Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-13

She admitted that she was the cause
OF the tragedy and said that she could
have prevented IL.
She said Mrs. Bradley's grievance9
were most real.
She admitted that she was TO have
met the senator in New York this week
She said Mrs. Bradley was jealous OF
the senator's attentions 10 her. She
told OF her friendship with the Utah
man for 25 years. Mrs. Adams Is at the
Grand Union hotel, where she had had
an appointment 10 meet Senator Brown.
In the statement she says:
CAUSE OF THE CRIME.
II know | am the cause OF this TRACE
dy, but the innocent cause. | could
have prevented 1t II had known that
Mrs. Bradley had followed Senator
Brown to Washington or had Mrs.
Bradley called on me and sought my
assistance.
Il left the Ethel Barrymore company
In Philadelphia to come here to meet
the senator when he had finished his
legal business In Washington.
las TO the letters of mine found in
his room. | can explain them salts
factorily. Undoubtedly they were the
motive for the jealousy which prompt
ed Mrs. Bradley 10 shoot Mr. Brown.
1T Is true that was to meet the sem
ator in New York this week" she said
to reporter. 1.-THE meeting was not
business nature. We were friends.
and the meeting was to be social. When
he left Salt Lake city he wrote to me
that he had "A case to argue before the
United states supreme court, and that
as soon as II was over, which he
thought would be by today at the lat
est, he would meet me in New York
GREATLY SURPRISED.
II was in Philadelphia at the time OF
the shooting. and, Of course, was great
~ surprised. came here to await de-
velopments and will go to Washington
II the senator RECEIVERS sufficiently TO
send for me, or | VIII go there In the
event Of his death, which seems prob.
able.
I'm either event shall issue a state
ment that will fully explain the con-
tents of the letters from me found in
Senator Browns room. | can fully ex-
plain every passage and viii show that
nothing more than close and warm
personal friendship existed between the
senator and myself
Il could undoubtedly have prevented
the shooting had | had the chance. If
Mrs. Bradley had come TO me and
asked for my service would have been
able to have made Senator Brown do
what she wished, 1 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
aud that such a stage in their relations
h0al \
cd on settlement of the matter salts
factory TO Mrs. Bradley and her chill
dren.
THINKS HER INSANE.
But Mrs. Bradley did not seek my
services. did not know that she
followed Mr.. Brown TO Washington
from salt Lake city. II 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 insane.
Il first met Mr.. Brown % years ago
In Salt Lake, when he was settling up
the affairs OF my fathers estate. We
became good friends and had met oc-
casionally and correspondent irregulorly
ever since until last summer. Then We
met again In Salt Lake City and be-
came very good friends. The senator
was very kind TO me. AT that time |
did not know OF any love affairs he
might have had.
He later told me of the affair with
Mrs, Bradley and IL seemed TO worry
him greatly He spoke 10 me frequent-
~ of 1t and know that he was in
a regretful mood"
The dispatches from Washington fuse
after the shooting on Saturday. said
that Senator Brown had cast on Mrs.
Bradley some time last summer, but
did not mention Mrs. Adams. They
said that the shooting was the result
OF the senator's failure 10 maintain the
attitude he had formerly borne to her.
THEIR NEW YORK MEETING.
During The summer and fall saw
the senator very often" Mrs. Adams
continued, and when / started out on
the road again late in the fail, we had
arranged to meet IN New York thls
week. was playing IN Miss Barry
more's Captain links company, which
closed IN Philadelphia. Then was to
lay of hete In New York until after
the holidays. while the rest of the com.
pany put on Alice, Sit by the Fire in
Chicago. The senator and | had
planned to spend the holidays together
In New York.
while | am very anxious about my
letters found in Senator Browns desk.
7 want 10 say that while ! can explain
all OF them. I would hate to see wrong
Interpretation put upon them by The
public,
II am convinced that ! am the cause
OF the shooting but lnnocently so.
Mrs. Bradley evidently knew OF the
friendship OF the senator for me and
became jealous. only wish that |
could have seen Mrs. Bradley before
she went TO Senator Browns room to
shoot him"