Gillette diary explained at Cayuga Museum

Jason Gabak / Special to The Citizen

AUBURN - While the story of Chester Gillette and Grace Brown has been written about extensively from newspapers and Theodore Dreiser's “An American Tragedy,” recounting the events that led to Gillette allegedly murdering Brown on Great Moose Lake in the Adirondacks, the absolute truth of what transpired may never be known.

But a new book does shed some light on Gillette's state of mind while he was awaiting execution at Auburn Prison.