Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-13
CARMICHAEL DID MURDER.
Preacher Thuoght to BE Murdered
Turns Out to BE Murderer.

Carthage, ILL.,, Jan. 11.-Rev. John
ii. Carmichael, who was thought at
first to have been murdered at the
Battle Run church, in Michigan, by
Gideon Browning, was found here
Browning last Tuesday night, later
cut his throat in boarding house,
and died here at noon to-day.
Told Details of Crime.
Carmichael was found in the toilet
room of Mirandi Hughes's boarding
house, after he had attempted to erd
his life. He left letter, in which
he confessed that he was the man
who killed Browning, giving the de-
tails Of the crime. Carmichael ar
rived at the boarding house Friday
night, and expected to leave this
morning for Bowen, Iowa, according
to the story told the people in the
boarding house.
to-day. after he cut hi throat. Car
michael made two wounds in his
neck
letter OF ten pages was written
by Carmichael before he attempted
suicide, admitting his identity and
confessing that he killed Browning,
cut up his body and burned it In
the stove. Carmichael had been
staying here for the last two days
at a p iyate boarding house. He
has sister living here, but he has
not been with her to any extent.
Carmichael in his letter, admitted
his identity and declared that he
killed Browning and cut up the body
while under the hypnotic influences
Of his wife.
The lengthy confession, which was
addressed to a Mr. Waggonsteill, Of
Port Huron, Mich, recounts that he
had fallen under the hypnotic influ-
ence of his wife and Browning, and
that the latter had so completely
gained control of his actions that he
(CarmichaeD In a moment of des-
peration, seeking TO free himself
from Browning's awful influence,
threw hatchet at him, knocking
him down, that he then stabbed him,
and in a desperate struggle with
the hypnotist finally overpowered
Browning and killed him, attempting
to cut his body to pieces and burn
1t, piece by piece, in the church
stove. He also started to burn
Browning's clothing, but finding his
own clothes spattered with the blood
OF his victim, he burnt his own
clothing, and appropriated Brown
ing's for the purpose Of making his
escape. 1t was the fact of finding
the burned body and Carmichaels
clothes stuffed into the stove that
at first pointed to the murder Of Rev.
Carmichael by some unknown party.
Statement by Preachers Wife.
Adair, Mich, Jan. 11.-"Really
really. Have they really found him?"
was Mrs. Carmichae's exclamation,
when told that her husband had been
found in Carthage, Ill. She took the
news calmly; in fact, seemed re-
lieved to know that the much-sought
man had been located.
Il know of no reason why he
should have gone to Carthage" she
continued. "He had no relatives
there, and no friends that i ever
knew of. | never heard of Carthage
before, and know nothing of the
place"
When told that her husband, in
his letter, said that he had commit
! ted the murder of Browning while
under her hypnotic inhu"uce, Mrs.
Carmichael declared that she knew
nothing of hypnotism; that her
husband, so far as she knew, was
also ignorant of it, and that hypno-
tism had never been discussed in
their home.
tiZed, g." she said, "and know abSo-
lutely nothing about the practice.
And, IL my husband made such
statement in letter, cannot imag-
inc the reason for it,