The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-02

II You were only here O no feel
so badly. / do try to be brave dear.
blu how can I when everything goes
wrong? l ant help thinking you will
never come for me, but then I say you
can't be so mean as that, and besides
you told me o would com and you
have never disappointed me when you
said o would not"
Chester, there isn't a girl In the
world as miserable as / am tonight"
She wrote in her next letter, and you
have made me feel so. Chester, Z don't
mean hat dear: you ave always been
aWfully good to me and / know you
viii always be. You just won't be a
coward, | know You must write more
often, please, and, dear, when you read
my letters, if you think am
able, please do not mind 1t, but do
hin / am about crazy with grief and
that / don't know just what to do
In her next letter she old of receiv-
ing a letter from a girl friend. This
girl wrote me- she said. that you
seemed to be having an awfully good
time, and she guessed that my coming
home had one you good as you had
no seemed so cheerful in weeks.
/ should have known, Chester, that
you did not care for me. But somehow
j have trusted you more than anyone
else. Perhaps you don't think or you
can help making me grieve, but I
wish things We're different. You may
say o do too. but you can't possibly
| wish 50 more than I. + have been
very brave since ] came home. but to-
could only die. l know how you feel
about this affair and I wish for our
sake you need not be troubled. II I
die 1 hope you can then be happy"
His Letters Cool.
The GOODNESS of Gillette's replies to
the girls fervent %pleadings caused her
to say In her next letter:
,T 4 l--u
surprised as well. 1 thought you would
rather hav my letters affectionate, but
yours was so business-like hat I have
come TO the conclusion that you wish
mine to be that way. l may tell you,
though, that I am not a business wom-
an so presume that these letters will
not satisfy you any more than he
others did. / think, pardon me, that /
understand my position and that 1t is
rather unnecessary for you to to be as
I can see my position as keen as any
one, ! think. You say you We're sur
prised. out you thought l would be dis
couraged. 1 don't see why / should not
be discouraged. What words have l
had from you since l came home to en-
courage me-"
Then, further along in the same let
ter, the girls spirit of self-sacritice
asserted itself and she wrote:
Chester, i don't suppose you will
ever know nov / regret being all this
trouble to you. l know you hate me
and l can't blame you one bit. OF
course, it's worse for me h for you.
but the world and you. too, may hin
/ am the one to blame, but somehow
] can't, just simply can't hin that I
am. Chester.
My little sister came up just a
minute ago With her hands full OF
daisies and asked me If l didn't want
my fortune told. | told her l guessed
II was pretty we'll told now
Meeting Arranged.
Plans were arranged by letter for a
meeting at DeRuyter and Gillette Sc
cured leave of absence from the fac
tory. He arrived at DeRuyter on the
evening of July s and registered at a
hotel as Charles George. The next day
Grace Brown left South Otselic osten-
sibly for Cortland. but changed cars
for Utica at DeRuyter, where she was
Joined by Gillette. On the journey to
Utica Gillette did not share the seat
with Billy" but chatted with other
girls on the train from Cortland and
made an appointment TO meet them
later in the week at Eagle Bay. AT
Utica Gillette registered Grace Brown
and himself as Charles Gordon and
wife, New York. They left the next
morning. Gillette did not pay his bill,
but directed that some laundry which
he had left behind be sent by express
to Eagle Bay.
IL Mtilt- w Iuppsi La he rex
istering at a boarding house there as
Charles George and Wife. New York.
While at Topper Lake Gillette inquired
for a quiet lake and Grace Brown threw
herself into the arms of a maid who
had brought her a glass of water, and
burst into tears.
On the morning of July IL the couple
retraced their journey to Big Moose.
Where Gillette registered at the Glen
more as Charles Graham, Albany, and
y nm tho navf limo an, tIo ,,fcfo, ,-,.. T..
the girls correct name and address.
Gillette inquired for a good place to
take pictures and securing "a boat rowed
away over the blue waters of the lake.
Gillette carried a suit case. me and
tennis racquet. The girls bagsas had
been checked to Old Forge and she left
some OF her wraps and hat at the hotel,
Late that night, Gillette appeared at
the on Eagle Bay. II miles
from Big Nose. He had walked through
the woods. carrying the suit case and
camera, but the tennis racquet was mis-
sing. His clothing and baggage We're
dry. The next day he went on an ex-
cursion with the young women from
meet.
Alarm was felt in Big Moose over
the failure or Gillette to return with
the boat he had rented and search was
made the next day. The boat @as
found floating bottom UP near shore i1
a secluded part of the lake. with a
Wonlan's wrap spread over the bottom.
The lake was dragged and the body OF
Grace Brown was found about 800 feet
from the shore. Gillette subsequently
was arrested at Eagle Bay on July ii.
Gillette's Story.
Inc trial began at Herkimer al q
special term of the supreme court on
November II, 1906, and on December
; gillette was found guilty of murder
IN the first degree and sentenced to
1 GeI1n Tho nrnSa1ttiN,,
chain OF evidence which the defense
was unable TO break down. Gillette. VINO
testified. denied none of the evidence
except the actual killing of the girl
He said she had urged him to marry
her but that he was not in a position
to do so at that time as he had but
scant means and his marriage would
mean the loss of his position in the
factory. He said the girl arose In the
boat, declaring hat she would end the
matter then and there, and leaped over
board. The boat was overturned. he
claimed, and although he made efforts
to save the girl from drowning he was
unable to clio so. The evidence showed
that the water was but a few feet deep.