The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-27
CAUGHT IN CANADA.
David Brown win Be Brought TO To-
pel1a by Uncle Sam.

David BroW Brown the Negro who was
one of a party who assaulted three
stock men in April. 1904, on the
Melan bridge and nearly succeeded in
killing them, has been arrested in
Vancouver, British Columbia, The as
sault was one of the most brutal ever
perperated in this city and at the
time it was though. that both of the
victims would die Three negro wona-
en- were going home late one evening
and met two white men on the bridge
who refused to get off of the side
walk and let them pass and in the
fight which resulted the women We're
Worsted. They went to their homes
at once and called upon David Brown,
Tom Phillips and Joe Johnson to
avenge- their wrong. In the anean
time ". T. Sanford and James Burt
two cattle shippers who mad cars OF
cattle on a train which was being
held in the yards of the Union Pa
cific started across the bridge to see
the river and look at the bridge, as
one of them had worked on the bridge
when it was being built. They
reached the approach of the bridge
at about the same time that the col
ored trio, bent on vengeance, ap-
Deared on the scene and although the
cattlemen protested that they We're
not the persons who had fought with
the women, they were set upon and
unna ercifully beaten. Burt's skull was
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city hospitals for weeks between life
and DEATH His partner. Sanford, re-
ceived eleven knife wounds in his
back, nine of them being stabs which
entered the cavity of the body. He
too was taken to the hospital though
it was not expected that he could sur
Vive the assault
County Attorney Hungate prose-
cuted the cases and at the trial man
aged to send johnson to the peniten-
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was allowed to plead guilty to assault
and battery. was given six months
in Jail on condition that he turn state 8
evidence. David Brown was released
on a thousand dollar bond signed by
David Childs which he jumped and
although he has been heard of fire.
quently since, the authorities have
never been able to land him in Jail.
Last summer when Sheriff Lucas and
County Attorney Hungate were in
Portland visiting the exposition they
flooded that section of the world with
descriptions of Brown who they had
reasons to believe was in that section
of the United States, and his arrest
is the result
The fact that Brown has been ar
rested in a foreign country rather
eonplicates matters as there is con-
siderable red tape surrounding the ex-
tradition of a criminal If he refuses to
/ come without papers, and Brown has
refused to leave Canadian soil. A
reouisition has been made by County
Attorney Hungate of the governor of
this state. He in turn will ask the
/ department of state at Washington
/ to make a request on the governor
! general of Canada for the surrender
/ of the criminal. This request vii be
accompanied by the evidence in the
case which, if deemed sufficient, the
requisition win be granted There is
/ but little doubt but what the requisi-
ton will be granted and this means
that Sheriff Lucas must go to Canada
after his man.
This will be the first case where a
man has ever been extradited from a
/ foreign country by this county though
there are several counties in the state
which have gone through the ordeal.