The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-05


Sunday to Olive, ana spend few days
before going home. Thought she was
there until Wednesday when she re-
eeived a special delivery letter from
Mrs. Reley asking her to come to Pen
saeola. She came home as soon as
possible. arriving in city Thursday.
Mrs. Boley met her at the depot, toll
ing her what had happened. She later
| found her daughter at he latter s
grandfather's home.
Mrs. MCGOWAN then went to Bluff
Springs in an automobile. got her
daughter, and both returned to Pensa-
cola the following morning. On az
rival at Pensacola, the defendant asked
her daughter if the report was true
and the daughter then told her the
whole story.
As Mrs. MCGOWAN started to relate
the daughters story, the state objected,
and the jury was excluded while AZ :
thorities were submitted in argument.
The state held that the evidence was
irrelevant and immaterial. The OBJ
lection was overruled and the jury
called back.
Mrs. MCGOWAN then related the girls
story to her, which was in effect, as
follows:
The girl had gone to Fort Rarrancas
to spend the day with a convent class
mate. Brown, she said, had later gone
to Barrancas and met her at the car
when she started hona. He had ac'
connpanied her to the city, taken her t.
supper, then to the moving pictures.
and, as it was late, had persuaded her
that It was too late to go to Mrs
Boley's and that she should stay ct
ha~ 70 he LpNy
hotel, registering her as Mrs. Williams
Of Havana, though she did not know
until the next morning that she had
been registered under an assumed
name. After being shown to her room
the girl retired and in about half an
hour the clerk knocked on the door
and asked if Mr.. Brown was there
She answered that he was not, About
half an hour later Brown walked into
the room with some Coco-Cola. The
girl said she asked him what he meant
by coming in andh said he was going
to stay all night. She protested, bat
he told her that If she screamed they
would both be arrested and taken to
jail. He also told her that as they
were engaged and going to be married
it would make no difference anyway.
They spent the night together in the
room, and the following day they eft
together and she was taken In charge
by a relative whom they met. This
story, the defendant said, was repeated
to her by her daughter upon two diff
ferent occasions and places
Mrs. MCGOWAN then related the oc-
currences on the day of the shooting.
She saw Brown for the first time in
Judge Bellinger's court. She had never
seen him before and die not know who
he was until he was pointed out to hec.
She had heard that Brown had said
he would marry her daughter, but that
he would not live with her "a damned
day afterwards"
When Mr. Reese, Browns attorney,
had told her that Brown wanted to
marry the girl, she had said that she
wanted to hear the statement from
Browns own lips. Mr. Reese then
brought Brown into Superintendent
Edwards office, introduced him. and
Brown had endeayored to shake hands
with her. At that, her emotions got
the better Of her, and what happened
she did not remember. her mind being
a perfect blank until after she found
herself in jail.
Mrs. MCGOWAN explained the liquor
on her breath by saying that when she
left Mrs Boley's home to appear in
Judge BeIIinger's court she had had
nothing to eat for twenty-four hours
and thar Mrs. RoIey had persuaded her
to drink some coffee and a little cog
nae brandy to sustain her strength.
She said the handbag with the buliet
hole in it was hers, but she could not
identify the pistol as hers. She said
she was accustomed to carrying a
pistol either in her handbag or satchel
as her duties as a nurse called her out
at all times of day and night and she
always carried the pistol for protsc-
ton.
Mrs. MCGOWAN said the telephone