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Show 4- -T EL PASO, July 25. News f reached here tonight of the mur- -- der of Miss Emma Brown, for- 4--- merly of Austin, Tex., who had -f- taken ip a homestead near Sara- -t--t- gosa, in Reeves county, Texas. A 10-year-old Mexican boy -f named Martinez Is under arrest f and is said to have confessed to -f the murder. On Saturday last Miss Brown -f was accosted by a stranger whom 4- she met near her house, and f- when she spurned his advances, f- the stranger fired a bullet Into -f her body Ho thon stabbed her 4- several times and tfien broke her 4-4- neck with a blow from a club. 4-4- The following day a ranchman 4-4- discovered Miss Brown's body 4-4- and started In pursuit of her 4- slayer. Yesterday Martinez was 4- taken into custoay and is said to 4--t- havo confessed to tho murder. 4-1- lie was taken to Pecos, but 4-' 4- was spirited to Midland when it 4-4- became known that a mob was 4-4- forming to lynch him. It was re- 4-4- ported that Mexican citizens of 4-4- Reeves county had planned to 4 4- burn Martinez to the stake. 4- 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- 44-1-4-4- |