The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-11
DIscouRAaINa MURDER,

porter to look in the editorial columns
of a Salt Lake newspaper to find the
Justification for her act.
The men who control public journals
may we'll pause for brief period while
they consider what duty they owe
to society and the manner of their
discharge of that duty, when wo~
man whose hands are stained in blood
cries out that she was melted TO her
act, and finds her defense for murder,
in the counsel afforded to her by one
of her home papers.
Annie M. Bradley is TO be tried by
the law for her assault upon Arthur
Brown, and ably-although 1T
may be a violent presumption-th
law will do Justice. But public opinion
| in this community will try her for
other offenses. for the commission of
which the law cannot now inhict
| punishment. Just as surely as Annie
NJ Bradley shot Arthur Brown at the
Raleigh hotel. at the end of ten
years Of sinful effort to make him
| her husband just SO surely did she
kill Isabel Cameron Brown, after eight
years Of plotting to take Isabel
Cameron Browns place as the wife
of Arthur Brown. the physicians said
that Mrs. Cameron Brown died OF
| cancer. She died OF Bradley. Brad
| ley was her disease. Frieudless, need
ing social supporter, Mrs. Bradley
was invited by Mrs. Brown into the
7, IL. Al, ,ol
warmth and nourlshment; there she re"
ceivcd social recognition; there re.
munerative employment and political
| prominence were procured for her; and
there she repaid the generosity OF
| Isabel Cameron Brown by taking the
husband away from his home and
publicly degrading the name of Arthur
| Brown and prosecuting and threaten
| ing Isabel Cameron Brown until that
resolute woman fell in the warfare and
died, thus making atonement for the
wrong against the first Mrs. Brown.
| The case is an awful one-tragedy
following tragedy with swift step, and
infamy crowdlng close and closer
upon infamy. But whatever Isabel
| Cameron Brown s sins may have
been, she was benefactor to Annie NJ.
Bradley. She nourished Annie Nj.
| Bradley with food, covered her with
raiment, gave TO her standing and
shelter; and Annie NJ, Bradley paid
for that benevolence by striking with
| poisoned fangs the hand that had
helped her. Possibly Arthur Brown
deserved, as he has received, no SYM
| pathy; but he, too, has probably
made his final atonement in this
world, and will answer to a higher
| Judgment. Annie NJ. Bradley remains
to answer for her part in the horrible
series of crimes and infamles, which
| characterized the relations of these
people, and for her own crownlng act
of vengeance because Of disappointed
| purpose,
There seems TO be an effort to spread
in this community sympathetic feel
ing toward Annie NJ. Bradley rs vim
dicator of ruined virtue. But senti-
mentality and financial support pro-
cured for her are no tribute to the
| holiness Of the home, She was no
young girl dragged from the path
of innocence by vicious man. If she
had been, law and morals would
acuuit her. Evil as he was, she de.
liberately plotted with him to de"
grade her own name, her own sta
tion as wife. and to plunge lsa-
bel Cameron Browns household TO a
| .tin ,rnfnnnIor &c l>lo oh
Annie NJ. Bradley knew that Arthur
Brown had deserted and divorced an
honest wife to take as her successor
the woman TO whom he had paid i'm
proper addresses, She deliberately
conspired to take him from that sue
cessor. who loved him, and who was
trying TO redeem the past by that love
She ate the bread of Isabel Cameron
Brown while her own children. whom
she was neglectjng, were hungered. She
reposed in the warmth of Isabe
Cameron Brown s affection while hel
own children were lost in the streets
or were in care of the police. She
wretch, and she sought to minister tc
his vice at the expense of every in
stinct Of her own womanhood In the
battle between these two women, Mrs
Isabel Cameron Brown, being the eide,
of the two, and knowing we'll tina
she was reaping what she had sowec
for another, died in anguish and des
pair, the victim of Annie NJ. Brad
ley's determination to make Arthur
Brown a widower and eligible to be
come her own husband
If Isabel Cameron Brown deserved
no sympathy from this community he
cause of the wrong she had per
petrated upon her predecessor in th
affections of Arthur Brown, then surel
Annie M. Bradley is not entitled t.
call upon the good women of Salt LAX
for sympathy and for material assist
; ance 10 protect her from the law
. She demonstrated that she possesse
nothing in common with honest VIC
manhood; for good women to rush {
her rescue would be 10 degrade TIN
J.. name of home; 10 assist her would
+, to DRAG the word yirtue in the miro