Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-11-11
THIS MORNING IN CONNECTION
WITH THE DEATH OF FORMER
SENATOR ARTHUR M. BROWN
OF UTAH, LAST DECEMBER.
Great Interest In The Trial
Mrs. Bradley Admits She Shot the
Senator and Declared She Believed
She Was Justified In Doing So.
Claims Brown Was the Father of
Two of Her Children.
Snecial to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Washington, d. c., Nov. 11.-Crim-
inal court No. of the District of Co
lumbia was filed to overlooking with
spectators, among whom were numer-
GUS women, when Justice Stafford
took his seat on the bench this morn
ing and the baiiiff raped for order
The presence of the crowd of idle on
lockers was due to the fact that the
first case on the docket was that of
Mrs Annie NJ. Bradley, whose trial
for murder, in connection with the
death of former Senator Arthur NJ.
Brown of Utah, last December, will
undoubtedly be the staple of CONVEX
sation in Washington for some weeks
to come. An eminent array of coun-
sci for both sides were on hand ready
to proceed with the famous case.
Judge Powers of Utah appeared as
principal counsel for the defense, as
sisted by Attorney Geo. P. Hover of
this city. Assistant District Attorney
Givens, with several assistants, was
on hand to conduct the prosecution.
No murder case here in years, none
in fact since the famous murder trial
of Mrs. Beaunisne nearly a decade
ago, has excited such deep interest as
has been excited by the trial that has
now commenced. The wealth and
prominence of the victim and the dou-
BILE romance of his life are RESPONSE
BILE in large measure for the public
interest in the case. The dragging in
of the name of Mrs Annie Adams,
mother of Maud Adams, the actress,
has also whetted the public appetite
for further details of the case. Mrs.
Adams is expected to be one of the
principal witnesses. She has told
friends that she is anxious to testify
if for no other reason than to clear
the name of the dead Senator, to
whom it is said she was engaged. She
admitted as much when she came here
TO see the body of the Senator after
1fhe tragedy. before 81 NsO.s -tsilNsiI ''ss1
by his children for burial. 1t is said
that Mrs. Bradley first learned of the
engagement between the Senator and
Mrs. Adams a few days before the
killing.
1t is now nearly year since the
tragedy occurred in the Hotel Raj
eigh, where the Senator was shot in
his apartments by Mrs. Bradley af-
ter a stormy interview. At the Elmer
gency Hospital, where he fingered be-
tween life and death for several days,
Senator Brown steadfastly refused to
talk and refused all the importuni-
ties of the police to make a statement
of the affair.
When she was taken into custody,
Mrs. Bradley declared that she was
justified in doing what she did, and
that all Utah knew the cause of the
tragedy She said Senator Brown was
the father of her two children, Arthur
Brown, Jr., seven years old, and
Montgomery Brown, three years old,
and that he refused to marry her de-
spite his repeated promises.
The Senator has been censured be-
cause of a clause in his will which ex-
pressly denied any claim on the part
of the Bradley children to his name or
his property. John S. Rollo, stenog-
rapher of the state supreme court at
Salt Lake City, declared, after the
tragedy, that Brown dictated to him
petition for adoption, a decree con
ferring on the two boys Browns
name and an equal share in his for
tune, and a contract by which Mrs.
Bradley was to accept a home for life
ana waive her demands for marriage.
Mr.. Rollo says he learned afterward
that Mrs. Bradley refused to sign the
papers and that they had been de-
stroyed.
Senator Browns relations with
Mrs. Bradley had extended over many
years. and were one Of the causes
that led to the separation from his