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Show ByDeicret Tokgial'h Line The Provo Homicide. 1'roTO, 31. The investigation is now in progress, aud J ohu J. Bium has acknowledged killing Brown. The defense is going on, pieadmg to justifiable justifi-able homicide. Miss iiauiu's deposition deposi-tion shows Brown to be guilty of illicit il-licit intercourse since last June, resulting re-sulting in her pregnancy by him. On the discovery of this by the grandmother, grand-mother, Brown threatened the lives of the relatives. John J . Baum is the uncle of tho girl. Having been threatened, threat-ened, ke appears to have avenged her wrong and defended herself. A. F. McDonald. S p.m. After quite a lengthy examination, the magistrates decided to release John J. Baum, ou the plea of justifiable homicide, because of the seduction ol his niece, Mary Jane Baum. The evidence ev-idence elicited from sixteen witnesses, during this day, makes it quite evident that Kichal'd Brown's private couduet in this place has been most infamous and licentious, and that his efforts to destroy the innocent were not confined to Miss Baum alon-; but ic appoars that he boasted he couid have the company com-pany aud use of any girl he pleased; and that he would not marry Miss Baum although she had entreated him in tears to fuilfil his promise to her, he trying to cover his wicked course by accusing and threatening others. Upon John Baum's stating in court, thai he was the man that killed Brown, as he said, for two reasons, reas-ons, the seduction of . his niece and the threatening of his life, public sentiment underwent a favorable change, whereupon Henry L. Davis was acquitted, and the examination examina-tion for the defense proceeded with Edsou Whipple and V. N.Dusenberry acting as counsel for the defense, John B.Mifner, Esq., conducting the prosecution prosecu-tion on behalf of the people. Had Jno. J. Baum more openly vindicated his injured relative, public sentiment would have more fully sustained him. All seem satisfied with the result except a few sensational "ringists." A. F. MacDonald. |