The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-16
THE MURDER
w, w. BROWN SAYS HE DID NOT
KILL HIS WIFE.
ON THE WITNESS STAND TODAY
Defense Takes Position That Mrs.
Brown Cut Her Own Throat
Brown Says She Threat
eued to Kill herself.

| The court room was crOWQeO tOOay at
| the trial Of w. w. Brown for the muir
| der of his wife. The trial reopened at
9 o'clock before Judge McClernan in
| the district court, and the defense then
began putting in its evidence. Mr.. Wines,
one Of Browns counsel, made the open
| ing statement for the defendant, and
| Brown went on the stand and denied the
! murder.
| The defendant also recounted the hap
| penings at the house occupied by him
and his family at the time Mrs. Brown
met her death. He called God to wit
ness that he did not kill his wife, and
told story supporting the position taken
| by the defense that Mrs. Brown commit
| ted suicide
Defense opens.
| In his opening statement Mr.. Wines
said that the defense would show that
Brown never uttered one word threaten
| ing violence to his wife in his life, but
that he thought his wife did not do
right at times, in view OF the income
he earned. He said that it would he
shown that Brown occasionally objected
to his wife going out at nights.
ey, luxuries and comforts of life such as
he was able to provide, and that he oc-
casionally took her to plays; but that
she went to plays without his knowledge
and consent, and that he reproached her
and demonstrated with her in a proper
way.
Mr.. Wines said that it would be shown
that Brown got up and bought raisins
at a store on Utah avenue the morning
of the 18th of June. when Mrs Brown
was killed. and that when he came back
from the store he said to his wife that
It was a pretty time to get up, but that
nothing occurred to arouse any feeling;
also that Brown said something's to his
wife about where she was the night be-
fore, but nothing unpleasant.
Theory Of Suicide.
Mr.. Wines stated that it would be
shown that while Brown was reading the
morning paper and Mrs Brown was MAX
ing the bed, and they We're talking, Mrs.
Brown said, well, I'll take the razor and
end this trouble" and that once before
this occasion Mrs. Brown had attempted
to commit suicide by taking laudanum.
The attorney stated that it would be
shown that when Mrs. Brown went to
the cupboard to get the razor and found
the empty cases and returning met
his wife coming out Of the bedroom with
her throat cut: that she put both hands
on his shoulders and he kissed her and
discovered her throat was cut, and that
he rushed into the bedroom, found the
razor on the floor and in desperation cut
his own throat, and then ran out to the
dining room and kissed his wife affec-
tionately again.
1--WE will show that the woman came
to her death by her own hands. You
will be told that there was no motive
for suicide. We will show that suicides
kill themselves and go to their graves
without any known motive" Mr.. Wines
said.
Brown on the Stand.
w. w. Brown went on the stand in
his own defense after the opening state
ment and said that he was A years
old and had known his wife for rs years.
and that they were married after an en-
gagements Of two weeks.
estate to the jury what your relations
We're with your wife?" said Mr.. Wines.
ELL, we got along nicely said
Brown.
Browns hands twitched nervously, and
his answers were made in dead mono
tone.
What shift were you on the 18th day
of June?" Mr.. Wines asked.
1.-THE afternoon Shift" the defendant
answered.
when you got home the night before
what did you find?"
II found three children. My wife was
not home. She came in in few min
utes."
did you have any conversation with
your wife then?"
Wife Naughty Girl.
mo, sir. told her she was naughty
girl to be out that late" Brown replied.
The defendant said that his tone was
ordinary and that there was no quarrel.
The lawyer took up what occurred the
next morning.
Brown testified that his wife rose early
next morning and got her son Georges
breakfast, returning to bed. She and
Brown occupied the same bed.
did you have any talk with her afte.
she returned to bed?" Mr.. Wines asked.
II told her was going to get up;
was hungry and I wanted something to
eat" the prisoner replied.
what did you do after you got up?"
"Got my breakfast and went and got
some raisins at a store that my wife
asked me to get. My wife and daughter
were up when I got back and I said
that that was a pretty time to get up.
May went into the bedroom and began
making the bed, and I went into the
front room and read the paper. asked
my wife where she was the night before
and she told me 1t was none of my bust.
ness"
"What tone did you use?"
"Just an ordinary one"
"What followed tthen?"
A Street Walker.
81 told her she would be counted q
street walker II she kept 1t up nights"
"Kept what up?"
"Going out nights"