The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-08-13

You take this chain OF evidence and
follow it till it breaks.
This thing was generally talked in
the neighborhood everybody knew it
but the husband, Peter Minnick finds
a letter by accident; finds it in DR..
Bakers tobacco barn.
Why did the prisoner keep those
letters? Kept them perhaps to bring
forth in case any further charge be
brought against him kept them per-
haps through providence only to reveal
his guilt. Here the speaker cited para
graphs from the letters, showing the
infatuation of Mrs. Gilmer for the
prisoner and how they had schemed
for double murder.
| don't seek to shield Mrs. Gilmer.
She has laid open her soul to you,
These letters are the passport that led
to Mrs. Bakers grave. Consider them
and if they lead up to the guilt of the
prisoner, let us hang him, Here are
the letters to him calling attention to
the medicine which he had given her
for her husband. She explains the eff
fects OF the medicine. He is growing
blind from it, she says. The Minnick
letter is the one which DR.. Baker ac-
knowledged to having lost. l don't
know why he didn't destroy the letters
and that you can't consider. The
fact is, this does not concern you,
gentlemen of the jury, il
the letters are traced to him. You
must know what is in these letters /;
they have blazed.the Way to the crime.
1t is Gods pity that that woman died
before she found out the shame and
degradation of that adulterous hus
band. We have in Mrs. Gilmer's let
ters the proof that she has gotten let
ters from him. He had predicted the
death OF Mrs. Baker to Joe Butt. He
said according to Mr., Butt, "Mrs
Gilmer is innocent and above re
proach, and / am of the same charac
ter" He said further, when askeC
how his family was, that they were all
we'll except Mrs. Baker, that she wai
approaching period at which she haC
had trouble. He also expressed his
fear of her death.
Here the speaker cited law relative
to preparing the public to expect
death, so that the victim can be killeC
without suspicion. Mrs. CLINE
tells you that the prisoner tolC
her that his wife had conceived agail
aud should not live to see the birth 0
the child that after wards he gave he
the poison, and she took it with al
the confidence of II little child, t
which Mrs. Gilmer responded, "Of
tell me no more" They were goin
to kill Gilmer, and they were no
going to give him second elias
funeral, either; they were going to Ell
balm him,
While Wyndham Gilmer lay sick an
taking the poisonous medicines, tn
prisoner was sulking around the hous
and meeting that wife in unholy a
lance.
That's the kind of II man you hay
before you.
| wish to show the common desig
of which Mrs. Gilmer testi6es: "Tf
barriers shall be burned away" I'll
evidence shows this design.
Why did they form this conspirac,
In order that they might become ma
: and wife.
We recognize the fact that MI
Gilmer was a co-conspirator in the d
: sign to kill her husband.
You find these letters divulging Il
most hellish scheme that was eve
concocted in the minds Of a man al
! woman.
4 Here the speaker described the {
> rest Of Mrs. Gilmer and how she fell
" despair and asked what she must d
!. when her brother and relatives WI
r were present told her to tell the trut
The woman confessed, and she h
y carried that confession down to tt
.r court, and it is corroborated by numt
ar GUS witnesses all along the line.
!. has even been found that the da
i passages in the letters are verified.
to We had the dead womans boz
ID analysed by u skilled chemist;
ID found arsenic in The body, We lou
to thai the body had been embal
n, ed we found that the stomach p
e. sented redness which is an incide
ry to arsenic taken before dea
he We we're unable to fl
,ss what fluid was used in the embal
ey ing; we all went to Mr., Baldwin,
Ter he was unable to tell u.s. | am utte