The Washington herald., 1907-11-12
Mrs. Bradley Called, but Court
at Once AdjOurns.
RESPECT FOR JUDGE McCOMAS
to Memory of Dead JuriSt
DisaPPoints Crowd, which Had A.
sembled to Hear Testimony Against
Slayer of Senator Brownsville Case
VIII Be Opened Wednesday.

Criminal Court No. ], assembled yester-
day to witness the opening OF the trial of
Annie NJ. Bradley for the killing Of for
meI Senator Arthur Brown. OF Utah.
But a small proportion gained access
10 the courtroom. and all were visibly
disappointed when, upon motion of Dis
trict Attorney d. w. Baker court was
adjourned until Wednesday morning. out
Of respect to the memory Of Justice Louis
E. McComas. who died Sunday morning
Just few moments before 10 o'clock,
Mrs. Bradley, unattended by any one
save a deputy marshal, ascended the
stairs close to the jury box, and was
seated beside her counsel, Judge Orlando
Powers and Messrs. Hoover & Wells
When she slipped into the courtroom al
most unnotlced, she was evidently strug-
Cling 10 retain her composure under a
tremendous nervous strain.
She was dressed In black. with a touch
Of white at the throat. Her face was
wan, her cheeks hollow. and she seemed
every moment on the verge Of collapse
1t was noticeable TO every one that it
was only by a powerful effort that the
fral little prisoner, weighing barely 100
pounds. was keeping herself from sinking
to the floor
AdtOurns in Eight Minutes.
When Justice Stafford entered the
room. and the court crier announced that
the court was open, Clerk Samuel Haw-
ken called the list of names of the wit
nesses who have been summoned by the
prosecution and the defense. Nearly all
answered present" and, when the clerk
had finished. District Attorney Baker
arose and announced to the court the
death of Justice McCOmas, and moved
for adjournment Attorney Hoover joined
in the motion, and Justice Stafford
ordered that. as a mark Of respect for
the dead jurist. the court adjourn to meet
Wednesday morning.
The proceedings took only eight min
utes. When the crier announced that
court was adjourned, Mrs. Bradley. con-
siderably relieved, accompanied Deputy
Marshal Roberts down the steps 10 the
prisoners pen. where her mother, Mrs.
Madison, and little Martin Montgomery
Brown were awaiting her. When she
arrived at the room reserved for women
prisoners, Mrs. Bradley seized her little
boy and embraced him passionately, cry
ing as II her heart would break.
1t was nearly half an hour before she
regalned her compOsure sufficiently 10 be
led to the conveyance which had brought
her to the courthouse. A crowd of curl
Gus men and women had collected around
the east door of the building. and when
Mrs Bradley, accompanied by little
Montgomery. emerged TO enter the con-
veyance, there was a burst Of applause.
OH
boy into the wagon, and was herself as
sisted by Deputy Marshal Roberts and
another deputy The driver then whipped
up the horse, and she was driven away.
Many Witnesses Called.
The witnesses for the government, as
called by Clerk Hawken, are:
Deputy Coroner L. w. Glazebrook, 2O22
P street: DR.. Charles S. White, Of the
Emergency Hospital: Edward A. Parker
200 L street northwest: Edward Cruit. Sl3
Eleventh street northwest; TheObaId J.
Tally, the Raleigh: Eustace G. owen, 4l6
Seward square southeast; Policeman
Frank r. Emmert of No. l precinct: De-
tective Guy Z. Burlingame; Sergt. Harry
r. Lehman, of No. 1 precinct; Martha
Thornburg. matrOn Of the house of de-
tentOn; Detective Clifford Grant: Capt
Robert II. BOdTdman. chief or detectives,
Lieut.. James Hartley of No. l precinct:
Capt. George II. Williams Of No. l pre-
ciHct: Detective Charles Mullen, Police
men Everett i. Phillips and Abraham
Houghlan. Detective Frank Helan; Edwin
B. Hesse. property clerk Of the police de-
partment; Clayton W. Holtzclaw 1929
North Capitol street; David T. Nelson,
1902 X street northwest; Augustus Gum
pert 1908 II street northwest: Annie
White. Of the Raleigh: George Runnell, Of
the District mOrgue; Benjamin A. Lamb
OF 40 Sixth street northwest. D. II. Wen
ger. James Rowan, Asa 3. Moseley, Max
Brown, Albert II. Kelly, Farley P Chris
tensen, and Archibald Livingstone, all Of
Salt Lake City.
The witness called for the defense. at
government expense. are NJ. NJ. Kaighn.
II. W. Henderson, Z. w. whitney, Arthur
z. Barnes, Samuel H. King, and Lyman
S. Shrewsbury OF Bonny DOOne, Cal
Justice Stafford ordered the clerk to is
sue subpOenas for a speciai panel of 100
talesmen 70 report Wednesday morning.
Both the prosecution and the defense ad-
NIT that the trial Will be protracted one,
and 1t may be three or four weeks before
the case will so TO the jury