The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-03
Former Salt Lake Woman
Writes About Slayer of
Arthur Brown.
HER CAREER HAS BEEN
A VERY ROMANTIC ONE
Ada Patterson Talks About the
Woman Who Thought
World Loved Her.

Senator Arthur Brown Of Utah. while
on a visit to the National Capital was
shot aud fatally wounded in the Raj
eigh hotel. in Washington. by Annie NJ
Bradley who for a number Of years. had
been his mistress. She was, L. will be re.
membercd, arrested and IS row confined
IN jail in the District a Columbia
Her trial will probably come up next
month.
Pending her trial the New York Jour
nal sent Ada Patterson 10 Washington
to write the life story Of Mrs. Brad
ley. Miss Patterson began her career
as newspaper woman in Salt Lake.
She knew Mrs. Bradley as A girl, Here
is her story of the murderess as told III
the new York Journal.
Ada Patterson s Story
"When next month in Washington n
jury looks upon the woman whose life
or death it is to determine, it 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 lar
away.
mrs. Annie Bradley is n woman
whose world standards are set up IN
her heart. Her creed is composed of
two words, i believe Such is the
most conhding of women, the most
ifustIui. Senator Brown loli ner ne
loved her. She believed. He prom
ised that some day he would marry her
and legitlma tie the children she lad
borne him. Again she believed.
She believed and trusted until the
falsencss of his vows faced her as
wail in long path Then the passion.
ate sense of justice that burns in the
by the light of that fame 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
fectlons have been the lamp to her feet.
Little and thin and plain. save for
large, soft, bright brown eyes. a sweet
eliminating smile, she is q 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 ox-
ecution has taken place, and which may
yet witness her own. she sent this New
Years greeting TO a friend: May the
New Year bring you Joy of the heart,
for that is the only Joy.
Believed the World Loved Her.
"That someone has clasped hands
with her, has said, 4 am your friend
has always been sufficient for Annie
Bradley. Hers was not the nature to
measure motives or TO fathom acts
She loved the world and believed the
world loved her, And greatly as she
love she trusted. In all my poverty.
in all my life, I was sunny she said
MY whole being effervesced with ex-
ultation. and I think / did not seem
as sunny as I was ST heart I really
wonder how there was room for the
bitter. sad, despairing sorrows to get
foothold. | must have been intoxi-
not see nor reason clearly
1.-The woman whose fate will soon be
the cause of fierce legal battle NAV 90
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 al
the Threshold of the room where Sena-
tor Brown lay writhing and cursing 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-con-
troll
"'But they who watched her at The
Morgue, where the form Of the law re
laxed its tension long enough to per
init her farewell look at the face of
the man she had loved and killed, say
that her anguish in that last meeting
of the quick and the dead was that Of
z mad woman.
And in the woman 3 department of
the United States jail every face is
blancbed when the tiny woman, shak-
ing as leaf in gale before the
storm of her sorrow yields 10 her
despair. She would face the jury Of
men braveIy, and calmly. and would
tell the story of her life unafraid 1t
mil h0 tr,S A.
from one of his love letters. some ref
erence TO tender mood OF loving word
of his. that would open the food gates
And such event the lawyers ON both
sides would seek to avoid. for to wit
ness such soul tempest is TO scar the
memory with a horror.
May Tell Her Life Story.
If she develops her life story be.
fore the jury Annie Bradley will say
that she was born IN Kansas City thr-
ty-four years ago. Her parents were
p.oor.. Her father had not that dc.
slrable possession which the Yankees
call faculty. lie had not the art of
getting on in the world The neigh
bors called him ga poor proyider. "
lie was employed as travelling pas
senger agent Of one OF the smaller
Western railroads He is today a clerk
IN California hotel, and looks to his
daughters for bounty to exc out a small
salary. Annie Bradley's mother tired
of her spouse s chronic ill-fortune. She
concluded that an ill-provider was as
bad as no provider at all, and there
was a separation.
"Shc removed to Denver and there
the four daughters contributed to the
family, purse. One of them became
trained nurse, Another is stcnog-
rapher, third is newspaper WON
an at Goldfeld, New Annie became
secretary of the Board of Watcrworlss
in Salt Lake City. Thither all the
family finally removed and established
its home.
Annie married a clerk in tho Office
of tho Rio Grande Western Railway
company. Two children, Matthew and
Martha. were born to them. The mar.
Iiage WAS an unhappy one. resulting
In separation. Clarence Bradley has
since served term in the Nevada peni.
tentiary for cmbezzlement.
Prominent In Politics..
g Mrs. Bradley's sunny disposition
and her clevcrness won for her social