Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-28
GILLETTE IS ON THE WITNESS STAND Prosecution Closed Its Case This Morning With Last Medical
 Expst.
CASE NEARING THE END
Counsel For Aceused Asked For Di.charge of Prisoner Which
 Was Denied.

the expectation of reaching the close of the states case in the Gillette murder trial before tonight adjourn ment, District Attorney Ward to-day continued the examination of Dr s. s. Richards, the last of the five med ical experts employed by the state. pr Richards had been cross-exam- ined by MT Mills of the defense to some extent when court adjourned last evening. but in this case, as with all other medical experts, there was an abundance of redirect and re- cross questioning awaiting him to- day.
 Dr Crumb, who has acted as medi- cal adviser for the district attorney and who made microscopic examina- ton of the hair found in the boat oc- cupied by Gillette and Miss Brown said to-day that he will not take the stand as witness.
 There was the usual crowd assem- bled of spectators at the court house to-day.
 MT Mills of the defense was asked about the truth of the rumor that the court would adjourn to the Mo- hawk river bank so that Gillette could show the jury how the boat capsized.
 That's a good story" he said laughingly. but 1t is tame with some of the stuff sent out of Herkimer."
 The courtroom was not crowded to-day when former Senator Mills re sumed the cross-examination of Dr s. s. Richards, the fifth and last O the physicians who performed the autopsy on Grace Browns body. Dis trict Attorney Ward attempted to have Dr Richards describe the condi- tion of the hair found in the skiff which Gillette used and which is al- legged to be Miss Browns hair.
 Dr Richards said that he found the end of the hair he examined to be torn and broken. Tt seemed to have been torn by violence" said the wit ness, but the defense succeeded in getting that out of the evidence.
 Dr Richards said the end of the hair he referred to was not the nat ural end. but broken and different than that which would be found If the hair had been pulled out. This evidence was not admitted, because the microscopic examination had in cluded but one hair and the physi- clan was unable to identify that par ticular hair in the bunch that had been offered in evidence.
 A deputy sheriff went to New York today to find Dr Sissing who is wanted as a witness for the defense. Dr Sissing Is said to have been at Big Moose when Grace Browns body was recovered.
 At 10:4O District Attorney Ward rested the peoples case. Then Mir Mills for the defense moved for the prisoners discharge. He mentioned as the grounds for his motion that District Attorney Ward had failed to produce the eye witness he said he would, that he had produced no witt ness to the. tragedy at all, that he had not produced preponderance of evidence, that it had not been shown that Grace Brown and Gillette were engaged to be married and that 1t had not been shown that Grace Browns wedding clothes had been made. The court interrupted Mir Mills before he had finished.
 New York. Nov 2S.-Dr Eugene H. EisIng. who lives at IS East Six tieth street. this city. when asked to-day whether he was at Big Moose when Grace Browns body was re- covered said that he was in that gegion at the time, but declined to make any further statement. There is no Dr Sissing in the neighborhood of Dr Eising's residence.
 Gillette told a long story of his nc quaintance with Billy" Brown, the murdered girl and getting down to the trip on the lake said that they hired boat and rowed around the lake for long time. They went ashore once and returned again to the boat. She was Respondent and fin- ally threw herself out of the boat in- to the water. He stood up when she did SO and the boat tipped him out When he came up he clung to the side of the boat hut never saw the girl nfterward. When he got ashore he went into the woods and hid his tennis racquet because he had too much baggage 10 carry