The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-11
EX-SENATOR B%ROWNIMPROYES
PHYSICIAN SAYS HE HAS A GOOD
CHANCE TO RECOVER.
Another Woman In the Case Revealed by
Letters Taken From Mrs. Bradley.
which She Found In MIR. Brown Room
In Hi Absence n Before shooting.

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Letters Taken From Mrs. Bradley.
which She Found in MIR. Browns Room
In His Absence and Before shooting.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Io.-The condition OF
ex-senator Brown, who was shot by Mrs.
Anna Bradley last Saturday. was improved
to-day. DR.. William p. Carr of the Elmer
gency Hospital said tonight:
THE patient has more than an even
chance to recover. / would not like TO say
that he Ia entirely out Of danger, but he
has certainly a good chance to cover
Mrs. Bradley is in a highly excited condi-
ton and has eaten very little. When she
learned to-day OF the improvement in
Browns condition it caused a marked
change in her. 1t had become necessary
previously to administer medicine to quiet
her nerves and induce SLEEP.
The police made an effort to secure a
written statement from her, but she refused
TO make one. It was decided to-day to
postpone bringing the prisoner into the
police court for another day in order to get
a more definite idea as to whether Brown
would recover. If he continues to improve
she will probably he brought into court
tomorrow on the charge of assault with
lIJCill W lhNAb a OuhNONS Wv $500
Bradley's attorneys considered the matter
of asking bail for her, but finally decided
to await the action of the prosecuting
counsel.
Assistant United States Attorney Given
said that even if Mrs. Bradley were brought
into the police court he would oppose a
motion to admit her to bail until it was
absolutely certain that Mr.. Brown would
- IF n. l.. I~a,.vhN into COURT tn
morrow the prosecution will ask that she
be committed to jail without bail for the
present.
Capt. Robert II. Boardman, inspector OF
police in Washington, has in his possession
a bundle of letters which were taken from
Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley when she was ar
rested on Saturday after shooting ex-
| Senator Arthur Brown of Salt Lake City
in the Raleigh Hotel, which are likely to
play an important part in the trial OF the
prisoner. These letters were obtained by
Capt. Williams of the First precinct police
station when Mrs. Bradley was searched.
1t is now charged that Mrs. Bradley an
\ tered the room Of ex-senator Brown at the
Raleigh during his absence and that be
returned and caught her in the act of
searching through private papers which he
had left in the room. Some of the letters
taken from her after her arrest we're adj
dressed to Mr.. Brown and had been written
10 him within three days of the shooting.
This proves that they could not have been
given 10 Mrs. Bradley before she left Salt
Lake, and they are of such a character that
Mr.. Brown would probably not have turned
them over to her voluntarily. On the floor
of the room in which tie shooting occurred
we're many scraps of letter paper, which
we're pieced together.
All these letters were signed Annie.
The writer is said TO be a woman who for
m erly live. in Salt Lake Citv and was an
old frle nd Of ex-senator Brown.
When the ex-senator was taken to the
hospital he said he was not in the room
when Mrs. Bradley arrived there.
@She was in there when | returned to the
room," he said, AN was looking through
my papers when l entered"
Mrs. Bradley has said that she learned OF
the correspondence and Of the ex-senator
intention TO visit the writer of the torn let
ters in New York, and that was why she came
TO Washington from Salt Lake: In addition
70 the letters taken from Mrs. Bradley
when she was arrested the police oun
other letters from the same writer when they
searched the prisoners runk yesterday.
Mrs. Bradley was disinclined to-day to
discuss the question Of the letters or how
she happened to get possession OF them
She appeared extremely nervous wher
questioned about them and requested that
nothing be aid of their contents. One
of the letters was mailed in Philadelphia
last Wednesday and addressed TO Mr.
Brown in this city. Mrs. Bradley admitted
TODAY that there, had been an episode In
Salt fake City a few years ago at the time
the writer Of the torn letters was living IL
that city, and that she knew that subse-
ouently ex-senator Brown had correspondent
with her.
On Sunday afternoon, the day after the
shooting. a woman called at the Emergency
Hospital and sent a verbal message to ex-
Senator Brown, telling where she could be-
found in the city and Offering assistance,
She refused to give her name merely saying
that the message was from Aunt Annie
Miss Alice Brown Of Columbus, Ohio,
daughter OF the wounded man by his first
wife, from whom he was divorced IN Michi.
gan several years ago is stopping at a loca
hotel. She denied that her mother bao
ever shot at ex-senator Brow in X alamazoo
as has been currently reported, or that she
had even threatened to shoot him.
That is absolutely untrue. My mother
is not that kin of a woman. She never
made an attempt on my fathers life, nor
did she make such n threat. MY mother
secured a divorce in 1879 and has been re-
siding with me in Columbus"
In the Supreme Court to-day was heard
the opening argument in the case of the
Montana Mining Company va. the st. Louis
Mining Company, in which ex-senator
Brown came to Washington t. appear as
counsel for the last named company. His
place was taken by associate counsel and the
arguments proceeded. The case involves
the right 10 take the ore from IA foot striI
very rich in gold ore, claimed by both COM
panies. The litigation over its ownership
has been going in some form or other since
1871, and the 81. Louis company was re.
Gently awarded possession by the love-
courts.