Riverside (CA) Daily Press, December 16, 1930, p. 2.
MONTHS OF HARD STUDY BELIEVED TO BE CAUSE OF TRIPLE TRAGEDY
Nashville, Indiana, December 16. [UP]. Paul Brown, Purdue University
graduate who became crazed suddenly after months of study on a radio
invention, killed his parents, wounded a hired man and set fire to his home,
was believed roaming the hills of southern Indiana today, armed with an
automatic pistol.
A previous theory that Brown perished in the ruins of his home was regarded
as remote, but the debris was to be searched.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown, who operated a large orchard and were
considered among the wealthiest residents of the residents of the county,
were shot yesterday in their home, as was Chester Bunge, 24, a laborer at
the farm.
Mrs. Brown did not die immediately. She telephoned a neighbor with an
appeal for aid, saying her husband had been slain and that she was wounded.
Bunge was wounded in the abdomen and in his arm and crawled to his own home
to summon help. His condition was so serious he could not be questioned.
Lacking an eye witness story, authorities could not determine whether Mrs.
Brown died of her wounds or perished in the fire. Her body and that of her
husband were found in the ruins of the home.
Young Brown was graduated from Purdue's School of Electrical Engineering.
For several months he had devoted all of his time to perfecting an invention
relating to radio. The concentration was believed to have unbalanced his
mind.
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