Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-06-08
BROWN FOUND
GIRL
MAIN WITNESS
Sensational Testimony Goes
Before Jurors in Trial of
Step-father on Rape Charge
Jennie Strine, Brought Here
from House of Good Shep-
herd, Tells Story in Court

Following his conviction by jury
in district court Saturday of rape,
Arthur Brown. Al years old, of KAN
4 iah, was on Wednesday sentenced by
Judge Wallace N Scales to from five
to ten years Imprisonment in the state
| penitentiary at Boise.
81 believe this man should be par
doned out in less than five years. re-
marked Judge Scales after he had
passed sentence. "While / believe he
is guilty, / do not believe the evidence
warrants a conviction
The trial of Brown was extremely
sensational. Appearing as the state
chief witness was Jennie Strine,
Brown s 16-year-old step-daughter,
who gave much damaging testimony
against her step-father. 1t was her
testimony that sent him to the peni-
Tertiary
The girl told of the family residing
near Kamiah, and of her mother going
to a hospital, last summer. It was
while her mother was away, according
TO the girl - testimony, that Brown
committed the crime for which he was
ON trial.
GIRL is ASHAMED
The girl, who was brought to
Grangeville from the House of the
Good Shepherd, an institution for
hayward girls in Spokane, hung her
head for shame. as Prosecuting Attor-
ney Anger asked her to relate Incl
dents for which Brown was on trial
With her eyes focused on the floor of
the courtroom, the girl hesitated to
answer.
eco ahead and answer" the court
finally interceded, and the girl told
her story, mostly in the form of affirm
native answers to questions asked
her by the prosecutor.
After giving testimony of an un-
printable nature, the girl declared
that Brown "said for me not TO say
anything about it, She asserted
Brown had remarked to her, eff
told, | and him both would pet into
trouble
SAYS BROWN HIT HER
Miss Strine said that upon her
mother g return from the hospital she
had related the incident to, her and be-
cause of this fact, Brown called her
to the barn and knocked her down
and out of the barn. He hit her on
the head and on the back, she said.
The witness said Brown then order
ed her to the home of her sister. not
far distant, and that she remained
there a week, after which Brown and
her mother took her to the House of
the Good Shepherd, where her name
was given to the sisters of charity in
charge of the home as jeanette Brown.
On cross examination by Atty. Z.
M. Griffith, appointed by the court
to defend Brown, the girl admitted
having had difficulties with Brown and
her mother, and said she had quarrel
ed with them. Her mother she said,
was in Kellogg.
The defense attempted to show that
the girl was angry at her step-father
because he and her mother had refused
to permit her to remain in Kamiah
with a man named Snyder, later kill
led in sawmill accident at Caribel.
SHE WOULD GET EVEN
"Didn't you make the statement
that you would get even with hint"
asked Attorney Griffith.
81 did after I was up here at
Grangeville, but never to him, the
witness replied.
Sherln j. u. ElnerS beSUlHeu lntb
Brown broke out of the Idaho county
Jail early in the morning of Febru-
airy %, and was captured late that day
near Sites.
Ira d. Smith, janitor at the court
house, and night jailer, told Of
Brown g escape.
Deputy Sheriff Chester Arnold re-
lated the story of Browns capture,
at the head of Luke IS gulch. He said
Brown refused to put up his hands
until CATER / took a shot at him,
Arnold said he was fifty to seventy
five feet from Brown when he shot.
"You must have been a poor shot
or didn It shoot to kill?' Attorney
Griffith asked the deputy in cross-ex-
animation.
"He put up his hands all right,
replied the deputy.
BROWN TELLS STORY
The defendant was then put on the
stand and told briefly his life history.
He said he was born in Kansas and
had been located at various places in
the west during his lifetime. He also
had mined in Alaska. He had been
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