Dr. Brumfield, Alleged
Murderer, Apprehended
Eoseburg, Aug. 18.—The mys
tery as to whether Dr. R. M.
Brumfield, a well known Oregon
dentist, had been killed by the
overturning of his automobile or
was a murderer in hiding was
solved Wednesday, when he was
captured by members of the
Canadian Mounted Police near
Calgary.
On the 16th of last month Dr.
Brumfield’s auto was found in a
somewhat secluded spot a few
miles from Roseburg, overturned
and partially burned. Under the
machine was found the headless
body of a man dressed in the
dentist’s clothing and wearing a
ring known to belong to the den
tist. Suspicion, however, was
aroused by the finding at the
scene of the wreck of a watch
and papers belonging to Dennis
Russell, a Eoseburg laborer, who
proved to be missing. On the
other hand, the positive identifi
cation of the body as that of Dr.
Brumfield by his wife gave a
strange air of mystery to the
case. The police, from the start,
disputed the wife’s identification
and immediately began search
for Brumfield.
The police now claim that the
murder took place at Brumfield’s '
home, where the head was de-j
stroyed by dynamite to prevent j
identification, the body dressed!
in the dentist's clothing and
taken to the scene of the wreck,
where the machine had been run
over an embankment and fired.
The motive, the authorities
contend, is the £25,000 life insur
ance carried by Brumfield, which
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LAUNDRY
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paperhanging
CHARLES JtEBHUN
The Handy Man
: his wife was to collect and latei’
join him in some foreign country.
Brumfield was returned to
Roseburg and imprisoned today, j
but refuses positively to malie!
any statement.
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Mahoney Beginning
to Pretend Insanity
Seattle, Aug. 17.—“You have found
the trunk, and that’s all there is to it,”
James E. Mahoney this evening told
officers who were urging him to make
a confession to the murder of his wife.
Signs are not lacking that Mahoney
is commencing to feign insanity.
Kills an Attorney in
Court, Then Suicides
Chicago.—Sergeant Harrv N. Kel- !
logg, in Chief Justice McDonald’s
criminal court, this afternoon shot;
Lemuel M. Aekler, an attorney, kill- i
iug him instantly. Kellogg then shot
himself, inflicting a wound which will
undoubtedly prove fatal.
August Wolden, of Nixon, arrived
here Wednesday evening, again de
parting up river this afternoon wiih
Sam Nesvoog on the launch Seldema.
Mr. Wolden states that he has disposed
of his Nixon placer property. Mr.
O’Mealy, his associate, having acquired
all his interest in the same.
Notice—Marshal’s Sale.
■ ss.
United States of America, (
Fourth District of Alaska* \
Public notice is hereby given that by
virtue of a writ of fieri facias for exe
cution, dated July 23d, Anno Domini
1921, issued out of the District Court
of the United States for the Fourth
District of Alaska on a judgment ren
dered in said Court od the 18th day of
July, Anno Domini 1921, in favor of
John Holmgren and against B. T.
James, I have, on this25tb day of July,
Anno Domini-1921, levied upon the fol
lowing described rear estate, situated
in Mt. McKinley Precinct, Fourth Di
vision. Territory of Alaska, to-wit: All
the right, title, ^interest and estate of
the defendant B. T. James in and to
that certain placer mining claim known
and described as Number Eleven Below
on Willow creejt, a tributary of Moore
creek, in the Mt. McKinley Recording
Precinct, Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska; alsoall the right, title, interest
and estate of the defendant. B. T. James
in and to those certain placer mining
claims known and described "as One A,
Good Luck Fraction, Five A, Six A,
Seven A, and Nine A, all located eta
Moore creek, a tributary of Tocotna
river, Mt. McKinley Recording Pre
cinct, Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska: also all right, title, interest
and estate of the defendant B. T. James
in and to one water ditch, about two
and one-half miles long, on said Moore
creek aforesaid, and known as The
Moore Creek Ditch; and that I will ac
cordingly offer said real estate for sale
at public vendue, to the highest and
best bidder for cash, on the 10th day of
September, Anno Domiui 1921, at two
o’clock P. M. of said day. at the front
door of the Deputy United States Mar
shal’s office in Flat, Alaska.
Dated at Flat, Alaska, July 25th,
Anno Domini 1921.
Li. T. Erwin,
United States Marshal, Fourth'
District of Alaska.
By Wiiliam Thomas,
Deputy..
Albrecht and Taylor.
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
Date of first publication. July 30, 1921.
Date of final publication, Aug. 27,1921.
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