Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-10
DEATH HOURLY EXPECTED.
Name Of Senator Arthur Brown Is on
Every Tongue Today.

Every Tongue Today.
is on almost every tongue up and down
Main street today. News OF his death
1t awaited with more curiosity than
pity, and the queries expressed as to
the outcome show more concern TO learn
the facts than to express Indignation
against the woman. who shot him, or
sympathy for Tho victim.
Nearly everyone knew Senator
Brown. Today they are telling how
he was one of the greater ring gem
erals of the Utah bar. and are telling
how be was born with a brilliant in
tellect and no sense of moral obliga-
lions, while there was the keenest
sense OF financial obligations. His
bond was never any better than his
word, and his financial affairs, It Is
thought, will be found in the finest
OF shape.
With the good things about him, that
kept him In public life, and kept him
many friends despite himself, there ara
many stories which show not 80 much
moral depravity, as sense Of moral
responsibility and duty.
Old residents will recall the fact that
Senator Brown went almost insane with
anger when he was arrested while
roomIng with Mrs Bradley and fairly
fumed around the police station. He
will be remembered as being a cripple
with q broken leg a year or more ago,
which he secured while kicking the rear
OF a wagon, the front wheels of which
had splashed mud on him as IL passed
down main street
ACTIVE IN POLITICS.
In Utah he was an active partlci-
pant In politics during the last cam
paign, as manager of Farley Chris
tensen's candidacy for the congression-
al nomination IN his chosen field OF
law practise he appeared in the recent
hearing or Chief OF Police George A.
Sheets. on the charge OF compromising
a felony by lending aid and assistance
to the bunko gang that robbed the
McWhirters. In this case he conduct
ed the examination OF the McWhirters
in the way that brought out so many
glaring facts about the bunko game,
being retained as an assistant attorney
for the state.
The case is one calling for much
moralizng and comment In the way OF
mentioning moral laws. The sentence
1.-THE wages OF sin is death" has been
quoted and quoted again up and down
the street. and everyone is driving the
lesson home that sooner or later, in
evitably IN every case, ones sins viii
find him out Mrs. Bradley Is looked
uopn as a nemesis In skirts and with
a handbag large enough to hold a big
revolver, and the fatal ending to the
tragedy OF life that began when the
two met at political convention IN
1896. In the drama, which Is fashioned
on the lines OF the old Greek plays with
tragic themes, the quarrel with Mrs,
Brown, the final separation Of the low
ers, and the reconciliation again with
Mrs. Brown, were the first two parts
OF the trilogy, and In the final scene
at Washington II was only the old
Greek Fate" In action, melting out the
punishment for sin In obedience TO laws
mere mortals do not fully comprehend.
As a glimpse into exhibits Of tho law
OF life, the Brown case viii rank with
the greater novels and essays. II is the
old tale worked out 1rst in the book OF
Job. and the kind OF data from which
the moral laws OF Thou shalt not" are
compiled.
EMOTIONAL INSANITY.
Mrs. Bradley viii go on trial. II The
Jury were empaneled here I'm Utah
where all the sad story has been known
as II progressed, step by step. there
would only be one kind OF verdict. In
all probability. Emotional insanity"
would be accepted readily, and there
would be but slight inclination to query
as to whether the insanity extended a
minute beyond the psychological in.
slant In which the bullet was fired.
Like the unwritten law which allows
father to protect HIS household from
the msrauder who would force entrance.
In the night. the law that gives wom-
man the conmunitys justification In
seeking TO legalize the names OF her
children and refuses to Justify a man
who withholds this boon TO those whom
he has brought into the world. Is lust
as much in force as though II were
written In the formal codes.