The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-06
THE NfNsENe MURDERS.
THE olURDERERs FULL COMES
sIoN-sFATENiENT OF HIS WIFE,
INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE
TRAGEDY. ~ IS FL. .sT1ss
Norfolk Journal, 9Th

Norfolk Journal, slil1
Officers Steele and Evans visited the prfs-
oner, and after much trouble obtained from
him The following confession:
I" lett home Sunday morning for Mrs.
Jones's house at sunrise. l was under the
shelter near the house when the young
hdicsI left the house to 20 to church. /
knew that DIR. Jones was not ut home. |
went into the side door. Mrs. Jones was
sitting near the fireplace. Mrs. Dozer was
sitting near the window. | asked Mr..
Jones for money. She sid if | did not 20
away she would tell on me. made grab
Tor her pocket to get the keys. She at
tempted TO rise from her chair, and struck
her twice over the head with piece of
wood anu killed her. Mrs, DuZier got I'D
ont OF The chair where she was sitting, and
said,
jim, DON'T KILL aE!'
and started toward the door. I struck her
three times with tile same piece of wood.
as soon as I saw that they were both dead
[ locked the doorund went into Mrs. Jones'
room and took this pvcket-bCok out OF the
bureau-drawer. ] then went up stairs into
Mrs. poZier's room and found her keys in
the drawers did not disturb anything. /
came down stairs and went out at rhe back
door, and went up the road us far rs Cap.
tam Jets. left the pocket-book and con-
tents IN all oak bush by the roadside. The
pocket-book, for the possession of which the
deed was committed, contained ONLY some
TOUR or i've dolars.l then went home
did not intend to kill Mrs. Jones and Mrs.
Dozler If they would give me money wheE
l asked for it. was not in Mr.. Jones's
house over twenty minutes"
DESCRIPTION OF TIE MURDERER.
Jim Brown is very black, repulsive look
ing negro, with i low, retreatiDg forehead
His eyes are large, and over the left one is an
ugly scar, which he said was occasiouetI bv
a mule kicking him. He is of medium build.
about five feet ten or eleven inches in height.
and weighs about one hundred and sixty
live pounds. He generally went barefooted.
He was raised in Gates county, n. c., where
his mother still! resides.
STATEMENT OF TIE MURpERER's WIFE.
Myra Brown, the murderers wife, made
the following statement:
Jim, my husband, lett home Sunday morn
ing about SunrIse. He told me he was no-
ing to yet something to put on the file.
That morning be had on lleached cotton
shirt (Which has since been found with blood
upon III. He came back about 10 o'clock 4.
NJ. and eat bis breakfast, but did not seem
TO be hungry; he is generally big eater.
About II O'Clock | got news of the musder.
jim went of TO some of the neighbors to- in
form them OF the murder. In the afternoon
| went down to Mr.. ,Jones's. Jim didn't
want me To 90, but | went, and he finally
went with me. He didn't 90 into ,Jone>'s
tn SEE THE coppsrc
He Left ME thereand came home in the night
some time, and commenced to talk about par.
ties searching his house. was talking about
the murder, and Jim told me to hush, that
somebody might hear me. All this happcucd
OH Sunday. On Monday jim got up in the
morning and commenced plougbing. had
started down the road to Mr. Junes'>, mel
jim, and be asked me if had anything tr
eat in the house. | went hack and fried hin
some meat. He did not eat much. Alter
dinner asked him to
GO TO THE FUNERAL.
He said he would not go. lie said he thought
the best thing he could do wa. to go away.
kept after him, and asked him il he done the
murder. AT first he said be did. and next
he said he did not know whether he done il
Or no. Then I had TO coax him for some
time TO 60 to the funeral. IL was bard
matter tn get him out OF the yard. Finally
he started with me. but kept continually
stopping on the road; he did not seem &c
want to 20. When we got near CypieS.
chapel he stepped off the road into the
woods, and held up his right hand aut
prayed that the
LORD WOULD FORGIVE HIN
for what he had done, looking toward
Heaven at the time. He said if the Lore
would forgive linn he would not do so any
more. never heard him pray before in my
lite. When lie came nlit of the woods
said to him, :" Jim, have told you dozen:
of times that YOU would be hung He said
"THIs Is MY TINE"
said: You never would hear to me before
reckon you can HOW. He started up the
road ahead of me. [ overlook him. He wa:
talking to jack Counril. lie said he believed
he would 90 down to Captain Jett's and re,
his horse, and plough an hour or two, ant
then he would 50 over to Mr.. Jones's.
laid he would be too late if lie did not gc
| then. Officer Steele then asked her why she
| said they would be too late. She said: owe
understood that the grand jury were to meet
at Mr.. Joness, and everybody were to pu
their hands on the corpse. and whoever com
mittcd the murder the blood would run or
their baud. jim said he did not want to d,
| it, for the blood might run on his hand. an(
| they would say he done the murder"