The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-10
LIES At POINT Of
DEATH AT CAPITAL
Unmistakable Evidence Shown
Physicians That PeritOnitis
Has Set In.
WAS ON THE OPERATING
TABLE FOR THREE HOURS
Mrs. Bradley, Who Fired Shots,
Removed From Police Sta
ton; Sympathy for Her.
Special to The Tribune.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9,-ArthuE
Brown. former Senator from Utah,
who was shot in his room al the Ra.
leigh hotel yesterday by Mrs Anna
M. Bradley. is at the point of death in
ward at the Emergency hospital at
3 O'Clock this evening. A consultation
of physicians occurred early this morn.
ing and the examination disclosed un,
mistakable evidence of peritonitis
The patient has been in stupot
most Of the day. His vitality is low
previously were not such as to render
his system capable of wlthsta nding tho
shock. The doctors consider him par.
ticularly susceptible to septic poison.
He has not been In condition 10 see any
body.
H. s. Gum of Helena. Mont, who
was TO appear with ex-senator Brown
IN legal argument before the Supreme
Court last week, called, and a woman
who claimed to be an aunt Of the ex-
Senator. She refused to give her last
name but sent a message to the sick
AONi' ffp1h -hubI Lid ne eS-
Senator was not in condition TO receive
or appreciate the message. No other
persons claiming relationship with the
sufferer has appeared
On Operating Table Three Hours.
Mr.. Brown has been very weak and
afflicted with nausea since the opera
tion. He was on the operating table
three hours. He has not been able to
take any nourishment. He is in a stu
por most of the time. Just before he
went on the operating table the ex-
Senator directed the sending of mes.
sages to members of his family. These
were entrusted to Mr.. Gum of Helena.
They sought to reassure his family and
friends and told them it was not neces-
sary for them 10 come on to Washing
ton,
Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley, who fred the
shots that will probably prove fatal,
was removed early this morning from
police station number one, within half
block of the Raleigh hotel. where the
shooting occurred, 10 the house of de-
tention, two blocks east of the War,
State and Navy building,
Mrs. Bradley Held Without Bail.
She was transferred in the prison
van, and arriving, was booked and held
without bail on the charge of assault
with intent to murder. When searched
FIVE dollars and some fractional coins
were found in her possession, which
created some surprise IN view of her
statement that she had only a dollar
when arrested, and this sum was all
The police discovered when she was ar
rested. It is presumed Mrs Bradley
received the money from some one OF
her numerous callers who were admitted
Freely during her detention at the Do
ice station. Last night she declined
IN offer of money from a man repre-
;enting the trades unions. She has re-
:eived numerous offers of assistance,
financial and otherwise, from all over
he city.
Representatives Of the Salvation
Army called today with fruit and other
atables. but the prisoner has not closed
Ter eyes or tasted food except to sip
Office since her arrest. She is on the
'erge OF physical collapse tonight from
ervousness and weakness. A physi-
ian is in attendance.
Mrs, Bradley began to inquire LASH
light after midnight about Brown 3
ondition. and insisted that he be com.
with. "He would not per,
mt me to be locked up in a police
tatlon,' she said. This she has kept
p today, until it amounts to hysteria.
he female attendants at the house of
etention have been very kind and
towards the prisoner aud
eep her advised, through telephone
with the hospital, as to
rown's condition every half-hour. She
,day expressed the hope that he would
cover.
Consults With Lawyers
Early this morning, Leckie, Fulton &
Ok, attorneys of this city, took charge
Mrs Bradley's case. They held q,