Deseret Evening News | 1901-07-11 | Page 1 | Lieut. Brown Tried for Murder

BROWN TRIED FOR MURDER lie He is Charged With Villi Killing a Filipino Secretary and Governor Whitmarsh of Province Have a Physical Encounter Manila July trial of ot LieutEr Er rr 1 n cf et f the Second infantry charged Vh h murdering near In Int f t a province nt n a native natle who was sus t tt i if ut r responsibility n In the death d nth of ofa a n s H 1 T bc an today The soldier re ra rat t 1 t was downed while a n detach n Vrr e 1 i if f the Second Infantry was swim u a under fire The lieutenant at t te time of the tho occurrence ques quest t I ej th native anti and the latter bolted Brown shot him dead I 1 it t H U Fremont remont also of the tho Second Infantry Is being tried for tor strIking a Ii soldier The court has re requested requested quested that CaN Capt Wright now nolY In Washington be bo ordered here to testify As A an IlU outgrowth of the ex cx existing In some quarters It developed re recently recently that H n Phelps Whitmarsh the thc governor of who has been or ordered ordered dered tiered here hero to haw have charges against him Investigated Inv hail had n a 1 physical encounter with Secy Otto Scherer of ot that pro province lace ince who disapproves of at the governors administration United States Commis Cominis Commissioner r Is true to the Interests ot of the tho natives