The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21

Her Deep Concern for the Man, 81 Her
observation-disclosures. OF the Agony Of
Her Life and the secret She Was Keep
Ing From Solicit GUS Parents. or Her
Trust, which She Herself Doubted AZ
Times Had Been Misplaced Deep FerI-
Ing Aroused Against the Prisoner. VINO
seemed InmO, Ell anu I~nashamed,
HERKINER. y. V, Nov. 20.-The letters
which Grace Brown wrote % Chester Gill
lette while she was in South Otsclic at her
fathers home waiting for him 10 come and
right the wrong which he had don her
were read in court here TODAY. The death
cry of Grace Brown which rang across the
waters of Big Moose Lake was the second
death cry. The first rang out in her fathers
old farm at South Otselic toward the de-
PENDANT at Cortland and there was mora
than one witness - the depth OF the girls
woe.
Prosecutor Ward began to read the let
tiers at 1879 O'Clock this morning. After
he had finished the first two or three he had
TO sit down to keep from crying and the
court had to adjourn for five minutes to
! allow the prosecuting officer to regain his
composure.
Before he had read two of them the people
in the court room had begun to realize that
the depths of human love and suffering were
being laid bare. They realized that the
words of the Cortland factory girl a farmers
daughter with hardly any education, were
giving them a vivid picture of her feelings.
her sufferings and the forgiveness and love
which she gave to the salIow young man
who slouched before them.
The twelve letters which the Prosecutor
read were long letters. As the court stenog-
rapher, who has been at twenty murder
trials, took notes of the letters. the tears
came down upon his notes. There was a
chief of police in court who had been in
Office for ten years. He left the court
room before the reading was half over.
went TO his room in the hotel and refused
IN cnne out to lunch. There was a reporter
! present who had been through the horrors
of the San Francisco earthquake. He got
up from his seat, went into an anteroom
uilu hNS Idpct up DrlOAo IA iaSo PiC~
tended to look out of the window.
The first letter after her arrival hons
told of the birth of her sisters child just
before her arrival. This letter was dated
June 10. She wrote:
NY DEAR-I have often heard the say
ing. 1t never rains but it pOurs, but never
knew what it meant until to-day.
The house was full Of friends and relatives.
crying and talking in little groups. have
a new niece. but the doctor has given up all
hope OF my sister being up and strong for a
year at least. Then. to put the finishing touches
on everything. brother came in and informed
me thai papa and mamma had decided to go
! away somewhere for the whole summer and
take me with them. and that they intended
TO start n week from Saturday and make
their first visit at Uncle Charles's, in Ham
ilton.
Dear. what shall we do? | am about crazy.
You will have TO come for ne before then.
Chester. | have done nothing but cry since
got here. II you were only here | would not
feel so badly. ! knew ! should worry all the
| time. do try TO he brave, dear, but how can
| when everything goes wrong? ! can't help
thinking YOU will never come for me. but then
! say that you cant be so mean.
Everything worries me and l am so fright
! ened, dear. 70 won't make any difference tn
YOU about your coming a few days earlier than
you intended, will IL? IL means so much TO
me. ] will have my dresses made, II l can,
and will try and be very brave dear. Perhaps
you will never know what a task 1t was for me
To come home, but We can't help things now
and We may as well act like human beings.
won't be a trouble to you long, anyhow.
You are at the Central tonight. Chester,
do you miss me. and have you thought about
everything to-day? Have as good a time as
you can. dear. / can't go out at all. Can't
you write more often than three times a week?
4 rot : ~ InnaaOnno daar Va,, xunnt nos.. -
as much on account OF your work, but oh,
dear-please write and tell me you will come
10 me before a week from Saturday. I will
come straight back to C IL you don't
come before then. / can't stay here. and I
can't 10 away with mamma and papa. You
know that. Lovingly. your g. W. B.
As the first letter was read a quiet un-
broken except by the slow tones OF the
prosecutor fell upon the people who a
moment before had been chattering or
craning to get a look at the prisoner; a
quiet so intense that in the pauses one
wondered il it could really be his breathing
which sounded so loud. All over the room
handkerchief were out. The least affected
Of all seemed to be the prisoner. who. sunk
down in his chair with his hand over his
face. never moved through the District At
torney's recital. Opposite him sat ths
family OF the girl. and In the Judges room
outside was her married sister. They
were hearing the letters for the first time.
As the sorrow Of the girl grew deeper. her
fear became stronger. but through it oil
she showed that her chief sorrow was that
she might be a burden to the man to whom
she was writing. On une 20 she wrote:
Mamma il worried and / am Just about
sick. Please come and take me away some
place. dear. came IN home this mornlng