The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-27
On Monday or Tuesday of the
Next Week.
TAKING OF TESTIMONY
Is Expected to Close With Ad-
jOurnment of Court Today.
Session Opens With Browns
Stenographer on the Stand.

Washington, Nov. 27.-The abrupt
ness with which the defense rested its
case yesterday in the trial of Mrs An
ME M. Bradley for the killing of for
mer Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah,
combined with the fact that already
four witnesses out of Is summoned by
the government in rebuttaI have testf-
fed, leads to the belief that the case
will be given to the jury possibly Mon
day or Tuesday of next week 1t is
the present purpose of the defense not
to cross-examine at length Dr. Jellieff
and Brush, the government insanity
experts or to place on the stand any
witnesses in surrebuttaL 1t was there
fore expected when court opened To-
day that at the close of today's pro
ceedings the testimony would all be in.
Unless there is a change of pro-
gramme tomorrow will be devoted to
the preparation of requests as to the
charging of the jury by the court In
asmuch as it has been Justice Stafford's
aim throughout the trial to keep from
the jury any wrangling of counsel an
effort on the part of counsel will be
made to reach an agreement with re-
gard to these prayers, so that argu-
ments may begin on Friday.
The trial was resumed today at 1c
o'clock.
Archibald Livingston former stenog-
rapher to Senator Brown, continuing his
testimony in rebuttal, declared that on
December l. one week before the trag-
edy, Mrs. Bradley called him on the
telephone and said:
80 Mr.. Brown got away, did hep"
Mr.. Livingston declared that on his
telling Mrs. Bradley that he did not
think Brown would marry her, Mrs
Bradley said:
We'll. he'll have to. or I'll blow his
head off,
The witness declared that Brown In
the presence of Mrs. Brown. Mrs.
Bradley and Colonel Tatlock said he
would protect Mrs. Bradley as long as
he lived.
said that before Senator Brown left
Salt Lake for Washington on Decem-
ber 1, he left with him 5000 for Mrs.
Bradley's expenses to California. but
imposed the condition on Mrs. Brad
ley that she should not go to Goldfield
or Washington. Witness declared he
told Mrs. Bradley many deliberate
falsehoods $50 he and she could ger
along"
You told her deliberate faIsehocds?"
asked Mr.. Hoover of counsel for the
defense.
Eyes. and she knows il. I. told her
about that afterwards"
Witness said he was IN the Office to
do whatever Mr.. Brown wante1 him fo
do.
tor wanted to keep her under his con-
troll He was sure he had never told
her he thought the senator should
marry her without qualifying the state
ment. He had told her the senator
should marry her if she could straight
en- him out and keep him from drink
ing but he told her he did not think
she could do that. The witness emphat-
ically stated he did tell Mrs. Bradley
while Senator Brown was in Washing
ton in October, 1906, that Brown would
marry her when he came back.
Justice Stafford halted the trial and
that a girl IL years old be re-
quested to leave the room with her
parents, who accompanied her.
P. P. Christensen, an attorney or
Salt Lake, said he knew Mrs. Bradley
He had witnessed a scene
at the depot in the summer OF 1906,
between her and Senator Brown
Mrs Bradley insisted on going away
with Brown and fairly hung onto him.
her.
Soeren Christensen, also of Salt
Lake, testified that on one occasion
while in Pocatello, Idaho, with Sena-
tor Brown, Mrs. Bradley appeared
suddenly and that Brown chastised
same occasion he said Mrs. Brown ap-
peared and engaged in a personal
struggle with Mrs. Bradley, clutching
her by the throat and exclaiming.
Let me kill her."
The witness further stated that at
the Pocatello visit Senator Brown de-.
clared in the presence of Mrs Brad
lev. Mrs Brown and himself that he
was not the father of Max Brown and
that Mrs. Brown upbraided him as
low, vile creature for denying his own
child and admitting the fatherhood OF
bastards.
Court took a recess at 1880 after
several police officers ana a police ma
tron had testified that Mrs. Bradley
admitted to them that she shot