DUNCAN ADAMS

The property owner encountered accused killer Michael Paul Brown just before dark.

“I was just headed back to my (home) trailer and my dogs started barking,” the owner said. “And then I was face-to-face with him.”

The man who owns the property where Brown was captured Aug. 8 agreed to an interview Monday with The Montana Standard on the condition he not be named in the story.

Brown had been a fugitive since he allegedly shot and killed four people at the Owl Bar in Anaconda on Aug. 1.

“I was scared as sh..,” the owner said about suddenly meeting Brown.

For several days, with Brown reportedly hiding in the vicinity of nearby Garrity Mountain, the owner had been consistently armed with a 9 mm handgun for protection. But he’d been up and down a ladder that day on his proper

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