The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-01
MRS. ANNA BRADLEY In TEARS
SORS LOUDLY WHEN HER COIN
sell SPEAKS IN HER BEHALF,
asut was Apparently UnmOVed when As
siStant a.. :. Attorney Turner ArrRIGned
Her as a Murderess ami Home Wrecker
and RIdIculed RIc- Plea NJ Insanity.

hbut Was Apparently inNnONed When As
sistaDt a.. y. Attorney Turner ArraIkned
Her as a NIurdercss anti Home wrecker
and REdlcuIed EIc= Plea Or insanity
WASHINGTON. Nov. 9O.-Mrs. Anna Mad
ison Bradley sat for two hours to-day
apparently unmoved while Charles II. Tur-
ner. Assistant United States Attorney.
arraigned her in scathing terms as a muir
deress and home wrecker.
Mr.. Turner. who once represented a Tam
many district in Congress and was known
as the iceman.' opened the argument for
the Government He spoke with great
~earnestness, but the construction put on
his remarks by those who heard him was
that he demanded from the jury nothing
more than a verdict Of -manslauEhter. The
instructions asked for by the Governments
counsel and the speech Of Mr.. Turner in
Dictated clearly a demand for a verdict of
that chara cter.
The way to such a verdict was pointed
out to the jury by Mr.. Turner when he sug-
gested that the evidence might warrant the
conclusion that Mrs. Bradley carried the
pistol into Browns room in pursuance Of
the threat she had made to her pastor. the
Rev. David Utter, to blur Brown into marry
ing her; that there was "A struggle and that
the revolver was accidentally discharged
with fatal -nseQuences While making
his address Mr.. Turner halted and asked
permission Of the Court TO suspend. After
fifteen minutes rest he resumed his remarks
and proceeded without further difficulty.
Later he explained that he had been at
tackled by vertigo.
The burden Of Mr.. Turner's speech was
that the defendant carefully planned inc
premeditated the shooting. He pictured
Mrs. Bradley betraying the confidence OF
Browns wife and got from Mrs. Bradley
a look Of fine contempt. This was lntensi-
fled when he pictured her a. Browns
mistress and ridiculed her plea of insanity
as a ~pretence.
But Mrs. Bradley softened under the in
iuepCe of the pathetic a~ppeaFto the jurors
made i'm her behalf by Robert W. Wells. her
junior counsel. Mr.. Wells talked for forty
five minutes and appealed directly to the
emotions Of the jurors, some Of whom had
tears in their eyes while he spoke. Mrs.
Bradley sat unmoVed until Mr.. Wells de-
clared that she had killed The man she
loved. And she loves him still" he eX-
claimed as he turned TO the woman. who
had begun to sob
One sensational feature of the case to-
day was the demand by Assistant District
Attorney Turner to know why the defence
had not brought Mrs. Bradley's sister from
salt Lake TO testify to her insanity. The
reference was an unfortunate one, for il
developed that Mrs. BradIey's sister had
died under neculiarly tragic circumstance
il Chicago in March last. The fact came
out within a few days that her death was due
to a Crininal operation. Whatever may
have been Mr.. Turner's object in referring
TO the matter, the defence made the most
of il, and Mr.. Wells was making an inn
pressive statement of the case when Dis
trict Attorney Baker stopped him and
invoked a ruling of the Court that the dis
closure was not admissible.
Then the challenge of Mr.. Turner ought
never 10 have been allowed TO creep into
this record" ~interposed Judge o. ". Power.
senior counsel for the defence.
You must coUfne your reply to the
record" said Justice stafford.
Mrs. Bradley sohbed loudly AZ mention of
her sisters misfortune. II was e. planned
later by the Government u attorneys that
Mr.. Turner referred TO a married sister
and had no thought of dragging into the
case the story Of the death from "A criminal
operation OF Lola Madison. But those
in the court room. Including the jury, also
apparently got the m IMPRESSION that the Lola
Madison case was in Mr.. Turner's mind.
The closing arguments will be heard Mon
day. George HOove Of Washington will
speak briefly for the defence and will be fol-
lowed by Judge o W. Power Of Salt Lake.
who will make the r~rinCipal sTeech For Mrs.
Bradley. District Attorney Baker viii close
for the Government and the jury will have
the case before Adjournment ON Monday.