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

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them. Gillette watched them with a half
suTle on his face until another deputy
touched him on the shoulder. Then he got
fOp w1to all possible show of pleasure at
having been released from the hot, close
court room and walked briskly oue.
Before the jurors started TO discuss the
verdict or had chosen their foreman a
supper WAS brought. in to them and they ate
II without letting a discussion OF the case
interfere with their -apretites.
For more than six hours to-day Gillette
sat apparentTy' unmoved by one Of the worst
word laShings which the defendant in a
criminal case has ever received. District
Attorney Ward did DOT spa re any terms
to give his opinion Of the young mar who
he said bad seized affair flower from the
hius and plucked the petals one by one and
ground them under hi, feeL,"
Mr. Ward called him a rat and "a stink
ing wolf" and told of the sinuous coils which
he twisted around the girl. Often as he
spoke he would walk toward the defendant
and shake his finger almost in the prisoners
face. Gillette sat crouched down in his
chair in his usual position and when the
prosecutor stood over him he looked up
at HIM through his half shut eyes with a
lack of expression which might be con-
strued TO he defiance or anything else which
q person might imagine except fear. The
defendant, who had spent part OF the night
before in his cell playing solitaire and had
70 be walked from a sound sleep this morn
ing, was not afraid, or at least he showed no
signs OF fear.
When he had come over from the Jail
to the court house for the afternoon session
he had met a messenger boy on the way.
Hey. kid. he said Tipping him a quarter.
get me a couple of magazines and bring
EN- around TO me later in the afternoon
In the District Attorneys strongest in-
veCt'ves the prisoner took down the han
which had covered his fac and let the
purple which had sufiusad his cheeks he
seen. Ont between the lids Of the half
closed eyes, which the prosecutor had just
called -wolfish.' came just one tear. the
only one of the trial. II was a tear of self
pity. Abuse had moved the man whom it
was impossibla TO move by the relation of
the death scene which he had witnessed,
and by the reading of Grace Br owns pitiful
letters.
Thu District Attorney started out in the
beginning to show the character of the de-
PENDANT by quoting the letters which Grace
Brown had written, and showing the actions
Of the defendant in answer TO them. All
through the morning session Mr.. Ward
used the girls letters and read from them.
Once he read
The world NAV think l am the one 10
blame, bur ! can't think 50, dear. | said
no so many times"
The world does know. poor girl he
said, but you had TO sacrifice your life at
the hands of this brute 10 let them know
Your voice from the grave will convict the
man who wronged you and struck you down
at Big Moose Lake. The worldsdoes know"
In the Afternoon he finally got to the acts
Of the defendant from Deruyter to Big
Moose.
There, out on the lake, I" said Mr.. Ward
he tried TO throw the girl into the water,
and when she realized what he meant she
made a fight for her life. He had not meant
10 strike her. He meant merely TO throw
her overheard. But she fought. He took
this tennis racket that | now have in my
hand and beat her and stunned her until
she was unconscious Her senseless body
Law in the bottom of the boat, rolling from
sde 10 side. and hair from it caught in the
Teats on either side. But he did NOT realize
this az he picked her UP a senseless lump
and threw her into the Water.-