The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-28
DOLLY" FOUND;
HELD IN BROWN
MURDER PUZZLE
Young Divorce Slain Man
Was to Meet IN Detroit
Is Arrested.
SEEK SOLDIER FRIEND
Authorities Think Camp
Custer Man Can Throw
Light on Mystery.

Mount Clemens. Mich. Dec. H.-Mrs.
Leona Bennett, a 24-year-old divoreee
with whom ]. Stanley Brown. found
murdered near here Wednesday morn
ing. is said to have been infatuated.
was taken into custody today at San
dusky. Ohio. by Sheriff Perry. acting
on a request from authorities here.
Mrs. Bennett has figured in the case
as Mysterious Dolly" II is said she
is being held incommunicado pending
arrival of Michigan officers.
sheriff Caldwell. facing kabeas cor
pus proceedings to obtain the release
OF Mrs Ruth Provost Brown. and her
cousin, Lloyd Provost. and satisfied
they know nothing of the murder"
, released the couple today.
Went to See Dolly,
II was to see Mrs. Bennett that
Brown went to Detroit. the police say.
and u was she who was to have gone
TO Chicago with Bicrta the day his
body, riddled by bullets and with head
crushed. was found in his automobile
~ lonely spot on the outskirts OF
the city.
Mrs. Brown was released a short
time after her attorney left for Detroit
to obtain a writ of habeau corpus.
She was released in time for the
fUneral OF her husband. Following
short services in the Brown home
here. the body was taken to Detroit
fcr inteTment.
Shortly after Mrs. Brown was re-
leased Lloyd Provost. her cousin. who
had been held as material wit
ness" was given his liberty.
Immediately after the release of
AIRS. Brown and her cousin. Sheriff
Caldwell ordered a search for Mrs.
Bennett and a soldier friend" Ac-
cording to the police. Mrs. Bennett
was with Brown in Battle Creek.
Mich. last week. She was to have
met him in Detroit Tuesday. He
failed TO keep the appointment. the
police say.
Found In Browns Room.
A few hours after the body was
found, Mrs. Bennett was located in
Browns room at a local hotel She
in she came to Mount Clemens to
find out why Brown did not meet me
in Detroit as he promised"
She was questioned by the detec-
tives- but failed to give them infor-
nation Of value, and was permitted
to leave.
Since then the police have learned
that while Brown was with the woman
in Battle Creek he became involved
in quarrel with soldier friend OF
the woman.
Hundreds crowded about the pig
plate gless widows of the under
takers chapel here this afternoon
during the brief funeral services for
Brown Mrs. Brown, accompanied
by Percy Brown. brother of the dead
man, and a deputy. walked sobbing
into the parlor with a handkerchief
to her face.
She looked across the room at the
body of her husband and stepped to
the easket. hestatng a moment. then
bent a final caress. She staggered
backward and seemed on the verge
Of collapse.
Twice she called her husbands
name, crying.
Another Theory Suggested.
DR.. John a. Ienfesty. who conducted
the post mortem. tonight opened the
way for a theory that Brown had been
shot by a left-handed man.
The doctor said the automatic pistol
must have been held above and to the
left of Browns head. The first bullet,
which was fatal. entered just above
the car. The dropping of the head
caused the next two to enter the same
spot. while the fourth entered the
neck.
IL the car had been brought to a stop
before the shooting and some one got
out of IL. or another car came up.
the possibility OF the shooting from
the outside by a right-handed man
appears.
Against this theory. however. DR..
Ienfesty says must be considered the
fact that the slayer's pistol was less
than six inches from Browns head
when the first bullet was fired. and
the slayer must have been in a posi-
ton to shoot downward