The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-16
BROWN TRAGEDY
IS CLEARED Up
BY THE MOTHER
OF MAUDE ADAMS, WHO ADMITS
BEING INNOCENT CAUSE OF
DEATH.
WEEPS OVER SHOOTING
Renounced Senator Brown In the
Hope He Would Make Restitu-
tion to the Woman He Had
Wronged.

Wash ngton, Dec 1j.-Mrs. Ami
Adams, in the hotel where she is 81
cluded under an assumed name, an
where she denied herself to all news
paper representatives today, weeping
: ly told the story of her grief at tn
death of Senator Arthur Brown an
her pity for Mrs. Anna Bradley, th'
woman who had killed him.
Il wrote him the day of his death,
she said, "absolving him from all oh
legations tG me il he could brighter
her clOuded life. | told him was will
ing to sacrifice my own happiness, Il
he felt hat he owed duty to her.
This letter, which is now in tho
hands Of Daniel w Baker the Uni
ted States district attorney, was the
special delivery letter mailed in New
York at 2;30 on the day of the Sena
tors DEATH and which reached Dr.
White. his attnedant physic an, few
minutes before his patient passed
away
Calls Him "Dear Heart"
The letter began Dear Heart" II
was letter expressing the writer's
deep affection but also the spirit Of
remuneration. II denotes that Mrs,
Adams had risen to the height of CIV
ing up the man whom she loved for
the sake of the unhappy woman he
had wronged, and. which seemed her
ruling motive, that he might do that
which she was at last persuaded was
his highest duty
4. The letters which. Mrs. Braaiey Is
said to have eg,l in The senator's
room and which, ftsis claimed, drove
her to frenzy discussed their proposed
plan to talk everything over in New
York, also arranging for them to go
TO Boston to visit Miss Maude Adams.
Wanted Her to See as He Saw.
In one of the senator's letters he
had said;
II want you to rec with my own
eyes hear with my ears. hate with my
hate, and love with my love" Said
Mrs Adams
In one of my last letters to him.
one which doubtless he had received
just before the shooting, aud the
sight of which ssaay have driven the
unhappy woman to her terrible act,
| said:
at will be easy to learn to see
with your eyes. and to love with your
love. but hate has never been a com
ponent part of my nature. 'Loye Is
more powerful. but in time | may
come to take your views of some per
sons, even of that unhappy woman.
Feared to Meet Woman.
Il also referred to the fact that he
had written me of her coming to the
house and said:
L feared that eontretemps at your
house. The last time I passed 20l
Brigham street the gate was open,
and thought how much more fitting
1t had been. under the circumstances,
had there been bolts and bars upon
the gate"
Mrs. Adams burst into fresh tears
at the recollection, aud said:
"To think that am the cause of
his DEATH"
When told that a message from her
could be conveyed TO Mrs. Bradley in
the United States Jail she said:
"Tell her I said she could not feel
worse over her deplorable state than
| do. Tell her | have only pity in my
heart for her. But" and she wepi bit
terly, Il feel for his gon and daugh
Ter, whom have never seen"
But he could not have done any
thing else as matters were
Why Brown Refused to Marry.
II is understood from other sources :
of information that the ex-senator hal
given. as his reason for not making
restitution by marrying Mrs. Bradley.
that he doubted the paternity of Mrs.
Bradley's youngest child. one born
three years ago.
senator Brown expected to make
full provision for The woman and her
said Mrs. Adams. "in fact. /.
believe he always had When that /
matter was settled finally aud for an
lines we wore 10 have been married
Mrs Adams has abandoned her
idea of going to Salt Lake City with
the remains Cf her fiance This was
at he expressed wish Of her daugh-
-er's brriness representatives. who
asked her to avoid the publicity Of
such a journey.
Considers son and Daughter.
"Tt would be or seem ostentatious.
She said and il might be incOnsider- I