The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-21
Hotel Keeper Tells Of
Browns Visit to Bliss

Oklahoma City Aug. 21.-The frs
person to whom Mrs. Nettie Brown In
timated thet he husband, ]. H. Brown
Usage county farmer, had been mur
dered was Mrs. e. A. Carson OF Bliss
who is visiting her daughter. Mrs
Emma Ealey at 9041S West Grand av
enue
Mrs. Carson was seen by a reporter
at Mrs. Ealey's residence Friday morn
ing and she told an interesting story
OF the peculiar conduct OF the woman
and her stepson. Arthur Brown, al
legged alayers of the woman's hus-
band and the boys father.
Mrs. Carson is proprietor Of the
Carson hotel at Bliss, Okla, and the
boy and woman under arrest for the
crime were guests Of the hotel on
the day after the tragedy and for sew
eral days subsequently
Although impressed by the peculiar
actions of the wife and son Of the
murdered man while they were stop
ping at her hotel, Mrs Carson never
suspected that they we're the perpet-
rators of crime so revolving in its
atrocity as to stir the entire country
to fever heat OF excitement and to
arouse the neighbors to the point Of
wreaking summary vengeance upon
the accused.
"Mrs. Brown and Arthur Brown
were at my hotel off and on for four
or five weeks" said Mrs. Carson.
"They first came to the hotel the day
after the murder is said to have been
committed. They rode into Bliss
from their camp a few miles away
for their meals, and while they would
return to the country for the nights
which they said they spent at a farm
house they would return to town and
eat at my house. Mrs. Brown seemed
to have plenty OF money, had fine
clothes, and wore a very fine riding
suit and seemed TO be good horse
woman, She and the boy seemed to
be out on pleasure jaunt, but there
was peculiar restlessness or un-
easiness about her conduct and that
Of the boy In fact, | thought she
seemed to be laboring under a great
mental strain, although she tried TO
conceal her worry
After spending two or three weeks
at Bliss, Mrs. Brown told me that she
had been advised that her sister at
Shelbina. Mo-. was seriously i'll and
that she and her son and little niece
were going to Missouri to see the sick
sister. Arrangements were made with
Bert Blumheld 10 care for the horses
which were placed in pasture at
Bliss. and Mrs. Brown, her step-son
and supposed niece. little girl, went
away.
They returned few weeks later,
and the woman seemed greatly worri.
ed They spent a night at the hotel,
and I was constrained to inquire as
to the cause Of Mrs Browns trouble.
Il was then that she gave down and
told me a very strange story, though
I did not then suspect that such a hor-
rible murder had been committed and
that she and the boy committed the
deed. She told me she was glad that
I asked her about II, as she regarded
me as her friend and she wanted some
one to tell her troubles to. She de-
clared that she believed that her hns-
band had been murdered. rs he had
disappeared from the camp the night
before they first came to my hotel.
Then between sobs she told Of the
last time that she had seen her hus-
band. Of their domestic troubles, a
suit she had instituted for divorce
and alimony and the withdrawal Of
the suit. she said that on the night
her husband disappeared she and her
niece slept in a wagon, Arthur Brown
ana Blumfeld slept in the othes and
that the elder Brown slept underneath
the wagon in which his son and Blum
aeld slept. she said that during the
night her husband aVoAe her and
kissed her. which vas. the last time
me saw him. I shall never forget