The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
KILLS NOTORIOUS WOMAN
AND COMMITS SUICIDE
Continued from Page 1.

gone. thought that she must have been
dubbed as well as shot. Bray had left
his wife in Boulder, Colo. She was i'll,
has been since and is now in the hospi-
tai there. She has a child He came to
Ely under a great pressure of trouble
with rather lurid past. a dozen bonds
of family love and affection to tie him to
the Straight-going way. And yet just at
this time he met George
The FRIEND went to Ely from Salt
Lake City last month. Upon the 18th of
August there arrived in Salt Lake City
William A. Brady and wife, who came
up late at night from the Short Line depot
and registered at a hotel on State street.
MIR. and Mrs. Brady of Salt Lake.
They seemed to be a happy couple. g"
said the landlady. "She was very pretty
and very young and very quiet. They
spent a great deal of time in their rooms
and were out very seldom. When they
were together they seemed to get along
very WELL to have lots to talk about,
which is a very good sign among young
people. They were here together for two
weeks During that time had no idea
that they were not married couple. They
did not drink heavily. Once or twice in
the morning the chambermaid would find
two or three, never more, beer bottles In
their rooms. They lived in room 50,
whence it would be very easy to overhear
sounds of an alteration"
Rift Within the Lutte.
Monday night Mrs Brady left the no
tel. There seems to be no reason. either
authenticated or suggested. for her de-
parture. Straight as a homing pigeon
she went back to her old haunts. She &C
Quired the possession of the premises at
"A Commercial street. She lived alone but
frequently had visitors. Bray spent but
little time in his hotel after that. He
became well known to the proprietors of
the establishments whose golden har-
vest is gathered after the sun has set.
Ia r11a faIx
for many hours Wednesday evening and
did not return to the hotel. Thursday I'M
til a very late or very early hour, depend
ing upon the viewpoint. he spent in an all
night saloon He began to talk wildly
and told the proprietor that he was tired
of living. Thursday during the day and
Friday and Friday night he visited many
of the attractions of the neghborhood.
1t is not known that at any time he in
terrupted the procession of callers at No.
a.
His landlady says that both Thursday
and Friday afternoon he wrote many let
tiers. many Of which he tore up after writ
ing them. The one reproduced he did not
destroy.
The Wages of Sin.
Yesterday afternoon they met the - wo-
man and the man, both of them strung TO
high tension. They had an argument.
which brought into the street the deni-
zens who were up as early as o'clock in
the afternoon and to the windows all of
those who were not up.
"Will, Will" she said, I'll be good.
I'll be good"
He shot her where she stood. three
times, and she fell without moving step.
He staggered to the sidewalk, put the
gun, a .3S-caliber revolver, to his head,
and fired. After the shot he made a few
steps back to where the dying woman
lay and fell within a dozen feet of her,
quite dead.
The woman was carried through the
thrOng to a police wagon end to the hos
pital at the police station. She lived for
ty-fiVe minutes, although shot three
times any shot of which was deadly. The
man was taken at once to the mOrgue
and so arrived there an hour ahead OF his
victim. The cornoer decided that the facts
were so patent as not TO require jury.
The families Of both were notified.
The Epitaph of Commercial Street. .
In Commercial street the shooting was
the topic of the evening. There were
tales that the woman had wronged the
man and the tale that the man had
wronged the woman "reminiscences of
rather lively dOings of both and especially
those of the woman were the order Of the
day One of them interrupted such one
for moment. Jaw" she said. latter
all, she never asked nobody to be born. I"
Last night being Saturday. night the
gayety in Commercial street, following the
ascending hour hand, grew. approached
and PASSED 1.-The limit" In the middle of
the street there were two patches of