Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-10-13
PINK SKIRT ENTERS INTO
BRUDNFIELD CASE TODA Y
WOMAN
IN CASE
PUZZLE
Purchaser of Garment
Which Betrayed Hid
ING Place Of Dentist
Still Unknown

i Still Unknown
Roseburg, Or, Oct. 1s.-Tes-
Aimony regarding the pink skirt
the box that led to the arrest
IN DR.. R. M. Brumfield, came in
. his trial today when Mrs. Fran
Ses 4 Burchard said she sold the
spirt TO a short, dark woman with
Eery dark hair, about noon OF July
BIS.
She had never seen the woman
hefore and has never seen her
kinee. Mrs. Burchard said. AS the
burcbase was under way, the wit
ness declared, DR.. Brumfield. now
In trial for the alleged murder OF
bennis Russell, walked into the
ktore bowed and tipped his hat to
the woman, then went on to the
hack Of the store where he obtain
IA the pasteboard box that later
sas found in Seat 1e-the qink
Skirt Of satin and some lingerie
ID 1t.
Grant S. Clayton testified to-
ay that he drove his car thru
4 pool Of blood on the highway
ear here on July IA, and that he
kathered up some scraps of bone,
bray hair and a fragment of bull
set wit hsome blood and placed
Ahem in bottle and turned them
bver to the sheriff.
A bottle was then introduced as
Rn exhibit.
DR.. Frank r. Menne, Of the
University of Oregon medical
SCHOOL, testified that he tested
blood for Sheriff Starmer and
found it to be human blood.
B. E. Hargis Of Myrtle Creek
hnd NJ. H. Shelton, Roseburg far
|her, told of finding the bloody
pool, an empty cartridge, and Rus
BELLS hat.
H. H. Judkins, clerk Of the
American Express company at Sc /,
httle, was present to tell of box
pf lingerie and letters of Norman
Whitney" by which Brumfield
attempted to obtain possession of ,
lhe box which led to his arrest.
Testimony regarding the dis
'eOyery of the Dennis RUSSELL"
.etter, which the state alleges
'Ras written by DR.. Brumfield to |
create the impression that Russell |
was still alive, was ready for pre- !
eentation today. Two Canadian of I
fieers, Detective Sergeant S. X.
Waugh of the Northwest Mounted
Police, and Inspector D. Richard
BON Of the Calgary police force, !
gave statements regarding the |
finding of the letter after the
pentist's arrest near Calgary, AL
berta, last August.
The first of the twin letters, ac-
Pording to Richardson, was writ
len in Brumfield's natural hand !
writing, with an alphabet iotted |
pown at the top and copied below
n disguised fashion. Corrections,
p rather Intentional errors such
n misspelled words, grammatical
Frrors and elimination of para
Eraphs-designed to lend the sug-
gestion that the writer had been
pa uneducated man-were noted
pn 1t, he said.
lie copy was in the disguised
ana and contained all the errors
uuieated in what the state claims
as the original. according to
Richardson.
hapid progress was made in the
'ase Wednesday. In all II of the
..ates witnesses offered their tes-
.nohy' weaving web of evidence
l. iOund the accused slayer of Dem
nis Russell.
These witnesses for the most
~, ~, oy their testimony were
an effort to prove that the
a ualfed and decapitated body
1 OuAa at the scene of the dentists
I. sierAed automobile on the night
!, Suly Is was that of Dennis
--sen- Although the coronsrs
! ~ mas previously established
ns identity of the nude form as
.s-s ss mat of the hermit sheep
,sIdeF' the burden of again prov !
- -, mat the headless body was
ista ans Russell rests with the
me me defense, in Is cross-exsm-l
Ca 1C OF the states witnesses
'O0ntinued on page six.)