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Show We are informed by I. J. Stewart that ti e man Brown, who killed hit wife in Salina canyon a week ago, was arraigned before Commissioner , Leonard and plead guilty to tke awful crime of murder with which he was charged. Me was held without with-out bail and was escorted to the pen by Deputy Cuddeback. Brown is six feet high and weighs 180 pounds. The woman was also quite large and in perfect health. From the indications indica-tions where the murder was committed, commit-ted, it showa there had been a fearful fear-ful struggle. In one place there had been a struggle, and leading from there down tha hill, it shows the woman had endeavertd to escape and was pursued by her husband, Here another struitrle took nlace. 00 - 1 and here the unhappy woman stir rendered her life to the vicious husband. hus-band. In places fragments of her ipron wera found imbedded in the soil, for it had been raining shortly before and after the deed was committed. com-mitted. When fouad the body was lying! on the hillside, head down, the arms I folded across the breast, the legs crossed and the clothes pulled down straight. Blood had been oosing from the ears and nose. The in quest disclosed the fact that she had been bruised on the right side, had received a blow on the top of the pine, and her legs had been scratched scratch-ed considerably. It is said by a number of persons who claim to have heard from his own lips that he was going to kill her. While at the Knighton House Brown made two attempts to hang hirase If. Advocate. |