The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1908-04-05
CHESTER GILLETTE
IS ElECTROCUTED
PAYS PENALTY FOR KILLING
SWEETHEART
C0NFEssEs TO GIRLS MURDER
Text of Confession Not Given Out
No Legal Mistake In Electrocu
don-Marched TO His Death I'm
afraid
C0NFEssEs TO GIRLS MURDER
Text of Confession Not Given Out,

Auburn, N Y, March 3o.-Un-
moved and without showing the faint
est sagn of emotion of any kind,
Chester Gillette was put to death in
Auburn prison this morning
The electrocution was the most
successful that ever took place in the
local prison. But one contact was
required to carry the mandates OF the
law into effect, and when that was
over the musderer of Grace Brown
had paid the penalty of his crime.
The electrocution was marked
throughout with celebrity. The man
was declared dead by the officials at
o:I8, brt by the watches held by some
OF the newspaper reporters It was two
minutes after that time when the
warden said 70 The witnesses and at
tendants:
"Gentemen, the physicians an
nounoe that the man is dead
The current was Of 1900 volts at
7I-2 arnperes. and 1t was held on
ONE minute and three seconds. When
this had boen done careful examina-
| tons of the mans heart was made.
| but there was no sign of life.
| The Rev Henry MacIlravy. of
/ Little Falls, who had basn with Gil
lette, was SO oversome at the cleo
/ trocution that he was taken from the
/ death chamber tisfore the contact
was turned off Fearful that nc
would collapse, he started for the
door leading to the prison yard. Keep
ers walk beside him.
| Tire test being finished the word
was given and the door leading from
the death cells was opened. Gilt
walked firmly and looking neither to
the right nor to the left. came brisk
+ " along the rows into the chamber.
On either side OF him was a minists r
of the gospel. Chaplain Herrick on
his right and Rev MacIlravy on his
left
/ Gillette made a confession to his
spiritual advisers. regarding which
tlIy today gave out the following;
t Because orr relationship with
| Chester Gillette was privileged we do
not deem it wise to make a d'-tailesl
statement and simply wish to say
that no legal mistake was made in
his electrocution.
Henry MacIiravy,
/ "Cordeile Hierrick'
Besides the confession Gillette had
word to say to the young men OF
the world his was IN communica
ton that was handed to Warden
Benham last night, in which the nrur-
derer professed Christianity and urg.
ed all to lead pure lives.
i The creme for which Chester E
Gillette was sentenced to fOTfeit his
life in ire electric chair in Aub~rr
prison today was the murder of his
sweetheart, Grace Brown, pn July
II. 1905. Giffstee was convicted or
eireunastansial evidence after sen
sationaI trial, In which the pathetis
love letters of BILLY" Brown as thu
girl was familiarly known among hei
associates, to Gillette. played an ina
Eportant part.
The girl, whb persisted i'll the war
ers OF Big Moose lake. had trustee
Gillette to make amends for th'
wrong he had done hsr by making
: her his wife, and her letters. which
8 were found in the young mans room
after his arrest at Eagle Bay. have
been considered by many as Glass;
in their simplicity and fheir tende
pleading for the right that was he
s. due
The stats theory was that Gillett
u,tek the girl rowing, stunned he
with blow from a tennis racque
/ and threw her body into the SHALLOW
lake, where it was found.
I \