Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-30
TINE CRIME or GmI4ErrE.
He Murdered His Sweetheart Rather
Than Amend His Wrongs.

nc hNfuereU Ills sweetheart lktllcr
Than Amend His Wrongs.
Auburn, n. V. March S0.--The crime
for which Chester Il. Gillette was sem
fenced to forfeit his life In the electric
chair in Auburn prison today, was the
murder of his sweetheart, Grace Brown.
near Big Moose. IN the AdirondaclSs on
July H.. 1906, Gillette was convicted on
circumstantial evidence after a sen~
sational trial I'm which the pathetic
love letters OF Billy Brown, as the
girl was Familiarity known among her
associates to Gillette. played an inn
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 We're
round in the young mans room after
his arrest at Eagle Bay, have been con-
sidered by many as classic in their
simplicity and their tender pleading
for the right that was her due.
HER LAST LETTER.
Her last letter to her lover written
a few days before her fatal trip to Big
Moose. was particularly pathetic. Il
have been bidding goodbye to some
places today" she wrote. There are
so many hooks, dear. and all OF them
so dear to me ] have lived here near
~ all my life. First, / said goodbye
masses of green moss then the apple
tree where we had our playhouse; then
the Beehive, a cute little house In
the orchard, and OF course all the
neighbors that have mended my dresses
from n little tot up, to save me a
thrashing / really deserved"
Gillette had been more or less of q
rover up to the time he became fore
man in his uncles shirt manufactory
In Cortland, \. Y. He had led a some
what gay life but was given TO under
stand upon his arrival in Cortland that
he must conduct himself so that his
wealthy relatives might at least recog-
nize him. He soon became interested
In church work, made many friends
and apparently conducted himself with
propriety,
A FACTORY GIRL.
Grace Brown was farmers daugh-
ter from South Otselic. who worked
IN the same factory with Gillette AL
though he did not pay her unusual at
tention, her companions We're not long
In recognizing that she was somewhat
of tavorite with the young foreman.
He began to call on her at the home
of her married sister. who lived in the
city, and soon won her trust and ar
lection. The girls confidence in Gil.
lette and mis- PROMISE OF marriage
eventually led TO her undoing. and in
tilt SUMMER OF lsvb she went nome TO
prepare for her wedding, which she felt
could not long be postponed. It was
during her stay at her home in South
Otselic that she wrote him the re-
markablc series of letters which were
found among Gillette's effects after his
arrest.
In these outpourlngs of her soul she
breathed the poignancy Of her sorrow
and her sweetness Of gIrlish youth
faith and self-sacrifice We're ever APP
parent. In her misery she pleaded with
her lover 10 come to her saying tina.
she had been brave but was beginning
To feel discouraged In spite of her
suffering she thought first of all of
him, and how she might lessen any
burden that he was destined to bear.
LONESOME FOR HIM.
II am as lonesome for you as-Oh.
rs ! thought I'd be. / don't believe
soon after her arrival home. 81 did
not think all the home folks would be
so glad to see me. They ate me up,
and II you ever have thought ] was
spoiled dear l don't know what you
win think Of me when l get back. You
OR any one else won't be able to do
anything with me"
A few days later she WROTE 81 |
have done nothing but cry since | got |
here II you We're only here / would |
not feel so badly. ! do try to be |
brave, dear, but how can / when every
thing goes wrong? / can't help think
ing you viii never come for me, but |
then ] say you can't be so mean as
that, and besides, you told me you
would come and you have never dis
appointed me when you said you would
not"
Chester. there isn't a girl In the
world as miserable as ! am tonight"
Ul n haH axf 1af taf 1
have made me feel So Chester, / don't
mean that, dear; you have always been
aWfully good to me and / know YOU
will always be. You Just won't be
a coward, ] know. You must write
moro often, please. and, dear when
you read my letters. II you think am
please do not mind Il.
but do think am about crazy with
grief ana that l don't know just what
70 do
HBR GIRL FRIEND
In her next letter she told Of receiving
a letter from girl friend. This girl
seemed TO be having an awfuly good
time and she guessed that my coming
home had done you good AS you had
not seemed 40 cheerful IN weeks.
should have known, Chester. that you
lid not care Tor me. But somehow I
nave lIuNlfu you more tllhN anyone |
Else. Perhaps you don't think on you
ant help making me greve, but wish
hings We're different You may SAY you
10, too, but you can't possibly wish
So more than J. / have been very
lraye since | came home. but tonight
am very discouraged. Chester. n
.ould only die. know how you feel
bout this affair and | wish for your ,
AXE you need not be troubled n /
IL hope YOU can then be happy /
The GOODNESS OF Gilette's replies 10 :
he girl's ferVent pleadings caused her =
o say in her next l.tteT
HIS COLD LETTER.
81 was glad to hear from you aud y
lrprised as well. ! thought YOU would q
ither have my letters affectionate but S
ours was so buslness-like that l have a
pine 10 the conclusion that YOU wish Il
llnG To be that way, l may tell you. G
lough, that 1 am not a business wom-
nd 80 presume thai those letters will u
OF satisfy You any more than the :
hers did. i think naTdOn ma that 1 |