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Show WIFE SAVES HUSBAND FROM CHARGE OF MURDER Breaks-, Her , Silence "and Clears Hira of-the Stain Cast Upon His Reputation, DES MOINES. la,, Aug. "I would be the happiest woman in the world if God would only let me hate that man. but God knows I still love him. love him better than life." v v Uttering these words Mrs. AUlene Brookfield broke down and sobbed when the Sheriff of Green county traced her tp her hiding place In this city and established the fact that she nad not been murdered by her husband. . This clears up a supposed murder mystery that has been agitating the residents of Greene county. July 21 Mrs. Brookfield disappeared from ftr home, and her husband, too, was mlss- ing for several days thereafter. ' Their five little children were left alone, and speculation in the - neighborhood 'was rife as to what had become of the woman. wo-man. - When bloody clothing was found in a secluded spot on the Brookfield farm the idea that a murder bad been com' mltted was accepted. BrooHfiAd reap-j peared at his home a weak ago, and a mob was quickly organised. He would undoubtedly have been lynched, but for thC prompt action of the Sheriff. He insisted that he didn't know what had j become of his wife. Ha admitted that he had quarreled with her over another woman, had deserted - her three months , ago, and returned c-d the day she dis appeared. .' ' - He denied he knew anything about what had becomo of bis wife. When newspapers published accounts of the supposed murder 'Mrs. Brookfield, Brook-field, 'who had found employment in j this city, wrote the .Sheriff a letter as- suring him that she was alive. She asserted as-serted that her husband would never harm a hair of her head, and that he was the best man that ever lived until the, other woman came into his Ufa. She diq not state her address here, and it , was thought the letter might be a fake. The Sheriff tame to Pes Moines and located her. She said that she would never return' to him, though she wanted to see the children. When told that- he had applied for a license to marry the other . woman .claiming that he-had never been legally married A her, she determined to return at one and Je fend her good name. In her letter to the Sheriff she tells how she kissed her five babies good-bye and determined to jump into the river, but could not nerve herself to the effort. |