New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

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The picture of Miss Benedict was taken before
Gillette left Cortland the trip which ended in the
death Of Grace Brown and his arrest on a charge
of murder.
DENIES HAVING TAKEN PICTURE
The District Attorney showed Gillette another
picture taken from the witnesses and asked
him il ne had taken il. II was picture of the
rustic bridge on Big Moose Lake. but Gillette de-
MED ever having taken the picture In regard TO
the writing or the fictitious the registers
in the hotels at Utica and Upper Lake and also
to registering Charles Gordon" at De Puyter
the night before he started from the last named
place for tho Adirondacks with Grace Brown Gil
ette stated that his purpose was to protect fhe girl
Q-Why did you register at the Hotel Martin. in
Know
Gas matter OF fact, you didn't want any one
TO know it was you Chester GtleJ e. Who Vas W3S
might have known either Grace or myself would
see the name Gillette on the register, so put
down the names Gordon and wife
After ten minute recess the District Attorney
again Gillette. firing questions at him in
rapid fashion. He queried him more about his
giving fictitious names on the hotel registers and
continuing asked:
Q.-Have your attorneys told you during recess .;
that you had made some mistakes in your testl-
o2Did you want it known at De Buyter that
Q.-At Utica? A--NO-
Q.-At Tupper Lake? A,-No
the Genmore. at Big Moose Lake? A.-Because she
had sent postal card from there signed with her
QNYou wanted It known at the Glenmore Hotel Hotel
t6sf ar 6S9f rsh rr0%H Of Absny Sii didn't You?
that wRsa au def eeTap& sad G0q Rat grace Brown
had gone to. her death with an Individual named
eG o-You 50 registered didn't you, as s6331h "GaFI
Grahm. Of Albany and Grace Brown OF oou'N
Sew gwen You expected something to happen out
did did, not IT, '-'0
Gillette identified number of articles which had
been found in his suit case. and the District At
-orney pressed him at length regarding the reason
for his taking his overcoat. umbrella and tennis
| racket along on his boat ride with Grace Brown
He said he took the overcoat because he thought
| Grace might need It. although it was hot July
! afternoon
| When questioned about his straw hat, which was
found with the lining torn out floating on the lake
| near the overturned boat, Gillette said the lining
had been out OF his hat several months oerore
the tragedy and that he had not sought to hide his
identity by tearing It out before starting on his
| walk through the woods to Eagle Bay. Gillette
| added that after getting out OF the water where
| Grace Brown met death, and after changing his
clothes. he took soft hat out OF his suitcase and
| put it his head in place OF the straw hat he
left in the water He denied strenuously. however,
| having provided this soft hat for Just such an
| emergency. Gillette was asked about his trip
through the woods 70 Eagle Bay. and as TO tho
! prevalence Of tss and -punkes."
Q--Thers were no dies or ''punAies' on the lakeF
o-Bus you stayed in the brush on shore for en-
hour reading? Ayes.
District Attorney Ward enumerated the value OF
the suitcase. umbrella and tennis racket and other
articles GiIletts said he left ashore while he and
the girl continued their about the lake short
time before the girl went to her death. and asked
Gillette Il he wasn't afraid the articles. unguarded
as they were, would be stolen Defendant an
swered he considered the articles were safe
enough. and that's why he left them ashore while
he went out IN the boat again with the girl.
ADMITS THAT HE LIED.
Gillette IN explaining why he had told Bert
Gross and the Patrick and Westcott girls that he
had been to Racquet Lake. said it TO create
the impression that he had not been to Big Moose
Lake with Grace Brown. and thus seek to divert
suspicion from himself but he had told that story
/ in conversation and he said he had lied when he
| told IL
Gillette stated that his version of the tragedy as
narrated to Under Sheriff Klock a few minutes
after his arrest-that the affair was an accident
and that he had tipped the boat over accidentally
while they were picking pond ulies-was a lie.
! Now. did your attorneys tell you TO tell a DIFF
rerent story than the you told Under Sheriff
| Klock7" They did They told me TO tell the
truth"
Witness describing the girls act in leaPing into
! the water TO her death said she Jumped from the
|
no one responded. and mat he tried to find out
/ how deep tie water was there.
Odd YOU try to reach her? A.-No.
Q.-Yet you say you swan in she Pacific OceanH
| oLSt San Francisco and Hawaii? Al did.
/ Q.-And you didn't swim to this girls aid? Al
| % 0."Wben she Ieaped into the water from the
/ boat what did you say you did? Al reached out
| my hand toward her, then the boat tipped over -
Washington and in the Pacihc ocean teft Grace
Brown there without swimming 10 her iHu' Al
! did.
sur,ed this afternoon District Attorney Ward took
! the witness back TO the time he met Grace Brown
at De Ruyter the day they started for the Adiron-
| dacks Gillette denied he attempted TO get a bicy-
! Gle or horse from the proprietor Of the Taber
| House to go 10 South Otselic, where Grace Brown
! lived.
When Grace Brown reached the hotel that day
! I met her as I came downstairs he said After
talking short time with her I told her she had
better go down to the station. and I'd come along
| pretty soon"
QGP5d - she cry when she got 20 the Taber House
! Q.-How did you come TO decide, to be at Eagle
Bay on Friday A.-By a talk with Grace Brown;
you 50 at Eagle Bay under your own name OF
/ Chester Gillette after you had regstered under
! to De Chester Gillette again ny the time you got
to Eagle Bay didn't M you you ,a51 ant of this So Ao
/ pay our board.
/ iQ-Now, how far would s. 60 toward boarding you
0 az 6EWhv did you take the tennis racket with you
on this trip. A-To give the impresSii0n 5i around
/ QGHad you ever played tennis with Grace
h'SSH oHpid YOU expect TO play tennis on the lake
Q-When got out Of the water did , you nave nave
Patrick and Miss Westcott at seventh Lake? A