Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
FATE OF GILLETTE
NOT FAR DISTANT
Web is Weaving Closer About
Him Day by Day.
CASE HARD AGAINST HIM
Alleged Murderer of BILLY" Brown
Has Made Poor Showing.
MANY CONTRADICTIONS GIVEN
No Plausible Explanation About the
Disguise and Other Important
Incidents.
MANY CONTRADICTIONS GIVEN
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HERKIMER N Y, December IA
half days session of the Gillette trial to-
day flashed the prosecutions case in re-
buttal and it is probable that all the evil
dence in the case is in. Both counsel re-
served the right to call witness up on
Monday, but this was more than anything
else a precaution taken against possible
surprise from new witnesses being sprung
by the other side and it is probable that
neither side will call any witnesses on
Monday.
Todays evidence in rebuttal caught
Chester Gillette in at least three more
misstatements of fact. Under Sheriff
Klock, Turnkey Evans and two witnesses
from DeRuyter, Proprietor Coye of the
Taber House and Hubert Whitley. his
stableman. came to the stand and denied
three quite important statements that Gill
lette made in his direct and cross-ex-
animation.
Todays testimony. if 1t did not prove
ANYTHING else, showed the astuteness OF
the district attorney. The two DeRuyter
witnesses whose testimony would not have
made any particular impression on the
direct presentation of the district attorneys
case were not examined at all when the
case was directly presented. Instead, the
district attorney allowed the prisoner to
tell his own story and make statements
which he would not have made unless they
had some Importance in the case. Then
he brought up two entirely disinterested
witnesses to prove that part at least OF
Gillette's story was not true. The facts
related to the efforts OF Gillette to hire a
horse on his arrival at DeRuyter. where
he spent the night waiting for Grace
Brown, in order to drive to South Ostelic
and get away without having his presence
In the town so near Grace Browns home
known.
Went to Hotel.
On direct examination, Gillette had
sworn that from the station at DeRuyter
he went directly to the hotel. and as ~
was raining went to his room and stayed
there reading until bed time. On cross
examination the district attorney ELECTED
the positive statement from him that he
made no attempt to hire a horse from the
livery stable or get any other means OF
conveyance in order to go to South Osteifc
TO get Grace Brown.
The testimony of Coye and his stable
man. Whaley agreed in every particular
Cove said that Gillette had come to the
Taber House in DeRuyter at about $50
o'clock on the night of July with Whaley
and had asked for rig to go to Sou.a
Ostelic. Coye had replied that all his
horses had been out that day and that he
could not let them go again. and Gillette
had
fore Coye went to bed some two hours
later. Whaley testified that Gillette had
come to the barn where he was and
asked for horse He had referred him
TO Coye inside and had gone with him to
see the proprietor of the hotel. The con-
versation which he related between Gil
testimony. On cross-examnation the de-
PENDANTS counsel tried to shake Whaley
on mis- identification of Gillette.
Had Good Control
In spite OF his apparently exhausted con-
dition last night, Gillette had good control
of himself today At the opening of court
the district attorney recalled him to the
stand and had him identify some cloth
Ing of Grace Brown as that which she
was accustomed 20 wear in the factory.
The object of this was to show that the
girl had gone away with Gillette with the
evident intention of sta ring her life again.
Gillette handled the skirt and coat which
the girl had been accustomed to wearing
in the factory and spoke about them as
indinerently as if he had been examining
new styles in shop window. He showed
unmistakable signs OF the strain under
which he has been. however In the chalk
like complexion of his face and the dark
rings that were beneath his sunken eyes
When he got Off the stand he went back
TO his old sinking posture in the chair by
his counsel's table. and when he got up
TO leave after the short session it was
noticed that the hand which he held out
90 the under sheriff to receive the hand
cum trembled for the first time during the
progress of the trial. The other witnesses
recalled by the prosecution in rebuttal to-
day were Under Sheriff Klock, Sheriff
Ri, hard and Turnkey Evans.
Afraid of the Country.
Il talked. to Gillette" said Flock in
reply to a question, land he said that he
went ashore near the log pile and started
into the woods / said: I wonder that YOU
didn't get lost. I've been In the woods all
my life. but l would be afraid to trust N.Y.
self In a country l did not know He said
that he kept the lake In sight until he
struck the road and l asked him how he
knew the road was there He said that a
map which he had with him showed it."
On cross-examnation Gillette had stated
with some detail that he did not know the
road to Eagle bay existed until he hap
pened to strike 1t accidentally when he was
fleeing from the place where Grace Brown
had been drowned. The prosecutor had
showed him some maps which he had had
I'm his possession. but Gillette had ex-
planned that while he had examined the
map he had not noticed the road to Eagle
the point where Gillette had said that he
and Grace Brown had landed and taker
lunch, was not only marshy, but was al
most impossible to access from the water
because OF some trees which had fallen
INTO the water from the bank and made O
landing almost impossible. He also testi-
ned that the whole shore in this vicinity