The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-01
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Washington, d. c., Nov. 30-"If her
story had been told by any other than
a matchless actress who sat upon the
stand it would have had the honest con-
domination of every man who loves his
home and womanhood." How far
would you trust the oath OF a woman
who had committed crime and found
tt convenient to forget all about it?''
These were few of the points brought
10 the attention of the jury this morn
ing when Assistant District Attorney
Turner made the opening argument for
the government in the trial of Mrs.
Bradley. As Turner warmed up to his
argument he drew a vivid picture OF
the misery and desolation she was sup
posed TO have brought to the Brown
home through her Illicit relations with
Arthur Brown. He called upon men,
rbers of the jury for their opinion of a
woman who would come into the home
of their sisters and take from them the
husband and father He drew a sketch
of Mrs. Bradley, as he declared the evil
dence of the witnesses showed her to
be, as a woman who pursued Brown.
planned trips that would keep them
away together for weeks, and schemed
that his lawful wife should not win him
back from her. He held up TO the jur-
ors the picture of woman who knew
the joys, happiness and blessings of
motherhood, casting TO the winds
thought of her own legitimate children,
and giving herself to another man.
Sat White and MotionIess.
During this arraignment Mrs. Brad
ley sat with eyes closed and head cast
down. She did not once look up while
Mr.. Turner was speaking, but sat in
her chair as white as a sheet the lines
in her face drawn deeper and evident
ly making brave fight to go through
with this, the most trying ordeal which
has yet come TO her.
She heard Mr.. Turner tell how she
had outraged the sanctity OF her own
home and broken up another; she heard
him thank heaven that other women
were not as she, a scathing arraign-
ment that must have pierced her very
soul. Perhaps the hardest portion of
Mr.. Turner's argument, so far as scath-
ing of the prisoner was concerned, was
that portion wherein she referred to
conversations which Brown had had
with her in March, 1905, shortly before
the death of Browns wife.
Scathing Arrangement.
Senator Brown came to this woman
at this time and told her: My wife
has an incurable disease and l am
trying to be good to her now. 1 have
been a bad husband 10 her And no
one knew this any better than Mrs.
Bradley. Would you not suppose, gen
tlemen OF the jury, that this defendant
would have been willing to wait a lit
tie while, that she would have taken
pity on the dying wife? But no, we
find her going to Judge Wenger few
days later and insisting that he per
suade Mrs. Brown to get a divorce from
her husband. Not even the shadow of
death, not even racking pain, not even
the ravages of an incurable disease
could tear Isabella Cameron Brown
from this defendants hands. l tell you,
gentlemen of the jury. such cruelty as
this, such disregard for the approach
of death, for she was suffering from
cancer, the most painful, horrible dis
ease known to science. l say, by the
side of this cruelty an ordinary killing
IS mere pleasure and pastime."
During the course of his remarks Tur-
ner was overcome by the long strain to
which he had been subjected to in the
prosecution of the case and was at
lacked by dizziness. He was allowed