Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-13

letters show that he lived at Fayetteyille
and Dardanelle. Ark. : also at san Fran.
cisco. Cal: but for the past three wear.
he had lived in the vicinity Of Wichita.
part of the time working on farm, and
when not so employed would generally
stop in Wichita. He boarded at the
same hotel that Hillman and Brown
stopped ut. and became quite intimate
with them. He left Wichita March
and went to Oxford, 81 miles south, to
collect some money due for work. stat
ing TO some of his friends that he in
tended to
HERD CATTLE FOR IILLMAN & BROWN
ut $40 month and found, and asked hi,
friends advice in regard 10 this matter.
He stated further that Hillman had
plenty of money. having showed him
bank-boOk containing records of de-
posts in bank in Lawrence of some
5000 His friends advised him to ac-
cept the situation offered: and he told
them afterwards that he had, and. be-
fore leaving Wichita, promised to write
10 them: but. up to date, they have
never received any letter from him.
Ilillman and Brown left Wichita ut 3 D.
m, March ), and went south instead Of
west-a different route from that de-
scribed by Brown mt the inquest-and
camped on the Cowskin. nine miles south
of Wichita: the next day they camped
on the Ncnescah, near Soudan; the next
day they fed at noon at the town Of
Wellington. In the vicinity of
this place they met Nichols. As
previously arranged. After dinner they
started on their journey and went by the
way of Anthony and Medicine Lodge, to
the place where the shooting occurred.
Certain things that tranSpired after the
three men met near Wellington can not
be related here Suffice it to say, that
one of the party left, and the other two
Travelled together.
In a lovely place fourteen miles north
of Medicine Lodge, the shooting took
place. The three men-Brown. Hill
man and Nichols-were strangers in
Barbour County. the spot where the
shooting occurred being about 100 miles
southwest of Wichita.
BROWN NEGOTIATING FOR IMMUNITY.
When the evidence was elected that
pointed To murder. Brown. rs before
stated. skipped out 1T night. and has
not been seen in the neighborhood of
Lawrence since. Under an assumed
name he was not long since heard of at
Highly, Mo. and was reported TO be ne
gotiating, through his father and broth
er. for immunity from punishment, pro-
vided he would divulge the whole job.
An attempt to capture Brown failed.
and pretty reliable reports have it that
he has joined Hillman in the East
Il Is stated that Brown sent word
from Missouri that he himself did not
do the killing. rs he claimed in his tes-
timony before the Coroner's jury: and
that, if assured protection, he would
turn States evidence.
Brown has escaped; Hillman, who
was supposed to have been dead, is be-
lieved TO be alive; the insurance COM
panies have not paid one cent of the
$4,000 insurance: the widow of Hill
man has not forced the alleged claim in
the shape of suit to make the inslir-
ance companies pay their respective
case hesitate not to openly express the
belief that Brown and Hillman killed
Nichols with the avowed purpose of de-
ceiving the insurance companies. Mrs.
Hillman resides in Lawrence | have
within the past "a hours been given
some information: and, if il prove rs
important as | believe, the Chicago
Tribune will ere long he the medium
which will effect the arrest of both
Brown and Hillman. EMS.