The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-11-22

Scarcely AuOlDIc-hcT
Confident That She VIII Not Break
Down.
Washington, November l9-l aiu
so tired" said Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley,
the defendant in the trial now IN
Drogress in the criminal court IN
this CITY few minutes before three
O'Clock today. after she had spent
about four hours on the witness stand
relating the details OF her acquaint-
anceship and intimacy with former
United States Senator Brown with
! whose murder she stands accused, ana
! Judge Stafford Immediately gave or
| ders for the adjournment of the court.
| She had not reached the \events dl-
| rectly connected with the tragedy in
| which Brown was killed, but had
very closely approached them, and they
| will be the subject of her first testi-
mony to be given tomorrow.
| Today's story dealt with the first
! acquaintance of Mrs. Bradley with Mr.
| Brown and told how that acquaintance
gradually ripened into friendship and
| finally into love. 1t was long and
pathetic narrative Of Illicit affection;
of promises of marriage which could
| at first be made only on the condition
! of divorce on both sides, and then of
disappointment and grief when both
| became free and could have been ie-
| gally united if Brown had been will
! ing. Mrs. Bradley gave the particu-
| lars of many pledges made to her,
| told how Brown had introduced her as
his wife and of how he had given his
| name to one of their children, and
| also of how he had aided her in not
less than three criminal operations.
| She related also many pleasant Incl
! dents of their life together. She wore
smile when she spoke of her pride
! in his intellectual attainments and told
of their reading together the princ:-
| pal poets She said he told her over
| and over again that she was
| the only woman he had ever loved,
| and averred that by his manner to-
wards her anG mis- superior attain
| ments he had gained a complete mas
| terry over her. -
The court room was crowded dur
| ing the entire day, and many OF the
! spectators were women. Tears we're
| frequently shed not only by the gen
eral audience, but once or twice by
members of the jury. Mrs. Bradley
was quite emotional at times. Her
attorneys were, however, quite salts
| fed with her condition when she con-
cluded, notwithstanding her confessed
/ fatigue, and they expressed confidence
after the witness left the stand that
she would be able to proceed to the
end without a breakdown. Mrs. Brad
ley said her health had failed during
her association with Brown, and she
told of one occasion, when she was
tempted to commit suicide.
Judge Powers asked the questions
and they We're at first directed to de-
velopng a history of the defendant,
who said that she was 35 years old;
that she was born iI. Kansas City and
cducoted in Denver; that she had
ha@ smallpox and pneumonia and had
bet badly hurt by blow on the head
while a child. She went to Salt Lake
City in 1890 she said, and had lived
there ever since.
She had occupied a clerical posi-
tion in the Salt Lake CITY waterworks
for three years and eight months.
Were you ever married7
'Yes sir; I was married to Clarence
Bradley three weeks after 1 left the
waterworks".
Two children-a boy and a girl re-
suited from this union shesaid
Her relations with her husband were
unhappy and she was divorced in
1905.
The witness then told of being in
troduced to Senator Brown by her un-
Gle and OF afterwards coming TO know
bim well while she was secretary or the
republican committee.
The acquaintance had continued to
ripen until 1898 but when Mrs. Brad
ley was asked to give a description
Of his relationship she fell into tears
and appeared for a time to be unable
10 proceed.
The acquaintance grew into very.
intimate relations" she finally answer
cd.
Did they ripen into Affection she
was next asked
: 1t did; after August. 1898. / discov-
cred that he loved me and afterwardg
That | loved him. His love for me
was beyond expression"
Mrs Bradley said she had agreed