Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-09
A MOMENT OF ANGER; 1;
The History of MT. and Mrs
 Brownlow's Quarrel

presence ofthe servants. As to what might have taken place on Tuesday, the 14th. they
 knew nothing except that when they left the house at seven o'clock Mir. and Mrs. Brownlow were dressed to go out, and that when they returned both the master and the mistress were still absent, and further, that Mir. Brownlow returned alone at three o'clock in the morning. Although no definite facts, therefore, were developed in | this testimony, the tenor of it was decided ly unfavorable. Whether they dislilSed their master or whether they had some foolish pride to satisfy in seeing the accu- | sations of which they had furnished the first elements corroborated, they certainly | expressed the nor al conviction that in their absence something terrible must have
 passed between the couple.
 As for the neighbors whom the detectives interviewed with unceasing perseverance, none had remarked whether Mir. and Mrs. Brownlow had gone out on that evening separately or together The difficulty of establishing this first point was one which | caused the detectives tho keenest anxiety.
 Brownlow in the few words which he had
 consented to utter had declared that his
 wife had left the house between seven and half past seven. It was this point that sev- eral of the detectives who were employed | on the case discussed most seriously when they met one morning for q consultation in the chiefs office. One of the most enter prising and successful of the detectives on
 the regular force was Mir. Seth Ketch ham. He had worked longer than any of the | others upon the case, and on the point at | issue sad to his chief and colleagues:
 "Inasmuch us Brownlow declares that his
 wife left the house between seven and half
 past seven, it must be falsehood. A man
 in his grade of society and of his peculiarly | stubborn pride of character could not let | any thing escape through inadvertence, and
 if he had furnished this indication it could
 only have been with the purpose of mislead- | ing justice. It is therefore reasonable to sup
 pose that Mrs. Brownlow did not leave the house in the way in which her husband indi-
 cated. In all probability the deed was done
 indoors, and the body thereafter concealed | in some way that we have to find out. In | my opinion, therefore, we should search the house. In all probability Mrs. Brownlow
 was murdered without premedltation, | probably in moment of anger. Between
 seven and midnight, the hour when the | servants had returned, the assassin had l five hours to cover up all traces of his | crime"
 "But," suggested the chief, 'it is not
 conceivable that, having committed the | crime in tine house, he could have carried
 the body on his back through the streets of | New York He would have been obliged to
 take carriage He could not have put the | body into 0 carriage and taken it out again
 without making the coachman his accom-
 plice. Now, he had had no time to prepare for
 this complicity, us he did not know an hour
 before seven o'clock that all the servants s
 were to be out that night. There is just a
 bare possibility, however, that he may have
 planned thls thlug deliberately, for you W.
 remember that he permitted his own coach | man to go to the theater of his own free l IHHrin bp h ad sod iy,l
 for the evening with a special purpose. It
 certainly follows that bis co@chman was
 not the one who conspred with him to dis
 pose of the body. Therefore, although