_ 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
: ~
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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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.
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