The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-26
SLAYER
OF SENATOR
WAS INSANE

allenists for the defense to a severe
test.
The trial was resumed at 1906
O'Clock. The defense at once put on
the stand a new witness, Dir. Isaac
Rich, Of New York city. 1t was de-
cided to near DR.. Evans later.
DIR. Rich said that he saw Mrs. Brad
ley the day of the shooting and that
she looked ''looney'' and had an idiotic
laugh.
The testimony of DR.. Rich was at
first regarded as of the highest inn
portance. but as soon as it was shown
that he was not an expert less interest
was attached to it.
DIR. Rich testified that he was in
Washington the day Of the tragedy
and stopped at the hotel where the
shooting occurred. He saw Mrs. Brad
ley that day, and first observed her
in the ladies' sitting room. That was
about nom. Somebody rushed by
me- he said. L looked up, and saw
this lady docking at Mrs. Bradley.
She looked like an intelligent woman,
but said nothing to me. She bumped
into first one person and then another.
She had a peculiar, drawn face; talked
to herself. muttering and wringing her
hands. l looked at her again and she
changed expression. All of a sudden
she began laughing. 1t was an idiotic
laugh. | looked at her and she stopped
laughing and appeared to cry and she
went away Witness said Mrs. Brad
ley appeared to him later to be
'looney' and that she had an idiotic
laugh.
DIR. Charles G.. Hill, of Baltimore, an
expert, positively stated hat on the
date of shooting Senator Brown Mrs.
Bradley was insane and incapable of
choosing between right and wrong.
on cross-examination DR.. Hill said
that in his opinion Mrs. Bradley inten-
tionally shot Senator Brown, but her
state of mind was such that in her
alteration she believed she was doing
the right thing as distinguished from
the wrong
Cross-examined by District Attorney
Baker as to the reasons for coming to
his conclusions, DIR. Hill said he was in
hueneed in that opinion because the
hypothetical question describes a very
decided hereditary tendency to insanity.
"These conditions" he added, cal
ways predispose mental weakness. One
is not necessarily insane because an
aunt was insane; but they are more
liable to be insane than another person
who has not such a hereditary faint. "
DR.. Hill did not expect to find any
connection between the nature of her
insanity and that of her relatives. The
hereditary faint merely predisposed her
toward insanity, but there would not
necessarily be any connection between
the kinds of insanity.
DIR. Hill was closely questioned by
Mr.. Baker as to his opinion of Mrs.
Bradley's mind when, just before coming
to Washington, she started for Ogden.
The witness declared that Mrs. Bradley
was in a confused state of mind. The
uncertainties of aim on her part,
he said, proved this. He would not
admit that the trip to Ogden in De-
cember last vas but a ruse. Insane
people," he said, Garry out their pur-
pose in the most ingenious manner
The idea of coming to Washington,
however. he said, was firmly fixed in
her mind.
DR.. Hill reiterated his statement that
Mrs. Bradley on December 8 was in
sane, ana said that she was still in
sane two days afterward. when upon
being interviewed she sprang from her
cot at the mention of the name Of Mrs.
Adams and covered up her head. DR..
Hill said Mrs. Bradley was suffering
from toxic insanity as early as De
cember, 1905. and he believed it was
continued until she shot Senator
Brown.
When DR., Hill concluded his testi-
mony DR.. Evans testified that Mrs.
Bradley was insane at the time she
Senator Brown. and was lot able
to distinguish between right and
wrong.
DIR. EVans's testimony was dramatic. He
spoke with n feeling of great sympathy for
Mrs. Bradley and referred contemptuously
to Senator Brown for his il-trentment Of
her. all Of which he said preyed on her
mind and unseated her reason. He de-
clared that Brown by his own hand had
destroyed The children which he had be-
gotten. His reference to Senator Brown
was so pointed that Justice Stafford adj
monished him that Brown was dead and
coulo not answer for himself. and that
further that Mr. Brown was not on tr.al
DR.. evans was not cross-examined.
As Judge Powers read extracts from tie
torn letters OF Mrs. Bradley, found IN the
hotel. expressing love and devotion for
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