The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-08-23
SAYS STEpSON HAD MANY
QUARRELS WITH HIS FATHER
Last Time | Saw My Husband
Was When He Kissed Me
Good Night" She Declares
Special to Daily Leader.

Special to Daily Leader
Baulesyille Okla, Aug. 22-The
heating of the cases OF Mrs Netie
Prown, and her stepson Pete Brown,
with the murder of The wo-
r1ns husban VIII take place SIT
Pawhuska on Wednesday
II have not seen my husband since
DE came to me ON the night ne dis
ppcared and kissed me goodnight an
win have evidence to prove that
nm innocen when the proper time
comes, declared Mrs Netue Grown
hrged with being implicated in the
murder of her husband at Bliss las,
tpril. as she pee cd ont of the bars
ia her cell at the county Jail in ~
ity. where she is confined TO escape
he violence Of Pawhuska farmers. ain
'alked TO reporter OF the events of
Pc past feN weeks and her career
.rce the disappc rance Of her has
BAND She is firm in her belief that
he win be acquitted and declares thar
was Pete Brown WHO KILLED his
ather
She appeared net to be worried by
he confession which the boy had
made I'm which WAS connected, O
by lhe threats of violence which Paw
huska formers had maie against her
They will all know soon - she said
"tha | am not guilty. and can stand
lbuse for a while
A glance at thc face of Mrs. Brown
EASILY explains why q simple country
youth might be so enam0rod and f's
mated as to commit such q crime
Is Pete Brown, the 20-year-old boy,
has confessed. Strikinely pretty de
spite The effect of confinement and III
ness and worry caused. she says. over
the disappearance Of he- husband she
Possesses a peculiar element of 9t
ractiveness that even approaches hyp
qotism in its power She betrayed
rot he slightest emotion on any sub.
iect except when she told how the
I'D man ha come to the wagon where
he lay asleep near Bliss on the night
0f his death and kissed her Her
voice c1ught and she hesiiated ? mo.
ment as she attempted to speak furth-
nr.
She told OF her first discovery that
her husband was missing
81 did not know that he had been
illed, she said. until the couies-
ion which Pete made few avs
ago. The last time ! sav him was
when he came and kissed me good
night 7 got up next morning at 9
o'clock and found that my husband
had gone. wanted Pete to sound
an alarm bu- he would not do il. and
we went on to Bliss ! stayed There
= little while and telephoned to Bert
8lumfield at Pawhuska 10 come and
get the teams ana t7ke them back to
Pawhuska. as | could get no pasture
81 any place to keep them ] wro @
o the officers and told them that my
husband was gone and requested that
search be made ! never thought
)f his being murdered although Pete
cted quoerly then anl later got
word while in Bliss that my sis or
was i'll in Missouri AMI / went there
Pete went with me and after three
weeks Il came back to Pawhuska to
assist the Officers in the search for
my husband
Pete and | quarreled then, he re
fusing TO come back and he left ami
vent to Tex3s, where he was arres q
I'd a few days ago This talk of love
between Pete and myself is entirely
untrue and there was never any foun-
ddlion for such a charge. Pete and
his father quarrele1 often and ] can
tell Of times when he threatened his
f2ther's life and not very long before
the murder The boy Quarreled with
me often ana displayed a violent tenn
per My husband and never ha
any trouble and there isn't any reas-
or for spreading q lot of false stories
about my getting tired OF him and be.
ing untrue to him Ny husband md !
loved each other and never had any
tUuble.
MIR. Rmmfield whom they have ar
rested. has NOT a thine to do with
this case. ! called him by telephone
t1 come after our horses. we had
eight with us aud take them back &c
Pawhuska. did as ! asked ana that
Is all he had o do with it have
known him q long lime and he is no
guilty of anything
Infant Daughter OF j. p. Connor Die,
+ the infant daughter OF President i
/ Z Connors of the state board of gri
/ culture died yesterday at the family
home near Cana ian of tvlshOid fpve