-TRANSAGTED. WW BUILDING, X19 DESMOND 87, D. STEVENS, AND REAL ESIATE. Woman and of the Restum, am, lwiTolipn 5 Herkimer Jury Says He Killed Ste His Sweetheart. VERDICT CARRIES DEATH SENTENCE Tragedy of Big Moose Lake In Which Yeung Factory Girl, Grace Brown, Lost Her Lite—Murder In First Degree. HERKIMER, N. Y, Dec. 5.—The Jury In the trial of Chester E. Gillette for the munder of his sweetheart, Grace Brown, gt Big Moose Jake last aight returned a verdict of guilty in the first degree. Sentence will be prenounced : tomor- row morning, to which time court ad- Journed after the jury had reported, Former Senator Mills, Gillette's coun- sel, before adjournment announced that when court reconvened he would move to have the verdict set aside. The jury, which had deliberated for five hours, sent word at 11 o'clock that a verdict had been reached. A moment later they filed Into the court. room, aml at 11:15 o'clock an officer who had been seut for Gillette return. el with the prisoner, Pale aud a trifle nervous apparently, Gillette faced the jury, and when Mar- shall Hatch, the foreman, declared that a verdict of guilty in the first de- gree had been found the youthful pris. oner gave not a sign of emotion. A few momeais Iater. when his tounsel bad announced his purpose of making a formal motion that the verdict be set aside and the judge was dismissing the jurors, Gillette bent over a nearby table aud, picking up a pencil, wrote something upon a sheet of paper. He then folded the paper earefully and placed it in his pocket. Immediately afterward he was takeu from the courtroom back to his cell In the jail, It was learned that the jury bad some difficuity in reaching an agree- ment, and six ballots were taken be fore the twelve men agreed Up to that time the jury had stood eleven for conviction and one for acquittal, The case was given to the jury at 5:50 o'clock last night, after Judge Dev. endorf had occupied an hour and fif- teen minutes in bis charge. He dealt with the points of law Involved and instructed the jurors to consider the evidence from a legal standpoint and not to be influenced by sentiment. The session untill the judge's charge had been taken up by District Attor ney Ward, who described the friend. ship of Gillette and Grace Brown and their companionship up to the time of the girl's death in Big Moose Jake, For the first time during the trial the youthful prisoner broke down as he was mercilessly scored by the prose. cutlon, For some time he glared deflantly at the district attormey, but when the latter read abstracts from the letters sent Gillette by his sweetheart the prisoner burst into tears and at times throughout the remainder of the seés- sion sobbed convulsively. When the jury went to its room and Gillette was led back to his cell be asked the deputy, “Are the doors all locked, sheriff * He apparently feared violence, but there was no evidence of any such intention on the part of the big crowd that swarmed the court: rooiu. The chief features of Judge Deven- dor’s charge were as follows: “Gentlemen of the Jury—The duty each of you Lave assumed is an Im- portant one, not a higher or more sa- cred duty than that of a juror Is known to our civilization. A citizen should not shriok from jury duty, but should be as faithful to respond to the performance of that duty as he should be to take hold of a rifle in defense of his country. “To all concerned this is a case of great importance. To the defendant it is of vast importance because his life or liberty haugs on the fssue. To the people It is of Infinitely mare lmpor- tance because the good order of the community and the safety and life of its citizens depend upcn the faithful sdministration of justice. “It is Important to the people that crime should be punished where crime is proved to Lave been committed and that the law of the state, the bulwark of our safety, should not be unheeded. “For the manuer in which you dis- charge that duty you are amswerable to your consciences as well as to that oath in all its sanctity, You have no right to be Influenced or controlled by anything but the evidence as it has been presented to you and the law governing it as given to yon by the court, "Something bas been sald with ref- erence to the motive. Proof of mo- tive of crime Is not Indispensable or essential to conviction, While a mo- tive may be shown as a circumstance to ald in Gxiug a crime, yet the people Are not required to prove a motive, The motive in this case ls sakl by the people to be because of the relations that existed between this man and this girl. Now, whether the sitnation In which he was placed furnished a mo tive sufliclent for him to commit this crime rests with the jury to say. “The defendant in all cases may tes tify.a8 a witness in his own behalf, but the jury may use thelr discretion in regard to bis testimony, as bo Is an ty. It is the duty of the -— whether it gives him the liberty and freedom which he seeks. Tn “i caution you to put aside any feel- Ings of favor or sympathy and In the closing hour of your labor to do your duty as you see it. The fact that the indictment was found against the de- fendant raises no presumption agalast bim—Iin other wonds, the trial of this case sfarts along in this court with the presumption of Innscence In favor of the defendant. “Now, none of us was present on the 11th of July where it is sald this crime occurred. The evidence that Grace Brown lost her life at Big Moose lake admits of vo doubt, but there is no tes- timouy on the part of the people as to an eyewitness as to what occurred at the fatal moment other than the de feadant to detail the last scene in the alleged tragedy “But all evidence is, however, in a strict sense more or less circumstantial, whether consisting of facts which per. mit the Inference of the guilt or wheth- er given by an eyewitness, The testi: mony of an eyewitness Is of course based upon circumstances “If any of the material facts of a case were at variance with the proba. bility of guilt It woukl be the duty of the jury to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt raised.” At Mr. Mills' request the court told the jury to disreganl what Mr. Wand sald about Gillette having ravaged Grace Brown, about bis being a man of the type that reaches out for young girls and ruins them, the district at. torney’s quotation from Shakespeare about “the dagger” and the district at- torney’s claim that Gillette's lawyers concocted the story he told on the stand When District Attorney Ward resuin- ed Lis summing up he pictured Gillette as a base decelver and heartlesg mur. derer, ridiculing the theories advanced by Mr. Mills for the defense. The prosecutor ridiculed the theories advanced by Me. Mills that if Gillette had been planoing to commit warder be woukin't have traveled on a rall road train sud be wouldn't have pur- chased a mileage book. “Of course, no one who commits nwunder ever rides on a raliroad or ever buys nn mileage book,” lie sneered. Then he ridiculed the idea that Gillette was a were boy. “Why, this poor, fragile boy, who carried a rowhoat for three-quarters of a mile on his shoulder; he, a poor, frag. ile boy, who couldn't pull a 100 pound girl out of the water. A poor, lnexpe rienced boy—he, who had traveled all over the west and who had lived in Chicago among its rottenness and wick. edness; he, who had traveled on the tops of the freight cars—he is the poor, inexperienced boy. “He got next to the minister, he got uext to the college professor so that he could say, ‘Gentlemen, 1 am your equal and your peer’ That was the robe by which be fooled the public. It wasu't the jury Le was trying to fool; it wne the world. Did that minister friend of his In all that time make one attempt to rescue that girl from this villain's grasp’ “Gentlemen, this man denied that be kept company with this girl. When his uncle asked him if he was going with the girl he said he had called on her once by accident. If it had become known how be was ruining that girl under her sister's roof, his cousin and his workmates would have wrung his worthless neck.” District Attorney Ward said that Mr, Mills was wholly unjustifial in excus- fug Glllette's Immoral couduct, saying every self respecting person would have shuoned him aod closed thelr doors to him had they known. “He wanted to stay in Cortland, lu society.” sald Mr. Ward. "He uever intended, never for a mowent, to take Grace Brown anywhere except to Ler death. He concocted a plan to rid him- welt of her, one far less evil than Lis first to rob her of virtue. That girl received her deathblow, I am sure, with a grateful heart, cut there In the woods saying. "Go home” He did not go to ber as a lover nnd take her to a minfs- ter, but sald, “I'll take a vacation later, and then U'll take care of you" And he did. “The hand of God guides the tougue of the murderer to his own undolbg, and Providence acted here. Gillette asked Grace at the botel when he saw ber talking to another gicl, ‘Did you tell her 1 was here? “Grace Brown tried to reach Gil lette's stony heart-—n heart us cruel as that of the wolf that met Little Red Riding'Tood. Heart? Sympathy” He knows pothing of them.” Of the letter where Grace Brown said, “1 said 'No' s0 many times, but the world will never know 11," Mr Ward said, “The world does kuow It, little girl, even if you had to sacrifice Your life beneath the faugs of this monster to let the world find it out. “There was never a lewd thouglt in this girl's mind. She was as innocent the day she died as when she was bern. “The counsel said she was like the paramoiur-one who walked the streets ~that poor little wild flower, that In- nocent child! A paramour! What fiend of bell put that word In his mouth i" The trouble taken by Gillette to cou cenl his identity when he was away with Grace Brown was prominently displayed by the district attorney, “If stie were a lewd girl, wold she ave begged permission of him to fell : EET : z of Gillette and Miss Brown revealed four things—that Le induced her to leave Cortland so ber condition would not become Lnowna there, next that he premised he would come for her and take her away to a distant point to marry, that she must Keep secret the fact that Chester Gillette was going away with her and also that she ex pected to go away amd keep house “Did Gillette say to Ler in Cortland she would not have to go away again except as his wedded wife? [ler let ters say so," Mr. Ward said. “Yon must come Saturday, dear.’ If you do not come [ will do something des perate.’ He did not want her to do anything desperate—to tell hor father’ Mr. Wand carried Gillett» through his story about an accident to the hoat on the ke snd sald the aceused was carefully coached on his tale “The serions proposition in this case was to make Grace Brown jump over® Mr. Ward sald. “And finally he sald that he would tell that he proposed to tell hier father “That was all right. Told five or six times, he had it down right “It was all a tissue of falselinods DECLARE TRUST ILLEGAL. Wall Paper Company an Most Ingens feasly Ceontrived Combine. CINCINNATI, 0, Dee. 5.—The Uuit el States elireuit court of appeals de clare! the Continental Wall Paper company the most complete and Ingen iously organized trust that has come to the knowledge of the court. The Coutivental Wall Paper com pany brought suit before Judge Thomp- son of the district court to recover §57,- 000 from Louis Voight & Sons of Cin- cinnati for gods sold to them. Volght & Sons resisted on the ground that the Continental company was a trust and that it had virtually compelled them to buy all their goods of the so called trust and to allow the alleged trust to fix prices at which goods must be sold Judge Thompson found for Voight & Sous on the ground thst the plaintiff WHS a trust The court of appeals, to which an appeal was taken, held that tha proofs showed one of the most complete and exacting instances of u trust as defined in the statutes that Las come to the knowledge of the court. It held the trust to be an illegal organization and as such it was not eotitled to the ald of the court In support of its claim against Voight & Sons, and the judg- ment of the district court was affirm- ed and the appeal was dismissed Pittaburg Engineer Arrested. PITTSBURG, Dec. 5 ~The arrest of J. H. Milholland, a civil engineer, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud: the js. susnce of warrauts for Joseph Flaher- ty and H T. Bostaph on the same against President C. 8S. Cameron charg ing him with contempt and obstruction of justice are the developments in the alleged STO0 bribery scandal tween the officials of the Pitt=burg and Tube City railway and the members of the select and common councils he Four Children Burned to Death, WESTFIELD, N. J, Dec. 5 ~Four children, two boys and two girls, rang lng in age frown two months to five years, were burned to death at their home near here last night. Mrs. W. I, Wezel and Mrs. Oscar Felter, who liv &l together with their two children each, went out to work, leaving their little ones at hone alone During their absence their house caught fire Firemen extinguished the flames and found the bodies of the children burned beyoud recognition Dr. George 5. Hall Dead at Hristo). BRISTOL, Coun, Dec. 5 —Dir. George S. Hull, medical examiner, one of the oldest physicians iu this town and prowinent In the state in medical Masonic and Kuights of Pythias ofr cles, died here last night of Bright's disease aud dropsy. He was a gradu ate of the Homeopathic Medleal col: lege of New York Dr Hull was sey enty-four years old, twice married aud Is survived by a widow and one sou Operator Mattox at Caplial, WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 Operator v for the wreck ten miles below Lynch burg on last Tharsday in which Presi and others lost thelr liges, has arrived iu Washington to be present at the in vestigation which will be conducted today at the general offices of the rail road by Saperintendent Coapman Cornwall Girl a Salcide. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Miss Ruth Miner, who jumped from a Hudson river ferryboat here yesterday and wna drowned, lived at Cornwall, Conn, with ber mother. She had been on a visit to Washington and was on her way home. It Is stated that she was In poor health, but no reason for her act is known. She leaves, besides na mother, three sisters. Why America Got the Connt, CANON CITY, Colo, Dec. 5-—Count Hans vou Hochberg, twenty-seven years old, member of one of the noble families of Germany, has filed Lis dec: laration of bis intention to become a citizen of the United States, He eml- grated to this country after marrying a clerk In a Berlin glove store against the wishes of his family. He is now engaged in mining Tali Elected President. WASHINGTON, Dee. 5-The Amer lean National Red Cross, In annual ses. sion, elected the following officers for Bemis, William WORK FOR CONGRESS President Tells of Unprece- dented Prosperity. rr ——— VOICES NANY IMPORTANT MEASURES Fifty-ninth Annunl Message Sabmit- ted to Congress—Junpanese Question in the Seaate by Rayner of Maryland. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — President Roosevelt, submitiing his sunual mes sage to colgress, opens it by aflirming that as a natlon we still continue to enjoy a literally unprecedented pros perity, and it Is probable that only reckless speculation snd disregard of legitimate business methods on the part of the business workl can materi ally mar this prosperity No congress in our tine, he says, has done more god work of importance than the present congress. There were several matters left unfinished at the last session which he most earnestly bopes will be completes before ad journment The features of the message are as follows; \ law prohibiting corporations from contributing to campaign funds, Revision of the statutes to give the government the right of appeal in both civil and criminal actions against rusts Capital punistunent for rape Rigid enforcement of the eight hour law where practicable Shorter hours for railway employees. Investigation of the conditious of the labor of children aud women. A more stringent cmployers' lability act, Provision for federal investigation of controversies bLelween eapital and Ia bor Withdrawal of public coal lands from sale or entry Amendment to meat jpspection law providing for placing dates on cans Some at an early date the federal government may ex erclse a corporations “A graduated inheritance tax and, if possible, a graduated! in tax,” te be accomplished when next our sys tem of taxation is nvvise i’ National laws on divorce aud polyg amy. Subsidies for the American shipping Revision of the currency laws Lower tariff or absolute free trade for the Philippines Citizenship for the Porto Ricans An act providing for the naturaliza tlon of Japanese The amendment of the statutes so method wher ehy ore cotupiete control over development of that we ean enforce the rights aliens under our treaties | That the navy be maintained at ite! present strength Ly replacing obsolete | ships with new ones A new priuciple of selection in both | the army and navy “which will bring | Into the higher ranks fewer men aod! these at an earlier age | i uf i Of ruce suicide the president says it is “a sin for which there is no atone ment The reading of the presidents mes sage in the house consumed two hours amd twenty-five minutes and was fol lowed closely by a very large number of members, while the crowded galler les gave close consideration Here and there the reading of the document was punctuated with ap plause and hearty haudclappiug from Democrats ns well as Republicans fol lowing its conclusion. Duriug the ma Jor portion of the time of the reading of the message Nepreseutative Lacey of lowu neted as speaker pro tem, be ing the first of the defeated stand pat ters to be recognized by Speaker Can hon While (he house waited upon the se retary to the president to appear with the wessage Speaker Cannon appoint ed Robert G. Cousius of Iowa chair won of the committee on foreign af fairs to succeed the Rovert R Hitt of lllupois. He also appointed Representative Frank ©. Lowden to o place on the same committee to Gl the! vacaucy caused by the death of Mr Hitt. After the customary resolutions re lating to the printing of the message the house adjourned In the senate President Roosevelt's message occupied attention to the ex clusion of almost all other business The exception was the introduction of A resolution ou the Japanese situation by Senator Rayner of Maryland and the adoption of appropriate resolutions regarding those members of the house late of representatives who have dled sine As a mark of Marthe: respus't to thelr memory the jourued President tes sage to cougress at Porto Rica will be 11 and the Swed sage on Pagama on Dec 17 The uame of Charles Page Rreyan of Hinots, the minister to Portugal, has been mentioned iu conned tion with the post of ambassador to Brazil which will be vacated hy the promotign of Mr, Griscom to Rome. Mr Bryan was formerly minteter to Brazil, and his as sigument to Portugal wae in the ua ture of 4 promotion the last session senate ad Roosevelt s special sent lu on Ire tl nies Georgian Shot Through a Window. MACON, Ga, Dw 0. — Charles Brooks, a prominent citizea of Chip pley, Ga aasassinnted last night while silting io a chair at his home The shot was fires] through a window There Is no cloew., Rloodhoutkds wore put on the trail of the murderer, Wis Was Husband of Charlotte Bronte, LONDON, Dee, 8 Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls dled nt Banagher, Ireland, yes. terday, feel nlx My years. He wis the A ith Broute, the fa. MISSOURI LAD WINS. Crescent City Jockey Club Offers Poor Card at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 5—The Cres cent City Jockey club offered a card | that hadn't the least sign of class in any of the events which called out! some of the poorest animals in trala | ing | Most of the small crowd that made | the jouruey to the track picked out Foreigner and Adbell and got 11 to 7 for their money, but at the cna only the followers of Foreigner stood in line to cash their bels The other favorite finished down la the ruck The winner had an easy Hme win ning from La Cache, a 20 to 1 shot, which in turn made a show of Dr Heard for the place Iu the second race Marvel PP. seemed to have it on the bunch that was pitted against Ler and won easily from An cestor, with Esterre getting the show money. Summaries First Race —Forvigner, first: Cache, second; Dr. Heard, third Second Race Marvel P., first: cestor, second; Esterre, thind Third Race —Toboggan, first: second; Airship, third Fourth Race —Missourl Lad, first | Shawaua, second; Flavigny, third Fifth Race. —Pompadour, first; Anna Ruskin, second; Refined, third Sixth Race —Quinn Brady, first: Bit ter Hand, secoud; Merry Belle, third La An tusk Mary F. Got Handicap. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 — The Fleur-de lis handicap furnished an in teresting race at Oakland Mary 1 ‘got off poorly, but overtook Fireball aud wade a game race for the wire winning with but Httle to spare Legless Man Walks Of With Wagon. DANBURY, Coun, Dec. 5.-The po lice have arrested here on suspicion a legless mau who walks ou the stumps of Liz lews and who gives the name of Burt Miller and claims New York as Lis residence. He had a horse and pew top wagon, both of which Le claims bave purchased, the former New York and the latter In Tarrytown N. Y. The police say the wagon an swers the description of one which disappeared from a car of the New York, New Haveu and Hartford rail road list week at Noroton aud for which railroad detectives and the po lice about the state have been looking in Nolan Shares In $6,718, CINCINNATI, O, Dec. 5 States Circuit Judge Lurton down a decision in the of the Empire Circuit company versus the Gans-Nelson Goldfield Picture compa ny, G. LIL. Rickard, known as “Tex” Rickard, and William Nolan. Judge Lurton found that the allegations of the Empire Circuit compauy are true and that there is in its hands $G.7IS necumulated receipts from exhibd tious of the Gans Nelson fight pie tures. He holds that Nolau is entitled to one third of the amount and the company to the remainder United handed case as Floods In taual Zone COLON, De Ten Inches of wa ter Las fallen in Colon during twenty four hours The Chagres river has reached the highest point ever known and Is still risiug fast. Communica tion and traffic by way of the Panama railroad are interrupted. The inhab tants of the villages worth of Bas Oblsbo necessarily will suffer greatly from the flood, ns it will be impossi ble to get relief to them until the Chagres subsides - o Freed of Sweetheart's Murder ( harge KANRAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 5.—-Aus tin Fraucis, a switchian, found gullty of murder in the first degree at Kan sas City In November, 190, was freed by the supreme court Missouri which reversed the verdict of the trial Fraucis was convicted of mur dering Winona Newton, his ffteec yearold sweetheart The decision holds that there was ouly a suspicion of his guilt aud that no wotive was shown oul Pat Crowe on Trial COUNCIL BLUFFS, la, Dec. 3 Pat Crowe, whose recent trial and acquit tal of the charge of robbing A. L Cudaliy, the willionaire packer, of $23, 0 through the Kidnaping of the lat ter's son gave hin wide notoriety, was placed on trial teday on a charge of robbing ou street car crew io Council Bluffs Coal Dealer Charged With Larceay. ALBANY, N, YY, Dec The trial of Joseph C. McClellamd, a local coal dealer, Indicted for grand larceny in connection with the alleged thefts of coal from the state capltol boiler house has opened here I'he Indictment al leges that McClelland charged the stat for coal which was not deliverad Fourth Victim of Tunnel Haploston. NEW YORK, Dec 5 —A fourth man Is dead of Injuries received in the pow der explosion In the Pennsylvania rail road tunnel, The condition of still an. other laborer Is critical. The foreman In charge of the work where the ac cident occurred is held in $1,000 bonds on fn charge of homicide Wireless Whispers 1,200 Miles Away. SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 3 Mes sages were exchanged by the govern. ment wireless station at Polat Loma with the government station at Puget sound, 1.20% miles away. This Is the longest distance any wireless station on this coast has ever been able to transmit messages Fort Pinin Lamber Plant Ablase. FORT PLAIN, N, Y. Dee. 8~Dam- age amounting to several thousand dol. lars wap done to the plant of the Montgomery Lumber company by tire here. The businoss was recently es PRICE ONE CENT NATTY NEW NOVELTIES Holidays are not far off and le fore the week cloecs this store will he crowded with bolidsy gifts. Many are herc tedsy for your in- spection. . The New Handbags Our line of (hese useful articles igcomplete. All kinds and sll col- ors cf leather cn gilt or gun metal frames, envelope or wrist styles, all prices up to $3.50, Many Holiday iandkerchiefs Are here, fresh and sweet from the manufacturers, many styles are already here and more on the way from 5¢ to 50¢ each. Silk Waistings In plaids and plains, everywhere opular but very hard to laids are especially strong in cities now and they will be popular for spring. Good showing to- day and more on the way. (Coatings Kaioproofs, coverts and fancies ero here for your inspection and all at Globe Warehouse prices, Gloves Kid gloves in two button, twelve button and sixteen button We sell tbe best $1.00 kid glove fo be found anywhere. Our constant ly Icressing glove trade speaks for itself. Golfs and Mittens For ladies and children, all colors snd prices Dress Goods Our prices begin at 25¢ for all wool. We have the new reds and other staple shades raisi : stages up to $1.75 sing by say Children’s School Hose Extra heavy hosiery for hard ser vice, usual prices 18, 20 and 28s Special all sizes 15¢. Underwear Sale Men's 50c¢ fleece lined, 33c. Ladies’ 50c fleace lined, 39¢. Ladias’ 50¢c union suits, 39e. Ladies’ $1.00 union suits, 69c. 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