Morning Examiner. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 362, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1910 Page: 1 of 6
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Special attel Evidence to Connect Brother and Sister With
"'Murder of T. h. Brown—Pete Recalled and
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^Igain Confirms His Previous Testimony.
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lind disease^'heu the court opened yesterday
>h°e- Offl the USUal b's audlt'nct> tij«
one: containing the white aohe> al-
. °ed to ^ the ashes made by ibaru-
" ' J body oi T. H. Brown on tae
Ghetf 1 of the 28: h of April, 1909, was
jened and shown to the jury th:il
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devolution—
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|jey might examine it .by daylight.
Rooms 3 ^llc" John sheriff of
sage county, was called for the
lUnliAnJ tut l'. He said thtt he was well ae-
luainted with the road over which the
[Browns had traveled and the site ot
•he camp ou the bank of Drum creek
where the alleged murder took place,
lie described his (rip io that place
on the loth day of August in com-
pany with Major Boone, Deputy Ellis
and the defendant, Pete Brown Un-
der the directions of Pete they had lo-
(irl cate<i the place where the alleged cre-
mation look place and found a bis
pile of ashes almost wholly covered
with loose dirt and trash that had
the appearance of having been car-
ried there and an attempt made to
conceal the location of a big fire.
They had removed the dirt and found
s long pile of ashes running in a !
north and south direction. Major I
Boone was at the north end of the
pile and Vic Ellis at the south end
of the pile and the witness about I
the center when they dug info the!
fc-hes which were of a grayish yel-
low with a streak of white ashes'
running full length of the pile. Mi-
jor Boone found the first evidence
of the murder and incineration when
he discovered what they believed was
the. part of a human tooth. Other
evidences were brought to light in
the shape of other pieces of teeth,
bone-.. suspender buckles, parti of
buttons, shoe eyelets and pieces ,,f
charred cloth, by using a piece i i
window screen and sifting the ashes
He had noticed a marked distinction
in the color of the ashes but could
not give apy kind of an estimate .is
to the amount of white ashes, whe-
ther there was one or two buckets
full, more or le-s.
The witness ,aid he had been pre-
sent when the defendant, Cora Bru.ri-
fleld. *med that she na.i signed i
paper that I. „ked like a customer-,
bank draft for money deposited in
Missouri; had heard her say that s „■
did not kuow anything about any
money being on deposit in her name
in Missouri until she was told by
Mrs. Brown and then she had pro-
tested against it. He had had a con-
versation with Mrs. Brown in which
she had admitied having money and
that she had refused to give it up,
saying that Judge Boone knew all
about the money and where she got
it.
Ou cross examination the witness
said that the conversation he had
had with the defendant were aft-jr
she had been taken into custody, and
that the money she had in the Mis-
souri bank was some she had gott'; i
in the divorce settlement and some
she had worked for.
On re-direct examination as to his
knowledge of the Arkansas river and
the country in the vicinity of that fa-
tal camp, the witness said that he
had lived in that part of the coun-
try for the last twenty-five years,
and he identified various fords,
bridges, bends, towns and places on
the map which was introduced as a
part of the state's evidence.
Br. C. L. Hayes, a dentist whose
home and place of Business is Paw-
huska, was next examiued as an ex-
pert. He identified the contents of
a little package 'as being |he re-
| mains of human teeth. Attorney
| Leahy exhibited the particles sepi-
, rately and had the wisesa describe
J them individually and designated
their location on the jaw bone of a
KILLS HIS FLEEING WIFE
Husband Who Wanted to Make Her
"White Slave," Kills
New York, Feb. 10.—A double
tragedy occurred today within a
stone's throw of Madison Square when
Herman Straus, 24 years old, shot and
k.lled his wife, Annie, aged 18, and
then committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
Straus, the police say, was released
only a few days ago from the Elmira
reformatory. He found his wife living
as companion to a woman in Twenty-
first street, and quarreled with her
when she refused to live with him
again. To escape him she ran into the
hallway and up the stains. Straus
pursued her into the apartment of an-
other family on the third floor and
there the fatal shots were fired.
Friends of Mrs. Straus said she told
t!nm yesterday, following a call from
her husband that he had heaped
i nmiliation upon her and capped the
r'imax l.«y trying to make a "white
!ave" of her.
TAKING OIL LEASES
Ssversl Rigs Up in Vicinity of Hen-
ryetta.
Henryetta, Ok., Feb. 10.—New
blood was injected into the local oil
field here today when John Palmerton
of Illinois, a prominent oil operate",
there began taking leases near Hi i-
ryetta.
Parties have been quietly taking
oil leases in the Henryetta" district
for the past ten days. There are
several rigs now up and drilling is
being carried on in what is consid-
ered wild cat territory'
Mr. Burns, drilling on the Fannie
Summers allotment, southwest quar-
ter of Section 9. township 11, ra ije
12, has had some bad luck. After
reaching a depth of 1600 feet, he lost
his tools and had to move to a new
location. Last night he was down
about 1750 feet.
Charles Drum, of Pawhuska, return
ed home yesterday morning.
two gent fahe enjoined
by federal court judge
The State and Corporation Commission Are Re-
strained From Further Enforcement of Low
Passenger and Freight Rates.
St. Lou us Feb. 10.—Temporary
injunctions were informally issued
Wednesday in the United States cir-
cuit court against the state of Ok-
lahoma and the Oklahoma corporation
commission, restraining them from
further enforcement of the two-celt
human being. One was a back m«.
lar of the lower jaw sometimes called
the wisdom tooth; another was a piece
of section of a lower jaw bone with
a single tooth whicR tne doctor des-
^ ignated as a middle or second molar:
another was the left upper wisdom
j oath; another the root and part of
the crown of ail upper central incisor
| another the loot of a lower incisor an.l
another as the portion of a lower mo-
lar root. The doctor >aid that there
were !I2 eeth in a full set, divided
i lollows: S incisors. 4 cuspids, 8 >>i-
( cu-ji'ii* and 12 molars; that he found
in the package the remain*) of 5 mo-
lars. 2 bi-enspids. 2 cuspids and ;
incisors.
passenger fat* and freight rates.
The Missouri, Kansas ft Texas and
the Atchison, Topeka ft Santa Fe rail-
roads gave bonds for $250,000 each
and the Gulf, Colorado ft Santa Fe
for $50,000 to protect passengers if
it 7 ultimately determined that the
higher rates should not Be continued.
Last evening long before the
night session 'began the district court
rcom was filled to its fullest capacity
and there were more people seeking
admission. Soon after the defendant
was placed on the stand it was neces-
stry for the court, for the safety
of the building, to order the officer^
to keep people back out of the hall
and away from the vicinity of the
doors. More than half the big audi-
ence in the room were women who
had come through morbid curiosity
to see the woman who is charged
with being one of the most cold blood-
ed and cruel mongers of modern
times—a veritable she devil if all
that is said abou her is true.
At 7:30 sharp, the jury filed in and
took their seats and the court ealhd
for the first witness for the defense
There was a craning and twisting of
necks when the attorney for the de-
fenae announced "Mrs. Nettie
Brown. " Dressed as she had been all
during the trial, in solid black without
the faintest suggestion of color to re-
lieve the monotony or sombreness of
the melancholy attire affected hy
Mrs. Brown, she Uok the witne^
chair and became the target toc sev-
eral hundred pairs of curious eves
In a calm clear voice she answer
PEARY TO BE
REAR ADMIRAL
REWARD FOR NORTH POLE DIS
COVERER
condemns
admission
OF PRESIDENT TAFT BY OHIO
KASON8
Commander May Immediately Reti— Oklillom* O^and Master Also Dc-
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BUI by Congress
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NEWSBOY WILL GET COVETED
EDUCATION
Had Admirod Maxine Elliott and Ac-
tress Repaid Lad's Devotion—
Now on Way to Academy
New York, Feb 10. There wa, a'
nappy urchin on the St. |\n,| exprc*-:
of the Lake Shore railroad today. He
was ''Rusty" McMillan, 18 years old.
until a few days ago a NVw y0..|;
newsboy, with no prospects, now a,I
protege of Maxine Elliott's, on hi«!
way to school, and with his future j
brighter than he ever dreamerf t '
could Im' .
Miss Elliott lias never lacked ad-
miration. but none has touched bee
more rleeplv than that of "Rusty'
McMillan. She first saw him la*t se i
*rn when *he was playing at her own
theater in West Thirty-mn h street
Every evening on her arrival there, a
red headed newsboy was on the sp.it
to ojs'ii her carriage door, and doling
lis ragged cap, to hand her neatlv
-olded evening papers. The boy re
I fused to take pay for them, and Miss
! Ellio t always accepted them with -\
smile,
| When Mi*s Elliott came back to
play in New York a couple of weeks
[ago at Daly's Theater. •Rusty" was
there to open her carriage door a-v!
make his small irift. Rhe called hiro
into her dressing room, touched Sv
his irallantrv. and learned tha' hir
nn# Treat ambition wns to jret nn *<l-
upatinn And t!u%J i* why "Hint*"
Mcmillan is on his way to the Shut-
' 'k Milit'irv \cndrmv nt Fairhnnl*.
M'nn.. which i- near St. Paul, where
his aunt live*.
Washington, Fe}>. 10.—Promoii^u
to the high rank of rear admiral i
one of the honors to be bestowed u^-
on <\>mmander Robert E. I'eary. V.
S. N„ for his achievement in disc ,>-
erin* the north pole, received the
dorsement of the senate today'
The Hale bill, adding Peary's nano
to the list of rear admirals in f,'<
navy and providing for his immediate
retirement with the highest pay re-
ceived bv one of the rank, was favora-
bly reported by the committee ;ti
naval affairs and was passed almost
mmediately without debate or com-
ment.
A similar measure offered in the
house by Representative Allen, of
Maine, was forwarded to the navy
department by Chairman Foss (vf 'he
home naval committee, who stat« I ,
that he expected i' would he tipnro ed
Hv the department and that he wiiiM
then urge it* pa«sst"e hv the house. I
' -McAlester, Ok., Feb. 10.—H. L.
j Mudrow, of Tishomingo, in his annual
address as grand ma>ter of the Ma-
sonic lodge of Oklahoma, delivered
before the grand lodge session today,
condemned the action of the grand
lodge of Ohio in making Presiden
Taft a member on sight. He de-
clared the action unwarranted and un-
authorized by the lod^e statutes.
He aUo excoriated the grand hnl.'e
of New Jersey f<- admitting negroes
and asked the Oklahoma grand lodge
110 authorise the grand ma«ter to in-
I form the New Jersey grand master
that "no member of a New Jenev
grand lodge wll be accorded Mti=onie
recognition in this jnrisdie ion so long
n* the grand lodge of New Jersev
adheres to if present posits, as
«et forth in the letter of Orand Ma-
ter Woifrkell, upen the negro ques-
tion."
-vv out auam i I
the questions as to her name atid
other preliminaries leading up to the
story «f her present troubles.
Her story told as briefly as possi-
ble on account of its length, is is
follows: She is 35 years old and his
spwr most of the time since last Au-
gust in the county jail in this city.
| She was married" to_J. H. Brown 'at
.Sneibyville, Mo., November 21, 1901,
i and went to live wi h him on a farm
i> miles south of Clarence, Mo., where
they continued to reside until the fo-
j lowing November. In November, 19i>j
j the Browns came to Oklahoma and
j stayed a few days iu Tulsa. From
there they went to Broken Arrow, b it
| in a short time came back to Tulsa
where they lived for about six weeks,
after which they went to Osage count}
and located on a ranch about 8 milo*
east of Pawhuska on the Fred Look-
out place and where they continued
to live until 1900.
During the time they lived on the
Lookout place their nearest neigh bo-s
March, 190ft. and she left the house
and went to Brumfield's. She re-
turned that evening but the fateher
ami «.on kept fussing and fighting all
the time. She heard Mr. Brown oa
one occasion tell Pete that he had
tried to raise him right, had tried to
educate him and help him and thit
Pete had told his father that "He
was not wise enough to learn any-
thing. This kind of a life was kept
up between the two, off and ou ail
the time.
The difficulty between Mr. Brown
and herself ont of which grew he
divorce suit, was that one day while
she was %hting a tire with coal oil
she heard Mr. Brown say something
to Pete and the son cursed the father
ami the father slapped the son; then
Mr. Brown took down an iron rod
and told Pete tha: he wouW brain hit.i
if he came at him with a knife and
she heard Pete say that he had .10
Continued on Page Two.
Prairie Fire Wreaks Havoc
Stillwater, Ok. Feb. 10.—A de-
MiWtlve prairie tire got under wav
the first el the week in the Meridian
country ami swept things to the nor !i
and west over a large section of
country house, a dugout or two
end a ounnti v of hay a ixl other I
were destrevrd.
Unloaded Oun Causes Fatality
lahoma. Ok., Feb. 10.—Joe Puck-
ett, 9 years old, was shot nnd prob-
ably fatally injured by h;s h rot her,
William, 1 years old, near Drummond
yesterday.
« The hoys were playing in the yard
with a gun that was not supposed to
be It aded The older bov snapped the
gun at his brother nnd it was dis-
charged, fh" bullet striking 'he yonn-
a Norton Company
I Among the chart* r* taken out at
(lutl rie yesterday was . ne for the
Mouthers Oil company, of Bartlesville
with fJ5 ,000 cnpital stock. The i i
corporators are: |4. A. Rowland.
J. D. Talbot and Pearl Beverly all >1
Bartlesville. This is a company or-
gnnifed in the W. L. rton inter-
en a.
wild steeds
stampeded
FRENZIED CATTLE INJURE
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Lot Lcoe« by Train Wreck in Tiling
—Subdued by Stream* of Water
From Fire Hose
Yenice, III., Feb. 10.-Fireman 0.
K. Williams, of Bloomington, III.,
waa crusheu to deatu; Eng necr J.
A. Raymond, of St. Louis suffered
bioken leg and twenty cr more
'Pee ators were krh-i ked down and
trampled by startped ng cattle as the
result i f a head-on collision between
two Chicag) ft Alton freight trains
in the railrord yards in this ci'y
tonight,
Willinm, jumped but was caught
beneath the engine, whirh rolled down
an embankment upon him.
or more of the animals and turniug
loose more than fifty others.
Crazed with fright, the animal*
stampeded in every direction thru .1,
crowd of several hundred persons,
many of them women and children,
knocking down scores in their flight.
A riot call was turned in and the
police and fire departments, assisted
by the sheriff force, fought off the
cattle, killing many r«f them with
sledges and cowing the others with
streams of water from fire hose*
PIPE LINE 0 K
Action Taken in Spite of Protests ot
Senator Davis
Washington, Feb. 10.—The con-
struction of a pipe line for oil mil
gas across the public lands of Arkai.-
ms, which wa opposed, iu the com-
mittee on public lands by . Senate
J'ff Davis, on the ground that it was
in the interest of the Standard Oil
company, was reported favorably
Financial Stabilit
and
Service to Customs
John Dc Hart was in Tulsa ve< cr-
day on nil business.
WE SOLIO f new business and the condition <* our banks as rfcown in the
menu of oond tion printed elsewhere is proof of Uioir soundncrs.
tlRTLESVILLE NATIONAL BANK
Our banking inters
« HmiUd to the Bartlesville National Bank and
tk« Oilisena Rank ft Treat Co
USES!?! Un • Interest dJl
indirectly with other banks Is Bartlesville ar slscv^ere
Tkey art tkereby enabled to
«'TIZEN8 BANK 4 TRUST 00.
7M
packed court room to
listen to defendant
Black Garbed Center of Curiosity Gives Flat De-
nial to Story of Murder—Under Oath She Main-
tains Her Innocence and Virtue.
were Burt and Cora Brumfield who
lived on the George Pet. it place, ij'ie
said there was a blackberry patch
on the place covering about 1-2
of an acre. Pete, Brown' sou
by a former marriage, lived with
them most of the time; that he Wis
away part of the time; oue specific
instance beiug from August, 1U06, uj-
til January.
Her husband and his son, Pete, had
many quarrels and one day when they
had a big racket she left the house
and went to Brumfield's where she
stayed until evening when she we.it
home. One day while she ana fier
brother-in-law were in one room and
her husband and Pete in another she
heard them quarreling. It seems that
Mr. Brown wanted the boy to bathe
before putting on clean clothes and
Pete refused. She heard her hus-
band tell the boy that he must bathe
before he would give him his cloth-s
and then there was a sound of quar-
reling. Charles Brown, brother of the
murdered man, who was visiting at
the house at the time went into the
room and she followed where hey
found that Pete had bis father down
nnd was choking him. She and
' <*b«rl*s Brown separated them. They
had another racket after fW in
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Booth, R. F. Morning Examiner. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 362, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1910, newspaper, February 11, 1910; Bartlesville, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc143346/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.