Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-07-13
The BREWER TRAGEDY
Fuller and Later Details as AC-
counted by
The Lucedale Plaindealer; Of the Her.
rible affair.

| MIS-. ldtDcft, hdN l1Ollu, HIS UduA
boy, and had then sent a fatal bullet
through his own head.
Hurrying to the scene of murder
and suicide. The Plaindealer news
purveyor found that Mrs. Talbert was
dead. Mrs. Brewer with probable
fatal wound, Mrs. Countryman with
slight wound on left hand and the
baby with left arm broken.
1t seems Brewer had been unkind
and. at times, cruel in his treatment
of his wife, and several times threat
enino to kill her and once before GO
ing so far as to attempt to carry his
threat into execution, but the prompt
interference of friends prevented a
tragedy then A couple of days
previous to the sad affair of last
Monday, Mrs Brewer, in great fear
of bodily harm at the hands of her
husband, sought refuge at the home
of her father, ]. |. Talbert, on Lon
don street between Main and Ratl:ff
streets. Brewer brooded over this
and hourly seemed to become more
vengeful. Early Monday afternoon,
he remarked to several persons that
something was going to happen 10
Lucedale different from anything
which had ever before happened.
About the hour named, Brewer went
to the Talbert home, entered the
front gate and found his wife and
her mother seated on the porch, the
latter at the sewing machine and the
former with the baby in her arms.
he asked his wife if she would return
home with him. Mrs. Talbert made
some remark, when Brewer, without
uttering another word, drew his pis-
toll and fired at her, the ball entering
left side of neck and passing through
breaking it. With wonderful vitali-
ty, Mrs. Taldert ran into the bed
room at the left of the hall and fell
on bed, where she expired in few
minutes. Mrs. Brewer ran through
the house, the Infatuated husband
following rapidly and firing, one shot
entering his wifc's shoulder blade
and making its exit above the region
of the heart. The terribly wounded
woman ran across the yard and adj
Join ne premises, when she tottered
and assistance being. at hand, she
was tenderly taken to the room in
rear of Mrs. Thompson S store, where
she was cared for, being thought to
be mortally wounded. The ball which
passed through Mrs. Brewers body
grazed the baby body and entered
its left arm, badly shatterng the
bone between the elbow and shoulder,
lodging in the muscles, from which
it was extracted by the attending
surgeon. One Of the balls from
Brewers pistol struck the fieshy part
at the base of the thumb on left
land of Mrs. Coun tryman, who was
in the hall as the murderous man
went through on his mission of death.
Thinking he had killed his wife,
Brewer fired q shot at his head, but
the ball merely grazed the skull. de
then passed out the rear door OF the
Talbert home and walked across the
adjoining yard on the north to the
southwest corner of the house occu-
pied by K L. Mallet, apparently
still bunting for his wife, when be
was met by 7. R. Jamcs, who enga-
ged him in conversation till the town
ma.shal Should arrive. on the scene,
the latter being at the depot at the
time of the tragedy. After a few
seconds conversation with Mr.. James,
Brewer suddenly placed the puzzle
of the pistol to his own head and
pressed the trigger, firing the weap-
on and sending a bullet tearing
through his brain, the victim falling
in his tracks in dying condition.
In the meantim., surgeon had
been summoned to attend the APP
parently dying young wife and moth
er. She is still alive. and receiving
close and skilled surgical attention
and careful nursing, the latter at
the hands of an able and competent
trained nurse from Mobile, and the
chances are favorable to her recovery.
The baby is IN good hands and will
survive its injury.
The unfortunate young man died
from the effect of the self-inflicted
wound, about nine o clock Monday
night never having recovered con
seriousness.
All parties are from Alabama The
father of young Brewer lives in
Clark county, Ala, where he is an
upright, honored. well-to-do citizen,
highly respected and esteemed by
the people of that section. Young
Brewer came here about year ago
and worked for several months in
the K. c. Lumber Company's mill
at this place and at other points.
Recently he openend an ice cream,
soda water and fruit stand on South
Mill street and seemed to be finan-
cially prosperous, but his morose
disposition and cold, repellant nature
kept him from getting into very
close social touch with his customers
and the public generally.
The Talberts were plain, quiet ,un-
assuming people, well liked and es-
termed by their neighbors and all
that know them. Mr.. Talbert was
working at his trade carpentry
three miles from town ut the time of
the tragedy. having left home early
that morning. His was indeed sad
home coming.
The father of young Brewer tele-
graphed for the corpse to be held I'M
til he could reach Lucedale. which
he did Wednesday morning, return
/ ing with the remains of his boy on
the next train to Mobile Who can
fathom the gloom and sadness of that
Ala oama home?
The funeral of Mrs. Talbert took
place Tuesday afternoon attended
| by the sorely bereaved surviving
members of the family and sympathi
! ling neighbors, the interment being
at the town cemetry with apprcpri-
ate serv .ce by Rev. e. L. Whiddon
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