Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-02-11
B2AME CAUGHT,
LEMONS MURDERER OVER.
HAULED IN NEBRASKA.
Located by DecOy Letters and
Nabbed Friday Night.
Passes Here Sunday Enroute to
Nashville.

Passes Here Sunday Enroute to
Nashville.
The announcement that VIM. L.
Brame had been captured created. q
good deal Of excitement here Sunday
morning. The news came in the
Nashville American at 10 o'clock and
in five minutes crowd had gathered
about the KEyTucKIAN bulletin board,
where the news had been posted as
soon as received. The fact that he
would pass through the city at p.
m. en- route to Nashville, Tenn,
was also posted and the result was
that fully thousand people were at
the depot when the train passed.
The prisoner was in the chair car
on the rear OF the train. just before
reaching Hopkinsville the officers per-
mitted him to take off his handouts,
wash his face and light a cigar. He
appeared at the window smoking the
cigar and after bowing to a few
friends whom he recognized he walked
across the car to avoid the gaze OF the
crowd who climbed upon the steps
and upon each others shoulders in
their efforts to get sight of the pris-
oner. He was clad in suit Of work
ing clothes. A pair OF blue cottonade
pants seemsd to be worn as overalls
and his coat was of heavy striped
goods. The car doors were securely
locked before the train stopped and
were not opened. Only about half a
dozen men were in the chair car, in
Guiding the detective and guards.
WHERE HE WAS CAUGHT.
Brame was located by Chief Of De
tectives Stewart, of the L. g. N. rail-
road force, by means Of decoy letters
and his whereabouts had been known
for some time. He was found en-
ployed as an ice-cutter at the village
of Florence,a few miles north OF Oma-
ha, Neb. He was going under the
assumed name Of John II. Thompson.
The capture was made Friday night
and Brame at once confessed his
identity and admitted the killing Of
Lemon.
THE DETAILS OF THE CRIME
are fresh in the public mind. Brame
shot and killed Jas. H. Lemon, pass
enger conductor who put him off an
L. d. N. train at Bakers Station, Tenn,
Sept. IL, 1889. Brame refused to pay |
his fare and was forcibly elected and
willie standing on the ground shot
and killed Lemon, who was on the
steps. The murderer escaped and
impressing a horse arrived in this city |
a day or two afterwards. He was
sheltered by relatives here until de-
tectives got on his trail, when he dis
appeared and has since been at large.
He is very plucky man and it was
not believed that he would permit
himself to be taken alive. He had
previously killed a man named Beau
mont, an officer from Clarksville, who
undertook to arrest him at 0livet |
church, near Garrettsburg, thirteen |
years ago, without the necessary |
papers. He was tried for this killing |
and acquitted. A rather singular CO.
incidence is that Rev. A. w. Meacham,
OF Belleview, was a witness to both Of
Brame's killings, although they oc-
Cured in different States. He was
preaching at Olivet church and saw
Beaumont shot while trying to pull
Brame from his horse, and also hap
pened to be ON the train and witnessed
the trouble that ended in Lemons
death. Brame viii put in a plea of
self-defense and will allege that Lem
on kicked him from the steps. 1t is
claimed that well-known citizen of
Clarksville will 80 testify, but none Of
the other eye-withesses have made
similar statements and Brame will
probably have trouble in establishing
such a theory. The case will haveto
be tried at Nashville, as the crime
occurred in Davidson county.
BRAME's STORY.
The Nashville American OF yester-
day gives this as Brame's story:
"After the crime l went directly to
Hopkinsville, where remained a
week. Being accustomed to wear a
beard oil over my face, I shaved, and,
putting ON another suit Of clothes,
walked to Henderson, travelling at
night only. From Henderson l went
to Vincennes, Ind, where l took a
train to st. Louis, where | stopped
few days, but soon continued my
fight to Omaha, where l got in with
gang of railroad laborers who were
going out into the Black Hills. /
soon returned to Omaha and went
out to a little station called Florence,
five miles from the city, where Isecur-
ed employment with Hungate g. Co.,
ice dealers, who gathered their ice
from large reservoirs in the neighbor-
hood. Twas sitting in cabin in
canon, not far from the place where
/ worked, reading letter from home,
when Detective Stewart and Deputy
Sheriff Grebe walked in and told me
to throw up my hands, which | did,
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