The Critic and record., 1891-04-17
BRAN IN BALTIMORE.
Young Man Suspected of Mrs. Richards
Murder Bohemian and FaItir.

George Bran, the young man who is
locked up at Elkton, has had most in
teresting career in Baltimore, says the
Baltimore AmCjicdR. When Bran, or
Brehm, as he sometimes called himself,
first came to Baltimore, he had an uphill
SION he was entirely without funds, and
conceived the idea of going INTO the street.
taking business. He ingeniously con-
trived to make a number of plaster of
paris mice, which he backened with shoe
polish. He tied a short piece of black
silk thread to each, and one night he
mounted q dry-goods box on the corner
of a principal street and exhibited his
mice. The black silk he tied to his coat,
and, placing a mouse on his bent arm, he
could make them move up the sleeve by
Strengthening out the arm. Of course,
the silk could not be seen, and he claimed
they moved by electrical heat of the body.
He quickly sold out all his mice, and Sc
cured enough money to start himself go
ing airosh.
In 1883 he entered the University of
Maryland as a student, and while there he
had an interesting career. Several times
he furnished the college with bodies.
Just before the law was passed allowing
the colleges all unclaimed bodies q vault
was built in the Bayview burying ground,
with strong iron doors, in which bodies
Ntit pluSeu' 80 lncN WOulu De OUT OF tue
reach OF ghOulS. Bran, ii Is stated. de-
teImined that he would break open this
vault and secure the bodies 1t contained.
So one night, in company with friend,
he secured q wagon, in which were placed
the necessary tools, and proceeded to the
buIying place. The night was very dark,
and was chosen especially for that reason.
When they arrived near their destination
the wagon was hid in a small piece of
Nynplg and Drnnl and hiq fpintaI V.rppno4laI
TO the vault When they arrived there
they were very much surprised to find
that two other ghouls had arrived before
them. Bran made mp his mind to wait
until they had finished their work, and
then step in and take what was left.
The other two, in trying to force an
entrance, made so much noise that they
aroused the guard, who ran to the place
and fired his pistol at them as they ran
off. The guard did not stop, but con-
tinued to follow the fleeing ghouls. AS
soon as the party disappeared out of sight,
Bran and his companion quietly stole to
| the door of the vault, and with a large
| iron wrench broke it open and carried off
| four bodies, which were taken TO the
University of Maryland and placed on the
dissecting table. Brom told several fellow
students about his exploit, and exhibited
to an old man named Robinson, employed
in the disseCting- room, the wrench with
which he claimed to have broken open
the door of the vault.
PRAcTcED WITHOUT WARRANT.
In 1890 Bran came up for graduation at
| the college but failed. He then left the
| college and hung out doctors sign and
began the practice of medicine without a
| diploma. Several days ago Professor II.
d. Coale of the University of Maryland
was called up by telephone and asked by
| nVa ln1 =!
| ploma. He told the party he had not.
| The person at the telephone then said that
Bran had treated one Of his draymen in
very careless way and charged him q
| fee.
| A FAITHLEss HUSBAND.
While Bran was at the University Of
! Maryland he met a Miss Kline, the daugh-
| ter of Henry B. Kline, a painter, who
lives at No. sos Colvin street, near Gay.
A reporter of the Americdn called yester-
day to see Mrs. Bran at her fathers
house. She is pretty little woman who
| does not look day over Is. She said she
first met Bran about two years ago. He
told her he was medical student aud
would soon graduate. On April 30, 1889,
she married him. She had one child.
Subsequently her father discovered Bran
was living with another woman and he
kicked him out of his house. The girl he
WAS HNlUB Win was ndnleu ANNE HOP
kins. Mr.. Kline went to see Bram's
father at Rising Sun and explained the
situation of things. Last month Bram' s
| father called on Mrs. Bran No. l. at her
home, on Colvin street, and SAID his son
George Bran had brought Annie Hop.
kins to his home at Rising Sun to live.
She had one child and he found out she
was not legally married and he had told
her she must leave the house. Mrs. Bran
No. is now suing Bran for divorce.
BRAN TOLD THE TRUTH.
In talking about the Cecil County mur.
der last night Marshal Frey expressed
great surprise that George A. Bran, who
was arrested on suspicion of having shot
Mrs. Richards, had not been released The
marshal stated that detective from the
scenCe of the murder called on him Tues.
day to ascertain If what Bran said about
being here the night of the murder was
true. Detective Barranger was sent with
him and IL was found that Bran had told
the truth. The detectives followed hi:
tracks around until he got on the train tc
90 home. He was in Baltimore at the
time of the shooting of Mr.. and Mrs
Richards