Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-31

| CHAIR WITHOUT TREh0R
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given him the prominence in my
life while | had the opportunity to
work for him. IL could only say
some one thing that would draw Young
men to him would deem It the great
est privilege ever granted me. But all
can say now IL: | know In whom |
have believed and am persuaded that
he is able to keep that which have
committed unto him against that day.
III the young men OF this country
could only know the JOY and pleasure
of Christian lifo | know they would
do all in their power to become car
nest, active Christians and would
strive to live as Christians would have
them live.
There is not one thing have left
undonc which Will bar me from facing
my God. knowing that my sins are
forgiven. for / have lecn free and
frank in my talks with my spiritual
advisor and God knows whore stand.
My task is done. the victory won.
(SiSncd) IS eau'4sa-4tr
CHESTER T. GILLETTE"
Brain Was Normal.
Tho autopsy showed that Gillette
was physically normal. The brain
weighed 81 y ounces.
Mrs. Gillette, mother of Chester.
made a statement today In part as
follows: Though 1t Ia n very hard
thing for me to feel Chester was re-
sponsible for Grace Browns death. vet
1t was tho wish expressed to him con.
tinually by me that ii nc was guilty
he say so before the world, and that
In his triumphant death | feel that
God has answered my dearest wish
and prayer.
And | am also so thankful to know
that he did not strike Grace Brown
rs declared by tho prosecution. A
full account will never be given out
but lie did not strike Grace Brown
History of tho Crime.
The crime for which Chester +.
Gillette was sentenced to forfeit his
life in tho electric chair IN Auburn
prison today, was the murder of his
sweetheart, Grace Brown. near Big
Moose, In the Adlrondacks on July III,
1906. Gillette was convicted on cir.
cumstantial evidence after a scnsa-
tional trial in which the pathetic love
letters of Billy Brown as tho girl
was Familiarity known among her as
sociates. TO Gillette. played an I'M
portant part. The girl who persisted
In the waters of Big Moose lake had
trusted Gillette to make amends for
The wrong he had done her by making
her his wife. and her letters which
were found in the young mans room
after his arrest at Eagle BAY, have
been considered by many as classic In
their simplicity and their tender
pleading for the right that was her
due. 3T
Her last letter to her lover. written
a few days before her fatal trip 10
Big Moose, WAS particularly pathctN.
have been bidding goodbye 10
some places today" she wrote "Thcre
are so many hooks. dear. and all of
| them so dear to me. have lived here
nearly all my life. First, said good :
bye to the spring house with its great
masses of green moss; then the ap-
pie tree. where we had our play
house; then the Beehive, cute lit
lie house in the orchard, and of course
all the neighbors that have mendcd
/ my dresses from little tot up, 10
save ME a thrashing really deserv-
cd r rstI
Was Good Deal of a Rover
Gillette had been more or less of a
rover up to the time he became fore
man in his uncle's shirt factory In
Cortland, n. Y. He had led q some
what gay life, but was given to under
stand upon his arrival In Cortland
that he must canduct himself SO that
his wealthy relatives might at lea 81
recognize him. He soon became in
terested in church work, made many
friends and apparently conducted him.
self with propriety.
Grace Brown was n farmers daurh :
ter from South Otsclic who worked
in the same factory with Gillette. AL
though he did not pay her unusual
attention her companions we're moi
long in recognizing that she was some
! what OF a fayorite with the young
foreman. fIe began to call on her al
the homo of her married sister. VIII,
iivcd in the city, and soon won her
! trust and affection. The girls conf
dence In Gillette and his promise oil
marriage eventually led to her undo
ing and In the summer of 1906 she
went hcmc TO prepare for her we'd
ding which she felt could not long be
postponed. IL was during her stay al
her home In South Otscllc that she
wrote him the remarkable series oil
iettcrs which were found among Gil
lcttc's effects after his arrest.
| Billy's oPltifuI Letter.
In these outpourings of her soul she
0reathed the poigancy OF her sorrow
1 and hnr