The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-10
EX-SENATOR BROWN MAY DIE.
SHOT FIRED BY MRS. BRADLEY
LIKELY 10 PROVE FATAL.


WASHINGTON; Dec. 0.-Arthur Brown,
former United States Senator from Utah,
who was shot in his room at the Raleigh
Hotel yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Anna NJ.
Bradley Of Salt Lake City is in a critical con-
dition tonight. At an early hour to-day a
consultation Of physicians was held at the
Emergency Hospital, where Brown is, and
their investigation showed slight evidence
Of septic poison. The patient has been
in a stupor most Of the day. A sudden
turn for the worse, with fatal, results may
occur at any time.
No person claiming relationship with the
wounded man has inquired at the hospital.
except one, a woman, who came early this
morning and left her address in Washington,
saving she was an aunt Of Mr.. Brown. She
asked the hospital authorities not to divulge
her name.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley, who did the shoot
ing, was removed early this morning from
the First Precinct police s~tation-a half
block from the hotel where the tragedy
o~ocurred-to the House Of Detention. Here
she was booked, with a lot of other female
and child prisoners, white and colored.
on the charge OF assault with intent to
murder, and held without bail. She was on
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the constant care OF a physician all day.
Senator George Sutherland of Utah, for
whom Mrs. Bradley sent az soon as she was
arrested, declared to-day that she was
mentally irresponsible for her act. The
police are inclined TO agree with this view.
She has steadily refused to take any nourish-
ment since the shooting, except to sip coffee,
and was to-day in a highly nervous state.
She inquired frequently concerning the
condition Of BSpwn and expressed the hope
that he would recover. At midnight she
made efforts TO send messages to her victim,
who was in no condition 20 receive or answer
them.
He would not permit me to be locked
up in a police station if he knew it," Mrs.
Bradley said frequently to the police matron.
Mrs. Bradley did not close her eyes in
sleep last night or to-day. Early this
morning a firm Of local attorneys who had
been retained by wire from Salt Lake by
friends of the prisoner appeared at the
House Of Detention, andafter a two hours
conference with her gave orders that no
person should be permitted to see or talk
with Mrs. Bradley except Senator Suther-
land or her physician. Last night she
gradually overcame her earlier reticence
enioined by Senator sutherland and talked
necessarily IN an excited way to all her
callers, who were many. She reviewed
her alleged notorious relations with Brown
and charged him with running her domestic
life and then seeking 10 turn her adrift:,
A constant stream OF sympathetic callers
applied at the House of Detention TO see
her to-day, but admission was refused all
~ them. Hotel and restaurant keepers
t~elephoued that they would fill her orders
for meals without charge. The Salvation
Arp1u rapraaaD 9atIVaa brought hagkntS OF
fruit. and gifts of money for her relief were
freely offered. When she was arrested
yesterday Mrs. Bradley had only Is cents
on her person. Last night she refused an
offer Of money from the repre- sentative of
the Trades UniOnist. a local labor paper.
To-day the same paper sent a representa-
tive seeking an audience with the prisoner,
hut admission was denied him. hen
Mrs. Bradley was searched at the House Of
Detention to-day she had more than s.
in her purse, showing that SOM Of her
callers last night had rendered her financial
assistance.
Among Utah people in Washington the
relations of Brown and Mrs. Bradley have
become an old story, and sympathy seems
10 be almost entirely with Mrs. Bradley,
notwithstanding the fact that she has
been socially ostracized in Salt Lake City.
The feeling among Utah people here seems
TO be that Brown attentions to the woman
broke M her domestic relations and COW
cred her with shame.
Brown was drs into court with Mrs.
Bradley on the complaint of Browns wife.
After Mrs. Brown uied, as she did shortly
after she had caused the arrest of her huS-
band and Mrs. Bradley, il was generally
assumed in Salt lake City that the I'M
pleasant chapter was closed and that the
ex-senator would wed Mrs. Bradley and
afford her protection and al the same time
legitimize her two children, whose pa
ternity he admitted in court. For two
years or more since the death OF his wife
Brown has refused to marry the woman
whose domestic life he had b~eclOuded.
Recently he has shown Il decided aversion
for hcr, according TO the story current
among Utah people.
Mrs. Bradley admits that h had an inter
view with ex-senator Brown before he left
Salt Lake for Washington last week. He
tried 10 induce her to leave Utah. She
knew he was 10 stop at the Raleigh Hotel.
After he left she made up her mind TO follow
him and demand that he marry her. From
the most reliable information TO be had the
ex-senator showed great Impotence with
her when she called on him IN his room.
He turned her aside coldly, which prompted
her 10 shoot.
Miss Alice Brown, dau ghter of ex-senator
Brown, arrived tonight from Columbus.
Ohio. She is the daughter of Mr.. Browns
first wife, whom he divorced at Kalamazoo,
Mich, before DIN 10 Salt Lake. Miss
Brown went to the hospital and was shown
INTO the ward where her father had been
lying all day in an apparently semi-conscious
| condition. The father seemed to regain
consciousness at the sight Of his daughter.
The meeting was very affecting.
For the first time since the shooting the
wounded man seemed to lose hope. He
told his daughter that Immediately after
the shooting he was confident he would re-
cover. that the attending physicians were
holding out hope. but he felt certain at last
that he would never ecove from his wounds
and asked the daughter to remain near him
She promised to await the outcome, and after
fifteen minutes in the ward she left orders
to be kept constantly advised by telephone
Of her fathers condition and retired TO her
hotel, leaving orders that she must not be
disturbed.
The physicians at the Emergency Hospital
said late tonight that no unfavorable turn
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