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Show CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE FOR SHOOTING HAN Missoula, Mon;.. Feb. 28. To avenge himself on the husband of the , woman for whose wronging he had , Ju6t completed a five-year term In the penitentiary, Joseph Borwn today shot and killed Robert Gllruth. while the latter, accompanied by his brother, was walking along the road near Chlckerman's mill, six miles west ot Lolo. Mont Brown was arrested In Missoula a few. hours later and tr-.o brother of the slain man is held in custody as a witness. When arrested for tho crime, Brown declared that he had been attacked by the Gllruth brothers with an axe and other weapons and that he shot In self-defense. He was wounded In several places and It was while having hav-ing these Injuries dressed here that he was captured: The brother of the dead man flatly denies Brown's statement and declares de-clares that he and his brother were deliberately ambushed by Brown. |