Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-19
No information Concerning Prop
erty Left by the Late
Senator Brown.
MRS. BRADlEYS STATEMENT.
Tells Her Side Of Story In an Inter-
view With Washington News
paper Man.

| BioWH Jaw o1lCe were opened tnis
morning for the first time since the
former occupants death In Washing
! ton.
| Max Brown, his son, young man
just ready to graduate from the Uni
verslty of Chicago, is In charge, and
he spent this morning going over the
| papers belonging to his father. Archie
| Livingstone, a stenographer employed
! by Senator Brown, was also present
and turned over TO Max the papers In
| the office
Mr., Brown. when seen by "News''
reporter this morning was In excel
lent spirits, considering the great strain
| under which he has been living for the
past few weeks. ard It was evident
that he is making a great effort to
face the future bravely and with
| cheerful heart,
While he would not discuss the mat
| ter OF the will. and said that Its con-
| tents could only be given out after 1t
was probated, he said concerning his
own plans that he would stay here
and would make no attempt 60 finish
| his college education.
Speaking about the case. Mr.. Brown
| said that he thought the newspapere
| out Of 1t to Justify them In stopping
| pretty soon. and he hoped they wouldn't
| continue TO feature II as they had.
MRS. BRADLEY's STATEMENT.
The following interview, had at
| Washington with Mrs. Anna NJ. Brad
| ley. viii be read here with much inter-
| est. II is probably the only account she
has given of the deplorable affair since
| her arrest.
Within the grim red brick jail In
Washington frail. brown-eyed wom-
an, WITH the saddest face / ever saw.
sat with clasped hands and staring eyes
| and talked TO me OF the man she had
killed and the events leading TO the
| tragedy of last Saturday, when ex-
| Senator Brown was shot. She spoke In
the monotonous tone of one who Is
| grief-mad.
Two hours before the woman who
had been the cause Of the tragedy wept
stormiIy as she talked OF IL. The wom-
| an who killed the man whom she loved
| was dry-eyed.
| "He was q coward" said Mrs. Anna
Bradley. He was afraid OF his chill
dren, Max and Annie. They did not
want him 10 marry me, because they
did not want TO share the family prop
erty with the little children. And Ar
| thur Brown listened and wavered and
| promised and evaded. Now he Is dead,
I'VE had no quarrel. Only three weeks
| ago we ate our Thanksgiving dinner
happily together. Three weeks ago he
and were walking up Main street,
and when We reached Third South
street | turned TO go to the Wilson no.
| tel, where | lived. He took me In his
| arms and kissed me, there on the most
/ crowded In tho stf ~
"ALL THE WORLD KNOWS"
Arthur Brown l cried, arc you
| crazy? He laughed. All the world
! knows love you he said. You're the
only woman In the world | ever loved.
Dolly. the only woman could ever toll
crate
He had promised that we should be
married on New Years day. Then
something happened. | will not col
what 1t was, that made me doubt his
word.
I'VE cannot always be self-controlled.
| The wisest are rash sometimes. | had
| suffered--God alone knows what hf We
borne these nine years ! had loved
him so much, | have been so true. and
| he seemed to love me so much. NJ
sister had come to see me--iny beauti-
! full, good sister-and said. Anna come
| to us and leave that terrible life When
she had gone, | went to Senator
| Browns office and said; Arthur, am
| going away; cannot stand this life of
shame any longer. | will not begin
| new year as have lived this one He
came TO the hotel and acted like a mad
man.
Anna, you can't leave me. You
/ shall never leave me- he cried, and he
I gailad n al -.
| the theater and dinner. Everybody took
| 1t for granted that we were going TO be
| married soon. That was my one idea
Never once had ] wavered from that
stand.
"Ho had said to me. 4 will furnish
] the finest house In Salt Lake. You shall
| havo everything that money can buy
| But what we're those thinge? My one
| thought was and always has been to
| put my children right before the world
Why, only month ago. when he was
/ In Washington, he bought a book, The
Legend OF sleepy Hollow and In II he
/ wrote, Arthur Brown, Jr." Yet they
| say he tried TO deny lie children were
his / have every proof that they
| were"
! To Mrs. Adams message, Tell the
poor, uJ,guided girl that | have only
| pity IN my heart for her" she listened
/ duly.
ABOUT MRS. ADAMS.
| But Mrs. Adams knew about my two
| children" she said. "she knew she had
no right 10 Arthur Browns attention.
| | knew that they had once cared for
I each other long ago, but when | spoke
10 him about il he said: why. Doilie,
she's an old woman. How could | love
that old woman
| II don't believe the story that she
| was engaged 10 him add that they were
| going 10 visit Maude Adams In Boston.
| Her letters to him do not Indicate there
was any regular correspondence"
| With her hands crossed on her lap,
Mrs Bradley talked of the manner OF
/ the dead mans love-making. He often
| said How did this ever come about?'
| And he would quote As Cloud Meets
| Cloud Then Follows Lightning, and he
said we were the latter-Anthony and
Cleopatra.
I'm all the desperate crises we had |
| loved him and he loved me and both OF
us knew II. don't believe there was
any other woman In his life / can't I'M
| derstand II.
"oh when I saw him they let me
look at him. They let me look al him
yesterday. Have you seen him? He
looked so changed, so different"
II don't care what becomes OF me-"
she said. listlessly. In three months
| have lost 20 pounds. There are only
% pounds between me and nothingness.
But | shall fight 10 prove that Arthur
Brown is the father of my children. l
shall fight as long as | am alive 10
fight.
Il think only OF my poor little chill
drcn. My IDEAS ot religion are too broad
for me to be afraid. II there is God.
! he understands"