The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-22
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About Prisoner

Chester F. Gillette murdered Grace
Brown by beating her to death and
when he tumbled her bruised and
bleeding body into the water Of Big
Moose Lake he concealed the revolt
ing evidence Of a double crime"
That is the contention of the States
attorney, who seeks by medical testi-
mony to prove that Grace Brown and
her unborn child were dead before be-
ing thrown in the water. The State,
at was learned, will endeayor to show
that an assault Of almost unbelievable
brutality was made upon the frail lit
tie girl in the boat by Chester Gil
lette.
The girls body was covered with
bruises which she received in her
death struggle with Gillette, who the
prosecutor alleys, struck her down
with horn handled umbrella and
then rained a shower of heavy blows
upon the quivering body with a tennis
racket. Grace Brown was dead and
Gillette, remembering the unborn
child, drove his boot heel in the girls
body in the frenzy of rage. The re-
suit Of the autopsy shows this revolt
ing attack was made, the State de-
clares. The day after the crime Gil
lette was seen carrying tennis rack
ct in the woods. The tennis racket
was found later. buried near a cllmp
Of trees.
Chester Gillette Is slowly breaking
down. His nerve and confidence left
him yesterday when the pathetic let
tiers of his alleged victim were read to
the jury. He spent restless night in
the Herkimer Jail and his pallorous
prison color contrasted sharply with
the heavy black lines in his face. He
spoke nervously to his counsel and
his uncle. N. H. Gillette, leaned over
his shoulder and told him to keep up
his courage.
District Attorney Ward continues
10 forge links in chain of circumstan-
tial evidence around Chester E. Gil
lette, who is on trial for the murder
of his sweetheart, Grace Brown, of
Cortland.
The prosecutor succeeded against
the bitter protests of the defendants
counsel in getting before the jlry
what is said to be his most direct evil
dence that murder was committed
that eventful day in July in the Adj
rondacks, where Gillette and Miss
Brown had gone together. He put up
on the stand Mrs. Margaret Carey, OF
East Orange, N. j.. who with her hus'
band had gone for row in the South
Bay of Big Moose lake the evening
Gillette and Miss Brown set out upon
the journey which ended in the latters
death. Mrs. Carey declared that she
has been startled by hearing u pierc'
ing scream coming from near the east
shore of the bay.
at was the cry Of person in peril,
the witness added.
This voluntary statement called
forth a storm of objections from the
defense and II was ordered stricken
from the records. Mrs. Carey was al
lowed to state it as her opinion that
the cries were undoubtedly those of a
woman.
"They were too shrill to be any
thing else" she asserted. Here again
objection was interposed by the de
Tense, but this time Judge Devendori
allowed the testimony to stand.
The district attorney to-day sketch
ed in testimony the travels of Gillette
and Grace Brown on their second day
In the Adlrondacks. He took them by
train from Tuppers to Big Moose
There they went to a hotel, where they
did not register as man and wife, Gil
lette used Miss Browns real name
but styled himself Carl Graham, Of
Albany"
witnesses were next introduced to
tell Of the young couple going for the
fateful row upon the water. 1t was
here that Gillette's counsel made
much of an admission secured from
one Of the States witnesses-the pro
prietor of the Glenmore Hotel at Big
Moose Lake. He stated on the stand
that Gillette had told him that he and
the young lady wished to take a ride
on the lake in the steamboat which
plies the waterway. The hotel man,
Cassandre Morrison, told Gillette that
II he went by steamer he would not
be able to return in time for dinner
Morrison declared it was he who sug'
gested that Gillette and the girl take
row.
He also volunteered the information
that his father, Robert Morrison, ran
boat house nearby and would be
glad to accommodate the couple. The
elder Morrison later corroborated