Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-01
TESTIMONY FOR
Gillette ENDS
DEFENSE MAY PUT ON ONE
MORE WITNESS
Both Sides in Murder Trial at Herki-
mer Practically Conclude, and
Arguments Are Expected
to Begin Today
BY Associated Press.

by ASSOclated FfeS5.
HERKIMER, N. Y, Nov. SO.-The
trial Of Chester Gillette for the MUIR
der of his sweetheart, Grace Brown,
practically came to a close today as
far as the taking of evidence is con-
cerned.
The defense, while reserving the
right to swear one witness tomorrow,
rested this afternoon. The remain Ter
of the afternoon was spent by the dis
trict attorney in recalling several wit
nesses in rebuttal.
Gillette went through the ordeal of
cross-examination without wavering in
the slightest degree in his testimony
as to the actual death scene in Rig.
Moose lake. Apparently he had made
up his mind to take his time in an
swering the district attorneys ques-
tions
Gillette withstood a searching cross.
examination at the hands of the dis
trict attorney astonishingly well.
When he finally stepped down from
the box he was as calm and unruf6eG
as he was week ago when he sat in
differently all through the courts pro-
ceedings.
Gillette today swore that many of the
things he said and wrote, and which
the prosecution took as the links in its
chain Of evidence, were simply false
moods, concocted for one reason or an
other and that many of the things he
mad done were merely acts of
cowardice.
Did Not Hate Her
to Grace Brown under date of June 25
in which he said he had been to Little
York lake in bathing with some boys
Mr.. Gillette, If you had struck Grace
Brown at Big Moose lake and stunned
her, would you have told the of1icer?''
asked Mr.. Ward
Yes
Gillette asked the district attorney,
IF you struck Grace Brown with that
tennis racquet, would you come here
and tell this jury you did?"
Il cannot say"
did you hate this gir1?" asked the
prosecutor, reading from a number of
letters Grace Brown had sent the de-
fendant in which she complained of his
apparent neglect of her
mo, l did not hate her." answered
Gillette.
May Gaze as He PIeases
Here Gillett for a second diverted his
glance from the jury and Mr.. Ward
shouted: Look at the jury and not at
your COUNSEL
Attorneys Mills and Thomas inter-
posed objection to the district attor-
ney's manner toward the witness, and
the court sustained them, holding that
Mr.. Ward had no right to direct the
witness in his gaze.
When did you first know Grace
Brown was to become a mother?"
asked the district attorney.
81 do not remember"
WAS it in April when she left
Cortland for South Otselic that you
first knew it?'
81 cannot state"
Gillette said his attitude toward the
girl had not changed when her con-
dition became known to him.
Did you still love her?" asked the
district attorney.
al did," answered Gillette with
sharp nod of the head.
Gillette toll his story of Grace
Browns death again today, this time
in response to questions put to him by
prosecutor who picked out every flaw
in the accused young mans testimony
For three hours District Attorney
Ward questioned Gillette, and to the
surprise of everyone in the room Gill
lette was as cool and confident when he
stepped down to go to dinner as he
was when he walked into court this
morning.
Gillette replied in the affirmative
when District Attorney Ward asked him
if he swan to shore and left Grace
Brown to die in the lake.
He Shouted for Help
Witness, describing the girls act in
leaping into the water to her death, said
she jumped from the stern of the boat,
that he shouted for help, that no one
responded and that he tried to find out
how deep the water was there.
did you reach herr"
mo-"
"Yet you say you swan in the Pacific
ocean,"
"I did"
And you did not swim to this girls
aid?"
Il did not"
when she leaped into the water from
the boat, what did you say you did?"
81 reached out my hand toward her,
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