Show ELLETTE TO dI GO TO 10 ELECTRIC CHAIR I FOR MURDER OF POOR GRACE BROWN Governor Hughes Declined to Interfere Believing That Pun Punishment Punishment Punishment Was Due for Foul Crime Albany Alban N Y March 29 Governor Hughes tonight announced that he had denied the application for a re reprieve for Chester Gillette and no act of the governor that can now be fore foreseen foreseen seen ileen will interfere with ex execution execution execution at Auburn prison probably morning for the murder of bl bJ sweetheart ewe theart Grace Brown of South t l tc Ic Chenango county at Big Biglake lake In the Adirondacks on July 11 1906 The governor dismisses the theory theor based on the alleged new evidence pre presented by toy John H Dugan of Albany who appeared for tor the family before the governor as wholly holly un untenable un uh untenable tenable and declares that if it reason Is to be our guide and all ali the established established established facts are taken into consideration tion there Is no escape from the con conclusion that a brutal murder was IlS com corn committed committed and that the conviction was just justIn justIn In his memorandum in the case the th governor calls attention att to the tac that previously upon application for executive he reached the conclusion after aCter careful e reful examination of the evidence e that there th re was no flo ground upon which he would be Justified In Interfering Of th reprieve that has now been asked upon th ground of alleged newly discovered evidence the governor says Petitions made at the eleventh hour must show merit I find none ir in the present case |