The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-19
VENERABLE MOTHER OF
MRS. BRADLEY ON STAND
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cited and realized she had killed Brown.
Witness thought the prisoner was sane.
Policeman Humert, who accompanied
Mrs. Bradley from the hotel to the po-
lice station, said that at the hotel she
seemed bewildeTed and had a stare
look" but afterward, at the station,
appeared rational and collected.
He expressed the opinion that Mrs.
| Bradley was sane, and the defense
noted exceptions to this testimony.
Or. E. w. Whitney's Testimony.
Dr. Z. w. Whitney of Salt Lake City
testified that he, attended Mrs. Bradley
when her two children were born, and
later treated her for a miscarriage, his
treatment on this latter occasion con-
tinuing for about two weeks in Novem-
Der, 1901. On Aug. 4, 1902. she again
came to his office.
state who came with her.
81 object" said the district attorney,
ito collateral evidence immaterial to
the issues in this case"
The objection was sustained.
On the date mentioned he sent her to
a hospital. She told him she had suf-
fered a premature birth. The prema-
ture birth, he said, occurred four days
after her entry at the hospital where
she was kept until early in September
| On May &c. 1905, at her residence, 215
| West South Temple street, Salt Lake,
/ DIR. Whitney stated he again treated
her for miscarriage. She denied that
1 diagnosis at the time. and witness de-
| scribed the colloqUy that followed.
| Later she admitted the diagnosis was
correct
The defense brought out from the
witness that the blood poisoning that
set up in cases like that of Mrs. Brad
/ Iey's affects the whole system, includ-
/ ing the brain, and like all poisoning
must leave some permanent injury TO
the system.
Louis A. Mcmahon, a newspaper re-
porter. told of Mrs. Bradley's bewil-
dered and agitated appearance at the
| police station. She denied to him, he
said, that she came to Washington
with the intention of shooting Brown.
He said she appeared as lone whose
brain had been shaken to the base"
The government Immediately objected,
and the objection was sustained. His
/ opinion was that her mental condition
was very much disturbed, and that in
such state an added shock might make
her insane.
Midday recess was then taken.
Operation in Washington.
the physicians who attended prisoners
in the United States Jail, testified that
he had met Mrs. Bradley about five
days after her arrest last December.
He found her fragile, pale and care
worn. She had a normal pulse, but
not a strong one. She had poor ap-
petite In April, DIR. Shute made an
examination of Mrs. Bradley. She
weighed 971s pounds, and was suffering
IL
due to miscarriages. By his advice and
on his recommendation an operation
was performed on the prisoner at a To-
cal hospital, to relieve the decorations
He found, subsequent to the operation,
no evidence of blood poisoning. On
cross examination. DIR. Shute said he
had examined Mrs. Bradley as to her
mental conditiOn-lOoking for delu-
sions. This was objected to by counsel
for the defense, and it was ruled out
Dr. Shute said the decorations might
have been of six months or ten years
standing.
DR.. H. L. E. Johnston testified that
he had been called to see Mrs. Bradley
on July 8, 1907. He found her suffer
ing from excessive hemOrrhage, which
had weakened and Frustrated her, and
induced great dizziness, At that time
she was suffering from septic infec-
ton, due to miscarriage or badly con-
Quoted labor" The trouble probably
had been present for a long time.
In response to an inquiry as to the
effect of the physical condition of the
patients mind. DR.. Johnston said that
the depletion of the blood supply and
the necessary weakening of the patient
naturally would affect her mind.
On crOss-examinatiOn DR.. Johnston
said Mrs. Bradley's conversation with
him was rational. He did not notice
that she was nervous and excitable,
weak and emaciated. He said that the
tendency of the disease from which
Mrs. Bradley was suffering would be
to impair the mind.
did you notice any impairment of
the mind of Mrs. Bradley"
ct had no OCCASION" replied DR.
Johnston. Ito make such an Observa-
tion."
d. A. Craig, a reporter, testified that
he was in the hotel on the day of the
shooting and had seen Mrs. Bradley
and a police officer. The officer. he
said, asked Mrs. Bradley several times:
why did you do this?"
Finally Mrs. Bradley replied: ASK
Senator Sutherland
Continuing. in response to further
questions, Mr.. Craig said:
not to know what was going on around
her. She was evidently greatly agi-
tated''
Mrs Nj. E. Madison, mother of Mrs.
Bradley, testified that when Mrs. Brad
ley was a child she sustained a severe
accident. having been struck on the
head with a hoe by a playmate. She
was under a physicians care for sew
eral weeks The accident led to the
suffering by the child from severe
headaches. The examination did
not develop anything new.
M. Nj. Kaighn's Evidence.
NJ. NJ. Kaighn, lawyer of Salt Lake
City, testified that he had known Mrs.
Bradley since 1892 Although he was
never her attorney. she sometimes
called at his office. On one occasion
she said to him:
81 must talk to somebody or I'll go
crazy. You are a friend of Arthur
Brown and l want to talk to you"
At this point Justice Stafford called
both the counsel for the defense and
for the prosecution to the bench for
consultation as TO the character of the
evidence to be introduced. After a con-
g. lac