MURDER TRIAL IN NEW YORK.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVIII, Issue 590, 12 December 1906, Page 5

MURDER TRIAL IN NEW YORK.

$, A Pathetic Incident. [United Press Association.] (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright) (Received at 9.3 am. this day). New Yoke, December 11. Chester Gillette has been sentenced to electrocution at Herkmer, New York, for the murder of his sweetheart, while boating, at Big Mouse Lake. A pathetic incident of the trial was that his mother, in order to obtain money for her son's unavailing defence, acted as reporter at the trial for a Denver newspaper, and described an interview with her son in his cell.