The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23

COLUMBUS, Aug. 1S-Special.--The
Sentinel published today the story Of
the murder Of Mrs. Brown by her hus-
last night.
Fuller details are published by the
Times today. Hiram Steinbarger and
Ella Pyle were in the COW shed attend
ing to sick cow just before dark, and
Mrs. Brown and her boy and Jennie
10y were at the house, fifty yards away
on the knoll. Mrs. Brown saw her hus-
band coming to the house and seemed
to devine his intent, and started down
to the stable, when he called her to stop,
but she went on and Brown after her.
She ran to the shed where Steinbarger
and the girl were doctoring the cow,
and went in, closing the door after her.
Brown ran up with the revolver in his
hand and jerked the door open. Stein
barger then stepped out, when Brown
thrust the pistol in his face and said he
had come out to kill the whole family.
Steinbarger then ran across the field to
a neighbours, and the Pyle girl jumped
out OF window in the shed and ran
across the field to another neighbours.
and started down the barn yard, past
the barn, and Brown after her. Mrs.
Brown had run about twenty steps when
she turned back and called to her broth
er, when Brown put ball, or possibly
two, directly through her forehead. 1t
is thought two balls went in the same
hole, and she fell dead about six feet
from the southwest corner of the main
barn. By this time Steinbarger, the two
hired girls and Mrs. Browns boy had all
ran away and gone to the neighbors,
and what became of the murderer no
one knows, as he was never seen after
ward.
Brown was arrested at midnight at the
residence here of George Teeter, his SON
1n-law. He was found lying on the
lounge alone. He had returned home
after the murder and told his son-in-law
and daughter what he had done He
was covered with blood and said his
wife first shot him. Three holes in his
hat one through the rim and two others
in the crown showed where he had evil
IDENTIFY put bullet himself. But this
could not have made the long scalp
wound extending from the forehead over
the scalp six or seven inches long. He
surrendered the pistol to his son-in-law.
The son-in-law and wife went out to the
scene of the murder in a buggy shortly
before he was arrested leaving him
Jnere, Where ne was found by the ponce.
When arrested by the police he adj
mitted shooting his wife, but said she
shot him first, inflicting the wound on
his scalp. Those who saw the affair,
though, know positively that the wife
did not shoot, had nothing to shoot, ran
from him and was pursued by him and
killed. He was so close to her that her
forehead was powder-burned He was
very sullen and refused to talk. When
asked if he realized the situation he
said not, but that he might later on.
He said he did not regret the crime he
had committed. The wound .on his
scalp could not be examined in the
darkness, but had the appearance of be-
ing inflicted with a knife or piece of
iron. 1t is almost certain the bullet that
made the holes in his hat did not cause
the wound.
The remains Of the unfortunate woman
were brought to this city and placed in
the rorgue.
Brown was met by Ben Chambers GO
ing out on foot a short distance this
side Of the Steinbarger house a few min
utes before the crime was committed
The revolver was a 32-calber. and he
said he bought it at Snyder's. He was
said to be beastly drunk when he did
the shooting. It seems he purchased the
pistol and went out there with delibera-
ton and generalization to Kill his wife