Death of Mrs. Annie BROWN, wife of Captain Jas. BROWN, in CA in 1872
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoch;
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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DISPATCHES -- from San Francisco, Sept. 1 --
-It was rumored this morning that a fearful murder had been committed in the southern part of the city. The facts, as far as can be ascertained, are these: Mrs. Annie BROWN, wife of Captain Jas. BROWN, a sea Captain, who had commenced boarding at No. 38 Natoma street, yesterday, was attacked during the day with delirium tremens, and in the afternoon called for a knife saying she wished to kill herself. In the night she made her escape from her room in her night dress and friends were hunting for her all night. This morning she was found lying dead on the floor of the laboratory in the rear of the drug store, corner of Second and Howard streets. Blood was oozing from her ears as if she had received a crushing blow on the head, and there were marks on the throat and mouth which led to the suspicion that she had been murdered. The clerk who usually sleeps there, did not do so last night. On examination it was found that the back door had been broken in, and it is now believed that she broke in there herself, being familiar with the premises from having roomed above for some years, and died either from the effects of a fall or from something which she may have swallowed in the drug store. The bottles were disturbed as if she had been hunting for some poison. The Coroner will make a full investigation.
DISPATCHES -- from San Francisco, Sept. 5 --
-The Coroner is holding an inquest this evening in the case of Mrs. Annie BROWN, found dead in a drug store on Howard street, on Sunday morning. The post mortem shows that she died from the effect of corrosive poison, but how and where she got it is still unexplained.