Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-10-05
MRS. BRADLEY
WILL PLEAD
INSANITY

Washington, oct. 5.-Whether ,
or not. a plea Of insanity will avail |
TO save Mrs. Bradley. who shot and !
killed ex-United States Arthur |
Brown of Utah in his apartments at |
the Raleigh hotel last December, !
after he had refused to marry her, |
will soon be known, as the case is !
set for trial next week. II is prob
able that the attorneys for the de-
fense will seek TO secure a further
delay, but whether IL will be grant
ed Is not definitely known.
George p Hoover, the Washing
ton attorney who has been retained
in defense Of Mrs. Bradley, is re-
sponsible for the assertion that
mental frresponsibility will be plead
ed in her behalf. Mrs. Bradley, If
well enough, will go on the stand
and tell her tragic life story to the
Jury. Five witnesses from Utah
and other western states have been
summoned One OF these Judge
Henderson, former law partner OF
the late Senator Brown, who dis
solved partnership with the senator
because of his alleged unspeakable
cruelty TO Mrs. Bradley. The Rev.
David Uttor, pastor Of Unity church,
Denver, a friend and co-worker OF
Mrs. Bradley and who was also in
timately acquainted with Senator
Browns family will give II as his
opinion that Mrs. Bradley was in
tsaae when she killed Brown. Testi
money and depositions to this effect
will also be given by many other
western witnesses.
II Is possible that letters alleged
to be now in the possession Of the
authorities, written by Mrs. Annie
| c. Adams, mother of Maude Adams,
the actress, 10 Senator Brown, viii!
also be introduced. Mrs. Adams and
the senator were personal friends
for years. and IL is intimated tina:
Mrs. Bradley was insanely Jealous
because OF the letters that passed
between them.
Although Mrs. Bradley is penni-
less and there will be no millions
available for the defense, she will
not lack competent legal assistance.
Six attorneys will appear for the
broken little prisoner. headed BY
Judge Orlando W.. Powers, OF Salt
Lake City. Judge Powers is famous
as a pleader, as renowned in Utah
and the intermountain district as
Dolphin Delmas is on the Pacific
coast
For months Mrs. Bradley has
been planning for 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 attor-
neys that. there must be no curly
haired men on the jury that will
decide her fate.
II detest curly-haired men, de
clares Mrs. Bradley Such a man
is never broad-minded 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 he all curls and
curves. but men should be built on
/ straight lines"
Mrs. Bradley continued; Il should
like the jury made up of men who
have loved some one woman strong
ly and deeply-who have known the
heights and the depths of the grand
passion. / should like a jury of re-
fined men, those who know and love
poetry They would understand my
madness. for they would know thai
all men-and some women-kiil the
thing they love"
That the love that existed between
Senator Brown and Mrs. Bradley
was poetieal and beautiful even
though enveloped IN shadow and
unsanetified by law or religion
there is no doubt That Senator
Brown openly boasted OF his love fol
the fair little woman, the mothel
OF two children whom he at times
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