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Show Hadnt the Capacity. The baby of a Maryland family had been through a siege of chlckenpox. The Infants sister, a girl of ten years, being met by the minister's wife one day, that good woman naturally Inquired as to how the baby was getting on. ' "Hes some better, thank you, said the little girl, a shy and noncommittal child. "Very much better, I trust," said the ministers wife. "Oh, he couldn't be much better, responded the child, because, you hes too little. Harpers see, Weekly. ICIZDJUCt Grace Brown to Chester Gillette Womans Simple Documents That Made a Criminal Case Famous and Virtually Sealed the Fate of a Murderer When Read to the Jury That Tried Him for - His Life. Herkimer, N. Y. Printed below are crazy. Be a good kid and letter! which, within the past tew you. Lovingly, weeks, have become known almost from one end o t the country to the Other as Grace Brown's letters. They need no Introduction, save perhaps the statement that these are the letters which were read at the trial of Chester Gillette. They formed the most remarkable feature of that case. The whole structure of the prosecuting attorney was built upon them. It passes understanding why the murderer of the girl should have preserved a series of documents which, It Is safe to say, spelled his doom from the moment they were placed In the hands of a Jury of 12 men. It Is Inconceivable that Gillette kept them for their pathos, or the gentleness of charao-te- r which they revealed, for he Is not the kind of a man to whom such things appeal. It is utterly Improbable that he ever recognized In them a simple literary beauty, although such they do possess in an unusual degree the more unusual when It fs remembered that Grace Brown was a country girl of plain education, who bad worked as a factory hand. ' Yet somehow Gillette kept them, and the American public has come into the possession of one of the most remarkable series of documents that ever appeared in a criminal case. As a revelation of character, as the written record of a tortured soul, they nave already taken a place unique In the annals of real life tragedies. ; Here are the letters: "I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN 'But Somehow I Have Trusted You More Than Any One Else. South Otsellc, June 21st, 1906, Wednesday Night My Dear Chester: I am Just ready for bed and am so ill I could not help writing to you. ' Chester, I came home because I thought I could trust you. I dont think now I will be here after next Friday. This girl wrote me that you seemed to be having an awfully good time and she guessed that my coming home had done you good, as you had not seemed so cheerful In weeks. She also said that you spent most of your time with that detestable Grace Hill. Now, Chester, she does not know I dislike Miss Hill and so did not write that because she knew It would make me feel badly, but Just because I should have she didn't think. known, Chester, that you did not care for me. But somehow I have trusted you more than anyone else. Whenever the other girls have said hateful things to me of you I could not believe them. You told me even promised me you would have nothing to do with her while I was gone. Perhaps, Chester, you don't think or you cant help making me grieve, but I wish things were different. You may say you do, too, but you can't possibly wish so more than I. I have been very brave since I came home, 1 am but very discouraged. Chester, If I could only die. I know how you feel about this affair and I wish for your sake you need not be troubled. If I die 1 hope you can then bo happy. I hope I can die. The doctor says 1 will, and then you can do Just as you like. I am not the least bit offended with you, only I am a little blue and I feel this way. I miss you. Oh, dear, you don't know how much I miss you. Honestly, dear, I am coming back next week unless you can come for me tight away. 1 am so lonesome 1 can't stand It. Week ago tonight we were together. Don't you remember how I cried, dear? I have cried like that nearly all the time since I left Cortland. 1 am awfully blue! Now, dear, let me tell you. You will get this Monday some time. Now you please write me Monday night and be sure and post it Tuesday morning and then I will get It, or ought to, Wednesday morning. 1 Just want to see what the trouble Is why 1 dont hear from you. 1 was telling mamma yesterday how you wrote and I never got It. and she said: "Why. Billy, If he wrote you would have received It." She did not mean anything, but 1 was mad, and satd: "Mamma. Cheater never lied to me, and I know he wrote." If you were only here, dear, how glad I would be. Don't you think I am awfully brave? 1 am doing so much better than I thought I should. I think about you, dear, all the time and wonder what you are doing. I am so frightened, dear. Maude has Invited me down for next Tuesday, but I dont think I can go. Oh. say, If you post a letter to me Tuesday morning I will get It Tuesday night. Well, dear, they are calling me to dinner and I will stop. Please write or I will he . P. 8. "COME God bless THE KID. I am crying. Am t, "THERE ARE SO MANYNOOKS "1 Have Been Bidding to Some Places Good-by- e To-day- ." South Otsellc, July 6, Thursday Night My Dear Chester: If you take the 9:45 train from the Lehigh, there, you will get here about 11. Iam sorry I could not go to Hamilton, dear, but papa aud mamma did not want me to, and there are so many things I have bad to work hard for In the last two weeks. They think I am just going out there to Deruyter for a visit Now, dear, when I get there I will go at once to the hotel, and I don't think I will Bee any of the people. If I do, and they ask me to come to the house, I will say something so they won't mistrust anything tell them I have a friend coming from Cortland and that we were to meet there to go to a funeral or wedding In some town farther along. Awfully stupid, but we were Invited to come, and so 1 bad to cut my vacation a little short and go. Will that be O. K.. dear? You must come in the morning, for I have had to make you dont know how many new plans since your last letter, in order to meet you Monday. I dislike waiting until Monday, but now that I have to. I dont think It anything but fair that you should come But. dear, you up Monday morning. must see the necessity yourself of getting here and not making me wait. If you dislike the Idea of coming Monday morning and can get a train up there Sunday night, you would come up Sunday night and be there to meet me. Perhaps that would be the best way. All I care la that 1 don't want to wait there all day or half a day. I think there Is a train that leaves the Lehigh at six something Sunday night. I do not know what I would do If you were not to come. I am about crazy, I have been bidding good by to some places There are so many nooks, dear, and all of them so dear to me. 1 have lived here nearly all my lire. First I said good by to the spring house with Its great masses of green moss; then the apple tree there we had our playhouse; then the "Beehive. a cute little house In the or chard, and. of course all the neighbors that have mended my dresses from a little tot up to save me a threshing 1 really deserved. "Oh. dear, you dont realize what all this means to me. I know I shall never see any of them again, and mamma, great Heaven, how I do love I don't know what I will mamma! do without her. She Is never cross and she always helps me so much. Sometimes I think If I tell mamma but I can't. She has trouble enough as it Is, and I couldn't break her heart like that If I came hack dead, perhaps, if she doesnt know, she wont be angry with me. I will never be happy again, dear. to-da- 1 . John J. Banks, Secretary. Spanish Fork, Utah, Deo. 6, 1908. Notice of Assessment No. 8. The Blizzard Mining A Milling Company, principal place of business at Spanish Fork City. Utah County, Utub. NOTICE la hereby given that at a meeting of the directors held on the 1st duy of December, 1908, an assessment of one H) mill per share was levied upon the capital stook of the corporation, payable on or before the 5th day of January, 1907, to John J. Bunks, secretary, at Spanish Fork, Utah. Any stock upon which this assessment remains unpaid on tbo 16th duy of January. 1907, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at publio auction, and unless payment Is made before, will be sold on theSStb day of Jaouary, 1907, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with the cost of advertising aud expense of conducting sale. John J. Banks, Secretary. Spanish Fork, Utah, Dec. iNt, 1908, Probate and Guardianship Notices, Consult County Clerk or the respective sign- p To-nig- South Otsellc, June 20th, 1906, TuesI am day Night My Dear Chester: writing to tell you that I am coming back to Cortland. I simply cant stay here any longer. Mamma worries and wonders why I cry so much, and I am Just about sick. Please come and take me away some place, dear. I came up home this morning and I Just cant help crying all the time. Just as I did Saturday night t cant stay here, dear, and please don't ask me to any longer. Do you miss me much? I am so lonesome without you. I dont know how I am going to manage about going to Uncle Charles. I presume I will have to write you to meet me in ClnclnnatuB, now we dont know anyone there. Chester, there isnt a girl In the world and as miserable as I am you have made me feel so. Chester, I dont mean that, dear; you have always been awfully good to me, and I know you will always be. You just wont be a coward, I know. My brothers and sisters are at a social reception but they cant get over my crying. I do wish you were here. I cant wait so long for letters, dear. You must write more often, please, and, dear, when you read my letters, if you think I am unreasonable, please do not mind it, but. do think I am about crazy with grief and that I dont know just what to do. Please write to me, dear. Lovingly, you know whom. South Otsellc, June 19, 1906. of Assessment No. 1 A. J. Mackley has just received a ers for further Information. For thoroughbred Berkshire boar. NOTICE TO CBCDITOHS harIn the District Court of the Fourth Judicial further particulars call at Co-oDistrict of the State of Utah, in and for Utah ness shop, county. Estate of Lucy D. Miller, deceased. o Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at bis place of residence, at NOTICE. Spanish Fork, Utah county. State of Utah, on or before February 37th, 1907. Marinos Lahnkn, Executor. The annual of the stock- "There Isnt a Girl in the World as I o o AND TAKE Mb AWAY Miserable as - Constables Take Charge of Bank. Cleveland. The private bank of Coloman Denko, on the west side, was taken In charge Wednesday night by constables, and the police are making a search of the city for Denko, who has not been seen since Sunday. The bank was patronized by Hungarians and other foreigners. Denko himself being a Hungarian. It is said the deposits represented a large amount of their savings. It Is understood the deposits of the bank amount to $12,000. Notice The Thistle Minins A Milling Company, principal place of business at Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah. NOTICE is hereby iven that at 8 of the director held on the 6th day of meeting Deoem-be- r, 1908, an assessment of one mill per share was levied upon the capital (I) stock of the corporation, payable on or before the 10th day of January, 1907, to John J. Banks, Secretary, at Spanish Fork, Utah, Any stock upon which this assessment remulns unpaid on the gist day ot January. 1907, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at publio auction, and unless payment is made before, will be sold on the 3lt day of January, 1907, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with the cost of advertising and cost of conducting sale. meeting IDICILIZ- -, I wish I could die. You will never know what you have made me suffer, dear. I miss you and want to Bee you, but I wish 1 could die. I am going to bed now, dear. Please come and dont make me wait there. If you had made plans for something Sunday, you must come Monday morning. Please think, dear, that I had to give up a whole summers pleasure and you surely will bo brave enough to give up one evening for me. I shalF expect and look for you Monday forenoon. Heaven bless you until then. Lovingly and with kisses, THE KID. P. S. Please come up Sunday night, dear. "CANT YOU COME TO ME? Need You More Than You Think Do. South Otsellc, June 26, 1906, Monday Night Dear Chester: I am much too tired to write a decent letter or even follow the line, but 1 have been uneasy all day, and I can't go to sleep because I am sorry I sent you such a hateful letter this morning, so I am going to write and ask your forgiveness, dear. I was cross and wrote things I ought not to have written. I am sorry, dear, and I shall never feel quite right about all this until you write and say you forgive me. I was 111 and did not realize what 1 was writing, and then this morning mamma gave my letters to papa before I was down. I should not have had it posted but it went long before I was awake. I am very tired dear. I have "Chester, 1 1 t, been helping mamma sew My sister is making me a new white Peter Pan suit, and I do get so tired having it fitted, and then there are other rled and tired. I never liked to' have dresses fitted, and now it is ten times worse. Oh! Chester, you will never know how glud I shall be when this worry Is all over. I am making myself 111 over It. Maybe there is no use to worry, but I do and I guess everyone does. I urn quite brave and I always feel better after I write you, Chester, ro 1 hope you tnlnd the hateful things I say and I hope you wont mind my writing so murh. Where do you suppose we will bo two weeks 1 wish from you would write and tell me, dear, all about your coming. I am awfully afraid 1 run't go to Hamilton, Chester. Pupa cant take me and 1 am nervous alout going alone. You see I would have to ride quite a distance before I could take the train and then there Is a long wait, and. Chester, I If 1 ant, getting awfully sensitive. cant g up there what shall I do,? Io you think it would be wise to come back there? Could you come to Deruyter aud meet me? I have relatives there, hut perhaps I could arrange It somehow. 1 was pleased yesterday morning. You know 1 have a. lot of bed quilts six, I guess and I wus asking mamma where they were and saying I wished I had u dozen, whin Must you and my little sister said: someone else will not need so mu ay." Ot course my face got crimson and the rest of the faintly roared. Mam- nia is so nice about fixing my dresses: she has them all up now m nice shape. You remember the white dress I wore and you one asked me why 1 didn't have a new yoke. Well, she has almost made a new dress out of that. I am afraid the time w 111 seem awfully long before I see yon. Chester. I wish you would always post your letters In the morning after you wiltc them or the same night. They are a day later Of here If )oti wait until noon. course I will he glad to get them, only I dislike waiting for them. OH dear. I do get so blue, Chester. Please don't wait until the last of the week before you cotiic. Cant you come the first of the week? Chester, I need you more than you think I do. I really think It will he Impossible for me to stay here any longer than this week. I want to please you, but I think, Cheater, It would he very unwise. If I should stay here and anything to-da- ? holders of the Bank of Spanish Fork will be held next Tuesday, January 8, 1907, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. HQI o should happen I would always regret Bees Laxative Cough Syrup containIt for your sake. You do not know Honey and Tar Is especially aping papa as well as I do, and I would not like you to be disgraced here. We propriate for children, no opiates or have both suffered enough and I poisons of any character, conforms to would rather go away quietly. In a the conditions of the National Pure measure I will sulfur me more, but Food and Drug Law, June 30, 1906. I will not complain if you will not get For Croup, Whooping cough, etc. It cross and will come for me. 1 must expels Coughs and Colds by gentlly close. Write me Wednesday night, bowels. Guaranteed. moving the dear, and tell me what you think Sold Co. World by Drug about everything. Lets not leave all o our plans uutil the last moment, and, DELINQUENT NOTICE. above all; please write and say you forgive me for that letter 1 sent you this morning. I am sorry and if I were Spanish Fork West Field Irrigation there I know you would say It would company. Place of business Spanish be all O. K. Fork, Utah. Lovingly, There hre delinquent upon- - the folTHE KID. lowing described stock on account of cash assessment levied on the 20th "MY LITTLE SISTER CAME day of October, 1906, the several amounts set opposite the names of "I Told Her I Guessed My Fortune the respective stockholders, as folWas Pretty Well Told Now. lows: South Otsellc, June 23d, 1906, SunNo. of No. of day Night My Dear Chester: I was glad to bear from you and surprised as well. I thought you would rather have my letters affectionate, but yours was so businesslike that I have come to the conclusion that you wish mine I may tell you, to be that way. though, that I am not a business woman, and bo presume that these letters will not satisfy you any more than the others did. 1 would not like to have you think I was not glad to hear from you, for I was very glad, but It was not the kind of letter I had hoped to get from you. I think, pardon me, that I understand my position and that It Is rather unnecessary for you to be so frightfully frank In showing It to me. I And In accordance with law, so can see my position as keenly as anyone, I think. You say you were sur- many shares of each parcel of such prised. but you thought I would be stock as may be necessary, will be discouraged. I dont see why I should sold on the 5th day of January, 1907. he discouraged. What words have I at 2 oclock p. m., at the City Hall, had from you 6lnce I came home to to pay the delinquent Fork, Spanish encourage me? assessment thereon, together with You write as though I was the one of to blame because the girls wouldnt the cost of advertising and expense sale. the , come. 1 invited them here because I CHARLES MONK. thought 1 wouldnt he so lonesome. I am sure I cannot help It because Sec, and Treas. mamma is away. As to the financial Spanish Fork. Dec. 21, 1906. difficulty, I am the one who will be " O most affected by that. You say "your Pile Remedy put up In conManZan Wont it he your trip as w I as trip. with nozzle mine? I how you feel venient, collapsible tubes so the may that attachment remedy about the affair. You consider me as something troublesome thut you both- be applied at the very Beat of the ered with. You think If It wasnt for trouble, thus relieving almost Instantme you could do as you liked all sum- ly bleeding, Itchng or protruding mer and not be obliged to give up piles. Satisfaction guaranteed or monyour position there. I know how you ey refunded. Sold by World Drug Co. feel, but once In awhile you make me .. o see these things a great deal more NOTICE. plainly than ever. I have In my possession the followChester, I don't suppose you will ever know how I regret being all this ing described animals lmponded ns trouble to you. I know you hate me, for trespass: and I can't blame you one bit. My One red yearling heifer, with swalwhole life Is ruined, und in n measure low fork in left ear. No brands vis- yours la, too. Of course. Its worse able. for me than for you. but the world One red heifer with swallow fork and you. too, may think 1 am the one to blame, hut somehow I cant. Just In left ear and crop and under slope simply can't think that 1 am. Chester. In rlRht ear. No brands vtsalbe. I said No so ninny times, dear. Of If damage and costa on said anicourse, the world will not kn iw Hint, mals be not pnld with ten days from but It's true all the same. date of thla notice, they will he sold My little sister came up Jus!, a minto the highest cash bidder at Spanr ute ago with ln-- bands full of daisies ish Fork City Found at 2 o'clock p. und asked if I didn't want my fortune m.. on the 5th day of January, 1907. told, I told her I guessed It was Dated at Spanish Fork, Utah Counwell I now. (old pretty don't want you to mind this letter, for I am blue ty, Stato of Utah, thla itith day of and get so mad when the girls December, 1900. REES D. JAMES. write things about me. Your letter was nice, and I was glad to get It. I Poundkocpcr of said City. - o simply feel "out of sorts When you are cross. Just think ) made nucules am sick and can't help all thla. If from resin from our Fine Forests, you were me. you couldn't help findused for hundreds of years for Bladder ing fault. 1 know. 1 don't dare think Medicine for how glud 1 will he to ace you. If you and Kidney diseases. wrote me a letter like this I wouldn't thirty duya, $1,000. Guaranteed. Sold write In a long time, but ! know you by World Drug Co. O'-- - wont tease me In that way. You will Pino Salve Carbollxed, acta like Just forget It and bo your own elf. You know I always am cross In poultice; highly antiseptic, extensively the beginning. It was that way Sat- used for Eczema, for chapped hands urday night, ao dont be angry, dear. and lips, cuts burns. Sold by World Lovingly. Kltt Drug Co. A. B. Mokoan, Attorney for Exocutor. First publication Oct. 35. 1908. DELINQUENT Kai ged wnei ered 118 ead And in accordance with luw.xo many shares of each parcel of suoh stock as may be necessary, will be sold on the I9tb day af January. 1907, at my residence. Spanish Fork, at 3 o'clock p.m., to pay the delinquent assessments thereon together with the cost of advertising a nd ex prase of sale . N ichoi.as 8m ith, Secretary . Spanish Fork, January 3nd, 1907. - hal th ie i OUD isnt gatl Rol rime ce 1 ody has a full stock of I m Coffins and Caskets 01 b lani tat imported and home made. Our homq made Caskets are the finest made. Oaf prices are the lowest. GEO. R. SMITH Contractor & Builder Complete plans and specifications free. Better see me before you build; If you don't, weboth lose THAT'S ALL. 6 blocks north of Pox to nice, where the Hacks Turn. Spanish Fork, - Utah Lelaad Roller Mills COMPANY Maxi FACTlUKKS OK. High Grade Flour, Graham, Germade, Corn Meal, Rolled Barley, and All Kinds of Feed. Grist Work i Specially, Every Sack of Flour Guaranteed. (.. V. BRADFORD, Milieu. JOHN ELLISON Carrie a First-Clas- s Stuck of at Jewelry Imvest prices.. ..Repairing Cull in 1 tlnor north Worhi a Socially Drug Co. Miss Martha Johnson SPANISH FORK. UT. t. dr i S. Peterson & Sons , uud-rmn- NOTICE. Spanish Fork East Bench Irrigation and Manufacturing Company. Place of business tspunlsh Fork, Utah. There are delinquent upon the following described stock on acoount of assessments levied on the3nd day of April, 1906, also on the 13th duy of September, 1906, and on the 37th day of October, 19U6, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective stockholders aa follows: Catarrh of the nose and throat should lead yon to at least ask ua for a free trial box of Dr. Shoopa Catarrh Cure. Nothing so surely proves merit aa a real, artual teat nd Dr. Shoop, to prove thla, earnestly desires that we let you make that test This creamy, Snow White healing balm, soothes the throat and nostrils, and quickly purifies a foul of feverish breath. 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