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husband parted. The whereabouts OF
Bradley and the children are not known.
but II Is thought they live somewhere In
Nevada. Before the parting with her
husband, Mrs, Bradley became identified
with politics. Utah being State where
women exercise the right OF suffrage and
hold office, and she became acquainted
with Senator Brown. AT one time Mrs.
Bradley was secretary Of the Republican
State committee. and at another an
unsuccessful candidate for the position
Of auditor Of Salt Lake County. 1t was
not long after the couple became ac-
quainted that gossip started as TO their
relations. and IL became a public scandal.
resulting in both being arrested They
were indicted separately, and when Mrs.
Bradley was araigned she pleaded guilty
and was remanded for sentence. Tbs
trial of Brown occurred shortly after,
and she refused TO testify against him.
He was acquitted. and she was released
and sentence indefinitely postponed.
Their relations continued. Brown contrib
uting toward her support and that of
their two children, Arthur Brown, who
was born in 1890. and little Montgomery.
aged four years. For months previous
10 December last. Brown had neglected
her and the children. and seemed 10 have
lost his affection for them. This resulted
IN many violent quarrels. some in public
Brown Comes to Capital.
Brown came 10 Washington early IN
December 10 argue a case before the
Supreme Court, and it appears before
he left there had been further quarrel
What it was about only she knows.
When Brown was taken to the Emer-
gency Hospital from the Raleigh Hotel,
he sent several kilograms, one to his
daughter. Miss Alice Brown, daughter
Of the first wife. who resides In Column
bus, Ohio; one to Max Brown, a son
by the second wife, and one to Mrs.
Annie f. Adams. mother Of Maude
Adams, the actress. Both daughter and
son hurried here and were with their
father when he breathed his last at the
hospital at midnight December Il. Mrs.
Adams did not reach here until after
his death. A special delivery letter from
her reached the hospital addressed 20
Senator Brown a few hours before his
death. but he was then in a state OF
coma, from which he did not awaken.
Mrs. Adams upon her arrival here.
visited the undertaking establishment
where the remains were being prepared
for removal to Salt Lake. and was al
lowed TO enter the room where the dead
man was reposlng in his coffin. When
she emerged she was sobbing, but made
no statement
II was rumored after Browns death
that he and Mrs. Adams were engaged
to be married. and that the ceremony
was TO have taken place in this city,
and that Mrs Bradley. learning OF this,
came East on the journey which ended
so disastrously.
Murdered Mans Estate.
Senator Brown left an estate valued at
approximately $4,000, and when his will
was opened It was found he had devised
It to his daughter Alice and son Max.
the latter TO receive. however. $4,000
more than his half-sister, which repre-
sented money Brown had been compelled
to pay as alimony to her mother. This
was explained in the will.
In his will. Brown specifically repudi-
ated Mrs. Bradley and the fatherhood of
the two boys. and stated he did not wish
either Of the three to share in any degree
I'm his estate However. the attorneys for
the defense claim they have ample evil
dence of his acknowledgment of them as
his children, both In the form of written
documents and otherwise. Mrs. Bradley 5
attorneys have already instituted pro-
ceedings to break this will to secure for
the two children a share Of the estate.
BY a peculiar coincidence a legal vic
tory won by Brown in his lifetime may
result in the defeat OF his wishes ex-
pressed in his will, that the children shall
have none of his estate. AS an outgrOWth
of the former polygamOus practices in
Utah, there was a law enacted that pro-
vides that an illegtimate child shall be
a Legal heir Of the father. This law was
enacted to protect the children of plural
wives Brown was the attorney in two
cases in which the constitutiOnality OF
the law was tested. In each case he con-
tended for the rights of the illegitimate
Children One of these cases was Cope
against Cope. and was carried 10 the
Supreme Court OF the United States and
that tribunal, in an opinion written by
Justice Brown. upheld the law. The de-
cisiou of the Supreme Court. following a
now be cited TO break his win and give
a share of the estate TO the two boys
who arrived here a few days ago, and
who will be with their mother continu-
ously during the trial
Claim Emotional Insanity.
Emotional insanity will be the defense
interposed by Mrs. Bradley's attorneys.
Judge Powers and Messrs. Hoover and
Wells. In an affidavit signed by her
and filed In court last April, in connec-
tiUn with a request that witnesses for
the defense be summoned at government
expense from the West. Il was stated:
She expects 10 prove by these Wit
nesses that on the sth day Of December,
when, as set forth In the indictment, she
is alleged 10 have fired the shot which
resulted in the death OF Arthur Brown
In the Hotel Raleigh. that her mind and
brain we're in such a state o. disease that
she was unable to distinguish right from
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