Show A RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT JUDG ENT ENTIn In the electric chair yesterday esterday morn morning morning ing In the prison at Auburn N Y Chester Gillette paid the extreme pen penalty penalty penalty alty for the cruel murder of ot his sweet sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart Grace Brown Every Ever effort was made to save this cowardly cow criminal from the disgraceful death he merited When the highest court of the state stale had pronounced against him tho got go ernoe erno was appealed to t It must have been hard for Governor Hughes to re refuse refuse refuse fuse clemency or even a reprieve mother molher saw Baw him in person but neither her entreaties nor her tears served to move him And yet the sympathy of or Governor Hughes as of all d people must have gf gone ne out to the mother She as well as the girl who was brutally slain Is Isan isan isan an innocent victim No o story that has ever been told In Ina Ina Ina a criminal court revealed more that was nas path tic more that touched touched the hearts deepest d pest emotions than Ulan the story of ot the relations between Chester Gillette and Grace Brown as disclosed In her letters to him He had wronged her and she pleaded with him to right the wrong In the only way he could She to him of or other and happier days days when he seemed to give gle her all the love loe of oC his heart then hen they were all aU in all to each other And the man who received those let letters letters letters deliberately plotted to murder the girl who wrote them With a deliberate d f t 1 rarely equaled equated he lured her in a row rowboat rowboat boat out upon Big Moose lake In the Adirondacks They were to have a happy afternoon and evening together er he told her and he promised to tomake tomake tomake make everything right So the trust trustIng trusting Ing girl went out on the lake with this monster and that was the last time she was seen alive came back alone with a story of how the boat had been upset upseL He said he could not save sae the girl A few tew days later when her body was recovered d there were black bruises about her face and hands It developed dev loped that she was unconscious when she fell teU pr was thrown Into the water Gradually the coils colls tightened about Gillette At last he be was brought to trial anti convicted The chain of or evi evidence evidence evidence dence circumstantial though it was was complete and absolutely convincing convincing convincing ing The Jury returned a verdict of guilty after spending but a short time in debate That was In the summer of 1906 nearly two years imago ago and Gillette was executed only yesterday I The reports say he went calmly to his doom oom If It he did it was the only brave b ave act In his life |