Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04

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will say. There was Grace Brown with an
unknown man.
The Judgment of God overlook the PAIR
while rowing on the lake.
Then / will return to Cortland and
take my place in society with the Cort-
land bellies
THAT is the way a criminals mind
works, not the way ysur mind works or
mine.
About Tennis Racquet.
"Thc attempt the defense has made to
lay the responsibility for his journey on
Grace Brown is awful. They claim that
she went to him. took him by the hand
and led him away, willy nilly-
IF Barrett had gone into South bay and
seen Gillette silence Grace Browns last
cries with his blows Gillette would have
come here and said Grace told me to take
a tennis racquet. hit her on the head ana
throw her into the water. When L asked
her what ! should do with the tennis
racquet she said to bury it, so l said All
right" and did it.
Now, gentlemen We have to CONSIDER
the case of this inexperienced boy. VINO
had been all over the world alone, hao
braked on a railroad; this inexperienced
boy-this poor, weak boy, who carried
canoe on his shoulders for nile. pu'
could not take a hundr pound drowning
girl fifteen feet to the shore.
..This inexperienced boy found rich reia-
tive and came to Cortland. 1t did not take
him long to shake the coal dust from MS
clothes.
..This inexperienced boy wormed himself
into the good graccs of the professor, the
minister and the county clerk. Then' from
the hill came fair flower. He looked upoA
the flower and wanted 1t. He oluckeo tAe
petals one by one and ground the1n
under his feet. He threw arouho
her his venomous coils and Destroyer
thing more valuable than all the factories
or colleges or Cortland.
did he want her because he loved her
No. He coveted her to satisfy his venom
Gus lust He followed her to her home Sc
cretely by night ard ravished her' anu
when he had stilled her remonstrances anu
stolen her virtue he went away ana oen!ei
her-this inexperienced boy. When people
asked him about her he denied her II SAD
he did rot go to see her.
.Yet he came on this sand and looked
nj YOU from his wolfish eyes and SAID:
Il loved her then and love her now
." The perjured soul OF him, conhsei
says. it is a common th.ng-the thing that
this man had done. The statement IS
libel on the American people. If his uncle
had known If his twenty -one-year-oio
cousin had known, Chester Gillette would
not have stayed for moment In MS 1ac-
tory. He did not want to go back to the
railroad he did not want to leave the
heshpots he loved so well. So he con-
cocted another plan. but even that plan
was not so brutal as the crime he hid al
ready committed.
.sWhen Chester Gillette struck Grace
Brown his last blow. she welcomed 1t as q
Kindness His second plan was only one OF
a common murderer. his first that or
sinking wolf The girl whom he had used
to satisfy his fendish lust was Sood
American girl. and she began to demand
her rights. He was afraid that she might
tell her story and spoil his plans
The World Does Know.
The prosecutor read some of Grace
Rrewn's letters and Chester GilletteS hard
hearted replies. AS he read them he low
cred over the defendant and glared at him
as he said:
..Chester Gillette never struck haruer
hlow at Big Moose Lake than he did when
he wrote this letter but he found that this
girl was the daughter of an American, not
a South Sea islander, and she answered
him
his hand before his face and his eyes look
Ing down at the carpet before him. IL
was impossible to see his race.
This is the same resistance tnat ne met
when he tried to throw her into Big Moose
Lake and had TO strike her with a tennis
racquet before he could do it.
MT. Ward continued to read the letters
aud pointed out the places where the re-
PENDANT had hid.
almost everything he said on the stand
was lie Yet they tell you that he was a
paragon of truth They say the sheriff Is a
liar. the deputy sheriff Is mar, the HS I'VE
doctors are liars. This angel here Is the
only one who tells the truth through
these letters she was trying to reach the
heart of her seducer, but there was no
heart in the wolf which had ravished her.
He had no feelings or no heart
The prosecutor read The world may
think / am the one to blame. but can I
think so. dear. l said no so many times
THE world does know. poor girl but you
had to sacrifice your life at the hand OF
this brute to let them know. Your voice
from the grave will convict the man VINO
wronged you and struck you down at Big
Moose lake. The world does know
Always Conceal Themselves
His promises finally made her believe
that she was going down the primrose path
In life hand in hand, honorably married
That was the idea she had when she me.
him secretly, and yet his counsel has
called this girl his paromour in shame.
"She expected to make her way IN the
world with him. She brought her working
clothes Tie left his letters and his pic
lures at home He brought his silk sock
ings in his dress-suit case. He brought his
tine clothes.
she writes. I don't care how rough the
way after next Saturday, and bravely went
with him-her working clothes and her
all He was there to kill her and then go
into the woods, believing his tracks would
be covered.
HIS counsel says, 'murderers always con-
ceal themselves They do. they do. He
registered as Carl George and Carl
Graham. Murderers do conceal themselves.
He sneaked to De Royters. stayed In the
darkness all night. and then crept up to
his room to spend the night, SO that none
would see him. He left De Royter secretly
with her. Aye. murderers do conceaf them
selves.
"Murderers fee, said his counsel. So
they do He fed from the body of his VIC
tim until he had put a wilderness between
himself and her dead body. His counsel
SAYS. 'murderers hide things. Aye. they
do: he hid the umbrella and the tennis
racquet in the woods. Yes. murderers
hide things. Always he was afraid to have
the name of Grace Brown and his con-
nec.ad Don't do such foolish thing
again he wrote. when once she telephoned
him.
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