, 1870-07-09

A NAM Murdered bT fats Wife and
Her Pnrz,ln0ur Tie Accused ln
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A Nam Murdered bT tat5 Wife ana
Her pursaln0ur Tic Accused in
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From tht Pittsburgh Gazette, Jaly7.
Another foul and brutal murder has been
committed III Washington County, and it IL
not at ali Improbable that at least two persons,
one of them the wife Of the murdered man
aud lie other her paramouf, will bo required
to expiate the guilt Of their participation In
the crime On the gaElowH. a few years since.
Samuel Brown, an industrious colored man,
pretty well up in Jeara, married Jouh8
mrilatto woman, who, It ia aheged, N a as"
rage vows and dishonored the name
wife. Her husband demonstrated with her
but to no purpose. He continued 20
live with her, however, and she continued IN
the evil wnys into which she had 1at!eh. a
fer months Eiuce Bhe BECAME lnnmate VAN
John Fnllu1n, a colo1ed man Residing ~ t9e
ncighboshood, who, it il alleged, with tho ald
Of tic wife Of Brown. planned tue destruction
Of the tnau they had already diShnnored. His
presence was 1indrance to tlo ful! consnm-
1nation Of their crime, and they resolved TO rad
man residing in the vicinity, was appealed to By
tle E,lilty pair to aid them in their nefarions
work. According to his statement, they want
ed him to procure poison and put it in #hlGkey
and induce Brown to drink it. Jerry refused,
however, and then other measnzes wcEe
adopted what they were and how theamt1rdcr
Was committed will have to be inferred 1fou
the circumstances.
Eroun, the murdered man, WAS last seen
aliyc 10 far % can be ascertained, q short tits
| tauce from his residence, in Cross Greek 1oWn.
slip, about two miles north Of Middletown, on
Saturday morning. the 18th ult and as 10 was waa
accustomed to work away from home Tor Tour
! Or five days at time, lis absence was not no
I hced by tie ne'ehbo1s until the dading Of the
| body, on the following FRIDAY, the lst inst.
| Two boys were seining in Cross Creek stream
about haH mile from where Brown resided.
On Friday morning, and they found the body
Of a man in tie stream They drasses
il on the bank, and one Of them wen'
to liddletuwn and notified Juatlee y
II. Dpyd, of tllat place, who empanollet
q Jury for the purpose Of holding an inquest
| ri Q body was viewed By the jury and pos
tao1tena examination held upon by two ph5
lns dealt, by violence. There was hole pass
iug entirely through the head below the ears
resembling bullet hole. Tho entire back par
| OF The skull 1yaa crushed in aud tho 1oTer ja'
| broken.
The body had evidently been lying in th
water several days before it was discovered
ss the skin WAS bleachcd perfectly white, an
tic hair was s1 or the head. The body coul
only be recognized by the name Of decease
and other marks on the arm in India ink.
Il Jerry Knight, the colo1ed man above II
ferted to. was examined by THO Justice, an
auMcient evidence was elected from him t
warrant the arrest Of Mrs. Brown and Joh
FulIum, as we'll "a the detention Of knigh
,, | who, If he is not party to the crime, know
; | who did the foul deed They were according
| arrested and committed to tho Washingtonla la
j Saturday evening.
Tle Coroner's jury had not concluded u
, | examination when our reporter lett, b
enough had been elected it WAS thought
fasten the crimo on Fullum aud tho wife Of Il