The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-20

to make a financial arrangement with
her.
Mrs Bradley told of the senator's
presenting her with a revolver in Po-
catello in 1908.
"He told me-" she said in mere
whisper, that he had bought it for
me to protect myself with from Mrs.
Brown
After that time Mrs Bradley said
she carried the weapon in a handbag.
She told of an encounter in the hotel
at Pocatel1o with Mrs. Brown, whom
she found sitting at the head of the
stairs when she said Mrs. Brown grab
bed her and tried to take her into her
(Mrs. Brown's) room, when she told
Mrs. Brown that she had no quarrel
with her. That night she and Mrs.
Brown and Mr.. Brown had held an all
night conference at which 1t was ar
ranged that the Browns be divorced.
Mrs Bradley told of several trips to
Mr. Browns farm in Idaho, and said
Brown spent much time there with
her. Once in 1908, she suddenly left
the farm and went to Salt Lake on
reading in the papers that Brown had
forsaken her and become reconciled to
his wife. Mr. Baker made objection
to the reference to the newspapers,
but the court held it. admissible. say
ing the entire testimony was intended
only to show the effect on the prison
er's mind. Mrs. Bradley said she did
not see the senator for a month Then
she upbraided him and asked him why
he had not allowed her to save herself
before sinking her to 'the last depths
of despair and degradation"
To Escape Prosecution.
He replied, she said, that he had
only taken this course to get rid of the
criminal prosecutions against them and
that when they were at an end he
would keep all his pledges to marry
her and protect the children. Mrs.
Bradley said she asked nothing more
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but he replied that if he did so the
result would be to send him to the
penitentiary. Then she told him that
If he did not make the acknowledge
ment she would plead guilty at her
trial. as she afterwards did. She said
he had again promised to marry her
within a year, when in 1904, in connec-
ton with Browns trial on the charge
pear against him, and had refused to
testify.
Il said to the judge" she continued,
"that he was the father of my children
and I could not testify against him."
At that time he was frequently very
bitter towards her, she said, but she
still believed in him and thought there
would be a change when his troubles
were ended. After her refusal to testi-
fly he telephoned her: You are the
best woman in the world and 1 will re-
pay you for your lifelong devotion"
Mrs. Bradley said that in 1905 Brown
performed th1rd criminal operation
on her with the result that she was
very i'll and greatly depressed. Again
he renewed his promises. Soon after
wards he told her of Mrs. Browns ILL
ness, adding that she would not live a
month and that when it was over he
would fulfill his pledge. Mrs. Brown
died in August, 1905, and the very next
day Brown came to Mrs. Bradley's
house and told her she should procure
a divorce adding he would then make
everything all right. After she got the
divorce his manner was sometimes en-
couraging, at others disappointing. At
last he said:
IF do not marry you then may God
avenge you"
She Noticed a Change.
The senator's daughter Alice came to
visit her father and the latter seemed
much changed towards Mrs. Bradley.
He persuaded her to go away and in
the February following she went to
Ogden, where she remained until Aug
ust.
AT times he was so kind and then
he would say such bitter, bitter things"
said Mrs. Bradley.
She contradicted the testimony of
A. H. Kelly, who quoted her as hav-
ing said if Brown did not acknowledge
the paternity of her children she
would shoot him full of holes" She
already had his acknowledgment in
his own handwriting. The note was
shown but not read. In Ogden third
child was born, but did not live. Mrs.
Bradley said her health gradually
failed. She was to have been married
June 2, 1906, but the senator was i'll
then and she only talked with him
over the telephone. Asked what she
did after a conversation with Brown
in May, she said:
ct just cried. 1 hoped I would die
and felt at times as if I should kill
myself
She said Brown told her his friends
were trying to dissuade him from
marrying her and he suggested they