The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-11-27


Believed She Was About to Die.
Movements of Couple In the Adiron-
dacks Traced.
Herkimer, N. Y, Nov. 81 The pitt.
tnl letters in which Grace Brown APP
pealed to Chester Gillette to keep his
promise to marry her caused great
sensation when they were read at Gil
lette's trial on the charge of murder
ing the girl A more pathetic recital
was never given in a courtroom.
Day after day the little country girl
pleaded in her letters for Gillette to
stand by her in her trouble, and when
his replies seemed cold and unassuring
she would appeal to his manhood, child
ing him, only to ask his pardon in the
next sentence.
Probably the following sentences
from the letters caused the greatest
emotion in those who heard them read:
pleaded With Her Lover.
/ do not know what I could do If you
were not there or did not come. am
about crazy now. / have been bidding
goodby to some places today. There are
to me. have lived here all my life.
First l said goodby to the spring house,
with its great masses OF green moss; then
the apple tree where we had our play
house; then the "beehive," a cute little
house; then the orchard, and Of course all
the neighbors that have mended my dress
es from little tot up to save me
thrashing really deserved.
Oh, dear don't you realize what all
this Is to me7 / know shall never see
any Of them again. And mamma great
heaven-how do love mamma! don't
know what win do without her. She is
never cross and she always helps me so
much.
1t makes me rather blue to hear the
other girls planning for the Fourth and
know | must stay here In my room all
day / win try, dear, and make the week
AZ short as possible, but am afraid 1t
WILL be dreadful long. / shall never 60
away again like this. but you promised
me / wouldn't have to, didn't you, dear?
If / had strength, dear, do believe ]
should walk to the river and throw my
self in. 1t would be rather cowardly. and
despise coward, but would not be
bother to you any longer. Oh Chester,
the thought that am in your way just
drives me crazy How l want to die no
one but myself knows.
1t was through these letters that Gil
Adirondack trip. Take me away from
hereH was her cry in every letter, and
in some of them she limited that she
would trouble him but little more be-
cause she was going to die.
Sought Quic. Place.
The district attorney followed the
travels of Grace Brown and Gillette
into the Adirondacks He traced their
movements through Utica, swore many
witnesses who testified to little details
Of the trip, and closed with a long ex-
animation of a Topper Lake hotel pro
prietor, who said that Gillette asked
him where he could find a quiet place
Ia the woods, that his wife was tired
Ward 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 the
evening young Gillette and Miss
Brown set out upon the journey which
ended In the latter's death. Mrs. Carey
declared that she had been startled
by hearing a piercing scream coming
from near the east shore Of the bay.
Witnesses were also introduced to
tell of the young couple going for the
Hateful row upon the lake. 1t was
here that Gillette's counsel made much
of an admission secured from one Of
the states witnesses the proprietor of
the Glenmore hotel at Big Moose lake
He stated that Gillette had told him
that he aud the Young lady wished to
take a ride on The lake in the steam
boat 'i'e hsei a IA, Andrew sIolri
son. tal7 f rte ihat If he went b.
Bteainoe NOR rot be able to re-
turn in tiiae Tor dinner. Morrison de
clared 4 ras I v'lo suggested to Gil
aette that he and the girl take a row.
boat.
Attorneys For Defense Pleased.
Gillette's attorneys seized upon this
point as showing that the alleged muir
der Of the girl could not have been
planned In the manner the district at
torney has asserted to the jury if he
had no thought OF the rowboat and the
lonely ride until the hotel proprietor
had suggested that method of seeing
the lake rather than by steamboat,
Former Senator A. NJ Mills, senior
counsel for Gillette, who is being paid
by N. H. Gillette. uncle of the prison
CT. who it was supposed had taken no
Interest in his nephew's fight for free
dom, said.
s'The Letters from Grace Brown
which the prosecution has made so
much of will be the means of freeing
the prisoner, They prove beyond the
shadow of a doubt that the girl had
suicide in her mind from the time she
left home a few days before she dis
appeared until she died"
conceaIed Death Two Days.
1t was shown that during forty
eight hours following the girls deatL
Gillette rambled about the Adiron-
nacks with other young persons, ap-
parently enjoying the outing as much
as any of them. When the body Of his
one time sweetheart still was In Big
Moose lake Gillette padded in a ca
noe from Fourth lake to Seventh lake
IN search Of Miss Patrick and Miss
Westcott Of Cortland, with whom he
wished to continue his holiday trip.
LJndersheriff Klock testified that
when Gillette was arrested by him the
young man at first protested to be
astonlshed on being told Of the girls