Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-22
Of Dead Senator to Mrs.
Bradley Are Read in
Court
Acknowledge Paternity Of
Children and Promise III
innate Marriage
Several Strong Witnesses
Testify in Behalf Of
Mrs. Bradley

Washing on, u. g., Nov. p .-=sThe
story .. ,rlner y S. Senator Brown 81
acknoW1ed gments Of the paternity Of
the two youngest children of Mrs,
Bradley was told today in Judge
stafford s court BY other lips than
hers. 4
q acknow ledge Arth Brown and
Martin Montg omery as my chill dren.
/ by Annie Bradley Such was.
Browns own method Of expressing
himself on the subject and the legend.
was inscribed in a .soiled and blotted
piece Of writing paper. tt was dated
Feb. is. 1905, and was brought to
court by Colonel Maurice N. aighn,
attorney, of Salt Lake City, present
receiver IN the y. S. land office in
that city and a friend of Senator
Brown of thirty years standing.
5sS Col. Kaighn was on the witness
u stand for about an hour during the
afternoon session IN the Bradley
trial and testified that Mrs Bradley
brought the tell-ta1e slip Of paper to
his office just after she received it
from Brown with the ink not yet
dry how she fairly danced into the
room and how she beamed with Joy
as she held the paper a1oft and told
him that now all would be well.
Col. Kafghn related many interest.
ing facts concerning his association
with both Senator Brown and Mrs
q Bradley, and u pom the whole made
I by far the best witness for the little
woman that has vet taken the stand
j herself excepted. 5.5s II
He told in simple language o1
many dramatice interviews with Mrs
Bradley and closed with the expires
sion Of the opinion that she had be
come a monomaniae on, the subjec
of her relationship to the ex-senator
8 He said he believed her mind to have
been unbalanced.
Other testimony in Mrs. Bradley
behalf was given by Major SANTA
King, who related many incidents go
ing to show that Mrs. Bradley wa
in a very nervous condition for som
time before coming to Washington
and by Arthur Barnes, assistant at
torney general of Utah. I5ss
An effort was made to find MI
Shrewsbury, uncle Of Mrs. Bradley
who has been brought to Washing
B ton to testify concerning the anxiet
in Mrs. Bradley's family, but h
could not be found Judge Power
expressed confidence that Shrews
bury will make his appearance t.
morrow. q.
More placid more capable Of Gel
tain control OF herself, and more +.
sourseful, apparently, than when sh
took the stand on Tuesday, Mr.
Bradley left IT at noon today afte
1llonopolizing the attention Of th
court for two days and q half. sh
was more composed than at any otl
er time, and her counsel express col
fidence that she would have bee
able to go on longer II called on
do SO. They were satisfied with hs
testimony and believed that II wi
result to her advantage. s
T'here were very few tears. hut q
3 the other hand smiles were more fr'
quent on the face Of the prisons
than heretofore. There We're SON
references to occurrences in come
ton with herself and Senator Brow
which evidently touched her an
aroused agreeable memories. y
was especially pleased when e1
Kaighn told the story of her prese'
tation to him Of Senator Browns g
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