Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-03-18
Courtroom Crowded
AS Reed Trial Opens
For WOman'S Death
As we 90 to press today Thurs
day the trial Of Harrison Reed In
progress Final developments
will be given In next weeks
Herald

The trial of Harrison Reed, charged
with the murder of Alice Brown, OPEN
ed last Friday in the district court
presided over by Judge Levi Hall and
continued during this week Reed,
charged by the state Of forcing Alice
Brown, his common law wife, to drink
mixture of I've and rubbing alcohol,
is being defended by Elwood Fitch
cite, public defender, and T. H. Cook.
The prosecution is being handled by
Arthur Markve and Elizabeth Owens,
both assistant county attorneys.
Victim Succumbed In December.
Alice Brown, the woman whose
death was caused, the state contends.
by poison forcibly given her by Reed
in September, died in the General hos
pital on December 4, after almost three
months of suffering. Hospital sur
geons testified at the trial that con-
ditions brought on by the poison
caused. her death.
It was brought out in-the trial by
state witnesses that the woman and
Reed quarrelled for several days prior
to September 10. Reed in search for
her found her at the home Of Mrs.
Marie Bedell, $50 Sixth Ave. ~, on
Monday morning, September 10, last
year. The two left the Bedell place
together. The state claimed when
the couple arrived home after a quar-
rel Alice Brown packed her belong
ings to leave Reed. 1t was at this
point that the prosecution claims
that he threw the woman on bed and
literally poured the poison mixture
down her throat.
Woman Found on Neighbours Steps.
From testimony during the trial it
was brought out that the woman
jumped out of the window of the
house and ran to the neighboring
home of Mrs. Bessie Tucker at Eli
Aldrich Ave. N. Ralph Johnson,
roomer in the Tucker home, testified
that about 1870 o'clock in the morn.
ing he heard peculiar sounds on the
back porch. Going to the door sahe
found a woman, who he first supposed
to be his landlady, Mrs. Tucker, lying
on the porch grooming. He half drag
ged and carried her into Mrs. fuckers
room. On close observation he found
the woman was not Mrs. Tucker.
Calls Doctor for Woman.
Between groans the i'll woman
asked Johnson to call a doctor After
calling another roomer Mike Robin
son to watch over the i'll woman, Wes-
ley summoned DR.. w. D. Brown. The
physician arrived about thirty min
utes later. After treating her and re-
lieying her suffering he left request
ing that Johnson call him If she took
turn for the worse.
Woman Driven From House.
Mrs. Tucker, the landlady, arrived
home about 6 o'clock according to
her testimony from her daughters
house several blocks away. When
she found the woman there she or
dered her ont of the house. She ex.
plained on the witness stand that she
thought the woman was intoxicated.
johnson testified that it was difficult
IN understand the woman. She was
attired only in house apron and in
her stocking feet.
Sent To HospItsi.
The woman finally stumbled to tho
home of Herbert "Gravbabv" HOLT
dav IN the 500 block on Bassett Place.
After sometime she was carried TO the
General Hospital bv her foster fatho~.
| Mike Mellow who lives at 61s Aidrich
| Ave. N.
After almost three months in the
hospital the suffering girl died in the
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