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Prisoner, Well. Coached for Ordeal, Is Cool Under: Questions, BIG THRONG IN COURT. Man Accused of Killing Grace Brown Declares He Meant to Marry Her on Trip. n' some Assthut price! A Yeu, I think I had. ‘The District Attorney then drew from the witness that, he had left most of his belongings to his room in Cortland and had not spoken to anyone of remaining away indefinitely. Gillette said he had $28 when he had set out with Graces Brown,and that when he got to the Arrowheart Inn he had between € 9 and 1it—not enough to pay His hotel—dis cnere. — 1Q. When ‘you set that boat at the Glenmore Hotel did you ask how much it was going to coat? A. No, Y You _didn’t care how much that boat_cost if you stayed out in the lake from 11 o'clock in the morning with dusk? A. I didn’t think much about !t. Q. But when you got to the Arrow head Inn, after Grace Brown was at the bottom of Big Moose, you inquired carefully about how much It would put to remain there? (). But when you got to Arrowhead] that night you thought of It? A. Yes, @. You didn't think of there you[ Ay No, white on the train to Bagis Bay? “A. You were hungry when you got P “Arrowhead and ate a big meal? A. us. Gillette admitted goiag to Seventh Lake to flind the girls on the day after the tragedy. He did not fnd them use til the following day— ———— no You'd forgotten Ma bank the, git you Joved, on the bottom. 4 Moose Awake? A. 1 don't knows 1 dont. think #0. The pria sner admitted going up Bear Mountain with a pay on day, two days after the girls death. At the top of te mountain, he carved his name up in rock and the date ‘July 11,’ pie ce of the tragedy, Lhough It Was then by 19. “The iavntiness, could not explain why, when iid got to the hotel at Seventh Dtike, he had aligned Chester Gillette to the register. His right name, he paid, just occurred to him:Mr. Ward asked, “as the jojtials “C. “and ‘Go aware on Your ‘suit-case, you always selected a home with those vitals, didn't you? You thought if you assed several differ ent names it would be harder to try]! No, I did not, almost enaried the ess . ‘ “Lok here, Gillette,” shouted the Dis trict Attorney, “didn't you take Grace Brown to Dr. Santees, near Léttir Yori Lake, and ask him to perform an o permintion?’ A. NG. .Q. You never took her to any doctor and made the request to have an opera than performed? “A. No. Q. When on Friday you made an en gagement to meet Miss’ Patrick and Misa Hl on the following day didn't you think of the girl you loved who lay Head under the water of Big Moose, lA. I don't know. Q. Did you have a god time with that party on Black Boar Mountain? As bellows I did. Denies Killing Girl. “That's all,” said Mr. Ward, where upon the prisoner brightened up as if he had received a powerful stimulant. But the District Attorney went right back at him. He got from him that he had covered the tennis racquet with dirt to keep it from getting wet. Then Mr. Ward asked. . . Q. When you swam ashore from that boat did you took back out on the luge? A. think 1 did. Q. What did you look back for? A. To see if she was there. tat Q. An a matter of fact a didn't you bring that boat in to shore, 1 her and then take the body out and dump it into ‘the waters A. No. I did not. This ended the defendant’s crass examination. He had been on the stand for eleven hours. Returning to his seat his face wre almost livid and he was rspiring freely. He soon ratired back nto his calm attitude of a mere spec tator, scamaing to take no blasé interest in the testimony of his own witnesses. His counsel made no effort to subject him to re-direct examination. George Steele, a tennis player, testi fied dampness would warp a racquet and break the strings. William Steinberg, an employee at the Gortlang skirt factory, said Grace Brown told him, “If sim going away, and probably wwill never see you again.” Mrs. Eldred dioye, another employee of the factory, testified that just before day went away, on June 19, Grace Brown said: “I hope I will die. I never ant to see the sun rise again. ” JAlage? Sie Mahon, also from the fac tory, had also heard the hopeless Attie girl express wish to fle. Mrs. Eva Wilcox, another factory em had often seen Grace Grown in and #he thad hed her say on occasions hle wished she Was ployee, Teare, many dead.
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New York Evening World
New York, New York, US
Fri, Nov 30, 1906
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