| Show STRANGLER OF WOMEN FOUND TO BE ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM But Police Believe His Tales rales of Attacks s In California HE liE IS IDENTIFIED Mind Weakened By Br Dis- Dis Disease Disease Dis Disease ease and Use of N Nar- Nar Narcotic Nar ar- ar cotic coUe Drugs SAN FRANCISCO Aug Auff 12 Dy 12 By The Tho Associated Press Press- Press With one on agaInst him police directed their efforts today toward establishing conclusively that Philipp H Drown Brown now In custody of ot Santa Danbara authorities is the tho dark darle strangler who murdered foul Cour In three The one on Identification of or Drown Brown was as made mado at San Los Angeles county last night by Wil- Wil William Wil William liam J 1 Franey a roundhouse fireman who declared positively that tha the prisoner was th the man he saw struggling with Mrs l Oilie Ollie D B Russell In Santa Barbara June 24 shortly before the woman was found dead dad GETS COO GOOn GOOD VIEW Franey Traney told officers that al- al although although nl though he h saw the struggle he did not realize at the time that thata thata a murder was taking place lie saId that he ho obtained a good rood view of the th man and could not be mIstaken Brown In his Identification beI of I Today Brown Drown arrived In Santa Barbara Darbara to face additional at- at attempts attempts at attempts tempts at identification Ho lie was placed In jail on a murder war war- warrant warrant war warrant rant Upon the prisoners prisoner's ar arrival ar- ar arrival rival there Charles Dullea of the San Francisco homicide squad and Merton Newman a nephew of MIss Hiss Clara Newman an elder eldr elderly elder ly Iy apartment ly-apartment apartment house owner who was the first victim of the tho strang- strang ler Jer will leave for that city In Inan inan inan an effort to Identify Drown as the womans woman's slayer MINI l WEAKENED I Investigators say that Drowns Drown's mind Is 18 weal weak from disease lSe and drugs to which he h I IHo Ho He remembered ba waY the details of his alleged at- at attacks attacks tacks Officers have not noi told told him that he faces a murder charge charee He was said to have left lett his victIms without knowIng that they had been fatally strangled and thinks that he be Is Involved only In statu statu- statutory statu- statu statutory statutory tory charges charge It has been definitely established established that Brown Drown Is an escaped In inmate mat of the tho state Insane Insano asylum at Patton San Bernardino coun county I coun-I ty Ho Ito wa was committed to that Institution In 1915 lilS as Paul Cans Cam eron cron cam I |
