Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-18
CORONER TO HEAR !
DETECTIVES NEXT
Baltimore Officers to Report
Monday in Brandon Muir :.
der Case. /


ANNAPOLIS. Md. August 1s.-Cor-
oner William S. Welsh. investigating
the Brandon murder. will probably call
tho jury together again Monday after
noon or Monday evening to hear the
evidence the Baltimore city headQuar-
! ters detectives have been gathering.
The date has not been definitely set
tied yet, but Detective Dougherty In
dictated today that he thought he would
be ready Monday.
Annapolis is much interested I'm the
question of whether or not John Snow
den, the negro accused OF the crime.
viii he brought back for the inquest.
Because Of the undercurrent OF feel
ing in the town. States Attorney Green
has not made up his mind whether the
negro will be brought back from tho
Baltimore city Jail.
Leroy Brandon. father of the husband
of the murdered woman. who was at
Colorado Springs when the crime was
committed. came to Annapolis this
morning with his son. The two spent
the day settling up the youthful hus-
hands affairs. Accompanied by his
father. Valentine Brandon. re-entered
his devastated home for the first time
since the night he discovered his wifes
body.
Brandon May Join the Armp.
That the murder mystery which has
shaken quaint Annapolis to its foundations
and occupied the most prominent place in
the pages Of more than one newspaper.
will find its way to the bloodstained.
| mud-soaked trenches and be host as but a
death of the world war "somewhere in
| France is the confident opinion OF many
| OF those who know the grief-stricken
young husband His brother. Lorenzo
Brandon. who has been HIS constant com
panion and comforting guide during the
past eleven days. has THIS opinion
II feel sure Val will wind up by enlist :
| ing as soon as he sees this mystery cleared
up said the brother this morning
| This idea is supported in fact as the
youth who was made widower in the
| first bliss OF happy married life and at the
very gateway OF fatherhood announced
yesterday that he was through with An
napolis forever. He had come to Annapo-
| lis to close up his personal affairs. SO far
as possible. A little bank account he and
his wife had started at a local financial
institution. which was in the wife 3 name,
was drawn out short time after Brandon
had gone to the naval experiment station
and drawn some back pay which was due
him. A mere pittance OF life insurance Is
| also being adjusted.
Asked what he intended doing about
his furniture. the youth said he really
did not know and does not care very
much.
The whole house and all of the fur
nishings We had bought together to
start our life with are now repugnant
to me. l feel as IL ] never wanted to
see any of it again." he said.
| Mrs. Thomas King. whose recoilec-
ton of The happenings in the little row
| of tenement apartments on the day
when the young wife was. by the hands
of a human hend, crushed over the
brink into eternity. pointed the inquiry
away from rather than toward tn.
| negro theory. is to be quixxed by the
authorities again. Mr. King will leave
Annapolis this afternoon for Colonial
| Beach. Va. and will bring his wife
back to this city on Monday.