The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-18
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According 10 me- story told Nv browne
Wednesday va his birthday. and aocuia-
PANIED ~ NJ. wife and their Rsirui, Y "
Matthew ~ Detroit he went In the evening
~ the tafe Martin and rbjoycd u birthday
SUPPER They had some vine, hut only q
little he aid
Their home ~ ~ East Twenty eighth
street. into which they had moved the day
l%+fore, had not vet been settled They
reached the house ~ I O'Clock and found
the front door standing open, The party
entered the huus, aud Browne. hearing u
noise In he basement. went town to i%nyeati-
gate As be- cuteredCne 81 The front rooms,
he sIys, % small man sprang at him with a
knife. Browne put up his hand TO save
himself and Nas stabbed In the hand. A
sCunie followed. during which one OF the
windows In the room was broken. Mr.
Browne slys he doesn't remember striking
the windoW nj all.
I'm the meantime Matthews, hearing the
nois', started down to help. Then, chang
ing his mind, he ran out In search ofa police
man. Before he found one Browne came
up the stairs two steps at a time, they say.
with blood dripping from the injured hand,
Az he reached the front door he met Police
men S%lattery and O'Brien. with Ms wife and
Matthews. coming up the steps.
I here il a burglar in the house, Browne
saws he told the officers. Then. he says.
the cops gent to the head of the stairs and
with their revolvers in one hand and with
the other holding lighted matches above
their heads, peered down into the basement
and, in a matter of fact voice, n ulred II
any one were down there.
At this Mrs. Browne lost patience, Browne
says. and running up To O'Brien she charged
him with being a coward, seized his pistol
and declaHed she herself would 60 down to
investigate If he was afraid.
Then says Browne, the cop took him TO a
drug store and had his wound dressed.
On the way To the druggists he gave the
officers a laying out. Fifteen or twenty
people followed in their wake. After his
hand had been mended somewhat, he was
taken to the Thirtieth street station house
and locked up for the night. Before lock-
ing him up. he says, Sergeant Mccarthy
delivered himself Of a lengthy lecture to
Slattery. The cop insisted, however, tha
Browne was drunk and he was put in a cell.
On the blotter at the police station is the
following entry:
i?o A. M,-Crowd in street in front of ~
East Twenty-eiRhth street. Found C.. A.
Browne intoxicated. Browne said. This
house has been entered by a burglar. Ac-
companled by Patrolman Patrick O'Brien.
searched the house, but could find no bur glar.
Mr.. Browne had a slight cut on his right hand.
This report was made by Slattery.
Back at 81 East Twenty-eighth street
stood Mrs. Browne and Matthews waiting
ON the spoop' lhey Teinulleu 'heie until
daylight, they say. Then they sent TO
Mr.. Browne for the front door key. While
they stood on the stoop, they say, the door
was slammed from the inside.
Mrs. browne says that a pocketbook
containing a ten dollar bill and some
change which she had left on the dresser in
her room nave not been found since the
excitement.
Browne says he is the son Of c. N. Browne,
a former member Of the Stock Exchange,
who died about fifteen years ago leaving
considerable property. His mother Is o
in Europe. For some time, he says, he and
his wife, whose health is poor, have been
at the family country place at Lake Rom
konkoma, l., L., which adjoins the place OF
Maude Adams. Mrs. Browne was a Miss
katherine Mcfarland of youngstown. Ohio.
They have been married less than a year.