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V5 rO h u Xt 7 iVl5 persons prominent in the community’s life Util this sudden turmoil and tragedy in their lives all of them had enjoyed equal respect in public and private There was no scandal attached to them r ' Brandes was one of the leading He and his contractors in Macon wife were socially popular They had two boys in high school Mr and "Mrs Julius Sein but re-- " Gently had come into social Sein had careprominence fully and slowly built up a chain of grocery stores operated in several cities and towns Still he in Central Missouri lived in the same modest-look- Ing home he had occupied for He was not ostentamsfny years In his display of wealth Mrs tious S4in was known to Macon's citizens a a charming woman Sein was her second husband She had two grown scis and another boy nine years old b her first marriage iA ehance meeting on the street g brought Mrs Sein and Brandes together He had never seen the woman before but her 9 sparkling black eyes and comely figure attracted him They began to go out Yet together secretly the town did not suspect nor did Brandes ' wife or Mrs Vr ’) -- S Vi 'm '' : - v that gTay-haire- Mrs Sein said Turthermore first that I poison at “Henry suggested I or arsenic strychmne with Julius that of doing couldn’t bear to think So later we agreed that Brandes a crowbar should kill my husband with the apso that: the crime would have case In that aeddent an pearance of inhis of one result as the died Julius have would paid surance polides alonei $12000 “We agreed on the date of the murto go with der I iwas to entiret aJulius in movie me and Bobby tp Mo about twenty miles from Macon5 That was (o give Brandes time 1 W because -- L jr- “overlook d this man under her spell t “She made me forget my wife and my sons” Brandes I was told the jury himself time first her hypnotized by -I followed her to a I saw her I met her lawyer’s office where met I her often that formally After with sjier went riding so ' infatuFinally the pair: became Mrs Sem ated with one another that her of sight just wouldn’t let me out He saidf She wanted to be free to have him at all times $ She told him she he wanted to get rid of her husband atdidn’t any pay said but Brandes 7 tention to her Mrs Sein’s testimony hdwever tore defense down this carefully planned had Brandes and She said that sho because Sein kill to i together plotted s they wanted and needed the grocer 7 ft y - to ask£l 50-year-- A -- tv u Sein (VOl V-?- loyal to himlaw--in been this difficulty” one The jury yer pleaded jirs woman’s Tiypnotic eyes kept ' 1a-- 7 young sons so was x n “The only crime that i' Brandes’ waywardness with V V - - BriMides committed was the wrong against ana his hi sfi wife who have I $? al 4 i 4fl8tfs vv f ' V fr:'W’s!w Wf' f Jf txa u a s ‘ ’’V ff with Faye Sein to Kill Her $ £Vi Vn N bsJf' fessj “ 72 rp 13 7JW Mo-ber- ly - -- A V X s i V S : A f Sein’s h - ‘V‘vib ‘jt J us ban d realize the tragedy that was slowly and silently un-fodli- A 1 V Fnotograph From Sein Fye to Her Marriage After Soon Taken Her Second Husband s —-hurri- ed strange story of a man who under oath that be had been hypnotized into a murder tale closely plot by his secret lover— aSnyder-Gray infamous paralleling the murder case — recently was unfolded in a little courtroom in Macon Missouri The man Henry F Brandes promiMrs nent contractor of the town and were three of sonst Faye Sein mother found guilty of conspiring to kill the woman s husband Julius Seih wealthy head of a chain of grocery stores stepped into his home one night to be suddenly attacked by a man with a crowbar Sein’a skull was fractured but he miraculously recovered For weeks the little town of Macon unsought in vain to find the grocer's one it then And assailant day known was noted that Mrs Seita and Brandes had left town A search was made for them and when they were found and arrested in Kansas City they made an astonishing confession Mrs Sein told how tired of her husband — her second incidentally — she had fallen in love with Brandes a mar ried man wih two grown sons Anxious to get Sein out of the way said Mrs Sein they conspired to kill him To this end Mrs Sein said she the aid of two grown sons enlisted also first her marriage by Brandes and Mrs' Sein went to the same prison — Brandes for five years and Mrs Sein for two But they will not see each other during their incar One of Mrs Sein’s sons Is ceration still a fugitive from justice The other found guilty of conspiring to murder was given a suspended sentence Strangest of all in this unusual case were the sharply contrasting stories told by Mrs Sein and Brandes who bitterly turned upon each other in court Mrs Sein swore that Brandes TIE ft f is i ? Shi up At-1 ng It was on a midnight that Sein and his wife and young son drove home from the theatre and a late tapper Mrs Sein asked her husband to get out of the car and open the ! back door T11 put the car away she told him at the same time admonishing her little son to “wait for mother Sein hurried to open the door to what was planned ' to have been his death Tie opened the back door and stepped into the house As he did so two heavy blow landed on his head He sank to the floor but he was not yet senseless He saw a man— then another— three men in the room He attempted to struggle to his feet at the same time call- - x" ' ? - ‘VW - Ing “Faye please help me 1” But another blow from the crowbar knocked him unconscious He had $500 in his pockets and a diamond ring on one finger These were taken by his assailants Then Mrs Sein appeared As she entered the house through the rear door the assailants of Sein left through the Mrs Sein’s small son front door didn’t see anyone in the house when he and his mother entered Mrs Sein reported to the sheriff that “a big negro robber was in the house when we came in and he hit Julius over the head” y'j The Utile Macon Missouri Horae of '! Mr end hire Sein "! §t Where They lived Together Until e Murderous Attack Was Made There on Ihe Wealthy Grocer The Sheriff however felt certain that Mrs Sein knew something about the crime and continued ' hi3 search In the meantime the suspected woman and Brandes were traveling around the country living first in one city and then another One day Brandes and Mrs Sein were having a littlejparty of their own m Kansas City They u and soon they telephoned Ed Brandes " Tt M The sheriff found a heavy crowbar tisit Jhem at their hoteL The brother and a pair of costly kid gloves in the joined the couple There was a quarreL As a result Ed wired Mrs Brandes Sein home Many negroes were arshe could find her husband with Mrs rested but Mrs Sein couldn’t identify Sein in a Kansas City hotel any of them' Mrs Brandes turned the wire over Meanwhile Sein was given up by the physicians He had a compound to William M Van Cleave Macon fracture of the skull and didn’t have County prostfeutor and it was not long a chance to live they said Mrs Sein before Mrs Sein and Brandes were arnursed her husband but she thought rested brought to Macon and indicted Brandes even on a charge of attempted murder he was going to die Mrs Sein did not flinch'- She went called on her while her husband lay UL before Judge Vernon L! Drain and critically ' Finally Sein regained consciousness pleaded guilty to the charge of conAnd Mrs Sein and began to recover spiring with Brandes to kill her hus — left Macon band She was sentenced to two years husband her suddenly left in the State penitentiary 'at Jefferson Brandes too and went to Chicago Mo left Macon and went to Chicago Then authorities the woman who was charged the thought Strange that Mrs Sein and Brandes should be with having lured Brandes away from missing at the 'same time HeThe Sheriff his home turned against him She was asked her the State’s star witness in the prosecucalled on Mrs Brandes if she ever had seen the gloves he tion of the contractor Confronted with this harrassln found tn the Sein home “Yes” she told him “I believe they spectacle the defense readily adrrJtteS Brandes’ love relations wtih Mrs Sein are Henry’s” But the charge that he had entered Then the Sheriff asked if the bloodwitb the woman to stained crowbar belonged to her husband' Mrs Brandes looked ain the d “BrSdM where her husband kept d rs y Fn Earage was missing She so informed I? lt£ u° i “Hpt likenSrM the Sheriff The search for Brandes and Mrs Vam- n(LeJ rxelr Sein led to Chicago Then to St Louis SKnJ®? that 7 the x woman Joplin and finally to Kansas City The A Recent Tho to graph of Mrs Faye Sheriff had asked Sein if he believed “dragged Brandes into the crime? in Sein Just Before She Was Placed bis wife was tn love with Brandes and an effort to take her soulmate to the him but the wealthy penitentiary with her so no one else Bars a Missouri of the Behind x would plot to kill dismissed that theory L could have him” quickly grocer Penitentiary - ar Sentence -- had entered into the conspiracy so that they could get Sein’s and live together money Brandes pictured Mrs Sein as a vampire who had dragged him into the crime and made him forget his wife and chil- -- : ' “I was t helpless under the spell of her hypnotic eyes” — that was the gist of' his defense and the basis of his plea for Put the twelve men who mercy sat in judgment in the Circuit Court dren' in Macon decided there was no such thing as “hypnotic love in this lar case1 il The town may be forgiven if its ? ' 4 citl-en- s are still gossiping and whispering about this unusual case for it involved i Knripapa CsstatS Srflo 1IM lrTS 5 e - Prominent Henry F Brandes Convicted Oo Marun Contractor to a Charge of Conspiracy Sein IIuund Murder Mr Five-YeHe la Now Serving a to get into the house To make sure that the plot would go through as my planned f urged' Brandes to let two older boys Camel Lewis who is 22) and Dorian (yrho is 25) help him Brandes agreed” 7 The jury took nly two ballots and found Brandes guilty He was sen- tenced jto five vefrs! faiths smne penitentiary to which? Mrs "Sein was sent Uamel Lewis was arrested and pleaded ?eKW8 StntenCed t0 m cause he had been so useful In the State's case against Brandes and also because he had been led into the crime by his ’mother thj judge said -The ' other Lewis disappeared An indictment was boy returned against him by the Grand Jury but he could not be found tlis parents were unable: to inform the pblice as to Throughout the trial the relatives of Brandes and Mrs Sein stuck loyally to them When Seiti learned his wife had confessed to plotting to kill him be was heartbrokenr but he did not y demn her Mrs? Brandes when - she learned that her Tiusband was doomed serve a term in the penitentiary went to her hustand’s defense She forgave him for everything and then went on the witness stand m an attempt to provide him with an alibi if Brakes and Mrs Sein in spite of all this went to the penitentiary roa bars will separate them Thus two families were disrupted aud-11eir Iives bettered by the nudden f of events- that swiftly closed about them Am the town of Macon and peaceful seldom disrupted ?uet by sensation was startled from its Pfacidity The in this strange case are no principals in Macon Mr Sein sold longer out all his interests and moved East They are gone tut the memory of the strange case still stirs Macon con-Cit- 5 - I f i |