Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-14
MRS. BRADLEY
ON TRAIL FOR
MURDER
INSANITY PLEA SAID TO
BE RELIANCE OF DEFENSE
First Days Session Devoted to
Securing Jurors; Prosecution
Will Insist on Extreme Penal !
ty, is Belief.
IBy Morning journal special Leased Wire !

IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire
Washington. Nov l3.-The first day
of the trial of Mrs Annie NJ Brad
ley on the charge Of numbering for
mer United states Senator Brown Of
Utah, was consumed entirely i'm an ef-
fort to obtain jury. When at I
O'Clock the court adjourned for the
day that preliminary was still ineom-
plete, notwithstanding siXty-one men
had been examined as To their compe-
tency to sit In the case. There We're
eleven men in the jury box. all Of
them, however. subject to chal-
lenge. The day was without spe-
cial incident, hut the questions
put by the attorneys for the
prosecution ana the defense served to
define to some extent the lines which
will be followed by both sides of the
case II was made evident that at
torneys for Mrs. Bradley will depend
upon the plea OF insanity as their only
professed defense. If there was any
confidence In the plea Of justification,
1t was not expressed.
on the other hand the prosecution
manifested apprehension that the jury
would be inclined to consider the case
under the unwrltten law and TO shield
the defendant from possible capital
punishment on account of her sex, and
the prosecution spared no pains to
procure assurance that there were no
lurking convictions in the minds of
jurors which would stand In the way
Of awarding punishment in accord
ance with the testimony on those ac-
counts. Many people were excused
because they were opposed to capital
punishment for women.
Mrs. Bradley was accompanied 10
the court room by her mother, Mrs
Madison, who remained during the
forenoon session.
During the early hours OF the day
Mrs. Bradley appeared nervous and
affected by all the references to the
tragedy, but later regained her COM
posure. The court room was crowded,
many Of the spectators being women.
The charge upon which Mrs. Brad
ley is being tried is that Of deliber-
ately numbering former United States
Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah, In his
room at hotel in this city on the
Sth Of last December. Mrs. Bradley
has admitted the killing, and there
will be no effort 10 show that his
death resulted from any other cause
than the shooting.
II is probable that she will be put
on the stand in her own defense with
the hope of influencing the jury in
reaching the conclusion that her mind
was so unsettled by the long continued
wrongs which II Is alleged she had
suffered that she was not responsible
for her acts. She has never made any
statement concerning the details OF
her presence I'm the room when the
tragedy took place. There rs no other
living person who was present at that
time. II Is known, however, that while
the shooting occurred at O'Clock In
the afternoon, she had arrived In the
city early that morning, having come
direct from her home In salt Lake
CITY. The wounds on the senator's
body. one of which was on his hand
and the other on his abdomen, showed
that two shots had been fired. or
these the latter proved fatal within
five days Putting such information
together as they have been able to OBJ
tain il. Mrs. Bradley's attorneys have
reached the conclusion that when she
went to the senator's room, which she
did Immediately upon her arrival, she
found there certain letters from Mrs.
Anna Adams. mother or Maude
Adams, the actress. tile reading or
which greatly incensed her. she
seemed then to have disappeared ana
not To have returned until the atter-
noon. when. finding Mr.. Brown there,
she upbraided him. and finding nm
to marry her, fired the shots
which ended his life.