On Tuesday evening at 5 o’clock the start-…

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On Tuesday evening at 5 o’clock the start- ling announcement was made on the streets that John V. Brown had been shot at the Cen- tennial by a fallen woman, going by the name of Ada Humes, who had been engaged as a piano player in the Monarch saloon. An Enter- prise man hastened to the saloon in which the tragedy occurred, and found that the rumor was only too true. The saloon was full of men, and several of the frail creatures of the opposite sex were drinking at the bar as the reporter passed into the big saloon. The body of the murdered man had been carried into the wine room where it lay awaiting the coroner’s inquest, but was soon afterwards removed to his own home near the Catholic church. As near as the Enterprise can get at the facts, they are about as follows : Brown had been more or less intimate with this woman for some months, but had broken with her. She had that day sent him a note, asking him to spend the evening with her. He replied in a note that he did not wish to have anything more to do with her, at the same time sending a note to Claude Lewis, who lived in the same house, to meet him at the Centennial on busi- ness. Both women received their notes by the same messenger, and together came down from their abode to the saloon. Jack was standing in the gambling room watching a game when the women entered from the side street.