Show BROWN MURDER MYSTERY theory advanced ajr 11 louca pouca u that it was W suicide salt lake feb 31 21 there Is 1 no clue to the murderer of IA L P brown 14 11 murder it be who was wag found shot through tho the heart in hla his store the morning on the irth at the in inquest quests ray croxall who was vat sleeping in tin an adjoining room and was awakened by the shots testified that two men drove rapidly away in a wagon directly after the shooting the theory is advanced by officers however that the wagon noticed was probably a vehicle passing by chance they advance the theory of suicide claiming the dead man had been swindled out of several hundred dollars by green goods sharks on a recent trip to new york which preyed upon his mind to such an extent that he sought relief relict in death in support of this theory they claim brown took several hundred dollars away with him that he be told acquaintances on the way home this side fide of Oili alia that he be had made a big mining deal and would have plenty of money when his grip arrived which he had sent by express upon arriving home some store bills were presented him which he borrowed money to pay A day or two later his grip came by express after having opened it brown became dejected and consigned some green looking paper to the stove F saying he be had bad no further use tor for it its further said lie he gave a friend some borne of tile the stuff 1 I which is yet in evidence brown carried several thousand dollars life insurance payment on which will probably be stopped pending a more rigid examination 0 ot the mystery that so much the appearance of murder was apparent is claimed to be the result of premeditated arrangements to enable his family to get the insurance money friends of the dead man however loudly protest against the assertion that he died by his own hand |