Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-12
DELAYS
TRIAL Of MRS.
BRADLEY
SENSATIONAL MURDER
CASE POSTPONED
Brilliant Array Of Legal Talent
Engaged to Free the Alleged
Slayer of Senator Brown
Insanity Plea Probable,
IBy Morning journal Special Leased wire.I

IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire. !
Washington. Nov. 1l.-on account of
the death OF Judge McComas, Of the
District of Columbia court OF appeals,
the case of Mrs. Anna Bradley,
charged with the murder OF former
Senator Brown. OF Utah, was post
poned until Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock.
George =. Hoover, the Washington
attorney who has been retained i'm de-
fense OF Mrs. Bradley, is responsible
for the assertion that mental ire
sponsibiity viii be pleaded in her be-
half. Mrs. Bradley, II well enough,
viii go on the stand and tell her tra-
gic life story to the jury. Five wit
nesses from Utah and other western
states have been summoned. one of
these is Judge Henderson, former law
partner of the late Senator Brown,
who dissolved partnership with the
senator because of his alleged un-
speakable cruelty TO Mrs. Bradley. Tho
Rev. David Utter, pastor of Unity
church, Denver, friend and co-work-
er of Mrs, Bradley and who was also
intimately acquainted with Senator
Browns family, will give u as his
opinion that Mrs. Bradley was insane
when she killed Brown. Testimony
and depositions to this effect will also
be given by many other western Wit
nesses.
II is possible that letters alleged to
he now in the possession OF the au-
thoritles. written by Mrs. Anna 9.
Adams. mother of Maud Adams, the
actress, 10 Senator Brown, viii be in
troduced. Mrs. Adams and the SEN
ator were personal friends for years,
and Il Is intlmated that Mrs. Bradley
was lnsanely jealous because of the
letters that passed between them.
Although Mrs. Bradley is penniless
and there viii be no millions available
for the defense, she will not lack com
petent legal assistance. Six attorneys
will appear for the broken little pris-
oner, headed by Judge Orlando w.
Powers, Of Salt Lake city. Judge
Powers Is famous as a pleader, as re-
nowned in Utah and the intermountain
district as Dolphin Delmas Is on the
Pacific coast.
For months Mrs Bradley has been
planning her defense. fully realizing
the Importance of the case in which
she Is involved. One of her decisions
is peculiarly feminine. In that she has
informed her attorneys that there must
be no curly-headed men on the jury !
that Will decide her fate.
II detest curly-headed men," de- |
clares Mrs. Bradley. such a man Is |
never broadminded or liberal In his !
views. There are strange little curls /
in his nature as well as in his hair
that make him unreliable. Women |
should be all curls and curves, but
men should be built on straight lines.
Mrs. Bradley continued: II should |
like the jury made up of men who |
have loved some one woman strongly |
and deeply-who have known the |
heights and depths of the grand pas 1
sion. | should like jury OF refined |
men. those who know and love poetry. |
They would understand my madness. |
'Or they would know that all men
and some women-kill the thing they
owe"
That the love that existed between |
senator Brown and Mrs. Bradley was
Doetical and beautiful, even though
,nveloped In shadow and unsanctihed |
~ law or religion, there is no doubt.
That Senator Brown openly boasted of
lis love for the fair little woman, the
mother of two children whom he at
lines admitted as his own, and that
Mrs. Bradley loved him with all the
Intensity of a wOmans heart IS shown
n the hundreds of letters which
passed between them, and which VIII
D. introduced In evidence at the trial.
In his will Senator Bradley denied
hat either of Mrs. Bradley's children ,
we're his, and stated. Il have never
married Anna NJ. Bradley and never
intend to-" This document was filed /
our months before the senator's
eath. and by Il he bequeathed all his /
property, valued at about $4,000. 10
rs two children by his first and sec ,
nd wives. ,
Ia his letters 10 Mrs. Bradley. which I
fill no doubt produce a sensation at !
he trial. Brown acknowledges the !
aternity Of the two children whom
q disowned In his will. Among the
atoments made IN these letters are
lc following. !
Take care of our little Arthur (,
rown" II am determined more
lan ever that we shall soon be before
le world all that we are 10 each
lher" - am still determined 20 go
trough life with you" ~ think only
+ the duty ] owe YOU. NJ the wrong g
have done you and yours" when :
look backward ! see the different y
IAN I would be had ! married YOU In
irlv youth" Il hereby acknowledge (
rthur Brown and Mark Montgomery
rown 10 be my children by Anna NJ.
radley." o. contained iu a signed
atement given by Brown 90 Mrs.
radlcy In May. 1905. All of Browns
tiers abound in expressions of en- ii
and he often addressed Mrs. .
radloy as my wife" :
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