New Britain herald., 1919-12-29
INVOLVE GIRL IN MT. CLEMENS DEATH Was in Browns Company Just
 Prior to His Death BORROWED A UNIFORM
Returned to Battle Creek After Mur- der Wearing New Clothes and POs- scssing Supply of Money-Said She Would "Gct Ring or Kill Him.

Mount Clemens, Mich, Dec. 29.- Macomb county authorities were to- day Investigating a new angle of the staying of J. Stanley Brown, son of a Detroit manufacturer whose body was , found in his automobi on the road from Detroit last Wednesday morning. The new information was a state met by Miss Gladys Summit who came here last night from Battle 1 Creek and gave the officers a story in volying a young woman, who until last Saturday. lived in Battle Creek, and who, Miss Summit declared had
 been much in Browns company just prior to his death.
 Borrowed Uniform. The girl, whose name Miss Summit gave to the officers, left Battle Creek for Mount Clemens early last week, the statement says, after borrowing a uniform from a soldier stationed at Camp Custer. She returned to Battle
 Creek Wednesday afternoon, Miss
 Summit declares, with 8 large sum Of
 money and attn ed in new and expen-
 sive clothing. Later when informed of Browns death by Miss Summit. i the statement says, the girl displayed 1 unusual interest and inquired if her l name was mentioned by the newspa- ! per reports.
 Discussing the latest development ! Of the investigation Allan Straight. i chief of police, who returned here [ last night with Miss Summit, recall ed the statement of a farm CT that the i latter had passed Browns automobile late Tuesday night and some distance ! down the road had passed figure i dressed in mans clothing but who, he ! said, did not walk or look like a man. { Soldier Not Implicated.
 1 Miss Sunmitts statement that 8
 uniform had been borrowed from a 1 Camp Custer soldier Chief Straight de- 1 clared, was corroborated by the fact
 that the soldier called at the young | womans roCming house during the
 officers investigation there to ask the
 return of the uniform. Straight said l he believed the soldier was not in :, any other way connected with the 1 case. Miss Summitt's statement says the young woman asked her to join ] her on visit to Mount Glenn , where she said she had an engage 1 ment with the slain man.
 1 ''I'll get Browns money and ring if 1 I have to kill him." the statem ent ] quotes the girl as saying:
 Miss Summit says she declined the 1 invitation wnereupon the girl replied:
 Then I'll get someone else to help 1 me-"
 l A warrant charging Beatrice Work | man, alias Cecile Vester with the 1 murder of J. Stanley Brown, shot to
 death in his automobile near here,
 last Tuesday night was issued today. A nation-w search is being made | for Miss Workman. She left Battle l Creek last Saturday after writing q l note to a sollier, saying: I'm on my 1 way. Don't ask me where. I don't know"
 The warrant was based on the story
 told Chief of Police Straight by Miss 1 Gladys Summit brought here from
 Battle Creek last night. Miss Sum
 mitt, according to Chief Straight, de l clared Miss Workman told her she in. ] tended to "get' Browns money an( | ring if she had to kill him. Following
 this conversation with her Miss Sum mitt said Miss Workman left fo1
 Mount Clemens to keep an appoint
 ment with Brown. She returned tt . Battle Creek Wednesday, and Mis- Summit said seemed well supplied with money. Miss Molly Bennett, wht was brought here from Sandusky fo 1 questioning was relea sed by the au 1 thoritics today.