Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-25
BATTLE OF AL|EN|STS TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
Crucial Point Reached in Tria Charles w. Schide Sends
of Mrs. Bradley. Bullet Through Brain.
INSANITY OF DEFENDANT UNCONSCIOUS WHEN FOUND
Assertions Based the Hypothe Death Resulted at O'Clock in
cal Question Emergency Hospital.
EXPERTS TESTIMONY BUT FEW CENTS IN POSSESSION
Had
Saturday Yeserday-Inter- Races-Was a Resident Of
esed In Proceedings Today Clntondale, 2.
Crucial Point Reached in Trial
of Mrs. Bradley.
INSANITY OF DEFENDANT
Assertions Based on the Hypotheti-
cal Question.
'ERTS GIVE TESTIMONY
Accused Seemed Benefited by Rest
Saturday and Yesterday-Inter-
ested In Proceedings Today.

Tho battle Of the alienists began with
the opening of the third week of the trial
of Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley. in Criminal
Court No. 1. this morning. The exposi-
tion of the divergent opinions of the eX-
perts as to the mental state of the de-
fendant at the time she shot former Sem
ator Arthur NJ. Brown is expected to oc-
cupy all Of today's sessions of the court.
The defense is backed by Prof Wilfred
M. Barton Of Georgetown University, DR..
Britton D. Evans, director of the New
Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, and
DR.. Charles S. Hill of Baltimore. and each
of them, after listening intently to a
complete resume of Mrs. Bradleys life,
as shown in the evidence in the case, and
as set forth in the long-anticipated 1900
word hypothetical question prepared by
Judge Powers. is expected to say he be-
lieves that the defendant was insane at
the moment the fatal shots were fired.
Similarly, DR.. Smith Ely Jelliffe of
New York and DR.. Edward N. Brush of
expected to voice opinions exactly oppo-
site to those of the alienists for the de-
tense. And the cross-eXamination of the
experts to compel them to state the base
of their opinions will take longer.
Reading Hypothetical Question.
With DR.. Barton on the stand Judge
Powers, at 1850 o'clock this morning,
began the reading of his hypothetical
question. He was still reading when
court adjourned for the noon recess. but
was nearing the end of the query, and
DR.. Barton's answers to the three all
n fa1
given before the jury a few minutes
after the afternoon session opened.
Entering court at the opening of the
session today, Mrs. Bradley showed
plainly the benefits which she had de-
rived from the long rest over Saturday
and Sunday. The expression of intense
weariness. or resignation or hopeless
ness, was gone from her eyes, and she
seemed at least passively interested as
she realized that the crucial point of
alienists upon the question of her sanity
Or insanity the afternoon Of December
8, 19o6-was at hand.
Police Witnesses Tesaify.
The first portion of the session of court
this morning was given over to the exami-
nation of police witnesses, who had to
do with the assembling of pieces of a
number Of Mrs. Bradley's torn letters
which were found in the defendants room
in the Raleigh Hotel. Prior to the calling
of witnesses there were several confer
ences of opposing counsel at the bench,
Judge Powers and Mr.. Hoover of the de-
fenSe making demand for several of these
letters which constituted the government S
choicest bits of documentary evidence.
which we're being reserved for rebuttal.
AS result of the demand, United States
Attorney Baker offered in evidence with
l111 II, n
jointed letter, which, it was thought.
would constitute the most damaging of
evidence against the defendant. This let
ter, which was In three apparently unre-
lated sections, was identified as her hand
writing by Mrs. Bradley when she was on
the stand. 1t was read to the jury as fol-
lows:
About week ago Sunday and Monday
you could not love me -gh.
II see why and how y so inconstant.
These letters are from Annie Adams,
Maud Adams mother. Please take them
and use them If you think th-
Need for Defense.
will you kindly keep these-I have
written you'll may need them, and In
case there Is need for defense of any
rashness, publish them. Mrs. Lufkin, %
S. 2 West or Mrs. Corey would see that
they are published"
By two police witnesses and Raleigh
Hotel clerk Attorney Hoover proved the
method of the letters getting into possess
sion Of the government. Clayton w.
Holtzclaw, a clerk in the Raleigh, testi-
fled to having found a waste basket full
Of scraps of paper in Mrs. Bradley's room
December 8, 1905. Just after the shoot
ing. He turned over the basket and its
contents to Detective Charles Mullin.
nofn MI1ll lin Sto ha Co ha ho
ket to Lieut. Hartley, who. in turn, car
ried the great bundle of scraps of paper
to police headquarters.
Policeman E. l.. Phillips, who is in
charge of the Bertillon bureau at police
headquarters, identified the letters and
testified that he assembled the torn pieces
and pasted them together in their present
form.
Defense Calls Alienists.
The letters placed in evidence and all
other preliminaries laid, Judge Powers
entered upon the climax of Mrs. Bradleys
case-the presentation of evidence by it's
a.lenists, Dr. Britton D. Evans of the
New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane;
DR.. Charles S. Hill Of Baltimore and
Prof. Wilfred M. Barton, professor at
Georgetown University. BY these experts
the defense expects to show that Mrs.
Bradley was insane at the moment she
fired the fatal shot.
DR.. Barton was called first to quality as
to his expert knowledge of the diseases
of women, and of the relation of these
diseases to mental conditions. He stated
that he was graduated from Georgetown
in 1892, and that he Is now an
instructor in gynecology and obstetrics in
the same institution, and also a specialist
in neurology. DR.. Barton has been con-
Quoting a private sanitarium for about
two years for persons suffering from men,
tai and nervous diseases. For two years
he was connected with the marine hos
pital service in Chicago. He is house
physician Of the Columbia Hospital for
Women and Lying-in sylum.
Action Of Sepsis.
The witness testified to being familiar
with the action of sepsis on the nervous
system, and he declared it's effect was
pronounced on women hereditarily in
clined toward insanity.
Assuming a case where there was in
sanity, not in the parents, but in the