The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-02
Evidence Finally Shows
Mrs. BrownKilledHer
self by Drowning.
FOUL PLAY NOT
SUSPECTED NOW
Park Employees Bring Body to
Surface, While Husband and
Victims Brother Were Wait
ing Nearby for News.
Firmly Embedded in Mud
Since Early Monday.

Ending widespread search, which
had continued since Monday morning,
the date of her disappearance from her
home at 25 North Seventeenth Street
Morgan T. Jones, Of 5000 West Cary
Street and RobsSt l. Edwards, of 1872
Wallace Street, employees at the New
Pump-House, found the body of Mrs
Jeannette Brown at c:55 o'clock yes
terday afternoon at the bottom of the
east basin OF tho new reservoir 1t
was the end OF hunt which had eX-
tended through Virginia and as far as
New York. and general surprise was
expressed that Mrs Brown had really
committed suicide by drowning.
Found Near East Bank.
1t was between forty and fifty feet
from the east bank OF the east basin
that the graphing hooks first struck
the body. 1t was towed short dis
tance before the men in the boat re-
allied that rowing had become harder
and that something had become entan-
sled on the hooks. In the middle OF
the basin the boat was stopped, and
Jones. who was seated in the storm
watching the hooks, while Edwards did
the rowing, pulled In the rope. AS the
strain became greater he knew that
some weight had been attached to the
Other end In few seconds appeared
a woman's foot.
We've got her" said Jones to Ed
wards. Then the whole body came to
view. and the mystery of Mrs. Browns
disappearance had become solved.
Holding on to the rope close to the
graphing hooks. Jones towed the body
In, while Edwards continued rowing.
Husband First,on Scene.
Just as they were laying the corpse
on the steps of the inlet we'll at the
northwest end OF the basin. Harry B.
Brown, the dead womans husband, and
Samuel Wolf. OF 444 Essex Street. New
York City. a brother. rushed up to the
embankment. They had been Search
Ing the countryside for some trace of
tho woman, and were returning when
they saw commotion on the en,bank-
nlent
The body was floating face up with
the woman's long hair strea ming be-
hind. As he looked ovor the iron rail-
Ing and recognized the form of his
VIE, Brown shrieked and collapsed.
me brother gave wild vent to his grief
and also collapsed. Eugene e. Davis,
Superintendent of the City Water
Works. ran to Browns side, fearing
that he would do himself bodily harm
In his agony. Superintendent Davis
remained by the two men. and when he
had to leave to SO to some other point
OF the basin he left another man to
watch them AT length they were
taken into the little watch house
standing on the division bank. and
there both men gave themselves tp to
the utter grief which had gone beyond
control. Leaning on the table, Brown
shook with obs.
Crowd Quickly Gathers.
My God, what can I do? l can't
stand it," he cried. Wolf was dis
tracted, and then some one came and
took them both away.
The news of the finding of the body
spread rapidly, and a morbid crowd
soon gathered on the embanknient of
the reservoir and watched Its removal
from the water. Mr.. Davis was imine-
diately informed and repaired to the
scene, Later came Mayor Richardson,
Chief Of Police Werner, Captain Nc
Arahon and Morgan Il. Mills. chairman
of the Water Committee. Coroner
TAYLOR was called and soon came to the
scene, Ele questioned Jones and Ed-
wards as to the finding of the body,
Its location in the water, and asked
them if they had any suspicions If Mrs.
Brown had come to her death by means
other than self-destruction, Il don't
want another Lillian Madison case.
he said,
They had no suspicious whatever and
said that it appeared to them ito he a
plain case of suicide, though they had
not expected to find the body in the
reservoir. All tho whilo the body. COW
cred in a tarpaulin coat reposed on
tho steps at the feet Of the crowd. It
was not again exposed to view. Bis
ley's wagon had come up, and then. as
the crowd was driven back by the
police, the body was brought UP and
placed In the wagon. ea
Questioned by Mr. NIiIis.
a casket was lowered bs sew
eral mon, and the men Who had found
the body after four days search placed
1t in the casket and from their shoulS
clers II Mas lifted 10 the bank, lii
few minutes Coroner TAYLOR had left
with the Magnn. and the crowd melted
away
Alr. Mills Remained for some time,
questioning T. j, Vaughan keeper OF
the reservoir and sylvester Williss an
employc as 10 whether they had scen
anybody approach lhe reservoir "A thp
time Airs, Brown Is supposed 70 havs
thrown herself into the water, They
saw no one and heard no one scream.
| They had retired 70 the watchshausaS.
| for shelter dnring a heavy downpour.
and krew nothing until Willis came out
| shortly before II O'clock and saw the
hat ilaating In the water. about iifteen
feet from the bank, lie called
Vaughan, and they made \ search OF
the grounds, a woman's suni,relln was
Efouna 1T the top oil the CAST stems, #
| N Hut there were no footsteps. abs0-