The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-21

| q said. I came to ask if you won t carry out your promise to me-? | What did he say?"
 T don't know; he just rushed to me. l don't know what he said.
 What did you next do?'' q don't know anything until I heard l a shot which seemed to arouse me" 1 Did you shoot him?" | q don't know. judge
 Did you go there for the purpose of shooting him?" | "I did not"
 Did you go there with any purpose of revenge?"
 | No" Did you know he was shot?" q did not l did not know anything about it."
 What did he do?" He just walked the floor and swore.' Did you take aim?' q did not" Had you ever fired gun before that | day?'
 q had not" Mrs. Bradley said she did not remeni. | Der Manager Talty asking her whether she was Mir. Browns wife or anything | about the room. This recital was given l in a voice that scarcely rose above a | whisper and 1t was evident that the wit 1 ness was much affected Her feeling Vat l that time toward MT. Brown was, she | said, "one of utter dependency, trust and l love. He was not jealous Can you give any reason why you | shot Senator Brown?' she was asked. No, have no reason.' The Adams Letter. The Adams letter was then offered in | evidence by Powers. The district attor- ney made objection that the letter had | not been sufficiently identified, and Mrs. | Bradley was asked to read 1t more care | fully and say definitely as to its identity. | She went over 1t deliberately and re- piled: Tt was the letter l saw in Browns room" The letter was read by Attorney Wells. It was dated at Philadelphia, December 6. and was addressed "Dearer, My Dearie." It began '4The world seems to have taken on another hue, because, perhaps l have heard from you" The letter then went on to speak of the visits of some one supposed to be Mrs. Bradley, to the senator's house. and speaking of her a '.poor. misguided soul" who should be behind prison bars The writer proceeded to speak of her own engagements as an actress and said that she would be in the cast for some weeks. but would keep him advised The letter then entered upon a disserta-
 
 was "overfowing with love for you, the sweetest and dearest of all, and you and I are to become believers in the divine command to love one another Believest thou this?"
 The epistle contnued "Yea, verify" The note closed with endearing words.
 Cross-Examination.
 At o'clock Mir Powers concluded the examination of Mrs. Bradley and District Attorney Baker immediately began the ss-examination, taking it up with the prisoners leaving her room to go to Senator Browns room before the shoot ing.
 You say you did not aim the revolver?" he asked; 'are you very sure?''
 q am."
 Mrs. Bradley said she did not remember taking the revolver from the handbag. Nor did she recall destroying any letters or other papers in her room.
 Mrs. Bradley said she had never before read any letters from Mrs Adams to the Senator.
 q knew of the old relation between them,' she said, but thought it had been broken off.
 Going back to her first acquaintance with Senator Brown, Mrs. Bradley said she had also known Mrs. Brown inti- mately.
 Did you go frequently to her house from 1898 to 1901"
 Not more frequently than she came to mine"
 Did you take meals at her house?"
 No more than she took at mine'' Did you frequently go there often as two or three times a day?"
 T did not"
 Little Mint JuIep."
 ba 1.,it friendship with Mrs. Brown had been broken off in 1901, when her (Mrs. Bradley's) sisters had gone to Mrs. Brown and told that lady of the rela- tions between the witness and Senator Brown Some letters relating to this rupture were then exhibited and iden- titled by Mrs. Bradley. One letter was signed 'II M. J." and MT. Baker asked the meaning of these letters as a sig nature. The witness did not want to tell, saying that they had reference to little pleasantly between the senator and herself. At last she said that in his first letter to her he had called h CT a Little Mint Julep" and she had adopted the first letters of these words as a signature The bringing out of this circumstance caused general laughter in which the witness joined. Upon being read the letter proved to
  Brown regarding their relationship. In another letter written by Mrs. Bradley to Brown in July. 1901, and addressed My Life, My AL" Mrs. Bradley said: q shall kill her or go mad" Did you refer to Mrs. Brown in that sentence?" asked MT. Baker. q don't know" was the reply. Question Withdrawn. Being asked If she remembered writ ing letter to Brown prior to Septem- ber 1902, in which she used the ex- pression "the longer the madame stays there Gin Senator Browns Brigham street house) the more strongly en- trenched is the enemy" Mrs. Bradley replied that she did not recall it. The defense objected to the question and it was withdrawn. She admitted that she had told MT. Brown that his older children by his wife did not need the attention that her children deserved from him. But she declared she had never written him saying: q need the Brigham house for our little ones and fo- our unborn chil- dren."
 Upon objection the question was not pressed at the time. Another letter written by Mrs. Brad ley from the Brown farm was read. It was full of endearing terms. She in sisted upon a visit from Brown, saying; Our business shall be love-" In this letter she advised the senator to empty the Brigham street house of