The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-10
TALE OF HORRIBLE CRIME is
RELATED IN COURT.
HIS TESTIMONY IS UNsHAKEA
Tells Three Stories of the Killing of
His Father-hundred Crowd
The Court Room.

Bartlesville, Okla, Feb. TO- = The
line of defense to be adopted in the
INettie Brown murder case here was in
dicated yesterday afternoon when the
attorneys for the defendant began ask
ing questions indicating that Peter
Brown the son of T. H. Brown, who
was murdered April %, 1909, at road
side camp in the Usage reservation
was jealous of his father and killed
him in order that he might be able to
marry his step-mother.
The Nettie Brown case was brought
here from Usage county on change
of venue. The state is trying to con-
yict Mrs. Brown OF compelling her
step-son, Peter Brown to murder his
father. Peter Brown has confessed
that he killed his father, but says 1t
was at the instigation of his STEP
mother, and that she agreed to marry
him and divide the property with him.
The defense nows seems to be prepar-
| ing OF show that Peter Brown acted
on his own initiative, and that he was
jealous of his father.
Hundreds of people were unable to
gain admittance to the crowded court
room this afternoon. Peter Brown told
his story on the stand yesterday,
and the attorneys for the defense were
unable to shake him on cross-examina-
| ton
did you, in Pawhuska last spring,
offer Joe Tigh 500 to kill your
father?" asked Attorney Charlton
4 did" answered Brown in a low
tone, This was the first evidence
brought out in the three days of the
trial that Pete had been in anyway in
the initiative in the crime
Il have told three stories" said
Brown, Il first told the one my step
mother and | had agreed to tell, but
when the officer told me that my step
mother had confessed and laid the MUIR
der of my father on me. then told
tnat she had done the murder Then
when the officer told me that If | would
turn states evidence and go on the
stand and tell the truth, would not
be punished, | told the truth as have
told it here"
Going back to the night of the MUIR
der, he said he went to bed about
O'Clock. He went to bed first. His
father, he said. went to look after the
horses.
when did you wake up?"
Some time in the night, something
awakened me- saw my stepmother
standing near me. She said to make
no noise got up and she told me
to get the hoe at the hind end of the
wagon. | walked to the hind wheel
and picked up the hoe and went to
the head of the bed and struck him on
the forehead. He did not move for
time and laid the hoe down and stood
still"
The witness then went into the de-
tails of the removal of the body by
himself and Mrs Brown. and placing
it on the fire and piling of wood on
the body
WAS there much fire when you laid
the body on it?" asked Attorney Charl-
ton.
mo, there wasn't much. but we
piled on brush and wood and soon had
Big fire."
/, what did you say to your step
mother when she told you to kill your
father?"
Il told her we ought not to do it.
She said she was going to do it some
time, and it might as well be now as
any time. l said, well, all right"
what did Mrs. Brown do before
you placed the body ON the fire?"
"She knelt down and felt in his vest
pocket and took his watch and gave
it to me, and then felt in his shirt
bosom and took out two packages
do you know what the packages
were?"
mo, sir; it looked like money!"
did you know if there were any
remains of your father in the fire when
you left camp next morning?"
"My step-mother took stick and
stirred the ashes before we left
think there was nothing left"