The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-11-30
GILLETTE
. NEAR COLLAPSE
Thanksgiving Recess Was the
Only Thing
THAT SAVED Prisoner
Tripped BY the Prosecutor--Has Con-
tradicted Himself on the Stand
and the Crucial Test Is Yet to
Come.

Herlyimer, M II. Nov. Chichester y.
Gillette, the alleged slayer Of Grace
Brown. did not spend Thanksgiving day
! in freedom al he hoped 10 10 when his
trial was begun. lie sat behind his pris
on bars, struggling to recover from the
terrible strain Of Wednesday. utilizing
all Of his wonderful nerve IN an effort
to shake of the terror Of in entire day
on the witness stand, and wondering
whether he was any nearer the open
world than be was the day he was AZ
rested
| In the opinion Of everyone in the court
room when he declared that Grace Brown
threw herself into Big Moose lake, Gil
lette is deeper IN the nire than ever. II
il declared that liz could not have out
lined fimsicf story 81 the manner in
which pretty Billy Brown went to
iher death.
1 II had been anticipated that Gillette
would swear that the girls death was
the result Of suicide, not murder, but
Iit was never dreamed for an instant
that he would declare that the girl flung
4 herself into Big Moose lake without
more Of a scene leading up TO the fatal
! leap.
/ When he declared that the girl and
he had spent d pleasant day up "a n
few minutes before her death, and that
his proposal to tell her father Of her
condition il she wished him to, led her
to take her life. be put himself under
a darker shadow here, according 70 The
general feeling here, than tie mountain
of all the ciFcnmstantial evidence that
the state had heapcL against him.
/ III there had been session Of court
yesterday, there Is every probability that
! Gillette would have broken down en-
tirely. He looked to.be on the verge Of
lit Wednesday evening, for his eyes were
bleary and his head groggy a single
night in his lonely cell would not have
revived him for the added and worse
ordeal that the prosecutor had In store
for him.
District Attorney Ward. aside from a
single leap to Big Moose and the ques-
ton Didn't YOU strike that girlg" has
not reached the scene Of Grace Browns
death He has asked Gillette hundreds
of sharp questions about his love for
Grace Brown and his intentions in that
particular Gillette has sworn that he
INTENDED to marry the girl, and then,
almost in the same breath, declared that
1.-THE girl and himself never spoke Of mar
rage and he had no idea that she want
ed him to marry her. And when he
was relieved from the bombardment by
Wednesday nights adjournment, he was
wearied and headsore. His expression
changed with the hours, denoting men
tai torture that he endeayored to con
ceal with his almost superhuman eour-
age
And yesterday he had cause for
Thanksgiving. The holiday cut in hall
with 4 golden intermission the soul
haunting examination BY The district at
torney
Gillette spent the day in the quiet Of
| his prison room. He would probably
stay there forever without a whimper
in preference to going back into that
court room and facing the. volley Of
Questions that awaits him, and the pos
sible result, after it is all over Of losing
his life in the electric chair.