New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
GILLETTE TRIAL LAGS.
Prosecution Unable to Finish Yester-
day-AnOther WeeE Likely.

Herkmer N Y. Nov. 24-Instead of presenting
the case to the jury to-day as they had planned.
the lawyers the Gillette murder trial found them
selves Just about half way through the evidence
when court adjourned this AS the situation
presents itself tonight 1t looks though another
entire week will be spent the case, especially
If court takes a recess for Thanksgiving Day,
Witnesses are not allowed 10 leave Herkiner.
even when they have told their story The lawyers
want all OF them at hand, so that they be re-
called at any time. These witnesses. more than a
hundred in number. are endeavoring to be patient,
but they already talking about their Thanks
giving turkey and the obligation of eating at home
with their families. 1t is probable that the court,
If 1t has any notion of sitting through the holiday.
will be petitoned to take days on Thursday.
The prosecution has little left to do but have
the autopsy described from the stand But there
six physicians who must be questioned, and the
of their testimony important that it is
doubtful if the prosecution can rest before Tuesday
The defence has called about ten witnesses.
and two days at least viii ne occupied by their tes-
Then the plan is for each side TO consume an entire
day in summing
District Attorney Ward has carried the jury
along the entire route traversed by Gillette and
Miss Brown after the couple left De Ruyter on
the fateful journey into the Adirondacks. He has
had the story of Gillettes remarkable indifference
thrown with the youth after he crossed through
the woods from Big Moose. where Billy Brown
narrative has Kept every one in the court keyed
up to the highest nerve pitch. except perhaps Gil
physicians is expected to cap the climax of word
painted moving picture that has seldom had an
equal for playing the heart strings of the public
They will tell OF the condition of the girls body
they found it-whether it's abrasions and bruises
We're such as could possibly be inflicted by the girl
herself in committing suicide
of VIII IL a Ga0f the aha & es
We're far too serious to have been the result of the
defence will plunge into 4 . battle to prove. If
possible. that the injurier face and skull:
by the jolting the body received going the
rough road from the Glenmoge Hotel to Big Moose
District Attorney Ward swore three witnesses
to prove that the tennis racket that Gillette is al
legged to have hidden under a stump after he
started through the woods from Big Moose Lake
in the condition when found it is now
handle loose and bow split. They testified that
they the racket last July. and that its con
questioned Sheriff Richards after the latter had
testified that he had reported to the district att0r
conversation that the prisoner feared that
Charles D. Thomas. the lawyer who had been ap-
pointed by the court was no match for District r
many little things that Thomas could not.
you made habit of quzZng the boy so as to
help the district attorney convict him. didn't you:
asked Mr.. Mills of the witness.
well You told him all he said against himself,
didn't you?'
And nothing he said in his own favor?'
He didn't say anything in his own favor
Horatio Gettman, the Frankfort undertaken VINO
had charge of the body of Grace Brown after It
was found in Big Moose Lake was closely ques,
toned about the caution taken in the removal OF
the body to prevent its becoming disfgured. By
John DEMO who drove the team that TOOK the
body of Grace Brown from the Glenmore Hotel
show that the road very rough. Thls was 70
prove that the joltng the body received after II
was taken from the water ghe hat Se road was
smooth and that the body was handled carefully.