The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-18
Witnesses From Salt Lake
City for Washington
Murder Trial.
DID NOT TRY SUICIDE
Slayer of Senator Brown Told
Reporter That She Had
Planned Deed to Ayenge
Her Disgrace--Suggestion
Made of Insanity.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S--Mrs. Brad
ley found herself surrounded by friends
when she went into court today to be-
gin the second week of her trial on the
+ charge of numbering, former Senator
Arthur Brown, of Utah The court
room was full of witnesses for the de-
fense, who had been asked to be pres
ent today in view of, the prospect of
beginning the taking of testimony in
her favor, and several Of them had
come all the way from her former home
In Salt Lake City for that.purpose.
In this last class were included the
following: DR.. Eugene Whitney, who is
expected to support Attorney Hoover's s
statement that Mr.. Brown had been re-
sponsible for criminal operations on the
woman; Lyon Shrewsbury, the hus-
band of an aunt of Mrs. Bradley, who
became insane; Mrs. Madison, Mrs.
Bradley's mother, and Judge M. M
Kaighn, Judge H. p. Henderson, Ar
thur Barnes and Colonel Samuel King,
all of whom are attorneys of Salt Lake
City, and are said to be familiar with
different phases of the relationship be-
tween Brown and Mrs. Bradley.
Mrs. Bradley's physical condition is such
that even her lawyers are not hopeful that
she will be able to stand the ordeal, and
they are anxious TO get her on the stand
with all possible haste and have her tell
her story to the jury.
It was reported early this morning that
Mrs, Bradley had made an attempt to
commit suicide In her cell, but this proved
unfounded.
James Hay. reporter who interviewed
Nft.5f
station on the night OF the tragedy, was
the first witness of the day. The de-
PENDANT. he said, then appeared pale.
haggard and very much agitated. She
was constantly moving about the room at
the station. wrung her hands and re-
marked that she felt she twas far away
from everything.
He had cautioned her that anything she
said would be pritned. She did not talk
connectedly. and he had to question her
repeatedly. She told him she had two
children and that Senator Brown Was their
father. She denied that she came to this
city to kill Brown. She declared she was
q disgraced woman, ruined and an outcast,
and. therefore, could not expect to have
any friends or any help. Once during the
interview she turned to the police matron,
called attention to some noise in another
part of the station, and told the matron
she would go mad il the noise wasn't
stopped.
Ibid you form any opinion of her mental
condition." asked Judge Powers, for the
defense.
II couldn't say whether she was sane
or insane. She evidently, however, was
in a pretty bad fix" was the reply.
Charles A. Cotterill of the Associated
Press, who interviewed Mrs. Bradley i'm
mediately after the tragedy, testified that
the prisoner seemed unable to collect her
thoughts. She told him she arrived here
from Salt Lake practically penniless. She
did not volunteer anything. merely an
swering questions. Asked by the defense
II there was anything peculiar about her
eyes, witness stated that he observed she
had a vacant stare.
Mr.. Cotterill testified he asked Mrs.
Bradley if she had, just before the trag-
edy. requested former Senator Brown to
marry her. She replied that she had, but
that Browns only answer was to imme-
diately put on his overcoat and start TO
go out of the room. Mrs. Bradley told
witness that she abhorred acts of this
kind, meaning the shooting, but in this
case. she believed it was justified The
witness testified that he did not think
Mrs Bradley was insane.
Sergeant Harry Lohman, in charge Of
the police station when Mrs. Bradley was
brought there after her arrest, testified
that she talked In a rambling manner
She was very anxious to know Senator
Browns condition.
Witness stated Mrs. Bradley told him
she did not intend to shoot Brown; that
she loved the ground he walked on She
discussed her relations with Brown, said
she was not married to him, but that he
was the father of her two children and
she wanted him to make her his wife.
He did not then form nm opinion as to
her sanity. She was nervous fnd excited,
but realized that she had killed Brown
She didn't seem to him to be insane3 The
last part of this answer was stricken out,
but when witness later answered more
definitely that he thought the prisoner
was sane the answer was admitted.
Policeman Emmert, who accompanied
Mrs. Bradley from the hotel to the police
station. said that at the hotel she seemed
bewildered and had "a stare-loolS," but
afterward. at the station, appeared ra-
tional aud collected He expressed the
opinion that Mrs. Bradley was sane,
though the court permitted the noting OF
exceptions to this testimony.