Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-26

! cured at Browns instance, both in 1905,
are narrated at length
| Much is made of the varying moods OF
Senator Brown; Of his extreme kindness
at one time and his bitterness and up
braidings at another 1t is shown how In
1905 Mrs Bradley was plunged into tut
ter despair by his refusal to keep his
promises and even was on the verge of
suicide. The story of Browns efforts
through mutual friends to get Mrs. Brad
ley to accept a money settlement and
how she repealed it was pathetically set
forth, Mrs. Bradley declaring even then
that she knew Brown would marry her
as soon as he could.
A great deal of space is devoted to the
testimony given by the Salt Lake wit
nesses, all of them friends and most Of
them associates of Senator Browns, con-
corning Mrs. Bradley's eccentric and n.y.
sterical conduct during the latter years
of the woman's relationship with him.
Almost all the particulars CT Mrs.
Bradley's association with Brown during
the latter half Of November, 1906, less
than a month before the killing, when
he would promise he rome day to set
her up in business in Goldfield, Nevada,
and the next would withdraw the prom
ise was given, evidently for the purpose
of showing that he played with her trust
4 and affection.
| Coming then to Senator Browns trip
to Washington, to which city she fol-
lowed and there slew him on Dec. 9, 1906.
the following is asserted to have been
Mrs. Bradley's condition:
'She had learned that she was about
| to become mother again, along about
the middle of October and was In n del
icate condition during the month of No
| vember, and on the night of the first
F., day of December she became i'll. her i'll
ness resulting in miscarriage, from
which she suffered during the succeeding
| days much loss of blood. During the
month of November she had not been
! able to sleep well at nights, except at
| times, when thoroughly exhausted by
worry, she would sleep soundly for many
hours"
| Judge Powers then told Of the inter-
view with Browns stenographer when
| the stenographer gave her money to 60
| to Los Angeles and told her she could
! expect nothing more from Brown, and
proceeded:
| 1.-THE patient had always felt that If
Senator Brown was away from influences
of the many people who were anxious to
persuade him not to marry her that he
| would marry her, and says that the i'm
| pulse seized her that If she went on tC
Washington perhaps he would marry he,
! there. The senator had asked her to
meet him in Denver on his return TRIP
and she had refused to do it. and he had
been angry about it, and so she thought
| she would go on to Washington, but she
says that she did not have this thought
at Salt Lake City when she accepted the
| ticket on the morning of December a.
1906. She had been ill all the week. She
| had suffered much from loss Of blood
She had risen from her sick bed in a
| physical condition that required absolute
quiet, and she took the ticket with $50 ir
money and started upon the tram train
fully intending to go to Los Angeles. She
says that she had at that time one feel
ing one minute and another feeling an
other minute, and that she felt as though
she could never go away from Salt Lake
city, and that the impulse to 20 to
Washington seized her when she neared
the city of Ogden, that was about &c
miles north from Salt Lake City, which,
was the parting point between the rail-
road to the East and the West.''
The particulars of the trip from Og-
! den to Washington and of the arriya
In this city given. the narrative proceed
| Ell to detail Mrs. Bradley's movements
before the shooting which occurred in
Senator Browns room at the Raleigl,
hotel about o'clock in the afternoon.
the finding of Mrs. Adams letter, the
full text of which is given, is the sub
iect of minute presentation, and Mrs.
| Bradley's mental condition after read
ing it is described
''She went into her room and won't ont
| upon tie street and walked around the
, streets. She don't know what he mr.
pose was in going out. she was distract
ed and did not know what to do. She
can not recall that she had any purpose
in her mind. She felt wretched. Sic does
not know how long she was out of the
hotel She knows she went back. but
she does not know at what time of dav.
She ate nothing at noon time. and all
that she can recall of having seen when
out upon the streets was people and
houses
Mrs. Bradley's version of the srnse.
puent happening is then given. as fol-
lows:
"she knows that she went to her room
and went out again; that the senator's
room was but a short distance away. and
at one time while lying in her room she
heard his footsteps and she went to his
door and raped. and entering the sena.
tor looked upon her and turned pale
and said: What are you doing here?
And the patient replied: I have come
here to ask if you won't carry out YOU,
promises to me- She says she dom
know what he then said, that he JUS
rushed upon her; that she don't know