Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-22
GILLETTE is NOT
MOVED WHEN He
HEARS OF CRIME.
Accused Murderer Now Shows
Surprising Nerve.
FACE WREATHED IN SMILES
Laughingly Regards Witnesses as
They Testify Against Him.
TOLD MINISTER HIS EXPERIENCE
He Also Asked the Preacher if He
Had Heard Of the Tragedy at
Big Moose.
FACE WREATHED IN SMILES
Laughingly Regards Witnesses as
They Testify Against Him.
TOLD MINISTER HIS EXPERIENCE

Absolutely unmoved and as much
at ease as if he were not at all con-
cerned, Chester Gillette smiling
ly listened to the testimony against
him today. Link by link the prose-
cution is forging the chain of evil
dence, circumstantial and direct,
and the alleged murderer main
tains his demeanor of composure
and indifference. The prosecution
will call to the stand five physicians
to prove that the dead girls skull
was fractured and that blood clot
was formed on the brain. The tes-
timony today had to do with the
boat and Gillette's intimacy with
other girls.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
HERKIMER, N. Y. November PAN
other line on the plans of the defense
in Chester Gillette's trial for the murder
Of Grace Brown was obtained today when
It was reported that one Of its chief wit
nesses is to be Dwight T. Perry, con-
tractor at Old Forge He Is said to have
brought Grace Browns body from the
Glenmore Hotel to Big Moose station in a
wagon without springs. In his cross-ex-
animation of witnesses today Mr. Mills
tried to bring out the fact that the road
Ii rocky, and it is expected that Perry's
testimony Will be the basis of one of the
chief points which the defense will attempt
to make In this way the defense will
wagon for the fractured skull and bruises
that the autopsy performed on Grace
brown Is said to have revealed.
1t is said that no graphing hooks were
used to raise the girls body, which was
found when some one looked over the side
of a boat and saw the body lying at the
bottom of shallow water. A loop was
slipped around the body to raise it. John
Kirwin, steamboat man, raised the body.
Il have recovered many drowned bodies"
he said today, but never have 1 seen the
face of a drowned person so drawn in ter
ror and horror as that of Grace Brown
Drowned persons usually have placid faces,
but terror was written so plainly on the
face of that dead girl that even now l
cannot forget it,
The prosecution will call five physicians
and the coroner, who were present at the
autopsy. in an attempt to prove that the
girls skull not only was fractured. but
that blood clot was found on the BRAIN
The physicians viii qualify as experts and
attempt to prove that, although there was a
remote possibility that the skull could have
been fractured after death, no blood clot
would have been found unless the injury
had been received during the life of the
person injured
Gillette Still Smiling.
Day by day Chester Gillette comes into
court apparently undisturbed by the web of
circumstantial evidence which the prosecu-
ton is gradually weaving about him. This
morning in spite of the mass of testimony
the prosecution brought forward yesterday.
which seemed strong enough to disquiet
smiling when he entered court. He looked
fresher than he has in several days. and
when he took his seat at the counsel table
he was still smiling
Gillette is only % years old. but under the
most trying circumstances is exhibiting
nerve or something like 1t that is surpris-
ing. Not an odd expression comes from
witness or counsePs lips at which he does
not smile. He sits resting his face In his
hand. but there is absolutely no expression
of fear on his features even when the tes
tmony is apparently OF the most damag
Ing nature.
Everett III. Johnson. a bell boy at the
Arrow Inn. was the days first witness. His
testimony was intended to corroborate that
of Mr.. Borchard. the proprietor, who was
on the stand yesterday. The bell boy told
OF seeing Gillette arrive on the night boat
and seeing him register.
He had a suit case" said the witness.
"but 1 don't remember whether he had a
camera or not. nor did I notice how he
was dressed. except that he wore black
SLOUGH hat"
johnson said he had carried GilIette's
suit case to room g. and then moved It to
"a He had not noticed whether 1t was wet
or not, and although the case had been
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