Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-19
BLOODY PENKN|FE
1t Cut the Throats of
Two People.
Sunday Morning Crime in a
North Third Street House.
James Brown Used the Knife OH Cora
Miller and Himself.
GETTING ALONG NICELY.

After an all nights debauch last
Saturday crime was committed at
SO7 North Third street, and on Sunday
morning there were two victims with
their throats cut.
James Brown lies in one of the
rooms, under guard, with a CHASTITY
wound extending from ear to ear, and
Cora Miller, the madam of the house,
in another room, with her throat part
ly cut from right to left.
Saturday night last Brown and Cora,
who had often sought the wine when it
was red, were out on a regular old
fashioned spree-a pace that usually
Kills, and early Sunday morning turn.
ed in for few hours rest.
On reaching the house, Brown felt
like sleep was needed, and rolled over
on the bed
Here the story to the beginning of
bloody crime starts:
Cora says that they got to quarreling
and she slapped him in the face and
told him she wanted nothing more to
do with him. That angered him and
getting up from the bed, he took out
her across the throat He then COM
menced cutting and slashing at his
own throat She then ran out of the
room, yelling Murder" and when the
other inmates of the house arrived
and saw the bloody deed, they gave
the alarm as hurriedly as possible.
Browns story is that he was trying
to sleep, when Cora commenced pum-
melting him and pulling his hair. and
accusing him of this and that. He
then cut her in the throat, not intend
ing it to be so serious, but thinking
that he had killed her and that he
would be hanged for the crime, he then
Inflicted the wounds upon himself with
the intent to kill.
Officers arrived at the bloody scene
half an hour after the crime had been
committed, followed a few minutes
later by Drs. earns and Wroth.
Marshal McMillin placed Brown un.
der arrest, and left guard in charge.
while the doctors went about attending
to the victims of the debauch and
quarrel.
DR.. earns attended to the man and
sewed up his wound. He found the
throat cut from ear to ear, the wind.
pipe cut and punctured in several
places, and the external carotid artery
severed.
and discovered that the knife had en-
tered the center of the throat on the
right side and cut up toward the left
ear. The wound was nearly four inches
long and deep enough to sever the
windpipe or trachia.
Both physicians give it as their opin-
ion that both Brown and the woman
will survive their CHASTITY wounds, pro-
yided no complications set in, although
ii is yet too soon to make any predic-
tion as to the outcome.
At this hour both are resting easy,
and DR.. earns has given instructions
to the officers, who hold Brown, that
he must not be removed until he so
orGers.
Cora Miller and her sister, Lille
are from Missouri, and it is said that
their names are assumed. They desire
TO keep the shame of their life from a
good and aged mother now residing
near Kansas City.
Brown is known here as a base ball
player-a member of the Browns club
and later as bartender at the Metro
politan when the resort was run by
Mr.. Berry. He came here first from
the government Indian school at Santa
Fe, where he was in the service of the
government. He is said to be one
eighth Wyandotte and graduated as a
member of that tribe of Indians at
Haskell institute, Lawrence, Kansas
His parents now reside at Wyandotte
Indian Territory, where his father is
reported to be quite wealthy and in
the stock raising business. He always
bore a good reputation, but of recent
date has been drinking heavily. He
has many friends in the city.