AN AMERICAN VENDETTA

Southland Times, Issue 19517, 17 May 1922, Page 7

AN AMERICAN VENDETTA

“Honest John” Brunen, a circus proprietor and a former friend of Desmond Taylor, the murdered Los Angeles film director, was mysteriously murdered in his own home at Riverside, New Jersey, on Friday night (says a New York message of March 12.) Air Brunen was found dead in his dining room. An unknown man using a shot gun fired through a window at the circus proprietor as he was reading a newspaper, shattering the back of his head. Death must have been instantaneous. Airs Brunen, who was upstairs, heard the sound of a gun, and came downstairs to discover her husband, whom she had left a few minnteg earlier, murdered. The footprints of the murderer were later traced across some flower beds and the garden to a near by road, where apparently a Ford car was waiting for him. Brunen frequently expressed the conviction that he was destined to be murdered. Some months ago three men called at his home, and learning he was absent, gagged Mrs Brunen, and carried away £l,OOO worth of jewels. They told Airs Brunen that next time they would “get” her husband Since then the murdered man has repeatedly received through the post a mysterious message. The message came from cities, and was always couched in the same words: “We haven’t got what we want yet ”