The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-03
WAITING FOR THE JURY TO
CONVICT OR SET HER FREE
Continued from Page 1.

famous note to Brown from Mrs. Ad-
ans. mother of Maud Adams. These
letters. Judge Powers said, he forced
the government to produce.
Il object" said Mr. Baker, Ito the
statement you forced me-"
Yes" shouted Judge Powers, you
wanted to hold them back for dramatic
effect and we forced you to introduce
Them
The court instructed the jury to dis
regard the reference to forcing the evil
dence.
Case Closed by District Attorney.
1t was lib p. m. when District Attor-
ney Baker began the closing argument.
Mrs. Bradley, who sat trembling and
on the verge of collapse during the
morning session, had benefited by the
noon day rest.
Mr.. Baker plunged into the defense
of insanity set up by Mrs. Bradleys at
tOrneys and contrOverted the claim Of
the defense regarding the course of the
fatal bullet ana said that, instead Of
}the direction of the bullet showing that
she had not shot TO kill ii merely
i showed the bullet had followed the line
of least resistance. Who says this
defendant is insane?" he asked He
epitomized statements of those who
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as showing that her actions were those
of sane woman.
He derided the claim of septic insan-
ity, which condition he said must have
lasted but a few moments, which is in
contravention of scientific evidence re-
garding the duration of septic insanity.
No Symptoms of insanity.
Mr.. Baker contended that the experts
produced by the defense did not show
any symptoms that indicated insanity.
/ IF she was insane, when did she be-
come So and when did she cease to be
insane2 OF course. she was disturbed
but who would not be? If you can't
find any evidence of insanity up to the
time Of the shooting and none since
then, it is strong presumption that she
was sane at the time charged in the
Indictment I don't justify one act of
Arthur Browns. 1 do say that the
deeper you put him in the mud, the
deeper YOU put her in the mire. If she
had love for Brown that could not be
measured, could she have offered to
go back to her lawful husband, Brad
ley, in 1927
He said she could have closed the
doors in Browns face when first he
tempted her and she would not have
had to afterward bargain with
swer the charge of murder. But no. he
added. there was no rebuff to his meet
lings. there was a meeting at unseemly
hours when the woman listens the vic
tory is half won. I pity the defendant,
but this so styled poor little woman
importuned Brown again and again to
divorce his wife and live with her open
lly, breaking up his home"
Bakers Final Words.
M. Baker, after declaring that the
case was the old story of home break
ing and destroyed hope. made the
point that the crime was conceived at
Salt Lake City. Mrs. Bradley, he said.
called at the Ebbitt House in this city
for her mail, which showed that she
had left directions to have her mail
forwarded from Salt Lake and there
fore she purposed coming here when
she made the trip from Salt Lake to
Ogden. He said the revolver she car
ried to Browns hotel room here just
before the tragedy was meant for
Brown.
He referred to the pathetic features
of The case and hoped the jury would
cast aside all sympathies and its YER
dict would be that immortality is not
at a premium in the District of Co
lumbia.
Hoover Replies to New Point.
Mr.. Baker closed at 3:14 p. m. There
was ar intermission of five minutes.
Then, by permission of the court. At
torney Hoover, for the defense, replied
to the new point regarding the for
warding of Mrs. Bradley's mail to this
city. Mr.. Hoover read from the testi-
mony to show that Mrs. Bradley. on
the eventful trip she made from Salt
Lake City en- route to Los Angeles,
stopped off at Ogden and telephoned
her sister at Salt Lake that she had
changed her mind and was going 10
Washington. Mr.. Hoover said the evil
dence showed that when she left Salt
Lake she had no intention of going to
Washington.
Charge of Judge Stafford.
At 1926 p. m, Justice Stafford began
his charge to the jury. He pointed
out the circumstances governing the
different verdicts which might be rem
dered. He asked lthe jury to first look
at the case outside of the question of
sanity. He said the jury should de-
termine whether she said intelligently
and Understandings that she shot him,
and whether she actually said she was
justified in so doing, as far as any one
could be justified. The jury was to
consider the evidence as to whether she
made threats as bearing on whether
she fired the shots; and whether she in
fact shot Brown and death resulted
therefrom; how she came to do the
shooting and how it was done. He said
there had been no argument that she
fired In self-defense, that of course
when one takes life in self defense il
is justifiable. If the jury had any rea-
sOnable doubt whether the shooting
was in self defense the defendant
should be held not guilty, ''as there is
no direct evidence as to how the shoot
ing did occur" said the judge. 81
simply call attention to this as a pos
sibility that might be considered"
The court also suggested the consid-
adopted, and the senate adjourned at