Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-07-01

ing Lns elHhatureS OF Ife<tueut JOHNSON
and William ii. Seward. secretary Of state.
with him In the various prisons where he
has been confined. Besides the original
manuscript Brown has typewritten copy
OF the Communication These he keeps in o
Latin book and guards them with the
same savagery that famished dog does q
bone.
Hewas first sent TO the Charleston (Mass.)
prison, where he inspired the officers with
such fear TINT for thirteen years he was
kept In solitary confinement. While in
this prison he Killed one of his guards
and murderously attacked several others.
Doubts having arisen as to the prisoners
sanity, he was sent to the Government Hos
pital for the Insane at Washington. There,
after time, he was examined by experts
and pronounced sane and was again re-
turned TO the Charleston penitentiary. lie
chafed under his treatment by the officials
and wrote q letter to Governor Oliver
Ames, of Massachusetts protesting against
the cruelty of the guards. He now has
among his papers reply from the gov
ernor. in which he mentions the complaints
made and advises Brown 10 net as other
prisoners, when he would receive the same
treatment.
In 1889, when the United States authori-
ties were sending numbers Of their prisoners
to the Ohio penitentiary, Brown was in
cluded in the list. and ON his arrival there
be proclaimed that that prison was a para
disc to the ones in which he had been con-
fined At times the man talked most ra-
tionally. and for awhile he was taken out
side the prison walls to work ON trench,
but later he was kept locked in cell In the
insane asylum. He exhibited his murder
GUS propensities by stabbiug one guard with
fork and attempting 20 kill several others
Brown In his rational moments denied
the stories about him and said that he
killed Foster in self defense, He wrote
President Cleveland letter, stating that
in 1868 he joined an American ship at Car
diff, bound for South America, and that
his vessel was captured by the Confederate
cruiser Alabama. The crew were put on q
German brig going to Rio dc Janeiro,
where United States Consul James Mon
roc got him aboard the warship Sacra-
mento, and he thus got TO America. He
then related his version Of the murder.
| According to some, Brown is Portu-
guese, while others say he Is half Indian
and half African. He is a small. dark
skinned man, and when enraged his eyes
shine like Goals OF fire He imagines that
he Is president OF the New York Central
railroad and worth fabulous sums of
money. He offers "ten billion dollars" TO
have certain enemies brought to justice
and $50 a day for servants to serve his
meals Orders for daily bills OF fare have
been written by him, beginning, Il, Thomas
I Azzotte james Brown, warden OF the Ohio
penitentiary," and calling for lone barrel
os potatoes, one barrel Of onions and one
barrel of apples" He is ever haunted by
visions of n former sweetheart, Mary Carey,
and will eat nothing sometimes for days
because he says she has touched the food.
In his quieter moods this strange being
has spent hours scrubbing the floor of his
cell with piece of punice stone, imag
lining that he Is again upon the ocean clean
ing the deck OF ship. He has not been
shaved for years, and his nails are long, like
talons. He was transferred from the Ohio
prison to the Government Hospital for tht
Insane at Washington recently. Wher
taken from his cell he fought like demon
thinking he was going TO be hanged. II
required six stalwart guards to hold him
and he had to be dressed. lie only lacket
the opportunity TO add other murders Il
his manifold crimes. He was transferred
at the request of Warden G. G. james, o
the Ohio institution.
ANDftpw CARLISLE CARSON