People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — VICTIM OF A CONSPIRACY. [ARTICLE]

VICTIM OF A CONSPIRACY.

Gov. Blown Claims a Plot Was Laid to Kill His Son. Louisville, Ky., May 8. —The CourierJournal prints the following: “The sensation attending the Gordon double killing is not over by half. The prosecution will attempt to prove that Arch Dixon Brown’s death was due to a plot to assassinate him. Governor Brown has reason to believe that the facts of his son's coming to Louisville on the day of the tragedy and his meeting with Mrs. Gordon were known to a man In Frankfort, who telegraphed to a man In Louisville. This Louisville man, the prosecution claims, notified Gordon that his wife was to meet Brown and ‘actively assisted in a foul assassination.’ Mr. James A. Scott, the Frankfort attorney employed by Governor Brown to prosecute the case, said: “I \yant to say that Governor Brown never authorized any statement that he would not prbseoute the case nor did he ever dream of granting a pardon to Gordon; as has been stated. Before deciding on the step Governor Brown took counsel with a number of intimate friends from all over the state. He came to the conclusion that It was due the memory of his son that there should be a full and fair Investigation of all the facts. He was convinced that Gordon must have known that his wife was dissipated, reckless and imprudent. Governor Brown and his counsel would shrink from any attack on Mrs. Gordon’s character, but would prefer to throw the veil of charity over all her acts, especially as she is dead. The future will determine whether it will be necessary to further blacken the character of Mrs. Gordon in order to show the defendant’s thorough knowledge of it. I think the developments will be surprising to some people.”