Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-23
Mrs. Annie N. Bradley Re-
ceives Tokens of Sympathy.
OFFER OF GIFTS OF MONEY
Counsel and Experts Serving With
out Compensation.
BIG HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
Probable Duration Of the Trial.
Purpose Of the Prosecution-Ses-
sion Late Yesterday.

That widespread sympathy has been
aroused for Mrs. Annie M. Bradley as
her trial for the murder of former Senator
Arthur Brown progresses is more thor
oughly indicated with each passing ses-
sion of court. All OF her counsel are
serving without thought of compensation,
and it became known yesterday that two
prominent alienists have volunteered their
aid to the woman. Further than that. a
letter came to the court house yesterday
morning all the way from Ann Arbor.
Mich. speaking pity IN every lire Tor
the defendant and more substantial than
words promising gift of $25, the nucleus
of fund which the writer hoped would
be swelled into the hundreds before the
date of Mrs. Bradley's release. so that
she might be afforded ample opportunity
to look we'll about her before shaping her
future course in life
sums Of money to Dr.. Smith Ely Jelliffe
Of New York and DR.. Edward N. Brush OF
Baltimore, noted alienists, to sit in the
courtroom throughout the presentation of
evidence by the defense and then to go on
the stand and state their belief, from the
evidence adduced, whether Mrs. Bradley
was sane or insane at the moment she
fired the fatal shots into Senator Brown s
body. Absolutely without money the de-
tense could not employ alienists to com
bat the weight Of testimony Of the gov
ernment's experts. but the day was saved
for them when Dr.. Britton D. Evans.
expert-in-chief In the Thaw case, of the
New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane.
more, offered to testify gratuitously and
also to pay their own expenses.
Hypothetical Question.
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courtroom to hear every scrap Of evil
dence and thus prepare their opinions. be-
cause that would have involved the giving
up of at least ten days time by each of
the ahenists. Arrangements have been
made by ex-Judge Orlando Powers of
counsel for the defendant to surmouht
this difficulty by including every salient
point bearing upon the sanity or insanity
of his client in a hypothetical question.
This question today was upward of four
teen typewriter pages in length, or a
total of about 1900 words, and it may
be even longer before it is finally placed
before Drs. Evans and Hill when they
are called to the stand Monday morning.
1t may even be that Judge Powers will
succeed in establishing new record in
the way of elongated hypothetical queries.
Further medical testimony will be
laid before the Jury In Mrs. Bradley's be-
half when DR.. Wilfred NJ Barton, profess.
or of gynecology at local university,
who has also rendered his services, is
called to explain the probable mental and
physical effects Of illnesses such as were
suffered by the defendant.
70 Show Deliberate Acts.
On the other hand the prosecution will
undertake to show that the defendant
was not only responsible when she fired
the shot, but that all of her acts were de-
liberate, and that she came to Washing
ton with the avowed purpose of either
compelling Senator Brown to marry her
or Of killing him.
The very facts of the woman's con-
coded brilliancy OF intellect. and mental
attainment which have been used to
arouse sympathy for her will be mar
shaled aaginst her by District Attorney
Baker and his assistants, essrs. Turner
and Given. They will not only. question
the alienists. who will appear In Mrs
Bradley's behalf. but will introduce Drs
yelliffe and Brush to contradict Drs
Evans and Hill. They will present testi-
mony in opposition to other points
brought out by the defense when they en-
ter upon their rebuttal.
While all the attorneys hope to be able
to conclude the case next week, they do
not by any means feel certain Of such ac-
over the expert testimony, and even with
that out Of the way the rebuttal and sur.
reDutal. say nothing Of the judges
charge and the argument of counsel, will
almost certainly force the case over into
the first week Of December
Court Session Yesterday Afternoon.
The late session Of Criminal Court No. /
yesterday after The Stars report of the
trial of Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley closed was
devoted principally to reading a number
of letters to the jury-letters written to
the defendant by the man she killed.
Evidence previously given was to the
effect that Senator Browns handwriting
was almost illegible, and that fact was
clearly illustrated as Attorney Robert w.
Wells of counsel for the defense struggled
and stumbled as he sought to interpret
the weird hieroglyphics of the victim of
the tragedy. At 3 o'clock Justice Stafford
ordered an adjournment of court, the
Bradley hearing to be resumed at 10
o clock next Monday morning.
Senator George Sutherland Of Utah, who
was one of the last witnesses called. testi.
fed to having received a note from Mrs.
Bradley the day Of the shooting. He said
he went to see her at the first precinct
police station. Prior to that time he had
not seen Mrs. Bradley in many years,
though he was we'll acquainted with her
| from 1896 to 1900, during which time she
mad borne good reputation In Utah. On
cross-examination Senator Sutherland
said he had destroyed the note which
summoned him to the police station, but
according to his recollection it was CO.
herently written and sensible.
Corroborative Statements.
| Testimony corroborative Of the state
ments of Lyman Shrewsbury. Mrs. Brad
ley's uncle. was offered by Miss Anna
Fischell a Chicago school teacher. Miss
Fischell went to school as pupil under
Mrs. W. H. Ryan, a maternal aunt Of the
defendant. who was described by Mr.
Shrewsbury a sufferer from epilepsy
and insane decisions. Miss Fischell said
Mrs. Ryan frequently punished the pupils
of her school with greatest severity for
trivial offenses, and sometimes for moth.
ing more serious than mistakes in spelling
After her school days were over. and
after her former teacher had been mar
ried. Miss Fischell boarded for a period
in the home of the Ryans, and she de.
scribed several severe epileptic seizures
suffered by Mrs. Ryan. in one Of which
she fell across the kitchen stove and was
badly burned.
The defense called Assistant United