The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-11-22
MORE PATHETIC
LETTERS IN COURT
Sweetheart. Very Despondent
Pleads With Gillette to Be
True and to Come When
He Had Promised to
Do So-Defense
Scores Point.

HERkIAIER. y. r.. November q Dis
tr.ct Attorney Ward to-day continued 10
forge links go "a chain cf circumstantiaI
evidence around Chester r. Gillette. who
a. on trial for tho murder OF hls sweet
heart, Grace Brown, ~ Cortland. The
prosecutor succeeded. agairst the bitter
protests of tne defendant counsel. ia
Eetu1s before tae jury what issued 10
g. lis must direct evidence that murder
~as committed that eventfui day ia July
. the Adiroucacks. where Gillette and
u Brown had gone together
Mrs. Garet Carey. Of East Orange. y
J. who. wit1 her husband. had gone
1or "a row in the south bay ~ Big Moos.
LAX the evening Gillette and Miss
Brown set out upon the journey which
ended in tae latters death. testlned that
a. had been startled by hearing "A pierre
IN scream coming from near the east
shore OF the bay
"lt was tHe cry Of a person in peril"
ahe witness added.
This voluntary statement called forth
q storm of objections from the defense.
and 70 was ordered stricken from the
records Mrs. Carey was allowed u state
s. as her opinion that the cries were
undoubtedly those of "A woman
The district attorney sketchcd IN tes-
timony the travels ~ Gillette and Grace
Brown on tS-ir second day in the Adiron-
dacks. lie took them by train from TuD-
~ r Nf 4fA- NAfNNief mere ilcE went To
a hotel where they did not register as
man and wife. Gillette used Miss Brown 8
real name. but styled himself as Carl
Graham" of Albany
Point for Defense.
Witnesses We're introduced 70 tell Of
the young couple going for the fateful
row upon the water. IL was here that
Giuette's counsel made much Of an ad-
mission secured from one Of the States
Tltnesses-the proprietor Of the Glemore
Hotel. al Big Moose Lake
He stated that Gillette had told him
that he and the young lady wished to
take a ride on the lake in the steamboat
which plies the waterway.
The hotel man. Andrew Morrison. told
Gillette that II he went by steamer he
would not be able 70 return In time for
dinner. Morrison declared II was he who
suggested that Gillette and the girl take
& row.
Gilette's attorneys seized upon this
I'lht as shc Wing that the alleged mur-
der the girl could not have been planned
IN the manner the district attorney has
asserted TO the jury II he had no thought
of the rowooat and the lonely ride until
fhe hotel proprietor had suggested that
method Of seeing the lake rather than
BY steamboat.
The prosecution introduced witnesses
who saw Gillette and tho girl driftin-
1l'HA tAo S'Att bhN or Big Moose Lake
Rt dusk. Then came the testimony of
Mrs Carey as 10 the scream she had
heard
Penetrating Cry.
'Jt was a penetrating and sharp CRY,
Of two syllables." she said Il listened
% hear n Il was repeated. but f. was
not. u came from the direction indi-
Gated Cwhere Grace Browns body was
SOund). and il was very high pitched
Next were introduced witnesses who
Faw Gillette 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 defense endeavored to draw from
the witnesses the fact that Giilette's
clothes had the appearance Of man who
had recently fallen overheard. No one
noticed him closely enough to say. The
proprietor Of the Arrowhead Hotel said
Gillette had brought down pair Of
trousers to be pressed. and they appar-
emily had been thoroughly soaked IN wa
Ter. The fact that Gillette took suit
case umbrella. camera and tennis racquet
with him in the rOwboat was dwelt upon
by the prosecution
Begged Him to Be True.
Reference to another girl" was
made in another letter read during
the hearing. and Grace Brown pleaded
with him TO be true to her. She
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