Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-23
MORE LINKS ARE
ADDED TO CHAIN
AGAINST GILLETTE
Black Hair and a Girls Coat
Found in the Boat.
EVIDENCE OF MOOSE GUIDE
Hat Also Supposed to Be Grace
Browns Found Near Scene.
PRISONER IS STILL INDIFFERENT
He Regards the CHASTITY Exhibits and
Listens to the Evidence With
Marked Goodness.
EVIDENCE OF MOOSE GUIDE
Hat Also Supposed to Be Grace
Browns Found Near Scene.
PRISONER IS STILL INDIFFERENT

By the evidence of Moose guide
the prosecution in the Gillette case
adduced evidence today showing
that strands of hair the color of
Grace Browns were found tangled
in the cleats and in the bottom OF
the boat The witness also testified
that he found the dead girls coat in
the canoe. The prisoner maiu-
tanned his attitude of indifference
while the jury examined the exhib-
its. The prosecution hopes to add
an important link to the chain of
the states evidence by a broken
tennis racquet, with which it is sur
missed Gillette gave the girl her
death blow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HERKIMER. N. Y. November 23.-On a
small split in the framework of a tennis
racquet may hang the fate of Chester Gill
lette, who is on trial charged with the
murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose lake
in the Adirondack mountains. The prose-
cution yesterday traced the movements of
Gillette to time within five minutes of
the time of the death Of the girl, and took
up the trail which he had left after her
txx ali; Of
racquet on the shore of Big Moose lake.
Gillette had hidden the racquet under q
log, where It lay three weeks. and because
of the length Of time which it was ex-
posed to the elements it will be difficult to
prove that the injuries to the framework
Of the racquet were caused by its being
welded as a weapon. The gut strings Of
the racquet are a mass of broken ends, but
that state could easily have been caused
by exposure to the weather. The two side
pieces Of the handle which were built sep
arately and fastened to it with glue are
loose, SO that they hang of when the
racquet Is held down. The frame is badly
warped from the throat to the head of the
racquet.
All this damage, however, might have
been caused by exposure to the weather
One injury to the racquet, however. is
difIicultNto account for by its exposure to
the elements. On one side of the curved
frame of the racquet is split, which runs
directly through the middle of the frame
from one side to the other. 1t is such q
split as might have been caused by striking
a heavy blow with the edge Of the racquet
The blow must have been struck with
the edge of the racquet, or it would have
been more badly broken than it Is. To
strike blow with the fiat of a racquet
against an unyielding substance. tennis
players say, Is almost sure to shatter the
frame with an injury that is irreparable.
Racquet May Have Been Instrument.
The contention of the prosecution is that
the tennis racquet was the weapon which
caused Grace Browns death. The prosecu-
ton will say that Gillette rainee blows
on the girls head with the edge of the
racquet and then disposed of her body by
throwing it into South bay. They claim
that the blows were struck with the edge
of the racquet and on this account the
frame is no more injured than showed on
its examination by the jury yesterday.
Step by step the district attorney has
traced Gillette to the scene of the tragedy;
produced witness from the direction Of
the cove at the time when Grace Brown
probably met her death. Then he picked
up Gillettes trail after the tragedy and
tracked his every movement until the time
OF his arrest. Yesterday he proved that
after Gillette reached Arrowhead, although
ne told of his past life to some strangers
when he met, he never mentioned the tray
edy which must have occurred In his sirbt
only day or two before. Then he showed
that Gillette asked some men in the hotel
lobby on the second day after the girls
death If they had heard of the occurrence.
The prosecution has supplied motive and
shown that the defendants statements after
his capture were contradictory In many de-
tails. But the greatest burden Of proof win
rest upon the testimony they must produce
next. It must be shown that Grace Brown
ma her death before she sank In the waters
OF Big Moose lake. and must show further
that the injuries that caused her death
could not have been the work OF her own
hands even II she had made frantic effort
TO commit suicide. 1t was learned on con-
elusive authority today that the girls skua,
when her body was found, was crushed In
and that there was blood clot on the
brain.
We have already proved this man guilty
OF murder" the prosecutor said today,
when we proved that the dress suit case
which was with him when. as he says the
boat upset, was not wet, and when we
proved that the explanation of the defend