The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
WINDING UP GILLETTE CASE.
PROSECUTOR TIGHTENING TEE
Tolls AROUND HIM.
Proves That Injuries TO Grace Rrown's
Body Were Not Made by the Jolting of
the wagon n WIN how by Doctors
Tha She Met Death by Foul Play.

HERKIMER. Nov. A.-The prosecution in
the case Of Chester Gillette, charged with
the murder OF Grace Brown, spent the
session Of the court to-day in gathering
I'D the loose ends Of its ~oircumstantial
evidence before sending the case to the
medical experts who made the autopsy
on the girls body. The prosecutor has
drawn the net Of circumstantial evidence
CLOSE around the prisoner, but in order
10 hold the net together he must have the
fact deduoed from the testimony OF ex-
perts that Grace Browns body showed
conclusively that she met her death in a
wsy other then by drowning or suicide.
Step by step the prosecution has traced
the prisoner and the girl from the beginning
of their journey until they embarked for
the row on Big Moose Lake. from which
the girl never returned alive. II has picked
up Gillette on the other side OF the tragedy
and pointed to a number Of circumstances
which in view Of the later developments
are decidedly suspicious. It Is necessary
before the prose %cution's case can 60 to
the jury, however, that these circum-
stances shall be bound together by absolute
proof that the girl met her death by foul
play.
Five physicians will be called to the
stand on Monday in an attempt on the part
OF the prosecution to show hat Grace
Browns death was the result of injuries
received before she ever went under the
water of Big Moose Lake. and that when
she went into the water she was either un-
conscious and unable to aid herself. or was
already dead.
The half day session to-day was spent in
an effort to point more strongly to some OF
the circumstances which the prosecution
believe 10 be suspicious and TO forestall a
possible contention of the defence that the
bruises on Grace Browns body were due
to its being transported in a WACO over a
rough road from the Glenmore Hotel TO
Big Moose station. The prosecution has
taken pains to forestall any line Of defence
which the prisoners counsel may follow.
II was learned to-day that Gillette has
already undergone an examination into
his sanity, and it is said thai no evidences
OF mental unsoundness were found
The prosecutions first witness, after
Undertaken Getman had been recalled TO
tell of the Identification Of Grace Browns
body by her father, was John DEMO, who
drove Grace Browns body from the Glen
more Hotel to Big Moose station. He said
that the wagon in which he had transported
the body had six springs and that the road
over which he drove was good.
1T was smooth n dry" he said; there
were no loose stones in the road. for they
have men TO pick them up, and there was
no mud"
Mr.. Thomas for the defence apparently
talked to the witness in Big Moose in the
summer.
said, on cross-examination, that you let
your horses go fast from the hotel to the
station2"
Il don't remember it; / drove slowly
will you swear you didn't2'
NC, but l don't think l did,
Mr.. Thomas asked a number Of other
questions, beginning with: Didn't you tell
me- all Of which the witness answered In
What time did you start for the s~t~sOn''
What time did you arrive there1'
Shortly before J O'clock
This gave the witness nearly an hour b
cover a distance Of two miles.
The prosecution then returned to the hat
which had been picked up near the over:
turned boat Royal K. Fuller, who had
picked 1t up when he had found 1t In the
water, said that the lining was out and two
threads were hanging from under the hat
band. One Is still In the hat.
What became Of the other'2 asked Mr..
Ward :.
'Mrs.. Andrew Morrison pulled it out and
threw it away ,
Mrs. Morrison was called. She said she
noticed the two threads in the hat, only
the brim OF which was wet when 1t came
out of the water. One of these threads
she had pulled out after her return to the
hotel and had thrown it away. She thought
IL was about two and a half inches long.
Her cross examination was one Of the few
things that gave the audience any amuse-
ment. Mrs. Morrison is a young woman,
daughter Of one OF the lawyers who tried
the Roxanna Druse case, famous in this
Did you measure that threadp' asked
Mr.. Thomas.
yes, with my eye
Did you use a tape measureF'
you did not measure it then
Yes, l did. / made a mental measure
ment.7
Mr.. Thomas let the witness go.
The tennis racket was brought In again
to be identified by Deputy Sheriff lngraham.
and Fred Abbott, the photographer who
made the pictures which had been put
in evidence, was called to the stand to ]
identify the spots again. 1
A long c-ross-examination on the value
of lenses and prospectives did not develop
much positive information. The pictures
were handed TO the jury in spite OF siren
uous objections by the defence.
Sheriff Richards, the only witness who
contributed much sensation to the days
DCbIhlOLNR was hCCdAACAs ~ DoAa bho bAo |
defendant had told him that the racket
had cost 50 and was new when he left Cort-
land.
did he talk to you about the e~vidence?'
YES. I told him that Mr.. Thomas had
been assigned to his case n he asked
me II he was a good lawyer. l said that
was one Of the best in Herkimer county.
He said that he thought he ought to have
another lawyer, as the District Attorney
was pretty smart and had found things
which he thought he would not find"
Mr.. Thomas objected TO the answer going
In evidence.
Il only want the last part In said the
Attorney.
-Oh, no. replied Mr.. Thomas, If any Of
Il goes in I would like to have the Sherifis
puff of me spread In the records. i nay
need a recommendation some day
Mr.. Thomas got after the Sheriff hammer
and tonRs on cross-examination.
How long after you found this out from
the boy did you tell it to the District At
he asked.
NEXT time l saw him..
Then you talked to the prisoner under
your charge to find out things for the Dis
trict Attorney
Il did find out things
you wanted to find out things that
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