Cabarrus County NcArchives News..... The Murder of  Mrs. --- (Klutte) Brown June 4, 1838
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July 27, 1838   Charlotte Journal June 4, 1838
   ATROCIOUS MURDER -- We are informed that a most foul and horrid murder was 
committed in Pope County, Arkansas, on the 4th June (ult.) on the body of his 
wife, by WILLIAM BROWN, formerly of Cabarrus County, in this State.
   BROWN was alone with his family. His wife was driven outside of the 
dwelling, and her husband presented a gun through the crack of the house at 
her, when his wife exclaimed, "You are not going to shoot me, are you?" and 
ran to the other side of the house, when he again presented the instrument of 
death, and deliberately shot three balls in her breast, when she staggered a 
few feet and immediately fell and expired. The children, who were large enough 
to do so, ran off and brought in the nearest neighbors, who found him in the 
house with the dead body lying on a bed, and the fiend-like husband sitting 
by, wholly unconcerned! He was immediately arrested and put in custody. This 
horrid deed was perpetrated without any cause, except what was to be found in 
the malignity of the heart of this demon in human shape.
   MRS. BROWN was the only child of GEORGE KLUTTE ESQ. of Concord, N. C., upon 
whom and his wife, this sad catastrophe brings a sore affliction in their old 
age. The deceased had recieved much care and attention from her fond parents 
in early life, who had this only and favorite child on whom to confer their 
hopes and affections. She was educated at Salem, in this State, and shortly 
after married him, who had destroyed her peace when living and is guilty of 
her blood when dead. Instead of finding domestic happiness, to gain which she 
even incurred, for a while, the displeasure of her parents in her marriage, 
she became the victim of the most dreadful hatred and cruelty. But the misery 
she endured in married life, did not prevent the exercise of the heart that 
endeared her to all her friends and acquaintances. 
   As a wife and mother, she was exemplary -- as a friend and neighbor, she 
was universally respected. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. About 
a year since, she removed to Arkansas, with him, who, instead of being her 
protector, has become her murderer, and rendered motherless, and worse, 
fatherless six small children.
   BROWN was intemperate! and his pernicious vice and the brutal ferocity of 
his temper, are the causes of this bloody murder. -- Carolina Watchman

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