Albuquerque Daily Citizen

BLOODY PEN KNIFE
It Cut the Throats of Two People.
Sunday Morning Crime in a North Third Street House.
James Brown Used the Knife on Cora Miller and Himself.

GETTING ALONG NICELY.

After an all night's debauch last Saturday a crime was committed at 307 North Third street, and on Sunday morning there were two victims with their throats cut.

James Brown lies in one of the rooms, under guard, with a ghastly wound extending from ear to ear, and Cora Miller, the madam of the house, in another room, with her throat partly cut from right to left.

Saturday night last Brown and Cora, who had often sought the wine when it was red, were out on a regular old-fashioned spree a pace that usually kills, and early Sunday morning turned in for a few hours' rest.

On reaching the house, Brown felt like sleep was needed, and rolled over on the bed.

Here the story to the beginning of a bloody crime starts:

Cora says that they got to quarreling and she slapped him in the face and told him she wanted nothing more to do with him. That angered him and getting up from the bed, he took out a small-bladed pocket knife and slashed her across the throat. He then commenced cutting and slashing at his own throat. She then ran out of the room, yelling "Murder," and when the other inmates of the house arrived and saw the bloody deed, they gave the alarm as hurriedly as possible.

Brown's story is that he was trying to sleep, when Cora commenced pummeling him and pulling his hair, and accusing him of this and that. He then cut her in the throat, not intending it to be so serious, but thinking that he had killed her and that he would be hanged for the crime, he then inflicted the wounds upon himself with the intent to kill.

Officers arrived at the bloody scene half an hour after the crime had been committed, followed a few minutes later by Drs. Carns and Wroth.

Marshal McMillin placed Brown under arrest, and left a guard in charge, while the doctors went about attending to the victims of the debauch and quarrel.

Dr. Carns attended to the man and sewed up his wound. He found the throat cut from ear to ear, the wind pipe cut and punctured in several places, and the external carotid artery severed.

Dr. Wroth looked after the woman and discovered that the knife had entered the center of the throat on the right side and cut up toward the left ear. The wound was nearly four inches long and deep enough to sever the windpipe or trachea.

Both physicians give it as their opinion that both Brown and the woman will survive their ghastly wounds, provided no complications set in, although it is yet too soon to make any prediction as to the outcome.

At this hour both are resting easy, and Dr. Carns has given instructions to the officers, who hold Brown, that he must not be removed until he recovers.

Cora Miller and her sister, Lillie, are from Missouri, and it is said that their names are assumed. They desire to keep the shame of their life from a good and aged mother now residing near Kansas City.

Brown is known here as a base ball player—a member of the Browns club, and later as a bartender at the Metropolitan when the resort was run by Mr. Berry. He came here first from the government Indian school at Santa Fe, where he was in the service of the government. He is said to be one-eighth Wyandotte, and graduated as a member of that tribe of Indians at Haskell institute, Lawrence, Kansas.

His parents now reside at Wyandotte, Indian Territory, where his father is reported to be quite wealthy and in the stock raising business. He always bore a good reputation, but of recent date has been drinking heavily. He has many friends in the city.