The National tribune., 1907-11-21
SINS WAGE.
Mrs. Annie Bradley on Triaf for Her
Life-Killed Former U. 8. Senator Ar
thur Brown, of Utah-Was Ii Justif-
0hIes

0Dles
The wages of sin is death. Not al
ways death to the body, perhaps, but
to the soul. and the heart and the mind.
There is going on in Washington ct
the present time battle to save a
woman from disgraceful death by hang
ing, for that is what the wage of one
sin is in the District Of Columbia
murder-and this woman shot Il man,
to his death. and she does not deny it!
The man had wronged her, with her
consent, it is true; but" all the testi-1
mony goes to show that it was only
after long pursuit that she yielded to
his opportunities. He broke UP her
home, under promise that he would
eventually marry her, and she, believ-
ing his word, which she knew had been
broken to many other women, however.
accepted his VOWS of devotion, and
openly lived with him, becoming the
mother of two children which bear his
name, and were openly acknowledged
by him. and one of which he named for
a close personal friend of his own.
Then his wife died; she, the wronged
woman, got her divorce, and the way
was open to honorable marriage.
Did he act like man and as far as
possible repair the injury to woman
and his two iilegitimate sons? No And
thereby hangs the awful story that is
now being told in the courts.
| Dec. last Mrs. Bradley shot former
Senator Brown in the Raleigh Hotel in
! this city. She arrived in Washington
shortly after former Senator Brown.
registered at the same hotel, visited
him in his room, and suddenly guests
| and attaches of the house were startled
| by a pistol shot.
| Fifteen minutes later Brown was car
ried dying into the Emergency Hospi-
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hind the bars of a police station.
Senator" Arthur Brown, of Salt
Lake City. a lawyer of note, brilliant,
brainy and good to look upon, was the
| first United States Senator from Utah
when it became a State. Honorable, 1t
is said by all who knew him, in all the
walks of life, except one, he held the
often ch,ded him for his one fault-the
despoiling of women. Not one woman,
| it is said, but many, have fallen victim
| to his Establishments, and it is said that
| he seemed to have real affection for
all of them, tho they were all finally
cast off The affair with Mrs. Annie
Bradley, of his own city, is said to have
lasted longest, but when the day came
when she expected to be made his wife
she learned, by accident that he eX-
pected in short time to marry the
actress, Mrs. Annie Adams, mother of
the younger actress. Miss Maude Adams.
/ Senator Brown came to Washington
on business about year ago now, and
it is stated that he was to have married
1.-THE actress during the Christmas holi-
days of 1906 Mrs. Bradley followed
him to Washington to find out for her
self, and from his own lips, if he in
tended to dishonor her further and
marry another woman.
| She took rooms at the Raleigh Ho-
tel, close to the one occupied by Senator
Brown. registered as Mrs. Brown, and
at the first opportunity went in to see
him. Then the chambermaid at work
in the hall heard two quick shots in
the room, and running in found Senator
Brown on the floor, dying from gun
shot wounds. and Mrs. Bradley. stand
ing near said she had shot him. -
Later she said she did it because after
having made her thing for the world
to scoff at he had refused to marry her,
thus branding her children and his for
| life with the ineffacable stain of lille
gitimacy. He had acknowledged to her
| in the few stormy minutes that they
had together that he would marry the
Adams woman and not her, and had
told her to go back home, and he would
give her money enough to pay all
scores. Then she shot him. Would
she have been human if she had not !?
Now she is counting the cost of sin.
|
lawyers of worldwide fame who say
that no jury on earth will convict her,
and that most juries would find it jus
Il tifable shooting"
i But the wages of SIN is DEATH The
woman's life is killed, her soul is as
dead. and henceforth, even if she go
forth free. life will be living death.
\ Mrs. Bradley is "a years old, and it
is easy to realize now, with the effects
of her grief SO apparent, how pretty
she must have been in her younger
days. She has large, expressive brown
eyes. fine teeth and a smile that lights
up her entire countenance. She is very
| pale, and her cheeks are sunken, but
she has the courage of a woman deter
mined, if she has to suffer, to do so
without allowing others to suffer with
| her.
She was one of the -smartest and
brightest women in Salt Lake City, it
is said, and was regarded as an author
ity on many deep questions of which
women generally know little Her in
tellect and personal charm soon brought
her to the notice of Arthur Brown, one
of the best-known lawyers in the State
and as he learned to know and under
stand her bright mind he became fas-