The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-02-26
RIPE FOR THE aALLows.
A Former Pulaskian Brains the
Husband Of His Mistress with
a Mallet at lndianapo-
lis, Indiana.

lis, Indiana.
We learn. from The People, q
newspaper published at Indianapo-
lis, Indiana, that Joseph w. Wade,
a young man who formerly resided
in Pulaski, is now lying in the jail
of that city charged with the muir
der of an old man named John G..
F. Brown. The crime was perpe-
trated recently, under circumstan-
ces very revolving in their nature,
and the evidence seems to establish
Wade's guilt beyond the possibility
of doubt. The victim, Brown,
was man of doubtful character,
but had accumulated some prop
erty by sharp practices. For some
of these he had been sentenced to
the penitentiary for twelve months,
and after serving his term returned
home to find Wade installed in his
house and on very intimate terms
with his wife. Through the influ-
ence of the latter. Brown was in
duced to tolerate Wade, and the
pl ecious trio were living together
on amicable terms when the murder
was committed. Wade was infatu
ated with the woman, a lusty mat
ron of 33 summers and the mother
of three children, and his guilty
passion seems to have been fully re
ciprocated. At any rate, during
Browns absence their intimacy
was the subject of general remark
and they made no effort to conceal it
from the public. The murder was
planned by the guilty pair-Wade
actGated by the hope of obtaining
Browns wealth and his widow at
one and the same time, and she,
spurred on by lust and the pros
pect of getting a younger husband.
Brown was decoyed by Wade into
the front yard after dark, Drained
with a mallet and his body carried
to point several miles away where
it was concealed in the underbrush.
The murderer returned and with
the assistance of his companion in
guilt removed the blood-stains, and
adopted other precautions for es-
Gaping suspicion; but these proved
unavailing, tor when the body was
discovered he was at once arrested
as the murderer. He denied his
guilt, of course, but the wretched
woman on whose fidelity be relied.
becoming frightened, made a clean
breast of the whole affair, and rela-
ted all the horrid details in a man
ner that removed every doubt as to
the truth of her story. He will be
tried at once, and as every avenue
of escape seems to be closed against
him, his career will probably end on
the gallows before the world is
many months older.
Wade left Pulaski in 1864, when
quite boy, and opened a saloon in
Indianapolis with money obtained
from very excellent young wo-
man of that city whom he subse-
quently married. His intimacy with
Mrs Brown caused his wife to sue
tor and obtain a divorce, although
it seems she loved him devotedly.
His conduct so preyed upon her
mind that she went into a decline
and when the shocking intelligence
of his recent crime reached her she
died of a broken heart. Although
he was but fourteen years old when
he left Pulaski he is still remem
bered by some of our citizens, but
they cannot recall anything of pc
culiar vicious character connected
with him at that time. His father
we understand, is a watchman al
the tunnel on the n. and d. divis
ion, and other members of his family
are now residing in Alabama.