The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-10
HAD Been KILLED WITH AXE
rs STRUCK DOWN BY uNkN OWN
HAND IN HIS OWN HOME.
BODY HIDDEN IN The CELLAR
People In the Town Of Brunswick, A.
ter Missing Citizen Since Last Mon
day Night, Investigate and Find
Most Brutal, Fiendish Crime.


day Night, Investigate and Find a
Most Brutal, Fiendish Crime.
Brunswick, Neb, Dec. Especial to
The News: The most CHASTITY and one
of the most fiendish murders ever com
mitted in the state of Nebraska came
to light here last night when the
butchered body of A. G.. Brown, an
unmarried harnessmaker something
over so years of age, was found hid
den in the cellar of his little house In
the edge of town.
The man had been missed since last
Monday night and 1t is now thought
the murder was committed Monday
night. Last evening committee of
three citizens investigated Browns
disappearance, broke into his house
and found the murdered body.
Head Mashed With an Axe.
Browns head had been mashed and
beaten and mangled with his own axe
The skull was broken into bits, the
top of the skull particularly being
broken to pieces
The murder had been done In the
front room of the little lonely dwelling.
There, apparently as the bachelor
harnessmaker sat in his chair just
after coming in from the barn, where
he had done the evenings stable
chores, he had been struck down by
an unknown hand.
Find Pool Of Human Blood.
The chair was tipped over and a
pool of human blood on the parlor
floor told of the cruel, fiendish human
butchery.
The body then had been carried
not dragged-through another room
and into the cellar where it had been
tossed by the murderer to await its
discovery last night. Beside the MUIR
dered body lay the axe with which the
harnessmaker had been slaughtered
Robbery the Motive.
Robbery is believed to have been a
motive for the horrible crime. Brown
generally carried on his person all
the money he had taken in during the
day, and when found there was not
penny in his pockets. The murderer,
however, had been too sly to take the
mans watch.
Murderer Locks Door.
The harnessmaker's bunch of keys
were gone and with these the MUIR
derer had locked the door upon the
house in which he had Just finished his
terrible crime.
The dead man still wore his over
shoes, just as he had come, apparent
ly, from the barn.
There is absolutely no clue to the
murderer One suspicious looking
character was in the village Saturday
and Monday, but he left town on Mon
day nights train and Brown was seen
alive after that 1t is thought the muir
derer must have been some local party
who knew of Browns habit of carry.
ing money in his pockets.
Safe Likely Robbed.
Brown was very quiet man and
kept his own business to himself, and
II is not known how much money he
had on his person Monday night, but
IL is believed the amount was not
large. 1t is suspected that the muir
derer, taking the dead mans keys, af-
ter locking the house in which he had
just slain the harnessmaker, went to
the harness shop, unlocked it, unlock
ed the safe and robbed that. This
could not be confirmed, as the keys
are gone and the safe cannot be
opened.
Lived all Alone.
Brown lived all alone, He had been
here for several years. One brother
survives him at Trepola, Ia, and the
remains will be shipped to mat town
tomorrow morning.
The Antelope county coroner, DR.. w.
y. Conwell, arrived here this morning