The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-09-20
HE GAVE HIMSELF UP.
Man In Mississippi and Wants to
stand His Trial.

say: 1esterday evening Il man
giving the name OF West Hereford
gave himself up 0 Marshal Barker,
and ated that he had killed man
named jim Glaze in Mississippi in
1877, and wIsIe 10 stand bis trial
In statement made 10 dav he
sail that his rue name was West
Hereford Brown, and that he was
the son oil Capt /. g. Brown, su-
peryisor OF Slanislaus county.
They came to California from Mis-
sissippi in 1868.
In 1872 West returned, married,
rented some land Of Glaze and
then got mo an alteration anil
shot HIM. He was fut i'll Jail and
his vile died The next day OF fever.
When the yellow lever broke out
lie was liberated Wiihou! bail an
he re turned to California. assum
ing The [name OF Wes' Hereford.
For the past two years he has been
the night watchman in Merced.
Senator Meany OF that place Wis
tied him today and The Senator
saws he is not insane. Marshal
Baker saws he has written 10 Mis-
sissippi Tor a subs'antiaIion OF the
story.
Hereford told one of the most
pathetic and romantic stores pos
sible 10 conceive. The man was
not very well dressed, bul he seem
ell to have been well bred, and was
about 35 years old. He seemed so
cool AMI determined in his desire
to be Tried that The general opinion
seems 10 be that he is not insane,
but that his conscience would not
allow him TO remain silent any
longer. 1t is expected that word
will be received from Mississippi at
an early dale.
Brown said: "My brother few
weeks ago tried to shoot Editor
Hanscomb of the Modesto Herald,
as \ ou are no doubt aware. came
with my father TO California IN
1872 to marry Nora Neil i'll her
home in Senalobia, Miss. After
we were married | removed to the
Mississippi bottoms and rented
piece OF land from desperate
man named Jim Glaze. Our agree
ment was that | should have the
land and horse 10 work it, and
that and my wife could live III one
of The rooms OF his house, while he
and his wife occupied the other
apartment | split posts and pick
cts and built fence, and Glaze
made an agreement with me that
when | moved away | could take
them up again ii | wished 10.
Along in Ocl ober, 1887, my wife
and my little girl baby took sick
with The typhoid fever and had 10
nurse her myself, Tor Glaze and |
had had some words about that
time and Mrs. Glaze wouldn't do
anvlhing Tor my vie. | couldn't
leave my vile long enough TO gOt0
the bottom Tor firewuod aud began
chopping down some OF my fence
for Iuel. Glaze and | had anoi her
quarrel because he kept b0rruwing
! provisions from ne, and l had gone
credit for 500 Tor lhem
II gol some darkies TO help me
pick my cuttun crop On credit, and
my crop, which amounted To a
! bale. [ took 10 the store where l
got my provisions, and begged
| him to take the bale and let me
have SO or $l2 to send my vile To
the hills. where she might recover,
and let The resi- go on account.
"Glaze came TO town and told
the merchant that he owned all
my crop and the merchant refused
TO let me have my money.
when | got home one Of the
negroes told me that Glaze had
threatened 10 kill me, and that
night. as | was sitting by The bed
; side of my Gelirous vile, | heard
Glaze in the next room dropping
buckshot INTO his gun barrel.
81 went out in the morning to
chop some more wood off my fence
for fuel and Glaze cursed me aud
would not let me use-@any OF The
fence. / started forthe house, and
as l iurEed my Dack saw hii'l
draw his pistol, but il caught IN his
, pocket. He sprang to the doorway
and | saw the shot gun.
at was his life or mine, and 1
! shot him dead IN his tracks. My
wife was sinking fast and was dy-
! ing, and after kissing her i0rehea'l
I | was taken before negro justice
Of tie peace and was sent TO sall-
~She died The next day, and was
: buried by strangers. Ten months
o after that, when the yellow fever
e was raging, a mob broke open The
F; iai, doors and turned me loose.
: came to California and led peace
e ful life until three months ago
when two men who knew that
E had killed Glaze came and tired Il
blackmail me. One of them wa
Worth Brown, aud The other Worti
y Browns brother, gamblers, and NJ
relative OF mine. I gave one o
r them s.. Worth Brown afierWart
4 killed his brother al Iraver, and J
now IL San Queulin.'
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