Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-06-10

and exclaimed, Help Mech help
me to part with them I"
The physical and mental condition
Of his three accomplished daughters is
so seriously disturbed as to excits some
doubts of entire recovery. The man.
ner in which Death, on his pale horse,
entered the dwelling and took away
his victims induces the flow of the
widest agony of shocked feelings
from the hearts of these daughters, the
rest Of the family and the sorrowing
and sympathizing friends.
THE PURSUIT AND CAPTURE.
On Tuesday morning officers Steele
and Evans left Norfolk for Suffolk
in response to call by a telegram to
Mayor Ludlow. They returned last
night and gave us the following par
ticulars relating to the tragedy and the
capture ofthe murderer:
SURROUNDING THE HOUSE.
When we had approached quite near
the house we saw Brown standing
talking with Wright. We waited for
the balance of the party to come up.
We soon saw them started towards
him too, and all six of us reach him
about the same time We took him
and procured a cart, in which We
placed him and started for Suffolk.
In going along the road towards
Suffolk we passed the house of Mr.
Jones, where the murder was COM
mitted. The crowd which had as
sembled there wanted to hang him at
once, and Mr.. w. A. DoZier, the son
IF ono IF ., rJaroI ioJia< S1yoc with
great difficulty restrained from shoot
ing him on the spot. After we had
replaced him in Jail We began to make
efforts to procure evidence against
him, he denying all knowledge of the
affair. 1t was not necessary, however,
that VIC should depend upon him for
conclusive evidence. His wife, upon
being INTERCEPTED, told all the facts as
far as she knew, which were supple
mented by full confession by Brown
himself of all the particulars Of this
horrible affair
THE CONFESSION.
Officers Steel and Evans visited the
prisoner, aud after much trOOble OBJ
tanned the following confession;
II left home Sunday morning at
sunrise for Mr. Jones's house. l was
under the shelter near the house when
the young ladies left the house to go
to church l knew that Mr. Jones was
not at home. ] went into the side
door. Mrs. Jones was sitting near the
fireplace. Mrs. DOZier was sitting near
the window. / asked Mrs. Jones for
money. She said if did not go away
she would tell on me. l made grab
fOY lynf fn hn %
attempted to rise from her chair, and
| struck her twice over the head with
a piece of wood and killed her. Mrs.
DOzier got up out of the chair where
shewas sitting and said,' Jim, don't
kill me ~ and started toward the door.
struck her three times with tn e
same piece of wood. AS soon as l
saw that they were both dead locked
the door and went into Mrs. JOnes's
room and took this pOcket-bOOk out
of the bureau drawer. l then went
upstairs into Mrs. Dozier's room and
found her keys IN the drawers; did
not disturb anything. l came down
stairs and went out at the back door,
and went up the road as far as Captain
Jets. left the pocket book and
contents in an oak bush by the road
side. 1.-THE pocket-book, for the
possession of which the deed was COM
mitted, contained only some four or
five dollars. 1 then went home. l
did not intend to kill Mrs. Jones and
Mrs Dozier if they would give me
money when 1 asked for it. was
not in MIR. JOnes's house more than
twenty minutes"
Jim Brown is very black, repulsive
looking negro, with low retreatIng
forehead. His eyes are large, and
over the left one is an ugly scar, which
he said was occasiOned by a mule
kicking him. He is medium build,
about five feet ten or eleven inches in
height, and weighs about l65 pounds.
He generally went barefoOted. He was
raised in Gates county, North Car
DINA, where his mother still resides.