Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-02
ADA PATTERSON ON
MRS. ANNIE BRADLEY
Former Salt Lake Newspaper
Girl Writes Of Defendant in
Washington Jail.
AN INTIMATE PEN PICTURE.
Mrs. Bradley and Miss Patterson We're
Formerly friends and Newspaper
Women in This City.

Miss Ada Patterson, once a salt
Lake newspaper woman, has written
for the New York Journal o decidedly
Interesting pen-picture of Mrs. Annie
NJ. Bradley. who since last November
has been in jail at Washington, d. c.,
awaiting trial for the killing of OK
Senator Arthur Brown. Miss Patter-
son has been well acquainted with Mrs,
Bradley for a number of years and
than she perhaps no one is better able
to write Of the interesting and unfor-
tunate life of the woman who slew the
man who wronged her. Following is
Miss Patterson's story:
when next month in Washington a
jury looks upon the woman whose life
or death it is to determine, il will face
no enigma, as was Jennie Burch, no
such exquisite Sphinx as Evelyn Thaw.
but a woman of the old type from
which the modern woman IS swinging
far away.
Mrs. Annie Bradley is a woman
whose world standards are set up iu
her heart Hcr creed is composed OF
two words, I believe. such is the
most confiding of women, the most
trustful. Senator Brown told her h
loved her. She believed. He prom
Used that some day he would marry her
and legitimati2e the children she had
borne him. Again she believed.
She believed and trusted until the
ialseness Of his VOWS faced her az a
wall in a long path. Then the passion
ate sense OF Justice that burns in The
primitive woman burst into flame and
by the light of that flame Arthur
Brown died.
Not of the school of calm faced.
cold-eyed, serene-pulsed women whom
Justice Plowden, Of London declares
are the new women, is Annie Bradley.
Always on the path of her life the af-
fections have been the lamp to her feet.
LOVE WAS ALL.
Little and thin and plain, save for
large, soft, bright brown eyes, a sweet
Illuminating smile, she Is woman to
whom love Is the beginning, the end,
the sum of all things. Even when it
had led her to the thick walled old
prison in the outskirts of Washington,
within whose grim walls many an ex-
eCution has taken place, and which
may yet witness her own, she sent this
New Years greeting to friend: May
the New Year bring you JOY Of the
heart. for that is the only JOY.
THAT someone has clasped hands
with her, has said, I am your friend
has always been sufficient for Annie
Bradley. Hers was not the nature 10
measure motives or TO tathom acts.
She loved the world and believed the
world loved her And greatly as she
loved she trusted. In all my poverty,
in all my life. | was sunny she said.
My whole being efferv esced with oN-
ultatiop, and ! think l did not seem
as sunny as ] was at heart. / really
wonder how there was room for the
bitter, sad, despairlns sorrows 10 get
a foothold. l must have been intoXi-
Gated with lifes gladness and could
not see nor reason clearly
The woman whose fate will soon be
the cause of fierce legal battle may go
upon the witness stand. This she Is
willing to do and If she does the jury
will be puzzled by the wonderful calm
of her whose life has been controlled
by the emotions. Persons who met her
at the Threshold of the room where
Senator Brown lay writing and ours
ing In what was the beginning of his
death struggle; others who saw her
again at the police station expressed
their amazement at her marvellous self
control
But they who watched her at the
morFue. where the form of tho law re-
Taxed its tension long enough 20 per-
the man she had loved and killed say
that her anguish IN that last meeting
OF the quick and the dead was that OF
a mad woman.
and IN the woman's department Of
the United States Jail every face Is
hanched when the tiny woman, shak-
ing as n leaf in a gale before the
storm OF her sorrow Yields 10 her
DESPAIR. She would face the Jury ~
mon braNely and calmly and would
tell the story OF her life unafrald n
would he seeming tribe some phrase
from one OF his love letters some ref-
erence to a tender mood or loving word
Of his, that would omen the food gates.
And such even the LAWYERS on both
sides would seek To avoid. for 10 Wit
ness such n soul tempest Is 10 scar the
memory with a horror.
SOMETHING OF HER LIFE.
"If she develops her life story be-
fore the jury Annie Bradley will say
that she was born I'm Kansas CITY "a
wears ago. Her parents We're poor
Her father had not that desirable nos
session which the Yankees call faculty.
lie had not the art ~ getting on IN the
world. The neiChhors called him n
poor provder" He was employed AS
travelling passenger agent Of one OF the
smaller Western railroads lie is to-
dav clerk I'm a California hotel, and
looks to his daughters for bounty to cke
out n small salary. Annie Bradlev's
mother tired 81 her spouse's chronic i'll
fortune, She concluded that nm ill-pro-
wider was as bad ms no provldor at all,
ana there was a separation.
she removed 10 Denver and there
the four daughters contributed 10 the
family purse. one ~ them bccamc \