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Show HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. A Utah Ranchman Accused Ac-cused of the Crime. While a Prisoner He Twice Attempts to Commit Suicide. Salina, May 25. Sunday evening, John Brown and wife, aged respectively respec-tively 25 and 20 years, a young couple of this place, married last June, left Jackson Russel's ranch in Salina canon, for the purpose of hunting cows. As they did not return that evening, search was instituted yesterday yester-day mornir.g. The husband was found hid in the loft of an old granary and compelled to accompany tne party to find his wife. About noon she was discovered on the mountain side, dead, her throat bearing marks of strangulation. strangula-tion. Brown endeavored to mislead the party, and when the body was found immediately made his escape. Officers and citizens are now in hot pursuit. Brown's throat bore knife marks, which had evidently been inflicted in-flicted with intent to suicide. He is thought to be insane. Later Deputy Cuddeback and three assistants found Brown in a potato pit at his ranch and arrested him at sunrise this morning. He, was allowed allow-ed to view the corpse of his wife, but he denied the charge of killing her. He w-as brought to town at 8:80 this morning and taken to the Knighton house, to await the action of the authorities. au-thorities. Twice this afternoon he has attempted suicide. Once he took the towels in his room, tied them together, to-gether, put one end around his neck and tied the other to the bedstead, and jumped out of an upstair window. The tow els broke, and the officer found him on the ground outside. The authorities au-thorities are now at the ranch holding an inquest. |