Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-05

girls and ruins them, the district at torney's quotation from Shakespeare about "the dagger' and the district at torney's claim that Gillette's lawyers concocted the story he told on the stand.
 When District Attorney Ward resum- ed his summing up he pictured Gillette as base deceiver and heartless mur. derer, ridiculing the theories advanced by Mir. Mills for the defense. .
 The prosecutor ridiculed the theories advanced by Mir. Mills that if Gillette had been planning to commit murder he wouldn't have travelled on rail road train and he wouldn't have pur- chased mileage book. "Of course, no i one who commits murder ever rides on a railroad or ever buys mileage book" he sneered. Then he ridiculed the idea that Gillette was mere boy.
 "Why. this poor. fragile boy, who carried canoe for three-quarters of mile on his shoulder: he. poor, frag- ile boy. who couldn't pull a 100 pound | girl out of the water. A poor. inexpe- | rienced boy--he, who had travelled all | over the west and who had lived in Chicago among it's rottenness and wick l edness; he, who had travelled on the tops of the freight cars-he is the poor, inexperienced boy.
 1 He got next to the minister, he got next to the college professor so that he cQAld say, Gentlemen, am your equal l and your peer That was the robe by | which he fooled the public. It wasn't the jury he was trying to fool; it was the world. Did that minister friend of his in all that time make one attempt to rescue that girl from this villains grasp?
 "Gentlemen, this man denied that he kept company with this girl. When his uncle asked him if he was going with the girl he said he had called on her once by accident If it had become known how he was running that girl under her sisters roof, his cousin and ais workmates would have wrung his worthless neck"
 District Attorney Ward said that Mir. Mills was wholly unjustified in excus- ing Gillettes immoral conduct. saying every self respecting person would have summed him and closed their doors to him had they known.
 "He wanted to stay in Cortland, in society" said Mir. Ward. "He never intended, never for moment, to take Grace Brown anywhere except to her death. He concocted plan to rid him. self of her, one far less evil than his first to rob her of virtue. That girl received her deathblow. I am sure, with a grateful heart, out there in the woods"
 MT. Ward asked why Grace Brown should not wish for death-expecting to become a mother with no husband. going about the factory alone. and he saying, Go home" He did not go to her as a lover and take her to a minis ter. but said. 'Ill take g vacation later, and then I'll take care of you" And he did.
 "rhe hand of God guides the tongue of the murderer to his own undoing, and Providence acted here. Gillette asked Grace at the hotel when he saw her talking to another girl, Did you tell her I was here? I
 "Grace Brown tried to reach Gil lette's stony heart--a heart as cruel as that of the wolf that met Little Red Riding Hood. Heart? Sympathy? He knows nothing of them.'
 Of the letter where Grace Brown said. "I said No so many times, but the world will never know it." Mir. Ward said, ''The world does know 1t. little girl, even If you had to sacrifice your life beneath the fangs of this monster to let the world find 1t out.
 There was never lewd thought in this girls mind. She was as innocent the day she died as when she was born.
 "rhe counsel said she was like the paramour-one who walked the streets that poor little wild flower, that in. nocent child. A paramour! What fiend of hell put that word in his mouth:'
 In all that the district attorney said he spoke no more eloquently than when he paused for moment, then with a choked voice pictured Grace Browns marvellous love and purity of soul with these words:
 "Ah. gentlemen. pray that you may understand the beauty and purity of that child's soul and life. l tell you that she was worth more than the whole of Cortland county, where they spurned her. She was worth more to the world than all its banks and their gold. than its acres. it's industries. its wealth. its society. its churches.
 "She meant more than all of those things to the world, and the world will be better that she lived and died. That God who sometimes has to do with the affairs of men ordained that her let ters should he given to us.''
 The trouble taken by Gillette to con ceaI his identity when he was away with Grace Brown was prominently displayed by the district attorney.
 If she were iewd girl. would she have begged permission of him to tell her uncle and auntT'
 While District Attorney Ward was going on with his scathIng denuncia-