The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-19
WEB AROUND GILLETTE
PROSECUTORS METHOD or TRY
ING THE MURDER CASE.
WIN Trace GfIetto's Relations with Grace
Brown I'D to the Moment Of Her Death
Before He Introduces the witness
VINO He Said Heard Her Death Cry.

VINO He Said Heard Her Death Cry.
H~ERK1MER. N. Y. Nov. I3.-Prosecuting
Attorney George Ward will follow the same
order in trying the case Of Chester Gillette.
charged with the murder Of Grace Brown.
which he used in his opening address on Sat-
urday. He announced to-day that he will
not start with a report of the autopsy. but
will try to prove first the girls Ne in Cort-
land and her relations with @ 10 to there.
and from this beginning he wv trace the
girls departure from Cortland to South
0tselic and her disappearance from there to
Deruyter. where she met Gillette. He will
then attempt to trace the movements Of the
pair through the various resorts Of the
Adirondacks until the day OF the girls
death.
All through this testimony the Prosecutor
will try to prove little acts OH the part OF
Gillette that indicated generalization until
he brings the pair up to the time Of their
second coming TO Big Toe Lake. Then
the District Attorney will introduce the
witness his reference TO whom caused such
a sensation Saturday. This important wit
ness id Mrs. p. C. Carey of East Orange.
n. j., who had a cottage or Big Moose Lake
and who happened to be not far away from
the little bay at the time Grace Browns
death is said to nave occurred. She is the
wife of a Newark engineer who lives in
East Orange. and is accompanied by her
brother, f, o. Stanley. Jr., who will give
a different kind of testimony.
GraWe Benedict, the Cortland young woman
whom the prosecution will try 10 make
one Of the motives of the act with which
Gillette is charged, will arrive here to-
morrow morning. On her side the relations
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than friendly, hui il is ale sed that Gillette's
feelings for her were of a stronger nature.
With her will come her fe Their and several
more Cortland witnesses, among them the
two young women with whom Gillette
is said 10 nave made an cement for
the ACKNOWLEDGES when he left DE Ruyter
with Grace Brown. II. r. Gillette, the
boys uncle, is also said TO be another wit
ness who will arrive tomorrow.
Gillette passed a quiet day in the county
Jail. He seemed to recover any composure
he might have lost during the prosecutors
| opening address almost Immediately and
when he went back to his cell at night had
his nerve as thoroughly as he has ever
since the trial started. He slept deeply
and when he got up to-day he found a
large number Of letters from persons whom
for the most part he did not know.
The hysteria which the trial of almost
any man for murder seems 70 arouse in
women who read about IL appears to have
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to-day indicated this, as did the fact that
his cell was full Of chTysanthemums. which
some one had sent him. Gillette spent
the day lounRing around his cell until 5
o'clock. when his counsel. A. NJ. Mills and
Charles Thomas, came and held a long
consultation with him. The lines OF the
defence are still kept secret. In fact counsel
for both sides seem TO hesitate to declare
what evidence they can produce. .
The jury has already been segregated
and has a suite of rooms in the Palmer
House here, where the jurors try TO kill the
time between sessions of the court. This
morning they all went to church. marching
mp through the main street two by two,
with a deputy sheriff on either flank. But
they spent the rest of the day indoors.
It was a hardship for many of them who
live but a few miles away 10 spend their
time indoors and away from their families
There was a report this morning that Elvah
Potter. Juror No. IL, was i'll, but this was
later denied.