Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
MRS. BRADLEY
FAMTS UNDER
GREATS STRAIN
WOMAN ON TRIAL FOR MURDER
C0LLAPSES
HER ATTORNEY PLEADS FOR
AcoUITTAL
Court Room In Washington Crowded
to Hear Arguments for and
Against Slayer of Arthur
Brown
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3o.-Passionate
oratory marked the proceedings today In
the trial of Mrs Annie M. Bradley.
charged with the murder of former SEN
ator Arthur Brown of Utah in this
city last December.
The court room was not large enough
to accommodate the great number Of
people who came to witness the last
scene which has attracted national at
tention for nearly year.
Many of the attendants were women
and some of them arrived at the court
room long before the doors were opened
in order to secure desirable positions
from which to witness the events of the
day
Mrs. Bradley came into court as if fully
alive to the Importance of the proceed
ings. She took her accustomed place
where she could be plainly seen by the
jurymen, and near her counsel.
The day was devoted to arguments by
attorneys on both sides of the case.
Assistant District Attorney Turner
opened for the government and. he was
followed by Mr. Wells of counsel for the
defense.
"a ct way to define the law i'll relation TO
the crime committed and followed with
a review of salient incidents of the tes-
tinony. While he was describing the
scene of the killing of Brown an at
tendant delivered to the district attorney
q package containing a pistol Whlch ni'i
been used by Mrs. Bradley. AS the
weapon was uncovered and laid in con-
spicuous place near the speaker Mrs.
Bradley lowered her head and her frame
was shaken by convusive sob.
Closing her eyes. she remained as IL IN
a stupor, only occa sonally looking toward
the Jury and watching their faces.
Mr.. Turner strongly appealed to the
emotions of the jury. He. said Mrs.
Brown was an outraged woman and that
Clarence Bradley was not very pao
husband and Mrs. Bradley should not
have been unhappy with him. The case
he said, was worse than scandal ana
stencil.
Calls Her Dangerous
"When we take Gods law into our
hands," he said, I'VE become pretty dan-
gerous." He ridiculed the idea that the
| defendant had sepsis. "Sepsis," he said
| "sets the blood boiling and sets the pulse
to beating. Why, even a horse doctor
could have told If she had sepsis.
| Mr.. Turner held the closest attention OF
the Jury throughout his summing up
The ewes of a number of the jurors wan
dered at times from the speaker to Mrs
bradley. who sat with closed eyes a1f
bowed head only few feet beyon'
advocate.
Mr.. Turner concluded shortly after
Io.clock and was at once followed by Rou
ert Wells of the defense.
Mr.. Wells took up the plea of insanity
saving that IL Mrs. Bradley had been san
and wished to kill Arthur Brown she ma
thousands of opportunities to achieV
that purpose and cover her crime.
| when she shot Arthur Brown she sho
the thing she loved" declared the attor
ney in tragic tones, "and she loves MIN
today" The impressiveness OF the argu
ment of the attorney was evidently rorci
bly, felt by the defendant, who was 81
| overcome that Judge Powers or her coun
| sci moved his chair to her SIDE TO save
her from falling forward. Mr.. Wells cor
chded with quotations from Hawthorne
Scarlet Letter" and declared that Ar
thur Brown himself was as much re
! sponsible for that fatal shot as was An
| ME M Bradley, because it was he wht
lad caused to be planted within her th'
/ fatal disease that resulted in the shot
whatsoever a man soweth, that alst
shall he reap" quoted the attorney as HI
took his seat
Mrs. Bradley collapsed under the straiI
which she had suffered since her tria
began. and when she reached her room II
| the lower corridor of the court house
| the end of the session today it was nee
| essary for attendants to administer res
| toratives. She had tainted and it wa'
| some time before she was able to return
| to the jail.
| The case will go TO the Jury Monday.