The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-20

! told of several trips to Mir. Browns l farm in Idaho. and said that when
 she was there Brown spent much time l with her.
 Drown Deserted Her.
 | She told ox one occasion. in 1903.
 when she suddenly left the farm and l in the papers that Brown had forsakeia l her and became reconciied to his wire.
 Mr. Bake made objection to the refer | ence to the newspaper, but Judge
 Stafford held 1t admissible, saying the | entire testimony was intended for no | other purpose than to show the effect on the prisoners mind. Mrs. Bradley | said she did not see the Senator for a
 month. Then she upbraided him for
 his desertion, and asked him why he
 had not allowed her to save herself | before sinking her to The last depths | of despair and degradation" He re- | piled, she testified, that he had only
 taken his present course to get rid of | the criminal prosecutions against him. | and that when they were at, an end. I he would keep all his. pledges to marry | her and protect the children. He de- | clared that Mrs. Brown was deter- l mined to send him to the peniten- | tiary.. Mrs. Bradley said she had told l him that she expected nothing more ! than that he acknowledge the chil. | dren, but he had replied that if he did | SO, the result would be to send him to | the penitientiary. She then told him that if he did not make the acknowledgment she would plead guilty when his rial came on. as she afterwards did. She said he had again promised to marry | her within a year. when. in 1s04. in connection with Browns trial on the charge of adultery she was summoned fn annaar oo oooftaaf him and after Qn- ing on the witness stand she bad re- fused to. testify.
 T safds to the Judge" shescontinued. that eAwas the father ef my chil-
 dren and I could not testify against lhim." At that time he was frequent but she still believed in him and I thought there would be a change when his troubles were ended. After her refusal to testify he telephoned her: You are tfe best woman in the world
 and I wil repay you for your lifelong l devotion"
 Renewed Marriage Promise. He told her he owed all to her. Mrs. Bradley said that In the spring of l 1905 Brown had performed third criminal operation on her with the re- suit that she was very i'll and greatly
 depressed. Again on this occasion Brown renewed his promise to her. He | had soon afterwards told her of Mrs | Browns illness. adding that she would not live a month and that when 1t was al over with her, would fulfill his | pledge t1 her, Mrs. Bradley.
 l Mrs. Brown died in August, 1905, and the very next day afterwards I Brown had come to Mrs. Bradley's house aud told her that she should procure a divorce. adding that he would l then make everything all right. Af. | ter she got the divorce hts manner was very variable, she said, sometimes encouraging and at others disappoint- | ing. He told her at one time that he ! thought they should have courtship. At last he promised to marry her in June, 1306, saying he would not ask for another moment of delay. | According to Mrs. Bradley. he said: If I doN Nont marry you. then may
 God avenges me-"
 About this time the Senator's daughs ter. Alice. had come to visit her
 father. and the latter had iseerR much l changed towards Mrs. Bradley, and had tried to persuade her to go away and in the January following sine went
 to ogden, where she remained until l August.
 .At times he was so kind, then he | owuld act so dreadfully and say such | bitter things" said Mrs. Bradley. She contradicted the testimony of A. H. I | as having said that If Brown did not
 acknowledge the paternity of her chill dren she would shoot him full of holes." f ssSE
 1 She did not need such an acknowl- | edgment. because she already had ft | in his own handwriting. The note was shown but not read. In ogden, third child was born Mrs. Bradley testified,
 but it did not live. Mrs. Bradley said
 that her health had gradually failed Curing her relations with TsrVwh and that in I9o6 she had grown to be very
 wretched. She was to have been mar
 ried on June 2, 1906. but the Senator
 him over the telephone. Asked what
 she did after a conversation with
 Brown in May. she said:
 - Wished to Die.
 "Oh, don't know; l just cried.
 hoped I would die and felt at times
 as if I could kill myself"
 sContining Mrs. Bradley said that
 when Brown told her he would not
 marry her, he had said his children
 would not speak to him again, but
 after he had told her this he had called
 her on the telephone as soon as she
 got home to tell her that he had not
 meant what he said. He, told her that
 his friends were trying to dissuade him
 from marrying her and he suggested
 that they should get away from them.
 Mrs Bradley told of an interview
 with Brown upon his return from the
 East in 1906.
 q simply broke down and begged him
 to marry me-" she said. T told him
 could never face the little children
 when they grew up and felt as if the
 future was very dark.'
 Tears streamed down Mrs@ Bradley's cheeks as she talked. T was very dis consulate" she continued. land re- r,ained so for some time notwithstand- ing that on the following night Brown had spoken more encouragingly of the
 His mood, she said, underwent fires ouent changes and his talk correspond ed with it. As late as October 26, 19O6. when she had told him that she was about to again become a mother he had assured her that all would be made right. He promised her then to marry her. she continued, and to remove with her to Goldheld, Nevada. to live. On thatf occasion he had told her, Mrs. Bradley said, that~she was the only Derson he had ever loved, and l had avery hope and every belief that he
 was sincere and would keep all his
 Again. on November 1s. the subject
 was gone over but the senator then inclined to postpone the marriage. The Conversation was them however, much the same as 1t had been and she was still very hopeful. They were together