The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

At the county Jail this morning a
covering man, one who served a term
in the penitentIary on probably the
worst charge that can be made against
a man, was taken to Oskaloosa. He is
George Brittenham and he was brought
to Topeka Sunday. after his arrest,
for fear the erraged farmers in the
vicinity of his alleged crime might take
lis wretched life as a forfeit. Britten-
ham served time in the Denitentiary
for a criminal assault upon an Oakland
girl
Woman Identifies Him.
Il got a good look at his face when
he blew out the lantern. l know it is
he.''
This is the statement of Mrs. Eva
Iindamood. wife of the assaulted man
and who it is believed Brittenham in
tended to assault after he had killed
Lindamood. to a member of the State
Journals staff this morning when ask
ed if she was sure the man she had
identified as her husbands assailant
was the one he disappeared with Sun
day morning.
Il never knew George Brittenham.
Ny parents knew him. 1 don't think
ny husband ever spoke to him. We had
TO trouble with the man.
And then. with eyes swimming in
tears and an occasional break in her
voice, but showing wonderful control
over her feelings. the pretty young wife
of Wade Lindamood told of her awful
experience Saturday night; of how the
stranger came and asked for assist
ence, how her husband went with him
against her protests: of her feeling of
dread and he- aversion 10 letting her
husband out of her sight, then of the
sounds she heard which probably We're
made when her husband fell and finally
of ner beirg attacked by the man who
had tried to Kill her husband and af-
ter beating him off, her wild run at 2
q clock in the morning. across a corn
field to the home of her father where
she sobhed out her story.
Calmly she told the story and then,
when told that the man believed to
be her husbands assailant' was serv-
a woman when he was pardoned by
the governor, she said:
81 hope they will never pardon him
again. 1 think it was a mistake to
pardon a man like that
1t is not the terrible experience she
went through which worries Mrs.
Lindamood now. She thinks very little
of her fight to save herself from the
wretch who planned murder in order
to accomplish his purpose afterward,
nor of her wild run through the fields
at night to the home of her father,
where she implored him to go find her
husband 1t is whether or not and
how soon her husband can recover.
Mrs Lindamood is not prostrated. She
is not that kind of a woman Strong
and brave, her only thought is now
for the man who became her husband
less than two years ago.
Plan Carefully Prepared.
The detailed story of the crime
shows a cunningly devised plan to
murder a man and criminally assault
his young and pretty wife. That any
man in his senses should plan such
deed seems almost beyond belief The
story as told by Mrs. Lindamood fol-
lows:
Shortly after retiring for the night,
Mrs Lindamood was awakened by a
pounding on the door. She called her
husband and he in turn called out to
ask what was wanted. There was no
answer and Lindamood raised the win
dow and called repeatedly, asking what
was wanted No answer came until
he finally demanded that he be told
what was desired.
Then a man came around the house
to the window beside which Linda
mood stood and said his automobile
was stuck in the mud and he wanted
it pulled out. He was told that there
was no mud within miles of the Linda
mood residence. The nocturnal visitor
then said the machine was broken
down. Lii damood said he did not be-
lieve it and declined to go.
The stranger insisted that his ma
chine was broken down and that he
wanted 1t pulled out of the road in