sisters, seemed | less marked by the family burden of grief than at any time during the trial Apparently the entire Thaw familywis confidenteof ans acquittal./ Will that confidence be justified? JURY LISTENS CLOSELY. yet one may read in them certain things. Now and agam one of the Thaw women, or sometimes the defendant himself, sends a searching eye slang that double line of men, as though endeavoring to sound their souls. Nor are the defendant's relatives clone in making the scrutiny. tery of disgruntled alicnists faced the jury, comments on the twelve jurymen taking notes and exchanging the careful study of the twelve by Drs, Austin Flint and Carlos. MeDon-| ald that the District-Attorney was getting reauy to send the jury to Mat Gerstman, teawan. Mr. Harney, the fifth juror, and Mr, and youngest, took most visible interest in Mr. former, a big, gray-headed, gray moustached man, and I thought, Abraham Hummel, and bis fine argument on the falsehood of tae famous affidavit Evelyn Thaw is said to have signed after a visit to Mr. Hummel's office. To me, this portion of Mr. Delmas's address was miuch the ablest = seemed by some sudden dextrous twist of logic to have taken the week eat point in the defense and made {t into \bulwark of strength. The most legitimately touching was the reading of Harry Thawts letters to and ml ‘haw Harry Thaw's fate rests on whether or not}the jury believes Bvelyn Nesbdit Thaw or the perjured and convicted lawyer, Abraham Hummel. I .wink the twelve men witi prefer to believe 4.0 woman. But the next few days will bring their decision, It lea igene and totelligent, and. 1 think, conscientious jury. And whatever one's ings, I/think one may accept their suugment ‘whatever iy may be. the twelfth | interested Obicage. Street Hallway Men Bene- | crease in aifew days. \ ft by Vietorn According to the guhedule announces | sit foclan bare ff tae Vera dMertns! erase ats Seats i 4s GHICAGO, April %.-Btrest-car men) to the Mouth Gide men those under one| pales: Fhe March. 14 wenge| the ‘polloe unui the pr make Mt app: ‘employed on the Bouth Mines are| year of service, WRo were receiving w| Ayres Which (Sleny in the! started is the content wecelving the increase in Prom-| cents an Rour, Bow) get 24 cents for the nat sion af atmhted’ sith Gohauter testides that Fried and two! cursie He wi food them before election in case the|six months, After {nine months of ser | {ress ssn bY fe ityemonr | nara bad, Aepgued ime, Into Stans |corrobgeats ths . traction ordinances were carried. The| vice they will receive ® cents an pours were washed’ ovarian’ #4 a pe Ry a a RYeuve "inst Baturday” vent. | gee Hane 7“ fi imcrease means four cente an hour|and after & year's mervies they will \ be woe . ve Jao oe 7 4 red | men dati one of : week's wages. He aid he ea. Mayo: ye was the srtte case of eat, Seo, woe pease) ative Oo Wh sneialat Si sanis, The Funs GuumD 18 9 TO 14 DAS. Sait Aa att ip enema wae int the hanse of Bishop Sz sat se eats 00 tate Golem vee wa exiting S cee waa Beatty | e's talk os 2 deslaion La “expected thie | Woiack bow. | ‘They The faces of Harry Thaw’s jury predict’ nothing oftthetr’ verdict, and} seer Though | fr, Mr. Jerome was absent from the court-room yesterday, his diminished bat- One might almost have thought from |} addresa The b approving, during Delmas's scorching desunciation of |! probation officer tigation ee “— NORPOLK, Va.. April &—The Br ship Olivemoor, beund from ELE! i ORE PAY, | *mplorece of the Nowth and Merthweet| tiie Ala, March 9. for Bristol, Kn ile # ered 2 A ines will receive wokice ef © like In-|and, picked uo ai sea off the North| MA ANE have Carolina coast yesterday fi THE E'VENING WORLD, FIND ONLY WOE ERE. MET THREE TIME Girl, Who Looks to Be Only 15, and Her Swain Are Now Taken Care of, — Mrs. Phoebe Berrian’s Brother , Objects and Tries to Break the Will. Eéna Redding, seventeen years old Tis trial of a sult to break the will and pretty, to-day stood before the bar of Mra, Phoste Berrian was in Yorkville Courtand told Magistrate day in the Supreme Court at Fi. Sweetser of her wanderings from the before Justice Abbott, The plaintife ts quiet of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia the glamor of Grand Central Stat |Although she says she is seventeen, | she doesn't look over Atteen Sirlish form makes he tall. but her the innocent rosy-oheeked Wealth of ¢ the testator Smith ts the her slim, look rather Ingenuous face is thi ountry’ wheap, light for to-day. ‘ It Waa some time ag Was allowed to leave the Nova Scotia her father is | 0 to that ceemin, | Mass. where her two Altce and Harri obtained work as y Prankl e town wi Exchange piace rd Connor, an Yankee © {rom ard Was an ex And surprised t 1 take several 4 jaya to try = AOE OIN s urade was and told } araver wet out with him to see the arrived wandering al ing the sought only thing Chioapes # Frida tae town all day ove two Score of Victims to Complain Against Pris: mers Rounded y Lantry. ec reeohed. Connor was t ——E SAILORS LOST AT BEA en of the] few weeks i iin Matln mc D ii ah. tliat A Nal lt mine good for three re meals anywhere 4 He told her that Ch was nothing npany at ali compared to New ¥ where he | two-thirds of ‘the s had always intended « rome day Bald ork and. the opportu " FLUNG INTO h L York and the opportunities for younk Me teatited yas Persons beeme so powerful that first Pear th ‘TUESDAY, ‘THAW AND HIS FAMILY SCRUTINIZE FACES OF JURORS, LOOKING that Defondant’s “ Him Qui.” H f the Wenning Janta, and Pavidow, I firat Profit Is Acnitted APRIL 9, 1907. | lad CMU YOUTHFUL FLOPERS $75,000 TOMANSHE....-—— in Court “roze ways years CURATE GETS TIME T0 EXPLAIN VISII TO DIVE. BREAMFAT TABLE John T. Printer, Buzzard, Died a an Aged Doctor oid man aurant | and wet Aicated | i | NEVER A CAPTAIN, BUT | PLAIN BOOK-AGENT. on, Charg h Being Hotel Beat, Reads Some Curious History, CHANGE IN BALL DATES Do your Eyes vel Tired? 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