New-York tribune., 1906-11-22
WITNESSHEARD SCREAM
Prosecutor TN Gillette Trial Has
Strong Point Presented.

Ward continued to-day to forge the links In
the chain of circumstantial evidence he is en-
deavoring to construct against Chester e. Gil
lette who is on trial for his life as the alleged
slayer of his sweetheart, Miss Grace Brown, Of
Cortland. Mr. Ward is presenting his evidence
in the form of a MISUNDERSTANDING as many
events in the lives of the two young people. from
the first time they thrown together until
the body of the girl was found in Big Moose
Lake last July, he has been able to trace
from minute study and investigation of all
their affairs. The prosecutor succeeded to-day,
against the bitter protests of the defendants
counsel, In getting before the jury what is said
to be his most direct evidence that crime was
committed in the Adirondacks. He put on the
stand Mrs. Margaret 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
on the journey which ended in the latters death.
Mrs. Carey declared that she had been startled
by hearing piercing scream coming from near
the east shore OF the bay.
at was the cry of person In peril" the wit
ness added. This voluntary statement called
forth storm of objections from the defence and
1t ordered stricken from the records. Mrs.
Carey was allowed to state it as her opinion
that the cries were undoubtedly those Of
woman.
''Ihey were too Shriu TO be anything elSe,' eh6
asserted
Here again objection was interposed by the
defence, but this time Judge Dovendorf allowed
the testimony to stand. Exceptions noted.
The District Attorney to-day sketched In tes
timony the travels of Gillette and Grace Brown
on their second day in the Adirondacks. He
took them by train from Tuppers to Big Moose.
There they went 10 a hotel, where they did not
register as man and wife Gillette used Miss
Browns real name. but styled himself Carl
Graham Albany.
Witnesses were next introduced to tell of the
young couple going for the fateful row on 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 Genmore
Hotel, at Big Moose Lake He stated the
stand that Gillette had told him that he and the
young woman wished to take ride the lake
In the steamboat which plies the waterway. The
hotel man. Andrew Morrison. told Gillette that
If he went by steamer he would not be able to
return in time for dinner. Morrison declared
II was he who suggested to Gillette that he and
the girl take row. He also volunteered the in
formation that his father, Robert Morrison, ran
a boathouse near by and would be glad TO ac-
commodate the couple The elder Morrison later
corroborated these statements.
Gillette's attorneys seized this point
showing that the alleged murder of the girl
could not have been planned in the manner the
District Attorney has asserted to the jury, If
lonely ride until the hotel proprietor had sug-
gested that method of seeing the lake rather
than by steamboat.
The crush to get into the courtroom to-day
was as great ever Women by the score
stormed the front and side doors. Many of them
were on hand as early as o'clock this morning.
The court session began at $50 a. m, and from
that hour until adjournment was announced at
p. m many of the women who had secured
seats on the lower floor and IN the gallery did
not relinquish their vantage points for minute.
They had come we'll supplied with food and en-
a TtJr sha
AT one time the presiding justice had to ad-
monish the women and other spectators against
laughing IN the courtroom. The outburst came
when the defence was endeavorng to draw from
one OF the witnesses some recollection as to how
Gillette was dressed the day Of the alleged muir
der. Some minute details mentioned and a
number Of persons laughed.
This is no place for laughter" shouted Judge
DeVendorf, land the court viii convince those
who do not maintain quiet OF the fact"
The prosecution introduced witnesses who saw
Gillette and the girl drifting along the south bay
of Big Moose Lake at dusk. Then the
testimony Of Mrs. Carey as to the scream she
had heard.
syllables." she said. II listened to hear If it was
repeated. but II was not. It came from the
direction indicated (where Grace Browns body
was found) and it was very high pitched"
Next We're introduced witnesses who saw GIL
lette making his way on foot that night from
Big Moose Lake toward Eagle Bay. The purser
OF the lake steamer Uncas said Gillette boarded
the craft there and rode to Arrowhead. where he
spent the night at a hotel The defence en-
that Gilette's clothes had the appearance of a
man who had recently fallen overheard. No one
noticed him closely enough to say. The pro-
prietor of the Arrowhead hotel said Gillette had
brought down q pair of trousers to be pressed
and they apparently had been thoroughly soaked
IN water. ne TACT that Gillette took suit caS SO
umbrella, camera and tennis racquet with him in
the rowboat was dwelt on by the prosecution
cara Greenwood, the waitress, at Alta Cliff
Lodge, at Tupper Lake, to whom Grace Brown
is said TO have told her troubles lust before her
death, was the first witness called this morning,
w 6nd
scene in the dining room on Grace Browns re-
turn after breakfast, except to say that the girl
returned 10 the dining room after breakfast on
cross examination, Miss Greenwood said there
was nothing particularly noticeable about Grace
Brown that day. She identified the clothing
Miss Brown wore. Miss Greenwood said +baf
Gillette left his umbrella at the Alta Cliff Lodge
Thomas +. Dedell testified that he STAMPED a
postal card which Gillette wrote to Mrs Uoag
at Cortland. Dedell is a railway mail clerk
He said the card must have been written on the
train between Tupper Lake and Big Moose The
card was offered in evidence. 1t asked Mrs
Hoag TO send S5 to Eagle Bay that Gillette
could get il on Friday The card was signed
Chester" This was offered to show that Gil
iette planned TO be at Eagle Bay on Friday
under his own name while still travelling on
Thursday with Grace Brown under an assumed
name.
James McAster bus driver at the GIenmore
Hotel Big Moose, testified to meeting Gillette
and Miss Brown the arrival of a morniDe
train from the north and that the girl said that
che and Gillette wanted TO get out again that
night.
Did she say. TIL go or Wen co." asked the
defending lawyer.
She said, Wen 60"
McAllister testified that Miss Brown said she
would be tired out by the time of the arrival
OF me II o'clock train. He did not see Miss
Brown alive again. When he next saw Gillette
it was after the arrest
McAiiister recalled to the stand, went through
sharp cross-examination Mr Thomas 6rs+
asked him If he had been intoxicated during the
last week, and on receiving a reply that witness
naa, had not been intoxicated Mr.. Thomas asked
a. nnh IL