The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-23
LAST WORD FROM GIRL READ
AT TRIAL OF HER ACCUSED
SLAYER.
EVENTS IN FATAL DAY
Told BY Witnesses and Their Testi.
mony Strengthens the Chain of
Evidence Aroused--Her
UnprincipaIed Lover.

Herkimer, N. Y, Nov. %. Dea
Mother; Am having Lovely time
/ Don't worry. viii write you more tc
night about the trip. Ii was rathe
unexpected, but | am glad we ar,
here Love to all the girls. BILLY.
These words, written on posta
card by Billy" Brown to her mothel
on the day she was killed on Bis
Moose lake, were offered in evidence
today in the trial of Chester Gillette
who is accused Of having caused the
death of his little factory sweetheart
District Attorney Ward continued
to forge links in the chain of circum
stantial evidence around Gillette
The prosecutor succeeded against
the bitter protests Of the defendant s
counsel, in getting before the jury
what is said to be the most direct
evidence that murder was committed
that eyennul day in July in the
Adirandacks, where Gillette and Bill.
ly' Brown had gone together.
He put upon the stand Mrs. Mar
garet Carey of East Orange. N. j.,
who, with her husband, had gone for
row in the south bay of Big Moose
lake on the night Gillette ana Billy"
Brown set ont upon The journey
VIII ch ended in the lattars death.
Mrs Carey declared that she had
been startled by hearing a piercing
scleam coming from near the east
shore of the bay.
CRY of Person in Peril"
III was the CRY Of a person in
peril the witness added
This voluntary statement called
forth a storm of objections from the
defense 1t was ordered stricken from
lhQ records Mrs Carey was allowed
to say Il wag her opinion that the
cites were undoubtedly those of
woman.
They We're too shrill to be any,
thing else" she asserted
The district attorney sketched in
testimony the travels of Gillette and
BILLY Brown on their second day in
the Adirondacks. He took them by
train from TuppeFs to Big Moose.
There they went to, a hotel where
hey did not register as man and wife
Gillette used L lily" Browns real
name, but styled himself Carl Gra-
ham, Albany
Witnesses We're introduced to tell
IF the young couple going for the !
ateful row upon the water. II was |
lere thar Giilette's counsel made /
much of an admission secured from
ne OF the states witnesses. the pro /
,rietor of the Glenmore hotel at Big .
Moose lake He said that Gillette had /
old him that he and the Young WON
IN wis he'd to take a ride in The steam.
,oat which plies the water way. The
otel man, Andrew Morrison. tcld
iilette that il he went bv steamer
e would not be able TO returl in time
Or dinner Morrison declared il was
q who suggested thai Gillette and
he girl take a row.
Gillette's attorneys seized upon this
'oint as showing that the alleged
murder of the girl could not have
cen planned in the manner the dis
riot attorney has asserted If he had
% thought of the row boat aud the
1nely ride until the hotel proprietor
al suggested that method of seeing
he lake rathe. than by steamboat
Th prosecution introduced wit {
csses who saw Gillette and the girl =
rifting along the south bay Of Big J
loose lake at dusk. Then came the G
Of Mrs Carey as to the /
ream she had heard S
1T was penetrating and sharp q
~ OF two syllable" she said. Il S
staned TO hear if il was repeated. / {
lt it was not It came from the d. g
,ction where Billy Browns body O.
as found and was very high O.
tched a
Next were introduced witnesses O
no saw Gillette making his way on
ot that night from Big Moose lake y
ward Eagle bay. Tn purser Of the G
Gamer Tucas said Gillette bearded y
e craft there and went to Arrow n
cad where be -pent the night at S.
,tel. |c
Gillette Had Clothes Pressed. o
The defense eHdesyorel to draw ri
ON tae Witnesses the fact that Gil %,
ties clothes had tho appearance Of al
man who had recently fallen over Ia
AID No one noticed him closely 81
oueh o. say. The proprietor Of the
row Head hotel sad Gillette hal
ought down a pair Of trousers 70 d
pressed and that they apparently Ia
ID been thoroughly soaked 10 water. u
la fact that Gillette took a git h
Sc. camera. umbrella and tennis o.
1uct with him in The rcw io1t Eas ir
-eI upon by the prosecution. oi
Th mas T. 0ad=ii. raiiwa- mFil n
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