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Show BRUMFIELD MUST HANG- FOR CRIME SALEM, Ore.. July 26. The state supreme court upheld Tuesday the conviction of Dr. R M. Brumfield. a Roseburg. Ore . dentist, who was sentenced sen-tenced to hang for the murder of Dennis Den-nis Russell. July 13. 1921. Dr. Brumfield Brum-field was convicted last October and was sentenced to hang last January An appeal was taken to the supreme court Dr. Brumfield was arrested last August while working on a ranch near ("nlgary Alt.i Russell's body was found under the wrecked automobile of Dr. Brumfield. who carried $16,000 life insurance. The motive charged was Dr. Brum-fleld'a Brum-fleld'a alleged desire to extricate himself him-self from financial tangles and to make the insurance money available for his family. |