The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-13
BROWN WILLING To
ADOPT CHILDREN
Mrs. BradIey's Victim offered
Her Everything but Marriage
as Recompense.
LOCAL STEN0GRAPHER
MAY BE STRONG WITNESS
John S. ROlIO Took DictatiOn Of
Adoption Paper and Con-
tract of Support.

John ,. Rollo, 5tenographer for The
Supreme Court of Utah, is likely TO be
an important witness for the prosecu-
tion in the case of Mrs. Anna NJ. Brad
ley, who is TO be tried in Washington.
ID. c., in October for the killing OF
former United States Senator Arthur
Brown- About q year ago Senator
Brown dictated to Mr.. Rollo papers for
the adoption of Mrs, Bradley's two
children, whose father. she claimed,
Senator Brown was; also contract
agreeing to provide a home for Mrs.
Bradley and her children, and to edu-
cate the latter. This contract Mrs.
Bradley refused to sign because it was
conditioned upon her giving up all hope
Of marrying Senator Brown.
Mr.. Rollo told his story to Tribune
reporter Friday. and this is the first
TIME 1t has appeared In print. He
said:
Offered to Adopt Children.
One day last year Senator Brown,
dictated these papers to me- As I
recollect It, IL was the day before the
an engagement at Saltair. There were
several Of the papers. Ono was a petit
tion to the District court and de-
cree, whereby Senator Brown would
have adopted the children. permitted
them to take his name. and to inherit
his fortune, share and share alike
with his legitimate children.
The other was n contract, TO which
Senator Brown and Mrs. Bradley were
o ha,- hA, h.
tract, in addition to reiterating the
agreement to adopt the children as his
own and let them inherit his fortune,
provided that Senator Brown should
furnish them home and educate them
after a manner compatible with his
means. It also provided that the Sena-
tor should furnish Mrs. Bradley with
q home.
Wouldn't Marry Her.
1.-The only consideration of the con-
tract was that Mrs. Bradley should not
anticipate or expect or insist upon
matrimony with the Senator; that she
should not annoy or 1arass him at his
home, his Office or upon the streets. and
that sho was TO leave HIM entirely
free of any complication with her of
any nature.
fThe contract and the adoption pa-
pers, as Senator Brown dictated them,
were iron-clad from a legal stand
point, and would have been binding
absolutely upon everybody concerned
in the matter When the Senator had
finished debating them, he said to mo:
'Rollo, this is a HI of fix
for man to get into at my age. ism T.
it' I think, though the old hen IS
coming to her milk ut last, and that
I m going to have peace. We re going
out TO Salteir tonight. and think
she III sign these papers before We come
back.
''Afterward I learned that Mrs.
Bradley had refused TO sign the papers,
and that they were destroyed,
May Be Called as Witness.
Max Brown, the Senator s son, who
is assisting in preparing the case
against his fathers slayer, has already
interviewed Mr.. Ro)lo, and the latter
NAV be called to Washington as viii
ness to prove that Senator Brown was
willing to do everything for Mrs Brad-
lev and her children except TO marry
her. The fact that he was willing to
provide for the children, even TO the
extent of adopting them as his own, ft
is thought, will be strong card Tor
the prosecution,