Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1906-03-23 | Page 5 | Cut His Throat in Jail

cut his throat in jail norfolk va louis brown 29 years old awaiting trial for the murder of flossie reese at whom he be threw a lighted lamp which exploded fatale burning the woman committed BU out clde cide in his ci cell 11 in the norfolk jail by cutting his throat with a sharp knife which he had in some unknown manner smuggled into the jail brown s act was not discovered until a prisoner occupying a cell below heard a gurgling colbe and jumping from his cot found himself beepat with blood which had run nn through the floor of the fell cell above