The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-29
APPEARED RATIONAL
Witnesses Describe Mrs. Bradley
on Day Of Browns Murder.
HEARD HER THREATEN TO KILL

Salt Lake City Man Declares Defend
ant Asserted That Unless the Son.
ator Married Her She "Wouid Blow
His Head Off,"
Washington, Nov. 2 Damaging
testimony was given against Mrs.
Annie M. Bradley, on trial for killing
former Senator Arthur M. Brown Of
Utah In this city last December.
Quite a number of witnesses were
called in rebuttal and all, being asked
as to her mental condition, declared
that the question Of her sanity had
not been suggested to them; that she
appeared rational and talked CO.
herently.
Mrs. Bradley was very calm during
the proceedings. She paid careful at
tention to all that was said on the
stand and while looking tired ap.
peared to bear up better under the
ordeal than has been the case on pre-
vious days. Some sensational devel-
opments We're brought out in the tes.
timony.
The first witness Of the day was
Archibald Livingston, former stenog-
rapher to Senator Brown. He declared
that on Dec. l, one week before the
tragedy. Mrs. Bradley called him on
the telephone and said:
$50 Mr.. Brown got away, did he?"
Mr.. Livingston declared that upon
his telling Mrs. Bradley that he did
not think Brown would marry her Mrs.
Bradley said:
"Well. he'll have to or I'll blow his
head off,"
The witness declared that Brown, In
the presence of Mrs. Brown, Mrs.
Bradley and Colonel Tatlock said he
would protect Mrs. Bradley as long as
he lived.
Mr.. Livingston, on cross-examina.
ton, said that before Senator Brown
left Salt Lake for Washington on Dec.
he left with him 5000 for Mrs. Brad
ley's expenses to California, but i'm.
posed the condition on Mrs. Bradley
that she should not go to Goldfeld or
Washington. Witness declared he
told Mrs. Bradley many deliberate
falsehoods 80 he and she could get
along"
Insisted on Going With Brown.
P. P. Christensen, an attorney of
Salt Lake, said he knew Mrs. Bradley
intimately. He had witnessed a scene
at the depot in the summer Of 1905
between her and Senator Brown. Mrs.
Bradley insisted on going away with
Brown and fairly hung on to him."
Brown. he said. repeatedly repealed
her.
At this point Justice Stafford halted
the trial and directed that girl
eleven years old be required to leave
the room with her parents, who &C.
companied her.
Soren Christensen, also of Salt Lake,
testified that on one occasion while in
Pocatello, Ida, with Senator Brown
Mrs. Bradley appeared suddenly and
that Brown chastised her for follow
ing him there. On the same occasion
he said Mrs. Brown appeared and en-
gagged in a personal struggle with
Mrs. Bradley, clutching her by the
throat and at the same time exclaim.
ing LET me kill her."
The witness further stated that at
the Pocatello visit Senator Brown de.
clared In the presence Of Mrs. Brad
ley, Mrs. Brown and himself that he
was not the father of Max Brown and
that Mrs. Brown upbraided him as a
low, vile creature for denying his own
child and admitting the fatherhood Of
bastards
Physicians who treated Mrs. Brad
ley at the house Of detention declared
that she was rational at all times,
though very nervous. They detected
no sepsis in her condition.
Three newspaper men testified that
in their talks with Mrs. Bradley on
the day Of the tragedy they found her
rational and coherent.
Several employees of the hotel In
which the shooting occurred, including
the maid who heard the shot, testified
that Mrs. Bradley, while at the hotel,
appeared to be we'll and rational.
GREAT EXODUS CONTINUES