_ Best of Everything Sayre. ALEX D. STEVENS, INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. TOWNER, M.D. AL A LIAR AND COWARD State Attorney Ward Makes Gillette Admit It. SAYS HE LEFT GRACE BROWY T0 DIE In Herkimer Trial Defense Rests Its Case—Prisoner Cool and Calm at End of Ordeal-Did Not Mur. der Grace Brown. HERKIMER, N. Y., Dee. 1L—Chester Gillette calmly resumed his seat on the witness stand prepared to stick to bis story that Grace Brown, who be is alleged to have slain and left in Big Moose lake, died the death of a sui- cide, There was a big crowd at the court- house, much larger than the spacious Courtroom and its okl fashioned gal lery were capable of sccommaodatiog, People flocked to Herkimer by train, trolley and farm wagon. Immediately on the resumption of the trial Gillette took the stand, seat Ing himself carefully and comfortably and looking intently at his counsel. District Attorney Ward cautioned Gil- lette that he must face the jury when answering questions. “Gillette,” asked the district attor- ney, “if you struck Grace Brown with that tennis racket, would you come bere and tell this jury you did” “I cannot say.” “Did you hate this girl?" asked the prosecutor, reading from a number of letters Grace Brown bad sent the de- fendant in which she complained of bis apparent neglect of her. “No, I did not hate her.” answered Gillette. Here Gillette for a second diverted his glance from the Jury, and CHESTER GILLETTE. AMlr. Ward shouted, “Look at the Jury and not at your counsel’ Attorneys Mills aud Thomas jumped to their feet to interpose objection to the dis trict attoroey’'s manver towand the witness aud court sustained them. Taking up the matter of Gillette hay- ing received a letter from Grace Brown iu which she referred to his contemplated visit to Deruyter pre- vious to their departure for the Adl- rondacks lo July, the witness denied he was ashamed or feared to be seen with the girl there “Dida’t you waut the girl to go to Hamilton with yon?" “1 don’t know; I believe she wanted to go to Hawliton." “Did you know any ope fu Hamil ton?" “1 did pot.” “She bad relatives there, did she not?’ “I belleve she did.” “Then you wanted her to meet you In Hamilton, where she was known, but where you were not known, and start from there to the Adirondacks lustead of from Deruytter?” “I cannot state.” “When did you first know she was to become a mother?” “1 do not remember,” “Was it in April when she left Cort- land for South Otselic that you first knew jt “1 canoot state” Gillette sald be gid not remember baving been accused by Grace Brown of belug the father of her unborn child and declared his altitude toward the girl had not changed from the time he accomplished Ler ruin In October untl} April, when she first discovered her condition of pregnancy. “Did you still love her?’ asked the district attorney. “I did,” answered Gillette, with a sharp nod of the head. “When you went away with Grace Brown you inteaded remaining away from Cortland, did you wot?” “Yea” Gillette stated that when he departed from Cortland he Jeft everything in his room undisturbed and sald nothing to bis landlady about not coming back, The distriet attorney went luto a long series of questions on the subject of witness’ financial condition at the time be started for the Adirondacks and asked him if he had planned to use the girl's own money in making away with ber, inasmuch as his own purse was rather depleted, Gillette answered “No” Iu a deter mined tone. Gillette was shown the films that he 0m bis Journey through amine you any further on didn't you?” “I cannot state” “Now, whose picture Is this which 1 show you and which You swore had not been developed 7” “It's a picture of Miss Harriet Bene dict of Cortland.” Gillette identified a number of arti cles which had been found In his suit case, and the district attorney pressed him at length regarding the reason for his taking bis overcoat, umbrella and tennis racket along on his boat ride with Grace Brown. He sald he took the overcoat along because be thought Grace might need it, although it was a hot July afternoon. When questioned about his straw hat, which was found with the lining torn out floating on the lake near the overturned boat, Gillette said the iin. Ing had been torn out of bis hat sev eral months before the tragedy and that he had not sought to hide his iden. tity by tearing it out before starting on bis walk through the woods to Eagle bay. “Well, you expected something to bappen out there on the lake that day, didn’t you?’ “No: 1 did pot.” Gillette said that after getting out of the water where Grace Brown met death and after changing his clothes he took a soft hat out of his suit case and put It on his head in place of the straw hat he left iu the wnter. He de nied strenuously, however, having pro- vided this soft lat for just such an emergency. Glllette was asked about his trip through the woods to Eagle bay and as to the prevalence of flies and punkies. “There were no flies or punkies on the lake?” “No.” “But you stayed in the brush on shore for an hour reading “Yes. “Where the flies were?” “Yes” District Attorney Ward enumerated the value of the suit case, umbrella and tennis racket and other articles Gillette sald he left ashore while he and the girl continued their row about the lake a short time before the girl Went to her death and asked Gillette If be wasn't afraid they would Le stolen. Defendant sald he considered the articles safe enough Gillette stated that bis version of the tragedy as narrated to Undersheritr Klock a few minutes after his arrest to the effect that the affair was an ac cident and-that he had tipped the boat picking pond lilies was a Jie “Now, did your attorneys tell you to tell a different story than the one you told Undersheriff Klock 7" “They did. They toll me to tell the truth.™ Witness, describing the girl's act In leaping into the water to her death, sald she jumped from the stern of the boat, that he shouted for help, that no one responded and that he tried to find out how decp the water was there. “Did you try to reach her 7’ “NG. "” “Yet you say you swam In the Pa. cific ocean?” “1 44." “And you didu't swim to this girl's alg “1 did not.” “When she leaped into the water from the boat what did you say she did? “I reached out my hand toward her; then the boat tipped over.” “And you, who had SWum In the lakes lu Washington and in the Pacific ocean, left Grace Hrown there without swimming to her ald? “I dia.” Robert Clements, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Cortland, sald be had met Gillette frequently, “His reputation was good, and his character was good,” sald the witness. “Do you know what hls character was?" asked Mr. Ward. “What do you mean by charactert’ “I mean what he did by hls own de- sire when the cyes of the public were on him. Did you know he was the lover of Grace Brown?" “No. that point, and three times a day on Sunday “Yes” Sherif Klock was recalled to the stand to tell about couversations had with Gillette at the time of the defend. anut's arrest “Did Gillette tell you that Grace Brown hung to one end of the boat and he to the other and that Le told ber to bang on and he'd try to work the boat ashore + asked Mr, Ward, The question was changed sowe- what Iu form, and the witness was al lowed to answer, “I asked him first if they both weut out one side of the boat,” Mr. Klock began, He was Interrupted Ly an objection by Mr. Thomas, The objection was ov erruled, “He sald the boat upset, and she went out luto the water,” sald Mr Klock. “He sald she came up apd hung ou to the other end, and he told her to hang on, and be'd Iry to get her to shore.” Mr. Klock said he asked Gillette about his umbrella and tennis racket, and the youug man replied that the umbrella was sticking up In the Eround, and the tennis rac ket, hie sup- posed, was on the lake. Gillette went through the ordeal of Cross examination without wavering In the slightest degree In his testimony A to the actual death scene on Big Moose lake. Ié sat with legs cromved and coolly to Ward's ques OPERATOR MISSING. C. D. Mattoax Is Blamed For Southern Railway Disaster, PRESIDENT SPENCER'S OBSEQUIES. em lavestigation of Accident nt Lawyers Depot, Va. Shows that Block Sys- tem, by Which Traine Were Raw, Is Not Infallible. LYNCHBURG, Va_ Dec 1. ~The ter- rible accident near Lawyers depot on the Southern Pacific, in which Presi. dent Samuel Spencer, General Philip Schuyler and five others lost their lives, Is declared by a Southern rail way official to be due to the block tele graph rules being disregarded by Op- erator C. D. Mattoax, who was In charge of the might trick at the block : ~ / Yi l { SAMUEL SPENCER station at Rangoon, four miles uorth of the scene of the wreck and the first station north of Lawyers depot Assistant General Superintendent E A. Coapman of the company gave out the followlug statement: “Investigation so far made of the ac. cident develops the fact that Operator Mattoax at Rangoon Jet train No. 33 into the block aud, disregarding the rules, falled to notify the operator at Lawyers depot of this fact When the first section of train No 37, the Wash Ington and Southwestern vestibuled limited, approached Rangoon Operator Mattoax asked the operator at Law- yers for the block on No. 37. This was given by the operator nt Lawyers, who did not know that No 33 bad gone in upon the block “No. 33 broke down at the south end of a curve and as soou as the train stopped the flagman ran back to pro- tect his train. As far as we can learn the flagman had proceedal about 300 yards when No. 37 was in view on the curve. Engineer McKinney saw the signal and applied the emergency brake, but Le did not have time to leave his seat before the collision took place. “An luspection of the telegraph sheets lu each of the block stations substantiates this belief. The sheat at Rangoon shows that No. 83 Was given the block by Operator Mattoax, and the sheet at Lawyers shows that Mat. toax had not notified the operator there that No, 33 was on the block and entitled to It “A fuller luvestigation will be made as speedily as possible, but we do not expect to develop additional facts The compauy Las n number of wen scouring the country In the Lope of locating Operator Mattoax, but up to a late hour we Lave [wen unable to as certain absolutely anything us to his whereabouts." The death of William Walter Pollary, the negro porter lu President Spencer's private car, and J. W. Staw. the negro fireman, both of whom died In the city hospital here, hus swelled the death list to seven la all. The latest word from the hospital regandiog the Injured In dicated that all of them are doing nice- Iy and probably will recover The scene of the wreck is ten wiles south of Lyuclhburg. The work of been removed. The escape of BE. A. Merrill of New York, private secretary to Mr. Spencer, the only survivor In the party on the private car save for a porter, was miraculous. The Injuries be sustained are not serfous, aud he will be able to leave the city hospital here probably by the first of the week. The funeral of President Spencer will take place at St. John's church Washington, at 2 o'clock tomorrow art ernoon, Rev. Roland C. Smith, the rector, officiating. The body will be in terred at Washington, aud the burial service will be private, For five minutes during the funeral hour, beginning promptly at 2 o'clock. every train and all machinery of the entire Southern rallway system will be at a standstill ws a mark of respect to the late president, The active palibearers wil consist of ten of the oldest negro porters In the service of the Southern. This list will not be made public until tomor- row. The bonorary pallbearers will Include the vice presidents and offi cials of the road, J Plerpont Morgan and other prominent finan lers of New York, Prominent Woman Hid Rebels, EL PASO, Tex, Dee 1 Mrs, Marla Ponce de Gonzales, an prominent wom- an of Juarez, has been arrested In Juarez charged with barboring revo lutionista. Mer husband recently was revolutionist, and she is TEN CROOKS BREAK JAIL. Convicts Saw a Way to Liberty at Leng Island Clty. NEW YORK, Dee 1.—Ten of the most desperate prisoners in the Quecns county Jail at Long Island City escap- ed from that justitution and are stil) at large The first four prisoners to get out sawed the bars of their cells and of the window opening auto the corridor of the fail at 220 a. 1p Once in the yard they had ouly to climb a fence aud they were free. The four leaders were August Schram, charged with highway robbery; John Leonard and Thomas Simmette charged with bar glary, and Alexander Templeton, charg- ed with larceny The absence of the men and sawing of the bars of the doors and windows Were unnoticed when the keepers opened the cell doors and allowed the other prisoners ig the corridor at 6 o'clock. Six other prisoners immed! ately crawled through the hole In the window They were Moses Nebel, Martin Toffey, Fred Keller, James Singleton, Thowas Messell aud Charles Smith. The delivery was not discovered un- til 7 o'clock, when an alarm was spread and a reward was offered for the recapture of the prisoners Queens county jall officials Say that the saws by which the prisoners sev- ered the bars to their cells were smug gled ato the Jail in the clothing worn by Alexander Templeton’s baby. The child was taken to the Jall to visit its father on Sunday. The officers neg- lected to search its clothing, though that of other visitors was Inspected. Templeton was held for extradition to New Jersey ————— NEW YORK WON HANDILY. Four Favorites and Two Strong Cholces Took Money at Bennings. WASHINGTON, Dec 1.— Beautiful weather and an excellent card attract. ol an unusually large attendance at the Benniungs races Tie Southern steeplechase baving falled to till, the feature of the cand was the Amateur cup, a Ligh weight selling race for three-year olds amd upwanl, the horses to be ridden by officers of the army, HAVY, warine corps or by members of recognized clubs. New York. the fa vorite, won handily, He was admira bly ridden by Mr. Weight Quadrille, which had many support ers, went out ju frunt as the barrier rose, but he bad shot his holt by the time the stretel was read hed. He last being beaten out of the place by Nib lick, piloted by Mr. Dion Kerr Four favorites and two strong choices won. Jockey Miller had five mounts and rode three winners, one second and one third. Summaries First Race ~Temmeraire, first: Zie Nap, second; Belle Strome, thing. Second Race —Caboc bon, first; York- Ist, second; Old Colony, thin Third Race —New York, first: Nib- lick, =econd; Quadrille, third. Fourth Race Clolsteress, first: Wa terbearer, second: How About You third I'iftth Race ~Avaunteer, first; Luret ta, second; Reldmoore, third Sixth Race —Cederstrome, first: Lord of the Vale, secoud: Pater third. English Boat Clubs Decline. LONDON, Dec. 1 The Standard this morning declares that the Oxfonl and Cambridge boat clubs have decld- ed to decline the luvitation to row at the Jamestown exposition in 1907— first, on account of expense, aud, sec ond, because there i a stroug feeling here that the Americans should estab lish a big regatta of thelr own, similar to Henley, where foreign crews might vinpete Toronto University Beat New Jersey. NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-In the series of socker football, which is of interna tional interest, only one game of Im portance was played at Livingston, N. Y., and that was the meeting of the University of Toronto men with a plek- ed team from New Jersey. The Cana- diaus simply played all around thelr opponents, scoring 7 goals to 0 Nebo, Heavily Backed, Was Fourth. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1. — At the Falr grounds here Rebo, a 2 to 3 fa. vorite Iu the third race and heavily backed at that price, was defeated by Beecher and finlshed fourth ———— Combine Agninast Standard O11 NEW YORK, Dec 1 —-William I. Libby of the foreign department of the Standard Ol company gave out a Statement here concerning the great foreigu venbinations agiinst the Statuland Mr. Libby points out that the Royal Dutch wlpany of The Hague aud the Shell Fmnsport and Trading company of London have re cently announced their amalgamation, one of their pring ipal objects being to control the petrolenm Industry of the Datch Indies, nnd that in Germany a holding company has recently been cre ated for the purpose of dominating the sale of Russian and Ronmanian petro leum Plitsburg Garage Destroyed. PITTSBURG, Dev. 1.- Fire In an an tomoblle garage in the cast end last night caused a loss of about $2560 before It was under control The tire Was started by the dropping of an in Hght hull, which when it fell from the socket caused the spark that ignited the fumes from gnsoline being wsed In cleaning several cars stored in the garage candescent I —————————. Sociol BEdoeation Congress Opens. 3 y N, Dec. 1; fe A NECROESTO AIDTHEN New York, Philadelphia and Chicago to Keep Soldiers. COLORED MEX OF THREE CITIES I¥ IT Pastor of Sew York Chureh Tells of Plans to Appeal President Hoose- velt's Dismlasal of Twenty Ath Infantry Men. NEW YORK. Dec 1 Negroes in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, working together, plan to bring to each of the three cities one company of the discharged soldiers of the Tweunty-Arl infantry The New York contingent will be cared for by the colored people of this City under the direction of the Const. tutional league The other two Companies are to be provided for by members of thelr race In Philadelplila and Chie AKO resp tively. Rev. Dr. Ww. H Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's church, New York, in ad- witting the truth of this arrangement sald that the purpose was to keep the discharged soldiers together and care for them pending thelr appeal to Wash. ington. In each of the cities a fund of $1.00 Is being ralsed by contributions of ne RTroes Word has been eeived from Gil christ Stewart, the wloral lawyer at Fort Reno, that he Is making gow Progress in securing depositions to sup port the appeal of the soldiers for ree statement, Speaking of the plan to keep the ne- B10 companies together, Dr. Brooks sald: “We negroes want to carry out this plau alone. We do not crave white as. sistance, and we are not soliciting from white pocketbooks, We feel intensely that an injustice has been done and, while we hold with all decent people, that If any member of those companies was gullty of crime be should be pun shed, many whites agree with us, | Lave reason to know “We are not Kolng to get together to denounce President Roosevelt. We are Ruling to attack his action, though, In dismissing these troops, as we fee] he acted without a bearing and without basis of proof of wrongdoing.” —————————— Four Union Labor Men ¢ onfess, CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—-Sex rets of the International Brotherhood of Team sters of the United States are to be | given to the public In a Chicago court |8s a result of the confessions of guilt [by four codefendents of Cornelius P | Shea, president of the organization. | who, together with sixteen other mem- | bers of the union, were placed on {trial for conspiracy to perpetrate riot [ous mets during a tenmsters’ strike In Chicago a year ago. In court four of {the defendents, led by Albert Young, | formerly president of the internations) { brotherhom] aud now the bead of a rival organization of teamsters, plead ed guilty and declared they would turn [states evidence —————— Not Vor Forty Trials, Says MeCarren NEW YORK, Dee 1 Senator Pat rick H. McCarren, leader of the Kings county Democracy, who, with others, {13 to be given a hearing shortly by a | subcommittee of the state Democratic | Colutnittee on charges of having failed | to properly support the head of the state ticket iu the re ent election, has returned from a western tour Asked whether he had shortened his trip be- cause of the approaching hearing, Sen. ator McCarren sald: “No, not a bit of it. I would wot have shortened my trip for forty such trials. This was the date originally set by me to return to Brooklyn, and I aw here.” ———————— Otto Young, Milllonntre, Dead. CHICAGO, Dec. 1.--Otto Young, one of the leading financiers of this city, Is dead at Lake Geneva, Wis, after an lliness of about one month. Mr. Young was born In Germany in 1844 and came to this country In 1850 After residing for a time iu New York and later In New Orleans he came to this city in 1872 and established a whole- sale Jewelry business. He was a dl rector in several large banks. one of the largest holders of real estate in the city, and his wealth is estimated At several millious ———————————— Hoosevelt Saye Pettingill Mast Go. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec 1} -A cablegrain Las been received here from President Roosevelt directing the re woval from office of Noah RB K. Pet Hogi, United States district attorney for Porto Rico. DiYing the prestdent’s absence ou his Panama trip Attorney General Moody received an Answer to the charges of gross misconduct in of- fice from Mr Pettingill, but this wns not satisfactory to Mr Moody or the president, and the Iatter directed that dismissal follow —————————— i Plan Flying Destroyers WASHINGTON, Dec 1 The Unit. ed States Is not to be behind France lu the matter of a sky navy. The gov ernment has opened negotiations with the Wright Brothers of Dayton, O. for the exclusive right to their fying wa chine. Uncle Sam's sky navy will be armed with an explosive more deadly than lyddite, jovite or dynaniite New British Attache. LONDON, Dec. 1. — Major BRB. R. James of the royal Warw!ckshire regl. ment has been appointed military at. tache to the British embassy at Wash. ington fn succession to Licutenant Colonel A. BE. Glelehen. PRICE ONE Snappy ——=—FOR —— Shrewd Shopper Boys’ Iron Hosiery at 15 Estra heavy made by famous Ipswitch mills apd : saled at $2 12} per doz. or about 18¢ the pair. Au carly purchase made from tke mill ding to sizes. day and Monday I5¢, BE — A 25¢ white Jersey ribbed cover 17¢ each or 3 for 50c. Soc quality, extra heavy, 30¢. Boys’ Heavy Underwear [ 5c ment to chooses last Saturday, 15¢ each. Ladies’ Best Wool for 7 The famous $1.00 garment “Pp of Lackawanna equal to any $1.0 Special 70¢. ‘ wool garment made. Fleeced Underwear Wesell H, KE. D, underwear fo 25c. 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