The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
CROSS-EXAMINATION ENDED
WITH DEFENDANT A VICTOR
OVER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR
lContInued 90 - 20

led and deceived her the day before
no took his fateful trip to Washing
charming anection;" how she had writ
ten a letter declaring she was ''in the
depths of degradation and how she
begged the man day after day TO make
every sacrifice, 10 matter what IL cost
him or her, TO give their children his
name
Her pride was supreme, her feeling
( was greatest when she declared. in re-
sly TO question from the prosecutor;
Not Question Of Money.
= refused a financial settlement
told him our relations could never be
settled. the wrong. could never be
righted. by any amOunt of money
After her REORGANIZATION she sat
or the witness stand while Judge Pow
ers read to the jury several of the let
tiers she had written to Brown when she
loved him. and vet feared disaster as Z
result of that love The letters breathec
the perfume of the wonderful alteration
she had for the man, and still they
showed how great was the price IN
mental anguish that she paid for low
ing him.
1t was, in some respects, the biggest
day of the trial. The marvellous pFll-
uanCy of the WOman'S intellect IN heF
own henalf held the throng IN the
courtroom In silent admiration. THOSE
who heard her could we'll imagine what
and her enchantmeht when she WalAeu
hand-In-haud with Brown in the garden
b where her eyes could see only the ever
blooming poppies and the roses thaS
bIoomed never to fade. They realized
this, and were sad
For il was an homogeneous scene.
This woman who had scaled heights OF
baDDfness some of her hearers could
never know, had. by her own confess
sion. been spUTned into utter disgrace
with the present of a sum Of money
smaller than that which had ben PAID
for the fur wraps worn py many, a
woman In the curious, morbid crowd.
Her discouraged. appealing features
pOrtraying pitifully the effects OF her
two DAYS of suffering upon the witness
stand, and her beseeching glance to-
ward her attorneys denoting that she
realized that today she was to be ques-
toned, not by friends. but by duty
bound prosecutor, Mrs. Annie NJ. Brad
ley walked unsteadily TO the witness
stand at 10 o'clock this morning TO con-
clude q story that has taken three days
IN telling
She expected a grueling CrOss-exani-
nation. she expected the inmOst secrets
of her relations with Senator Brown
for the long years before she shot him,
would be laid bare by the searching
probe OF the District Attorney and his
assistants.
Went on Resignedly.
She had been told that today she faced
perhaps the hardest experience in her
life and she went to the stand resigned
". helplessIy, and yet hopefully that
somehow she would acquit herself In a
manner that would bring her both
liberty and life.
a-T-- aHr.v= hon WTwu
Bradley expected. for at 11:25 District
Attorney Baker settled back in his chair
and announced that he had completed
his examination OF the little woman
and a glad smile OF relief, almost grail
tude, OVeFspread her face
Was Kind to Her.
And the District Attorney, even in
the discharge OF his duty, vas in one
sense of the word. kind 20 AIRS. Brad
ley. There was none of that domineer-
ing spirit shown, no beating, no
insinuatiOns that the pale defendant be-
fore him was not telling the truth. He
went over the sad tale told by Mrs
Bradley on her direct examination,
picked what TO him seemed to be a flaw
here ana there and questioned her about
IL, but there was no brutality, no ma
RAISING tendencies, be 1t said TO Mr..
examination.
At all times he was respectful, yet
iusisteEti duty bound, yet conservatives
loyal in his desire to vtndiCate the law
and convict the defendant, but never
uumindful OF the fact that II was
woman before him; a woman who had
suffered much. had lived and loved
much. had erred much and yet was a
woman stin. And this attitude perhaps
viii help Mr. Bakers cause more with
"a efH IN frHAcT ran|l sr
than If ne had taken Mrs. Bradley in
hand, tossed her about on a sea Of
ridicule. and hurled against her already
st0rm-beaten mind and body a torrent
lief.
Questioned About Arrest.
Mr.. Baker first began to examine Mrs,
Bradley with regard to her life on
former Senator Browns farm, bringing
cut nothing especially new or detri-
mental to the defendant. Next he came
10 that period in her life when she and
Brown had been arrested on account OF
their relations and 10 his questions as
10 how many times the pair had suffered
arrest she replied YEARLY:
oh. three or four times, I don't re-
member exactly
Q.-These arrests Of course caused
rOtorlety. MRS. Bradley. Now after
them did YOU continue TO live with the
A.-Yes
Next he questioned her as to the visit
OF the Rev. David Utter to her while
she was living upon TIE former. Seua-
tors farm, at which time he had tried
10 persuade her TO leave Brown.
Makes an Explanation.
L want to explain something here
judge" Mrs. Bradley interposed. Mr.
Utter had been sent by Mrs Brown.
and then she and q friend went To the
Senator and told him that I had
planned TO 90 with Rev Utter on a
fishing trip. The Senator called me up
over the phone and raved and raved,
told me never TO speak to him again
Then / went up to Salt Lake to see him,
and when 7 explained the true situa-
ton ne was SO sorry that he had abused
me, and told me 10 90 on back to the
farm and stay there again.
Q.-When did you last talk with the
Rev. Mr. Utter2
About two years ago.
Q.-And did YOU not IN speaking of
your relations with Brown on that Oc-
CasiOn tell Rev. Mr.. Utter that you in
tended 10 make Senator Brown marry
you and he asked you chow" and did
you not say to him, Arthur Brown is