The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-23
Testimony Of EXPERTS
WILL Be TAKEN MONDAY
Finishing Touches to the Insanity Plea Put Forth
in Defense of Mrs. Anna
NJ Bradley.
Odds and Ends Picked Up and the Case Will Reach the Jury
Very Few Days.

lore MIS-. Brown QleQ TO get a divorce
and marry her. She said he was put
ting the matter off and giving her no
satisfaction. She was much disturbed
about it, and asked if / would not go
and talk with Brown. She thought 1
might have some influence with him."
Mr.. Barnes said he refused to do so,
and Mrs. Bradley then asked what he
thought Brown ought to do. II told
her that in the circumstances Brown
should marry her and give his name to
those children" witness said.
"She begged me TO go. and 1 still re-
fused. She cried and asked if Senator
Brown should send for me, would 1
go. and 1 told her 1 would. Shortly
after that / was asked to go to Browns
office"
Brown Asked His Advice.
The witness then repeated what he
had told Mrs. Bradley following his
talk with Brown. II told her." he said
that when 1 went into Browns office
he took me into his private room and
closed the door. He then said said to
me: Barnes, Mrs. Bradley is deter
mined that 1 shall marry her. What
shall l do? Whaf do you think 1 had
better do?'''
AS Mr.. Barnes approached the point
VI lGldlill6 Mlldl Ie ldu SdiU All answer
to Browns request for advice, Mrs.
Bradley leaned back and bowed her
head. She raised 1t but once during
Barnes recital.
Il said; Now, senator, you have
asked that question, l am going to
speak very plainly on this subject,
Continuing. | said to him: Mrs Brad
ley claims that these two younger boys
are your children. Now l said. sen
ator. you have never directly admitted
to me that they are your children, and
l am not going to make any accusa-
ticn. but you know yourself, you know
whether these are your own children or
hot. If they are your children, there
is but one thing you can do as a man
of hOnOr-that is-to marry Mrs. Brad
ley. Even if you don't live with her
but a day, or not at all, you should
marry her and give these children a
name He said: DO you think so.
Barnes?' l replied that | most certain
ly did. He then ushered me to the
door"
Mrs. Bradley heaved a heavy sigh
when Barnes said he never believed
Brown intended to marry her
7 told Mrs. Bradley" he said. that
in my opinion Senator Brown did not
intend to marry her; that heywas de
ceiVing her, and he never intended to
marry her, and I advised her to look
at the matter in that light and try to
make the best of it. I advised her to
leave the city and take the children
to California"
On imparting this news to her. wit
ness said, Mrs. Bradley appeared
very unhappy woman, very depressed,
very much agitated. Barnes said that
after Mrs. Bradley went to Ogden she
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him that ''the child had been born, but
that it had died three days afterward."
Speaking of Mrs. Bradley's general
condition at that time. witness said:
InsaneIy Affectionate.
1T was most pitiable. 1 regarded
her as a broken woman. l would not
say she was insane, except on the one
subject of Arthur Brown. I considered
her insanely affectionate. She seemed
to be absolutely under his influence"
Barnes testified that Mrs. Bradleys
general reputation for peace and good
order was good.
Was she rationale" asked District
Attorney Baker, in cross-examination.
Yes and no." replied the witness,
who said further that even when he
told her the truth about Browns in
tentiOns she never seemed to lose her
conviction that he would marry her.
Witness repeated that on all other
points than that of her affection for
Brown, Mrs. Bradley seemed entirely
sane. but he insisted that she was not
so when Brown was involved.
Judge Henderson's Evidence.
When Mr.. Barnes was excused Judge
II. P. Henderson, former law partner
OF Senator Brown, was called. He was
first questioned concerning Martin
Montgomery. after whom Mrs. Brad
ley's second boy by Senator Brown,
was named. and said that he was
Michigan attorney, who was an init
mate friend of Senator Browns.
Coming to his own relationship to
Senator Brown he said the partnership
had begun in 1890. He told of an in
terview with Mrs. Bradley soon after
her first arrest on account of her init
macy with the senator. II saw her as
she came from the office about dusk
one night" he said, "and told her she
mad no right to go to the office; that
she must go to his room if she wanted
10 see the senator, and she assented.'
witness told of an interview between
the senator and Mrs Bradley in 1902.
at which Mrs. Brown was present. He
was then shown paper which he said
Mrs. Bradley had tried Intellectually to
get Brown TO sign, in which he was
made TO say that he would compel
Mrs. Brown to get a divorce" He aft
erward told Mrs. Bradley he would
sign it, saying:
Dolly, l will do anything for YOU"
Browns Wife Curse to Him.
Judge Henderson related that later
on Brown addressed his wife, saying.
in the presence of himself and Mrs.
Bradley that she (DIrs. Brown had
been a curse TO him and that he should
not resume relations with her
I'm another interview in 1903 with
Mrs. Bradley, after her return from
the Idaho ranch" continued the wit
ness, "she said she understood / had
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