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Show ; MOffiMf FW IS: found,, but - Gillette eould not be Jo-etted. Jo-etted. Later someone reported to have seen Gillette hurrying through the ! woods, and a search was made for Gil-lette Gil-lette on suspicion that -e had mur- ! dered the girL" He was arrested oh July 14 at Jhe Arrow -Head hotel, at Inlet. An .extraordinary term of the Supreme Su-preme court was convened by order of Gov. Higgins so the esse might be PT?n rnd jury. The grand jury indicted Gillette fov murder and his trial was set for today.- The prosecution, it 'is expected, will contend that Gillette killed Miss Brown for the purpose of getting rid of her that he might be free to devote his attention! at-tention! to another woman. BERKDIEB, X.- Y., Nov. 12., Cnes-ter Cnes-ter Gillette, a young' man of good family, fam-ily, will be placed on (rial here for his ofe today.' He is. charged .with the murder of his sweetheart, Grace Brown, whose body was found in a lake in tne dirondaeks on July 12 last. The girl had gone to Big Moose, near There her body was found, with Gillette. Gil-lette. After they had registered at a hotel, the couple went for a boat ride on the lake, and that was the last time she was seen alive.- It was supposed at first that both Gillette and the girl had been drowned, as their boat was found floating on the lake with the girl 's eoat in it. Miss Brown 's body was speedily i ana ease gets much of its interest I from the secrecy of the defense.- Gil. lette, when captured, declared the girl's death was accidental. Whether he will still hold this contention is not known, as his lawyers have riven no inkling of what the defense will be. . Other than that Miss Brown's death was accidental and that he fled through fear . after the girl was accidentally drowned. Gillette may take one of two contentions for his defense. One of these is insanitv. the other, that the girl committed suicide. If the plea of insanity is entered, witnesses may be produced to testify that there is a strain of mental derangement de-rangement in Gillette 's family, and that he himself has acted strangely for some time. Should the suicide theory be advanced, ad-vanced, the defense, it is said, can submit sub-mit letters written by the girl in which she threatened to destroy herself. |