Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-21
ACCUSED MAN WEEPS.
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things if | have to. ! expect TO live
differently and ! will try awfully hard
to get along, dear. just take mo away
to some place and then plan on other
things.
Don't worry about money matters,
dear, for | don't care if YOU don't have
one cent All | ask of you is to come.
| am awfuIly sorry | can't go to Hamil-
ton, but l can't, dear, and the next best
place is De Ruytcr. | will make things
all right there. / am the one who win
have to suffer and so if | don't care
about tn" money don't think you need
to.
with love and kisses,
THE KID"
Another letter dated and postmarked
South Ostclic, June u. 1906 said in part:
Il thought | could trust you. 1 do not
think now | will he here after .xt Fri
day. This ;ciri wrote that you seemed to
! be having an awfully good time and shr
guessed my coming home had done you
good, for you have not seemed so cheer
| full in weeks. She also said you spent
most of your time with that detcStabl"
Grace HILL II should have known, Chcs-
| ter, that you did not care for me, but
somehow ] have trusted you more than
anyone else. You told me-cven promised
you would have nothing to do with her
while l was gone. Chester. if | could
only die, ! know how you feel about the
affair and wish for your sake YOU need
| not lie troubled. If die, ] hope you can
| tl.en be happy. l hope | can die. The
doctors say l will, and then you can do
| just as you like. | am not the least bit
offended with yo';. only | am little blue
| tonight and feel this way. / wish | could
| hear from you and | Wish-ChcStcr.
| Please come and take me away. You
won't ever know how much l wish you
would come, Chester. | want you to Eav"
Il good time and 1 won't be cross |
think when l see Won. dear. | shall be so
glad can't live. I hope yOn will he glad
! to see me Go where you want to. dear,
and don't be angry with me-
A letter. written by Grace Brown TO
Gillette. from South Otsclic under date
of June % was in part as follows:
Il think | shall die of joy when | see
you dear l am going to try to DO bet
| ter dear, and not worry or believe hor-
rid things the girls write. My silk dress
| is the prettieSt one / ever had. Mann
ma don't think l have taken SO much
interest in it. | am frightened every
| time it is fitted. Mamma can't see why
l cry every time they look at me-
In another letter she said she hoped
| Chester had Il nice time on July 4. That
| was the day he is said to have been
with Harriet Benedict. The letter con-
| Guided: Il know you will be awfully
good to me for l will die in a short
| time"
| In a letter to Grace Brown on July
-, Gillette wrote:
| Don't worry so much and think less
about how you feel. l cannot get away
before the seventh or eighth and | do
| not think there is any need to worry
before then"
! On July 23. Grace Brown wrote Gill
lette long letter of appeal to his man
hood, in which she said that she had
presumed he wished her letters to be
Iaffectionatc but inasmuch as ne had
begun to write busincss-like letters she
| would do likewise. The letter included
| this:
You tell me not to worry. Don't
| you think if you were me- you would
worry? | cant go away with mamma
and papa. | wouldn't have them know
of this now. If I should go away like
this something might happen"
one letter says: "Chcster. I don't
mind being Snubbed and put aside
Decoration day for tn" Other girls. but
do mind it the Fourth. | have always
had to b" put aside for other girls on
such occasions and presume il will al
ways be that way. ] presume YOU think
that you ar" so soon coming to unhap-
ny days, | ought not to mind that once
| know you hat" me and | can't blame
you one bit. My whole life is ruined
and in Il measure yours is too OF
course II is worse for me than YOU. but
the world and you too may think am
the one to blame. but somehow | cant
just simply can't, think I am, Chester
| said No so many times, dear. NV
little sister came up with her hands
full of daisies just now a minute and
asked ne if | didn't want my fortune
told. ! told her | guessed il was pretty
well told"
In June &c. Grace Brown wrote Gil
lcttc asking for forgivncss for having
written so cross before In that letter
she said where do you suppose we
will be two weeks from tonight.