The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-05

ALu WTOlt lHG utuNIIdih W Ahp '0tbSA 1900
Father: Found guilty. will write. CHESTER. :"
Immediately after the verdict was an
nouncei there was a skurrying for the
doors by messengers who we're hurrying
20 take the result u the wires. In a moment
the Di trict Attorney was on his feet. stop
, those men," he cried. The doors were
locked, end again the same silence ensued.
By this time Mr.. Mills was on his feet asking
that the jury might be polled.
/, M N. Hatch. said Clerk Burney, do
" you End this man guilty as charged In the
Indictment" Twelve times he asked that
! question and one by one the twelve men got
To their feet and said 4 do"
. BY, this time Mr.. Mills was on his feet TO
/. ask that judgment should not he pronounced
s. unti Th,rTsday 40 that ne could have tins
. torprepare "a motion 10 sBt aside the verdict
Gillette was apparently In a hurry - get
ogt. hpYerer. for rxjce during his coHns IA
speech he got 10 his feet and started toward
4 the door with an +inder- sheriff after him,
: After he q to-sit down .twk9 the Court
finally allowed him 10 20.
When he got 10 the Jail any sign Of. fear
I had entirely vanished. That's a pretty
verdict, " he said 70 his jailer, and l didn't
expect it. | didn't have any Witnesses. but
l did think hc-.iury would. disaCree...
well, I guess I1rtIrn m now he added,
and undresaed tSla went to. bed -
1t was. SAID ter the jury had. come out
that there was some chance that the opinion
of one man mighe have ted to "a Disagree
ment. SIX bat!ols we're taken. The hrst
five showed eleven votes in favor of guilty
as charged in the indicrm@lt and one for
not gunty. Whoever the man WAS who
had believed in Gillette's innocence APP
parently had changed his mind, for on
the sixth ballot all twelve votes read in
favor OF murder in the first degree.
Franz Br,wh, fltler Of rle gael Of whose
death Gillette was convicted, came TO the
court house when the word went out that
sIhe Jury had agreed and wnDed in the
J lower hall 10 hear the verdict. After he
had hear it lie said: 4 and my family are
satisfied with that verdict. We woh q have
considered a veriict in any other degree
q miscarriage Of ~ldStioe.
Senator Mills said before the'verdict was
announced that if first degree'was found
the case would be appealed.
When the jury went - their rooms in the
hotel after court had adjourned they were
4. met by Mrs. Brown, the mother of the derd
girl. and her two daughters. They stopped
/, the jurors one by one, shook hnnis with
. them and THANKED them for the verdict.
AN sorts OF rumors were circulated
throughout the evening as to the reasons
for the delay in r~eacainE a verdict. One
was that they were disputIug merely over
the degree upon which they should decide
n another that there were one or two
men who were holding out against the rest
and were sure to hang the jury.
All through the latter part of the tria
" - -ss
pressed that Gillette's jurors would never
be able to come to a verdict and the holders
{ of the opinions even went so far as to point
out the men who would cause the disagree
ment. They were all in the court room
tonight to retell their opinions and Il told
you So
The room was fairly well filed % whole
evening with the regulars who lave been
present each day since the beginI rig Of the
trial. That there were not more of the
curious present was due to the bitter cold
weather which kept most Of them indoors.
trusting that when the jury did finally
come in they would get the word at their
homes in time to get 10 the court house and
F, hear il.
The crowd on han1 resembled the hull
between games at a church social. They
lounge1 around the benches in the court
room and chatted and laughed as If they
were waiting for the sewing circle to come
70 order. Up in the front row two boys
quietly matched pennies. Directly behind
them was a woman holding a child which
had fallen asleep.
Every little while some one would go 10
the water tank in the corner near the door
which led to the jury room 20 get a drink
of water, but really TO hear any sounds
that might come from the jurors Not a
sound came. however, and no word, even a
reoues for instructions. came from the
locked room.
BY iOA5 O'Clock sone Of the crowd got tired
of waiting and went out. but most Of them
we're satisfied 10 wait for the possibility Of
q sensation. At this time two wonen in
the front row disclosed a pastehoard box,
took out q lunch and re-"n to eat IL. They
and several othcrs Of the late stayers had
come prepared 10 wait all night II necessary.
Z They sat there waiting for the knock on
the Jury room door which was to announce
that the jury had agreed. II is the law
! here TO announce an agreement and every
one in tho court room watched the yellow
door in front ready to catch the agreement
when il should come. Outside the door was
placed a deputy to be sure that when the
knock came he would hear IL.
In the bac,; OF the court room were a lot
of smaH boys. Occasionally they would
knock on the backs of the seats, bring the
people up with their ears standing and then
giggle. Any one looking at the crowd
and listening to It would have GUESSED that
they were there to wait for anything but
a verdict in a capital case.
Grace Browns family waited for the
verdict in their boarding house in Prospect
street. They were so unstrIng after hav-
ing listened to three weeks Of trial and to
to-day's summing up that they had n be
sent home. An uncle, Fred Brown Of
De Ruyter, waited downstairs in the court
house 70 take to them the verdict. Gillette
waited for il in his cell, more unconcerned
than they. After eating a hearty supper
be- Srent the evening quietly reading a
magazine. ..
When Gillette left the court room
after the jury had gone out at J:5s o'clock
he was whistling, and when he got 20 bis
cell he threw of his coat and began 10 play