Multnomah-Clackamas-Marion County OR Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Mrs.Peter  November 1904
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Morning Oregonian November 14,1904
May Have Burned To Death
Theory Advanced In Case Of Mrs.Peter Brown
Oregon City,Nov.13.-(Special)- Coroner Holman today received  a letter from 
J.H.Groshong, of Maruqam,stating that the neighbors of Mrs.Peter Brown,whose 
badly decomposed remains were found at her home near Marquam Thursday evening 
under mysteriuos circumstances,have vecome convinced that Mrs.Browns death was 
due to other causes than murder,as was first suspected. Mr.Groshong writes 
that the Brown neighbors have found where Mrs.Brown had been fighting fire 
near her home, and in doing so had used wet cloths. This has caused the 
neighbors to conclude that Mrs.Brown was either burned to death or was 
overcome by the heat.
This theory is not generally accepted by the officials who conducted the 
inquest, who will not be satisfied that a crime has not been committed unless 
some explanation is made for the presence of a blood stained knife that was 
found beside the woman's body, and for the further fact that the door to the 
house wa slocked, with the key outside.

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