Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-16
JURY FOR GILLETTE
Nearly 200 TaIesmen Have
Already Been Examined.
BROWN FAMILY IN COURT
Star Witness is Ill With Nervous
Prostitution.
FRIEND OF THE PRISONER
Government Expects to Prove by Her
Motive for the Murder Of
Miss Brown.

! Special Dispatch to The Star.
| HERKIMER, N. Y, November 16-The
/ family OF Grace Brown, with whose MUIR
der Chester Gillette is charged, came to the
court room again today to watch the prog
| ress of the trial. With Mr.. and Mrs. Brown
and their daughters Frances and Mary this
| morning was Mrs Hawley, another daugh-
| ter, who carried in her arms small baby,
which took up all her attention throughout
the session. Again they arranged them
serves on the transverse seats opposite Gil
lette, where they could get an uninterrupted
view of him, and watched him closely all
the while that they were in the court room.
The mother, with her husband sat behind
the others and with her elbow on the arm
of the chair and her chin in her hand kept
her eyes glued tight on the young man
! whose trial she is attending cheerfully.
Gillette did not fook at them at all while
! they were in the court He gave no sign ne
knew they were present.
The panel of $50 talesmen which was
drawn to begin the trial was exhausted
yesterday, and Judge Davendorf ordered
that new panel of sixty be drawn. Out
of the first $50 counsel managed to get
eight men who passed without peremptory
challenge The fight for jurymen has been
fierce, and no pains have been spared to
find out the facts about the lives of the
talesmen and the inner workings of their
minds which might prejudice them in favor
of side the other. The men who
| ON the surface appeared satisfactory have
been peremptorily challenged, for reasons
known only to the attorneys themselves.
The new panel of talesmen. part of
T it, was in court this morning. Thirty six
men were present when the roll was called
and nine We're later excused. leaving TWEEN
| ty-seven to get the other four jurors from.
The heavy snow which fell last night de-
| layed the coming of the talesmen and one
of the jurors did not appear until after
11:30 o'clock at the court. which delayed
proceedings
Government Witness Ill.
According to reports received here, the
| young woman by whose testimony the
| prosecution in the case of Chester Gill
| lette hopes to prove motive against the
| defendant. is in her home in Cortland suf-
| fering from nervous exhaustion, which will
! keep her from coming to Herkimer until
| Monday at the earliest. Her condition
| may prove to be great handicap on the
| witness stand. The strain of the case has
proved to much for her. and she is con-
| fined to the house and is under the care
| of physician. 1t is hoped that she VII.
| be well enough on Monday to come and
| testify when she is needed.
| 1t is feared, however that even if she is
| able to take the stand her nervous condition
will make it difficult for her to tell her
story. The notoriety of the case
| has preyed upon Miss Benedict.s
nerves, and the prospect of testifyine
against Gillette has also been worrying
| Miss Benedict all summer AS the time for
| her to take the witness stand approaches
| the thought of being an important witness
! against young man who was formerly her
| friend apparently weighs more and more
| heavily upon her mind.
| While Miss Benedict. her Cortland friends
| says, was never seriously interested in Gill
lette, she always considered him as her
friend. They both attended the Presby-
terrain church in Cortland, where the young
people of the church formed little circle
| of their own At the dances and parties
whie.- were given by these young people
| Gillette and Miss Benedict were on very
| friendly terms, the Cortland witnesses say.
There was never engagement between
| the two, though there was rumor to that
effect, started, it is alleged, by Gillette him.
| SELF