The Greenville times., 1907-11-24
TOLD BY MRS. BRADLEY ON
THE WITNESS STAND
KNEW NOTHING At THE Time
Until Aroused by the Report of the
Pistol With 'Whirh She Killed Sen
ator Brown-Stands the Ordeal
Very Well

Washington, Nov. 2o.-During the (
afternoon session Mrs. Bradley tes-
tilted that she mad not formed any
purpose regarding Senator Brown
before reaching Washington, that she
entered his room at the hotel Raleigh
while he was out and had seen and
read an endearlng letter from Mrs
Adams and that she later walked the
streets in a distracted manner; and
when she finally did see Mr. Brown
IN his room, the senator rushed at
her and swore. She had no recollec-
ton of withdrawing the pistol from
her handbag or firing the shot until
/ the report reused her
/ The climax of the trial was reached
/ today when Mrs. Bradley, testifylng
in her own behalf, related the par
ticulars OF her final interview with
the senator i'll the Raleigh hotel, last
December, giving all the details she
could remember of the shooting.
She was prompt, as usual, in en-
terlng the court room, and if anyone
had believed that yesterdays ordeal
would render her unfit TO proceed
with her narrative, it soon must have
become evident to such a person that
he had not taken into sufficient ac-
count the reserve power OF the wo-
man. She did not look very buoy
ant, but she never does, and it can
not be said that there was much
| change IN ner appearance
She had yesterday related all OF
r the details OF her life with Senator
Brown, during her intimacy.
1--WE shall be brief" said Judge
Powers, her Salt Lake attorney, ''il
dealing with this phase OF the case
1t will not take Mrs. Bradley Ions
i to give us all She remembers of tn,
/ tragedy"
Judge Stafford had no sooner takel
his seat than Mrs Bradley resume,
] her place in the witness chair. Sh
was first asked to identify rumbe
Y OF letters written her at differen
times by Senator Brown, and did SC
There were so many Of these docu
ments that it took forty-fvc minute
to exhibit them. They covered tn
time from 1901 to 1906 and were pre-
j sented for the purpose of SHOWING
! the relations between Mrs Bradle
J and Mr. Brown, but no effort wa
j made TO read them as they were in
] trOduced
1t was evident that the sight of tn
. letters aroused conflicting memorie
III the witness, for she sobbed audi
bly, as many of them were present.
to her. Many of her replies to ques
tions were again indistinct in tone c
voice, and the stenograp phcr was CON
pelled to repeat many of her state
ments for the benefit of the jury.
There were more than hundre
OF the letters and when their preser
tation had concluded Jhdge Power
said that some OF them would be rea
to the jury at a later date He thc
called upon the prosecuting attorne
to produce letters in his possessio
written to Brown by Mrs. Bradle,
= which was done.
There were not SO many OF tfres
letters as there was of Browns, b1
they covered the same period of tim
The witness took time to read som
OF these letters before accepting ther
but in each instance replied in a aui,
faltering voice, "Yes, I wrote it"
The read ding OF Mrs RradJev,s 10
sers by herself naturally consume
much time and caused the proceed
Ings ito drag IN interest This ia,
did not deter her. however. and ST
continued to read in each case.