Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-29

There is nothing to add to the report of the suicide of William Brown, after firing three shots that struck his wife, Gladys Dunbar Brown, as told in We'd nesday's Bulletin, insofar as it relates to the actual shooting, and the incidents connected herewith just before and i'm mediately after the shooting. The port stated that Browns three shotts took effect the first graing Sthe front of his wife's body and the right arm set ting her clothing afre, another shot pen etrating her left lung and the third en- tering the abdomen. Soon after his ar- rival at the Lawrence hospital, New London. an examination was made of the wounds by Dr. Daniel T. Sullivan head of the hospital staff and by Dr. Frank l. Payne of Westerly, and both believed that she could not possibly survive be- yond a day or two. One of the bullets was just under the skin on the right side. and was radily removed, while the other was in the abdomen. At the hos pital and before the examination, Mrs.
 Brown felt the bullet just under the skin and remarked: There's the evil
 dence that I have been shot.
 As near as can be aseertained there was not the slightest ground for the jealousy of William Brown, but it was probably created in his imaginative and drunk -crazed mind, by the excessive drinking of jakey. Three bottles of Ja- maica ginger unopened were found on his person after death and he had left a partially drained bottle at the home of
 his parents, just before he started for his own home for the purpose of killing him. self and his wife.
 Brown served in the world war with a
 Providence battery of the Yankee divi- sion, and soon after his discharge, he en- gagged at his trade of stone-cutting in Quincy, Mass. There he wooed Miss Dunbar and after a while he left Quincy 1 and worked in Philadelphia. He re- turned to Quincy only six weeks ago and l went back to Philadelphia. Two weeks ago MT. and Mrs. Brown came to West erly and after speeding a few days at the home of Browns parents in John street they began keeping house at No. ' Spring street, where the shooting occurred. NIT. Brown came from Philadelphia to work for the Bradford Dyeing assoeia- tion and with the expectation of play ing first base for the Bradford baseball team. He declined this job after his ar | rival stating that his wife preferred that he work at his trade, rather iS-sn play
 baseball He then entered the employ the New England Grante works. Tues
 
 company that he would quit work giving as a reason that he had been drinking and did not care to work. He called al | the plant Tuesday afternoon and receiv- ed the wages due him. It is believed 1 that the revolver and ammunition Was 1 purchased with a part of this money 1 When he received the money he showed signs Of intoxication, but there wa' nothing in his manner that indicated that he had in mind murder and self de | struction.
 l When the police arrived at the BrOwI 1 home, with the exception of the kitchel
 where the shooting ocurred, Brown dea' on the floor and Mrs. Brown, bleeding 1 unconscious and Ter clothing afire, tn l other two rooms of the apartment the. | had occupied. were in the best of order and all about the place was an air o l cleanliness and tidiness. Mrs. BroW1 | was neatly attired and there was the ap parance of happy contented home.
 | It is learned that whep Brown entered the kitchen he was smoking a cigarett and clamly told his wife he was goin; to kill her and whipped out the revolver | Mrs. Brown cried: Don't, Will! Don l Willr' but without avail. While she wa | pleading with him the husband shot he1 1 three times Just as she fell, she saw l her husband fire into his head the sho 1 that killed him
 | Soon after the shooting, Police Chiet l Brown wired Mrs. William Dunbar tha 1 her daughter had been shot by her hus ] band and was in a nrecarious condition Wednesday morning the chief receiveo l telegram from Ms. Wilbur as to the character and seriousness of the wounds In reply the chief gave the course ot | each bullet, and that Mrs. Brown wa: in the Lawrence Memorial hospital New l London in serious condition.
 | A deciddeiy brazen fellow, wearing tho 1 uniform of the American Volunteer army a sort of feeble competitor of the Salva ton Army, was in Westerly Tuesday night and toook a conspicuous position