Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-02
FREMONT MURDER STILL MURDER
Omcers Have Slight Hope of Discover
ing the Perpetrntor.

OhAeSNsH Sh8ht hOPC VI
ing the Perpetrator.
FREMONT. Neb., Jan. 1.--(Special.)-Th
supposed Browning murder Is still a mys-
terry. The officers have been following diff
ferent clues last night and today. without
material results. This morning a man was
placed under arrest who it is thought may
know something about the affair. Indca-
tons at the point where the man was
killed show that he did not give up his
life without struggle. The ground was
tramped up and a pool of blood was wish
BILE. Those first at the scene say that
there were marks of buggy track leading
from the road to short distance from
the scene of the murder. That the man
had been dragged from where he was shot
to the clump of bushes where found was
shown by marks along the ground and
occasional blood spots on the grass.
| The body hal not stiffened when found
| and 1t Is therefore possible that the affair
| took place yesterday forenoon instead of
| Saturday night, though the nature of the
| wound is such that death might not have
| resulted until some time after the fatal
shot. The clothing was badly torn, evil
| IDENTIFY on account of the body having been
| dragged over the rough, frozen ground.
There were two bullet wounds in the head
The body was lying on the side, with one
! arm, evidently that by which 1t had been
1 dragged, extended.
Sheriff Webster and Sheriff-elect Daley
| of Saunders county and Sheriff Bauman
and Deputy Jensen of Fremont are working
| on the case, with small chance OF solving
the mystery. One clue run down this
morning was that furnished by a Fremont
man. who identified. the deceased as a party
| uh nil he,
chased a bottle Wh;whisky in Fremont
saloon and at the same time displayed
considerable money The sheriff located
| the other party and soon found that the
| man supposed TO have been Browning was
alive and we'll.
| The dead man was "a years old and had
| worked in Cedar Bluffs and vicinity for
some time. Last summer he was employed
| in McMahons livery stable later he
| worked as a farm hand for John Lyman,
a Saunders county farmer, and had worked
at times for other farmers near Cedar
Bluffs. His employers say that he was
an industrious man, a good worker and
was generally supposed to have some money
saved up. He was in the habit of carrying
more or less money with him. His rela-
tives live in Omaha, and he went there
quite frequently. He had been in Omaha
during the holidays and the clothing he
had on when killed. all new and of a better
quality than those usually worn by the
average farm hand, had been purchased
there.
Sheriff Webster. acting coroner OF
Saunders county, empannelled jury last
night and an inquest will be held at Cedar
BLUFFS today. The suspect who is now in
the county Jail protests his innocence, but
declines to talk He has been employed
on the Great Northern bridge gang ant
will be held awaiting further developments
1t developed here today that That
Browning's father, Robert Browning, live,
at Bonaparte. Ia, and that he had a sis
: ter, Mrs. Charles Pierce, who lives II
} Omaha. Mrs. Pierce passed through herr
| this afternoon on her way to Cedar Bluffs
r Neb. On December IS Browning lief
t Omaha for his fathers for the purpos
of getting legacy OF $500, which he late
wrote his sister was paid to him. 1t Il
thought that someone who knew OF hi
having received this money may have fol
7 lowed him and shot him.
The Identification of the body of TIL