Brown, Chas. 1852 - 1908

BROWN, COVEY, WEEKS, MANGELS, BARKER, KEITHLEY

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 1/1/2014 at 21:13:04

Elgin Echo, Thursday, 16 July 1908, From the Decorah Journal, undated.

Last Friday at Cresco a Mr. Crawford and a Mr. Chas. Brown, a plasterer, got into a drunken row. Before they were separated the latter had received fatal injuries, among which was a vicious kick in the stomach. Brown died Monday, so Cresco now has a murder trial on her hands, says the Decorah Journal.

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Added by Joy Moore May 22, 2019:

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer July 7, 1908, LP, C4

A FATAL AFFRAY.
Charles Brown Died from Injuries Inflicted by Alfred Crawford.

As the result of injuries inflected upon him late last Friday afternoon, Charles Brown is dead, and Alfred Crawford is in jail facing a charge of murder with an almost certain conviction for manslaughter in any event.
It seems that Crawford and Brown’s son George had a keg of beer at the latter’s home just west of Freehauf’s mill, and had become considerably intoxicated when Charley returned home from Riceville where he had been at work. It is alleged that Crawford had been annoying a little daughter of Brown’s and she complained to her father who remonstrated with Crawford for so doing. This angered Crawford into attacking Brown, knocking him down and then jumping and stamping on the abdomen of the prostrate man.
Although Crawford claims to remember no details of the affray, yet he sought out Mayor Davenport at about 8 o’clock Friday evening and wanted to pay a fine. He was then quite intoxicated but knew that he had been in a fight with Brown. The mayor told him to go home and appear for trial the next morning, but later upon information that Crawford had been abusing his wife of late when he was drinking ordered Marshall Flick to find him and lodge him in jail, and for so doing was thanked by Crawford the next morning. When arraigned, the mayor refused to let Crawford off on payment of a fine but sentenced him to seventeen day’s imprisonment on a charge of disorderly conduct. As the result of Brown’s death he will be held to appear before the grand jury at the next term of court in October.
Crawford is very penitent but claims to have no recollection of what occurred when the injuries were indicted.
The affray was witnessed, we are told, by Brown's little daughter, his son George and the latter’s wife.
As the result of the assault, Brown sustained internal injuries that caused his death on Monday morning. Though greatly distressed he retained consciousness until about midnight preceding his death.
The funeral of Mr. Brown is planned to take place at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Baptist church, by which time it is expected his children will have arrived.
Crawford is a young man who has resided here and with his parents at New Oregon for several years. Since his marriage he has worked almost continuously at either the brick yard or the electric light plant, and has the reputation of being industrious and quiet except for an ungovernable temper when under the influence of liquor. He is a married man and has two little children.

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Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer July 10, 1908, LP, C6

Charles Butler Brown was born Oct. 17, 1852, in Freeport Ill., and died July 6, 1908, in Cresco, aged 56 years, 8 months and 20 days. .
He was united in marriage, Jan. 14, 1876 to Edna Covey, who died July 2, 1877 leaving one son, Joseph Warren, of Minneapolis. July 25, 1879, he was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Weeks who died March 20, 1903, at Madison, S. D. Six children were born to this union, as follows: George W. of Cresco, James Roy of Lemmon, S. D., Josephine of St. Paul, Minn., Elgin C. of Garden City, S. D., Mrs. Jennie Mangels of Chicago, and Vera M. of Cresco.
Besides these, to mourn his death are three brothers and two sisters: John J., George H. and A. Hamilton, of Cresco, Mrs. E. I. Barker of Baring, Wash., and Mrs. Josephine Keithley of Cresco.
The funeral was held in the Baptist church on Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. W. R. Hill. Interment in the family lot in New Oregon cemetery.

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