The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-15
.BHTER REBUKE
FOR mrs. ADAMS
Marriage Story Questioned by
Mrs. Bradley and Browns
Children.
ACTRESS BEWAILS TRAGEDY
TWAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE MY
OWN HAPPINESS"
ACTRESS BEWAILS TRAGEDY
Especial to The Herald.)

Especial to The Herald)
Washington, Dec 14-Mrs ANNA
Adams, mother of Maude Adams, in the
hotel where she is registered under an
assumed name, today weepingly told the
story OF her grief at the death of For
mer Senator Brown and her pity for the
woman who killed him.
To think that [ am the cause OF hfa
deathp' she walled.
Il wrote him the day OF his DEATH
she said. "absolving him from all obi
cations to me If he could brighten her
clOuded life. L told him I was willing
to sacrifice my own happiness il he felt
that he owed a duty to me-"
The letter, which is now in the hands
of Danied w. Baker, the United States
district attorney, was the special deliv-
cry letter mailed in New York ht 2:3O
o'clock on the day of the senator's DEATH
tendant. a few minutes before his dis
tinguished patient passed away.
The letter began: Dear Heart" It
was a letter expressing the writer's deep
affection and also the spirit of it showed
that Mrs. Adams had risen to the height
of giving up the man whom she loved
| for the sake of an unhappy woman he
| had WTOnged, and it seemed her ruling
motive that he might do that which shs
was at last persuaded was his highest
duty.
In one of the senator's letters he had
/ written: 1 want you to see with my own
/ eyes, hear with my ears, hate with my
hate and love with my love- said Mrs.
Adams.
Pleaded for Mrs. Bradley.
Senator Brown and I were to have
/ been married soon, and L had planned to
! go to Boston and join my daughter,
/ Maude Adams. at the time the tragedy Oc-
| CURED. Brown was to have come TO New
/ York to join us. / had not intended max
ma tFr 10 a
| cent developments, I feel it necessary that
the world should know the exact situa-
! ton
Mrs. Adams said she was the author OF
! the letter which reached the emergency
/ hospital few hours before Senator
/ Brown died. She said she mailed il in
/ New York when she heard he was sink
I'm the letter begged Senator Brown
, to marry Mrs Bradley before he died 50
| as to give her two children a name III
| the world" said Mrs. Adams.
If Mrs Bradley had asked me TO with
| draw. / believe the tragedy would have
! atOr Brown, asking him to make Mrs.
/ Bradley his wife for the sake of the two
/ children, arrived too late"
! District Attorney Baker is engaged in
/ drawing the Indictment against Mrs.
| Bradley for presentation to the grand
/ jury. He expects the Indictment viii be
returned so that she can be arraigncd
during the coming week and the trial set
for May or June.
Mrs. RradIey's Comment.
Mrs. Bradley at the United States Jail
today denied that she had any knowl-
edge of a proposed marriage between
Mrs. Annie c. Adams and Former Sena-
tor Brown
1T is passing strange" she said that
Mrs Adams should have waited until
after death had sealed the lips of SEN
ator Brown before she made any an
nOuncement of this contemplated mar
Tiage. 1 certainly never heard of II, and
when 1 called on Senator Brown at his
room in the Raleigh hotel on Saturday.
| last he said nothing to me In regard
to it."
Mrs Bradley is making the best of the
situation today and is as comfortable rs
if is possible TO be in the dismal surround
ings of the district jail. Reports published
that she is being guarded to prevent her
from committing suicide are not correct,
as she manifests no tendency in that di-
fectiOn and has evidently settled down to
the effort to get out of the dilemma into
which she has brought herself
Accompanied by Max and Alice Brown,
the body of former Senator Brown left
Washington at noon TO-DAY for salt Lake
City, where funeral services will be held
Surprise to Children.
The secret engagement of ex-senator
Arthur Brown and Maude Adams moth
er was a shock TO the two children or
the murdered lawyer When MIS-; AdalhS
announced it. neither Of the children had
ever seen Mrs. Adams. 1t is apparent
that they feel that their fathers atten-
tions to Mrs Adams imDelled the dis
carded Mrs. Bradley to kill him, and on
that account they did not accept her
suggestions that she should accompany
the body to SAT- Lake City.
I'VE know nothing about her or OF
fathers relations with her" said tho
son. Max Brown, land 90 not believe
they were engaged to be married.
The report that there was ever an
intention of Mrs. Adams joining either
me or my sister in Washington and go
ing with us to Salt Lake City is a6so-
IufeIy untrue We don't know Mrs
Adams and know no reason why she
.s'The first we heard of the alleged en-
gasernent of father to Mrs. Adams was
VIXEN we read it in the newspapers yes
terday We do not believe it and are
surprised at the announcement which
came after his death
Browns Son Bitter.
Young Brown was disinclined TO dis
cuss the contents of the special deliv-
cry letter he had received from Mrs
Adams but he plainly intimated that she
had sought to have him aid her in a
suppression of facts in the relations be-
tween herself and Senator Brown.
Il did not know" he further said, that
It was my fathers purpose to meet her
in New York and | know absolutely
nothing of their relations. | am conf
dent the United States authorizes Will
mete out justice to the slayer of nv
father. which was, l am confident, a
cold-blOoded, premeCitated murder.
Dad had done a great deal for Mrs.
Bradley and paid her large sums OF
money during the years of their unfor-
tunate acquaintance"
The miXup of counsel for the defense
resulted today in Attorney Leclie for
maIIy withdrawing from the case. He
issued a statement this evening explain
ing his connection with Mrs. BFadleys
defense and his reasons for withdraw
ing in which he says in part:
.'eTne first news of the killing was
brought late last Saturday night
By a newspaper reporter. who informed
me at the same time that l had been
retained by Bartch & Bagley Of Salt
Lake City to defend Mrs Bradley. A