The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-29
LOVE RECALLED HIS REASON.
His Little Ones Awaken Bank Director
Browns Dormant Memory.
From the Ne,o York World.

1CHIIA, nan, July S4.-Bauk Director
Brown, VINO returned yesterday in de-
mented condition after long and Inysteri-
GUS absence, has recovered sufficiently to
recognize his children, his wife and some of
his friends. II took him some time to
recognize his wife, and when he did he
asked her.
" here have you been so longn'
He has lucid intervals of few minutes
duration. The physicians examined him
to-day and found scar on the back of his
head one and half inches long and half
inch wide, which, they say, undoubtedly
caused his mental trouble. His physical
condition is changed for the better, and it is
thought he may recover 1t is the general
belief that he was assaulted, robbed of his
Jewelry aud held captive, in the hope of
OBTAINING the reward offered By his friends.
The return of Mr. Brown, who had been
mouraed as dead by his family and friends,
and who had been denounced as an alb
sconder by some Of his business acquaint-
ances, TeviVes interest IN the story OF his
strange disappearance Jan. 10 last, which
at the time created a sensation in Kansas.
His return, too, has lifted cloud that with
out cause had been cast upon the Integrity
OF his friends
'rly in the evening of Jan. 10 Brown
left his homo to be absent only q short time.
been heard of i'm until yesterday. On the
morning of Sunday, Jan. %. Mrs. Brown,
after passing night of fearful apprehen-
sion, drove from her home, on Arkansas
avenue, TO a billiard hall i'll the center of
the town, whore her huso and
often spent the evenings to inquire if
he had been there The proprietor,
had left the hall about o'clock the even
ing before. A butcher on Main stree5
remembered that Brown had bought q
pice of meat at bis slop and had then taken
the car fdf his home The car was found
in which Brown had ridden. The drive
said his passe ger had alIghted at the
crossing of Arkansas avenue, walked
briskly past the street lamp and was lost to
him in the darkness
Mrs. Brown then drove homeward. Stop
ping near the spot where her husband was
last seen she saw a track as of hack, then
piece of meat, next a freight car coupling
pin covered with blood, and a few feet
away she picked up her husbands hat,
battered and dusty, with clots of blood and
matted hair around cut in the back of the
crown. Running to the house OF neigh
Dor, r. Z. Bean, president of the Fourth
Bank, she burst i'll the door and cried:
They have murdered my husband; see
his bloody hatr
President Bean endeavored to allay her
fears, but she would not listen, sobbing that
she was sure her husband had been waylaid
and killed. She became hYsteIical, tainted
several times, and next day was deliri JUS
and suffering from brain fever.
Ali day Sunday the search for the body
of the missing man was kept up. Monday
morning a more systematic search was or
ganized. A reward of $1,000 was offered
for information leading to the recovery of
Browns boiy and the arrest of his sup
posed assassins The whole county joined
in the search The place where the evil
dences of the crime were found was
lonely spot upon the banks Of the Little
Arkansas river. A grove of trees was upon
Browns right as he walked home,
and Sumac bushes upon his left. 1t
would b9 a very easy matter to
kill a man there, drag his body across the
road and throW it into the river The river
was dragged, but no trace of the missing
man was found. Bodies of me searched
the thickets and swamps west of the town,
bat found nothing. A woman told the
sheriff that Saturday night about L o'clock
she saw wagon drlvenlntO Chisholm creek,
where the driver cast something into the
water. The dam across the creek was
opened, but still nothing was found to re-
ward the searchers. For three days this
search was kept up. but the mystery only
appeared to grow darker.
Then opinions underwent change. The
suppositIon at first was that Brown had
been Knocked down by foOtpadS with the
coupling-pn while they were irving to
steal his diamond. 81, 500 nth of which
he always wore, aud his BODY loa led into
hack and carried away. But the more
people thought the more suspicious they be-
came, and sooa it was rumOred that Brown
had not been foutly dealt with at all, but
had absorbed. 1t was argued that ne had
bought the meat to get blood to put upon
the car pin and the hat; tie hack, the
tracks of which were seeu, had carried him
away TO some obscure station, where he
boarded train and fed. Some went even
so far as TOO look Vi se and hint that there
was q w man in the casa.
Mrs Brown, beautiful and accom-
phshed woman, was suffering the keenest
mental anguish. Her family of four brigh5
little children had the sympathy of the en-
tire coramu ity, but the sustainerS of the
abscondiAg taeory found no denunciation
too severe for her missing husba III. 1t was
rememberel t1at Brown had been unsuc-
cessful in real estate transactions He had
dealt largely in outside property during the
great real estate DO m and was con'ldered
a risky and venturesome Spectator. APP
pearing not to realize that the Q might be
an end Co the advance in prices, he kept on
carrying upon margins and under mort
cages such property rs he could acquire
with inc ueCIIu6 III I6dl coOdbo LS LOuttU
himself somewhat involved. AT that time,
however, his in; egritY was NOT questioned;
in fact Ii, tie had been thought of the mat
ter until after his disappearance, when his
creditors Became uneasy. "a
A short time before his disappearance
Brown had insured his life in several com
panies. The agents refused to pay the
amounts until the body was produced, and
strongly limited tat they di not believe
he was dead 1t was then that Browns
friends ca ne in for share Of odium. They,
it was aid. had coanived a a scheme to
defraud the insurance. companies and had
snuggled Brown out of the country, so
thar on the slppoSition that he had been
murdered the insurance money could be
claimed by his family.
In the mean time kilograms and letters
and newspaper articles came pouring IN
from all over the country, stating that
Brown had been seen alive and we'll. One
was to the effect that ne was in Cincinnati,
O.. aud had been seen reading Wichita
paper containing an account of his own
disappearance. Another said that he had
been seen at the home of his parents In
Lexington, KY. One man had seen him in
Cooper Union, New York; another at one
OF the newspaper agencies asking for
Wichita papers, aud third had seen him
step upon a gang plank of a steamer oound
for Europe. According to another report
he was keeping grocery store at Dallas,
Tex.
Mrs Brown and her most intimate
6r,,lv haliavpd i'm fine murder