The daily sentinel., 1906-12-11
THE DOWNWARD PATH
Was Trod by the Young Husband of
Anna Bradley, Who shot Sena-
tor Brown, after His Wife
Gave her Love to
Another

1t is pathetic story that marks the
career of Clarence A. Bradley. the
former husband of Mrs. Anna Brad
ley, the woman who shot down For
mer Senator Brown, of Utah. in
Washington. Saturday as detailed in
the Sentinel yesterday. This woman,
quite well known in Grand junction
stated yesterday, has succeeded in
running the life of a devoted hus-
band, and has now shot down the
man with whom she has been linked
in rank scandal for years, he a man
of brilliant attainments and almost
national note.
Clarence Bradley the divorced hus-
band, was sent to the state peniten-
tiary from Reno, Nevada, for embeZ-
Element about three years ago. He
served a year and half and was
pardoned. He has since disappeared
and nothing more has been heard of
him in Utah.
Bradley went to Reno about four
years ago and obtained employment
as a bookkeeper for the j. II. Bradley
company. the largest wholesale and
retail hardware firm in the state. He
began to gamble and rapidly went
from bad to worse.
He embezzled money from the
hardware firm to cover up his gam
bling losses and a warrant was sworn
out for his arrest but the cose never
came up for trial, as his friends
squared the account.
Shortly afterward he secured the
position of head bookkeeper for the
Nevada, California and Oregon rail-
way company in Reno. Soon after
he returned to Reno he became pos
gacgad Of tha gpfrff Thic
time he lost heavily and embezzled
several thousand dollars to meet his
losses on the green table. His theft
was discovered by the railway offic-
ials and this time he was arrested
and tried for embezzlement.
Bradley was convicted. Before he
was sentenced he sent for w. II. A.
Pike. district judge-elect of the sec
ond judicial district of Utah who was
then prosecuting attorney, and told
him a pathetic story. Bradley said
that he and his wife had lived happily
until they moved to Salt Lake City,
where Mrs. Bradley met Senator
Brown. He said that they had a Z
year old boy and that Mrs Bradley
had tried to steal the child when she
left him for Senator Brown, and that
he had sent the boy east to his own
parents WneFe ne was contributing
for his support. Amid tears Bradley
showed Judge Pike letters from his
wife telling him that she did not love
him any more and that she was 60
ing to live with Senator Brown.
Judge Pike was moved by the
man S story of his downfall, and when
Bradley came up for sentence, made
an eloquent plea for light sentence
for the man whose conviction he had
secured. Bradley was sentenced to
two years in the state prison at Car
son. After he was taken to jail he
made an exemplary prisoner. He
helped the prison officials in keeping
the records of the penitentiary, and
within a few months after he was TAX
en- to the penitentiary he was a trusty
For a year and half he did penance
for his theft and when Warden Con
sabine and Judge Pike, who knew the
reason for Bradley's downfall, ap-
peared before the state board of par
dons with a request for his release
He was pardoned and Immediately
afterward disappeared. Nothing has
been heard of him since that time.