Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-21
KILLING NOT PLANNED
Mrs. Bradley Tells How Senator
 Brown Was Shot.
MRS. ADAMS LETTER IS READ

"He Just Rushed at Me-" Defendant
 Swears, land l Did Not Know Any.
 thing More Until Shot Seemed te Arouse Mo-"
 Washington, Nov. 21-IThe note of defiance of a desperate woman brought to bay in the trial of Mrs. Bradley came in the initial stages of her cross examination.
 Mrs. Bradley struck back with bru tai, reckless frankness that seemed al most like a challenge hurled in the face of the court Baker had read a letter from Mrs. Bradley to Brown suggesting that Mrs. Brown be turned from their Brigham street house.
 It was damaging documentary evi dence. Mrs. Bradley admitted writing it, with a glance straight at the dis trict attorney. Her strength apparent ly had risen to meet the attack. 1 Wasn't Trying to Break Up Home.
 "You were trying to break up that nome! SalQ Baker.
 q was not" she cried. "For two years the senator had determined to go on with me. and I believed 1t was a settled thing"
 Weren't you determined"- began the district attorney.
 Certainly I was determined" she exclaimed, cutting him short, her eyes flashing, her cheeks afiame with the first color they have shown.
 You believed his wife had no right to object to you?' he said.
 "Yes did
 Didn't you tell Senator Brown that his daughter Alice and his son Max needed nothing?" demanded Baker.
 q told him." she cried, that they didn't need the same protecting care as our two little children"
 Before the break came you visited Mrs. Brown often?"
 "No more than Mrs. Brown visited me-" was the quick reply.
 You frequently took dinner at Mrs. Brown's?''
 q took no more meals at her house than she took at mine.'
 Weren't you and Mrs. Brown inti- mate acquaintances? insisted Baker.
 Tt was purely a social acquaint- ance," she answered coldly.
 Deceived Her Husband.
 And so on for forty-five minutes, a battle worth watching, with the prose- cutor pressing forward always and Mrs. Bradley, ever alert, guarding her self at every point.
 She admitted Arthur Brown, Jr., was born while Clarence Bradley was still her husband and living with her in the same house, the rent for which was being paid by Senator Brown. She ac. knowledged that, even after this event she continued to visit Mrs. Brown and to receive her In her home. She avow. ed the authorship of letters in which Mrs. Brown is reviled, ridiculed and scorned.
 Previous to going under cross exami' nation the woman's counsel, Judge | Brown, dealt with the three weeks preceding the tragedy. Mrs. Bradley said she went to Browns home in Salt Lake City on Nov. 10, 1906. and stayed five days. Brown tried to have her go away, and she told him, If you don't intend to keep your promise to marry me, tell me, and I will go away" She said they had many interviews and that once she upbraided Brown as a deceiver II was in the lowest depths of despair" she said. T wanted to leave Brown forever, but even then he dissuaded me. As late as Nov. 2 he tried to prevail upon me to take a house in Salt Lake City, but I would not. On Thanksgiving day we had dinner together, and he was very kind, very sad and very dejected. Still. I was happy. for he was with me, and I still loved him."
 The Parting of the Ways.
 Mrs. Bradley said she fell seriously i'll on Dec. I. and an agent of Browns gave her money and told her of Browns departure for Washington. She left her bed against the advice of physician. intending to go to Los Angeles. She bought a ticket for that city and had travelled as far as Ogden when she decided to follow Brown to Washington.
 ''I realized that at last i. had come to the parting of the ways" she testl- fed. "I believed him to be sincere. and thought that, away from the infiu- ence of his friends in Salt Lake City. he would keep his promise to me. was not thinking of myself, but of our children. I was so tired I could not sleep, and I do not remember chang ing trains in Chicago. When I reached Washington. found Brown was in the Raleigh hotel. and | registered there. being assigned to a room close to his. maid was in his room, and I ! entered and said I would wait for him. 1 The maid went out. and I picked up the letter from Mrs. Adams. I read it. and was distracted and did not know what tO do. I went out fin the street and walked aimlessly all the morning. A short time after I returned Brown came in. and I followed him into the room. I said. Arthur. came to ask if you won't carry out your promise to mey
 | Hos Brown Was Shot.
 I don't know what he said. if any thing. He just rushed at me. and did not know anything more until a shot seemed to arouse me. I don't know If I shot him I had no thought of shoot