The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
SHORYM MRS. BRADLEYWILL TELL
EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE
SHOOTING OF MR.. BROWN.
Says h Was Not Pursuing Brown Except
20 Get Means Of support for Herself and
children -Ha No Intention OF Shoot
Ing Him Until He Brushed Her Aside.

IVY FhN VaS Not FurbuibS nTOWu FLNCtDt
TO Get Means Of support for Herself and
|. Chndren-H No Intention OF shoot
Ing Him Untn He Brushed Her Aside.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l5.-Mrs. Anna NJ.
Bradley, who shot former Senate Arthur
Brown so that he died, to-day related to a
friend from Salt Lake City who visited her
in prison the circumstances Of the affair
and the events leading up to 1t. It Is the
story she will tell when she takes the stand
as a witness to answer in her own defence
the charge of murder.
Mrs. Bradley says that she had not been
pursuing Mr.. Brown except to secure the
means of support for herself and her chill
dren, whose ~parentage she asoribes to him.
ION the contrary, he continued, she declares,
to seek her company and spent last Thanks
giving Day and the night with her in Salt
Lake City. On that day they talked over
the future. He had been allowing her $50
a month for support of herself and her two
children. She insists that Brown never
denied the parentage Of the children and
that she can furnish evidence of his having
introduced them as his children. She also
asserts that in some books which he pur-
chased for the eldest boy, named for him,
Brown inscribed the boys name, Arthur
NJ. Brown, Jr."
Thanksgiving Day seems 10 have been
a day OF accounting between the two. Mrs.
Bradley submitted several propositions to
Mr.. Brown. She wanted to go 10 Gold
field, New, where she has a sister, and
engage in the stationery business, provided
he would supply the capital. He objected
10 her going TO Goldfeld. He left with the
promise that he would. see her before COM
ing East. When she learned hat he had
started for Washington she called at his
Office and found that he had left a sum of
money with his stenographer to purchase
a ticket for her to California. She took
the money and purchased a . ticket for
Washington.
She admits that at their interview on
Thanksgiving Day she demanded of the
Senator that he be frank with her and
warned him not to deceive her She learned
on arriving In Washington that he had
deceived her and was planning, unknown
to her and in spite of his denial, TO marry
Mrs. Adams. She confronted him with the
evidence and demanded that he marry her.
Mrs. Bradley says she drew the revolver u
brighten him, with no intention of shooting.
She says he had shown himself to be cow
ardly in her presence on previous occasions
and she believed he would vi ED without
the necessity OF her shooting. Instead Of
doing SO he put on his overcoat and brushed
her aside brutaliy, as she says, whereupon
she pulled the trigger and fired.
On this statement of Mrs. Bradley the
defence might be either emotional in
sanity" or the @unwritten law" The at
torneys for the defence have not yet elected
the. course OF the defence. Mrs. Bradley
denies that she purchased the revolver and
brought it East with the object of killing
Mr.. Brown. She had owned the revolver
for some time and always carried one when
she travelled.