STEP-DAUGHTER’S REVENGE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1025, 19 November 1912, Page 4

STEP-DAUGHTER’S REVENGE

SHOOTS STEP-FATHER kOUGH THE BRAIN.

Nemesis at the bands of his step-daughter overtook Mr Neeves, a rancher, in the State of Washington, when Mrs Brownell, a 17-year-old girl, who had walked over too miles with her boy; husband, without a word, and on sight “sped a bullet through the brain that had planned out my ruination.” The young couple are now lodged in the county gaol at Calfox, where the ry-year-old bride, still dressed in the male attire in which she had travelled, discussed the murder in a cool, matter-of-fact way.

“ The life my step-falher forced upon me.” she said, “made me hale him, and my wounded spirit cried out for revenge'. When I told my husband of the suffering that had been forced upon me be became imbued with the same overpowering passion as myself—our one object being to destroy for all time so vile a menace to the community. That is why we could not wait to earn our railroad passage from Idaho. We tramped the distance speedily. The tiresome journey did not bother us in the least. We even endured hunger while tramping over the trail, but we did not allow e i -en that to deter us on our mission of vengeance. ’ ’ Mrs Brownell added ■ ' -u v stepfather intended to "1 no .ny TT, :• c - mm is 'the i'lie girl-wife declares that she prayed God to direct her aim when she fired the shot which pierced Meeve’s brain. She had never before handled firearms, she said, and when firing she shut her eyes and shot instinctively from the hip. The prisoners are eagerlj awaiting their trial, they declare, because they firmly believe that no jury in the land can be found to convict them.