The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-13
ANNIE c. ADAMS
CAUSE OF TRAGEDY
Could Have Prevented the
Shooting of Arthur Brown,
She Says.
MRS. BRADLEY WAS
JEALOUS OF SENATOR
Knows She Is Cause of the
Shooting, but the InnO-
cent Cause.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Mrs, Anie C.
Adams, mother of the famous theatrical
star, Maude Adams, and herself an emi-
nent actress, today told for the first
time the secrets that caused the shoot
ing of former United States Senator
Arthur Brown last Saturday by Mrs.
Anna Bradley, in his rooms in the Hotel
Raleigh, Washington, D. C. She admit
ted that she was the cause of the
tragedy, and said that she could have
prevented it. She said Mrs. Bradley IS
grievances were most real.
She admitted she was to have met
the Senator in New York this week
She said Mrs. Bradley was jealous of
the Senator IS attentions to her. She
told Of her friendship with the legisla-
tor for twenty-five years. Mrs Adams
is in the Grand Union hotel, where
she had an appointment to meet Sena-
tor Brown today In the statement she
says;
81 know l am the cause of this
tragedy, but the innocent cause I could
have prevented it had 1 known that
Mrs. Bradley had followed Senator
Brown to Washington, or had Mrs.
Bradley called on me and sought my
assistance.
81 left the Ethel Barrymore com
pany in Philadelphia to come here to
meet the Senator when he had finished
his legal business in Washington.
Can Explain Letters.
''As to the letters of mine found in
his room, / could explain them salts
factorily. Undoubtedly they were the
motive for the jealousy which prompted
Mrs. Bradley to shoot Mr.. Brown.
''It is true that I was to meet the
Senator in New York this week" she
said to a reporter "The meeting was
not of a business nature. We were
friends, and the meeting was to be So
cial. When he left Salt Lake City he
wrote to me that he had Il case to argue
before the United States Supreme Court,
and that as soon as that was over, which
he thought would be by today at the lat.
est, he would meet me in New York.
81 was in Philadelphia at the time
of the shooting and of course was great,
ly surprised. l came here to await de-
velopments and will go to Washington
if the Senator RECEIVERS sufficiently TO
send for me, or | will go there in the
event of his death, which seems pro-
babe
''Ip either event. shall issue state
ment that will fully explain the CON
tents of the letters from me found in
Senator Brown s room, | can fully ex-
plain every passage and will show that
nothing more than close and warm
personal friendshipsexisted between the
Senator and myself.
Could Have Prevented Shooting,
~ could undoubtedly have pre-
vented the shooting had ! had the
chance. Ii Mrs. Bradley had come TO
me and asked for my services, l would
have been able to have made Senator
Brown do what she wished | could
have made him marry her and give TO
her and his children his name.
Mrs, Bradley's grievances were not
imaginary, they were real. Had |
known that the matter was so desperate
and that such a stage IN their relations
had been reached, / would have in
sisted upon settlement of the matter
satisfactory to Mrs, Bradley and her
children.
but Mrs, Bradley did not seek my
services, | did not know that she fol.
lowed Mr.. Brown to Washington from
Salt Lake City. If / had known that
she was following him / would have
taken steps TO see her, II is all too bad
The poor woman must have been in
sane.
First Meeting With Brown
II frst met Mr. Brown twenty-five
years ago IN Salt Lake City, when he
was settling up the affairs of my faith
er s estate We became good friends
and had met occasionally and cores
ponded irregularly ever since, until last
summer. Then we met again in Salt
Lake City. and became very good
friends. The Senator was very kind to
me. AT that time I did not know of any
love affairs he might have had.
"Later he told me of the affair with
Mrs, Bradley and II seemed to worry
him greatly. He spoke to me frequent
ly of it, and l know that be was in a
regretful mood y
The dispatches from Washington,
just after the shooting on Saturday,