Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03
TERRIBLE CRIME.
The Aged Wife or General Doris
BrutalIV Murdered-Her Grandson
and a Companion the Perpetrators
of the Deed.
So. Louis Special, S0th ult.

ST. Louis Special, 30tk Hlt
Word was received at the police head
quarters that Mrs. Doris, wife of General
Doris, formerly q prominent citizen of this
city, was found dead this morning at her
residence about four miles out in the coun-
try. A grandson named Russell Brown has
been arrested on suspicion of having mur-
dered the old lady. 1t is said that circum-
stances point pretty strongly to him as the
perpetrator of the deed. 1t appears that
the murder Of old Mrs. Doris,
very brief announcement of which
was made last night, was commit
ted Saturday night, and seems to have
been the result of q regularly planned rob-
berry. and not a deliberate design to kill the
old lady. Russell Brown, her grandson,
who was arrested and kept over night, con-
fessed at a late hour, and stated in brief that
he and companion, who is supposed to be
Patrick McGlew, a barkeeper, drove out to
his graudmother's house, situated on Kings
highway, about four miles from the city, on
Saturday evening. Here young Brown bad
some words with his mother, who lived
with Mrs. Doris, she chiding him for his
dissolute course of life, and he went away
Later in the night, however, when the
family had retired, he and his pal returned
to the house and went to the room always
occupied by him when he visited the
mothers room, and told her his Uncle
Tom was sick In Browns room, and wanted
her aid. The old lady, seventy years Of age
and feeble, rose and went to the room,
where she was seized by Brown and his
companion, and her diamond rings forciblV
stripped from her fingers by McGlew, while
Brown choked her to keep her from crying
out. During the struggle Mrs. Doris be-
came unconscious and was placed on the
bed by the robbers, who then went to the
old lady's room, took her gold watch from
under the pillow of the bed, left the house
without disturbing the rest of the family,
jumped into their buggy and drove off. In
the morning Mrs. Doris was found dead
with several scratches and bruises on her
neck, and the skin scraped from her arms
and back. The Coroner was notified during
the day to view the remains, and gave GER
tificate of death from natural causes, and It
was not until late last night that the police
had learned the true state of the case and
took hold OF the matter. They then arrested
Brown, but McGlew is still at large. His
capture is believed to be certain, however
Mrs. Doris was the wife of General George
7. Doris, formerly a we'll known wealthy
citizen OF st. Louis, and young Brown is the
son OF prominent lawyer and Prosecuting
Attorney OF st. Louis county. The affair
creates a great deal of comment on account
of the position of the parties concerned.
Information has just been received that
McGlew was arrested in Chicago this morn
ing, and will be brought down to night. A
post mortem examination of Mrs. Doris is
DOW being made and an inquest will be held
this afternoon.
The post mortem made this afternoon in
dicates that the death of Mrs. Doris was
caused by suffocation or strangulation, and
that there was struggle. The inquest
commenced between four and five O'Clock
When Brown was taken into the room
where his victim lay, he did not evince the
slightest emotion, and when he was asked
by the Coroner II he had any statement to
make he said he had not, and was then con-
Quoted to another room In charge of two
policemen. Brown, although only twenty
years old, has been on very hard spree for
more than month, and, according to his
own story, was too drunk Saturday night to
realize what he had done or to make an
effort to escape. When arrested last
night, nearly twenty-four hours after the
murder, he was In drunken doze in one
corner of a street car, and when aroused
readily gave his name to the officer. 1t is
not positively known how much 1ewelry
Brown and McGlew took from Mrs. Doris,
but they divided the plunder after leaving
the house, and to-day the watch was found
In the pawn shop Of Henry l. Drukker,
where it had been soaked for ten dollars,
and one OF the large cluster diamond rings
worn by the old lady was obtained from
gambler, who had loaned Brown twenty dol
lars on it. Mrs. Doris had large solitaire
diamond earrings, besides soma two or three
oSher valuable diamond rings, but whether
these were taken is not known. Perhaps
McGlew has them or disposed of them be-
fore he left for Chicago.
General Doris, the husband of the mur-
dered woman, says young Brown shall be
prosecuted to the bitter end, and that his
wife shall be fully avenged. He is man
OF large wealth, possesses strong traits of
character, and will very likely carry out
his purpose. Brown is said to be a very
depraved youth, and is accused of
repeatedly stealing iewelry, guns, cloth
ing and other articles from his grand
fathers house, and selling them for money
to squander in dissolute waVs. His mother.
who was divorced from her husband, JOS A.
Brown, some twelve years ago, does not
believe her boy committed the murder,
and there is no evidence so far that he did,
except his own statement of the affair; but
all other members of the family think him
guilty. Mrs. 8. H. Halderman, another
daughter of Mrs. Doris, wife of the United
States Consul at Bangkok, Siam, says her
mother was in mortal terror of her grand
son, and yet she was constantly befriending
him and shielding him from the anger Of
his grandfather. As an evidence of her fear
and a premonition of her fate. she, some
weeks ago, when the 6Sr-DispatcA pub
lished the portraits of five men to be hanged
here during the present month, took the
paper to Mrs. Halderman and asked her IL
she saw any resemblance between one of
the portraits and any one she knew Mrs.
Halderman said she thought that of Kotovs-
lYxTl loO.lr I'D ,aA
whereupon Mrs. Doris remarked, eyes,
the likeness is striking, and now mark nv
words, Russell Browns picture will be pub
lished in this paper, and Russell Brown
will be hanged for my murder"