The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-20
CLIMAX REACHED.
Mrs. Bradley Brings Her Story
to the Shooting.
~ Am So Tired" She Said After
Long Rec tai.
BROWN GAVE HER GUN
To Protect Herself From the
Real Mrs. Brown.
Tells of Encounters With Wife
of the Dead Man.

Washington, Nov. 20.-When GRIM
inaI court No. took its midday recess
Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley had just reach
ed the point of relating the details OF
her shooting of Senator Brown. Most
of the morning was devoted to ident1-
f1cation of many letters written by Mr..
Brown and Mrs. Bradley to each 9TH
er. They were not read to the jury
Mrs. Bradley contradicted the testi-
mony of Witness Kelly in many par
ticulars.
Mrs. Bradley was prompt as
usual in entering the court room, and
If any one had believed that yester-
days ordeal would render her unfit to
proceed with her narrative it must soon
have become evident to such person
that he had not taken into sufficient
account the reserve power of the wo-
man.
She did not look very buoyant, but
she never does, and it can not be said
that there was much change in her ap-
pearance. She had yesterday related
practically all of the details of her life
with Senator Brown, during their in
timacy of nine years and it was un-
derstood generally that preliminary
statements concerning the time just
preceding the entrance of both parties
to the tragedy in Washington, she would
be led up to that affair and asked as
the only possible witness to tell the
story. I'VE shall be BRIEF said Judge
Powers her Salt Lake attorney, "in
dealing with this phase of the case; it
will not take Mrs. Bradley loDg to give
us all she remembers of it,
He expressed the opinion before the
trial was resumed that not more than
an hours time would be necessary to
complete the recital.
District Attorney Baker thought the
cross examination would consume about
three hours, so that it was apparent
from the beginning of the day that the
entire sitting would be consumed by
Mrs. Bradley. The court room was
again crowded and more were refused
admission for lack of accommodations
than got in.
Judge Stafford had no sooner taken
his seat than Mrs. Bradley resumed
her place in the witness chair She
was first asked to identify a number
of letters written her at different times
by Senator Brown and did So There
We're so many of these documents that
As minutes was consumed in the mere
exhibition of them. They covered the
sented for the purpose of showing the
relations between Mrs. Bradley and
Mr.. Brown but no effort was made to
read them. 1t was evident that the
sight of the letters produced conflict
ing memories in the witness for she
sobbed audibly as many of them were
presented to her.
Many of her replies were again in
distinct and the stenographer repeated
many of her statements to the Jury
There We're more than 100 of the let
ters, and when their presentation had
concluded Judge Powers said that some
of them would be read to the Jury
later. He then called on the prosecut-
ing attorney to produce letters written
to Brown by Mrs. Bradley which was
done. There were not so many of these
as of Browns but they covered the
same period The witness took time
to read some of these letters and in
each instance replied in quivering, fall
tering voice: Yes / wrote it
Her reading consumed much time
Tuesday Afternoon.
Continuing her testimony from the
point of their Grand junction visit Mrs
Bradley said she came to Washington
with Senator Brown and Alice Brown, !
the senator's daughter by his first wife, |
who was only one year younger than
herself. She Travelled as Mrs Brown. |
she said, Mr. Browns bearing toward |
her had been courtly and loving |
On returning west Mrs Bradley in |
1902, went to Los Angeles and soon re- |
turned to Salt Lake to go on the SEN
ator's farm. She heard from him fire. |
quently during their separation. Brown |
had over and again reiterated his af- |
fection, declaring whenever the divorce |
was mentioned that all obstacles would |
De swept away and that she would GER
tainly become Mrs. Brown. He said, |
Mrs Bradley declared that he would |
lay down his life for her. From the |
farm Mrs. Bradley went to PocateIlo |
and Shoshone, Idaho in one of which |
places she said Brown had performed |
a second criminal operation on her
when he. again found she was about to |
become a mother. She had been very
sick on the trip from Idaho back to |
Salt Lake and after she arrived in that
city.
That day." she continued, refer
ring to time soon after her arrival.
MRS. BroWn came to the room when
Brown told her he would get a divorce
and marry Mrs. Bradley Mrs Brown
then asked him to come to the office
and say that. Mr.. Livingstone. Judge
Henderson and Mr.. Tatloch. who was
not friendly with Mr.. Brown, were
addressing, it to Mr. Tatloch: 4 say
to you that I will make Mrs. Brown
get divorce and if she does not do it
I will myself get one. 1 will marry
Mrs. Bradley; I will stand by her as
long as I live"
Her Arrest With Brown Il
Mrs Bradley then told of her ar
charge of adultery. She told of visit
to her by her pastor, Rev. DIR. Utter.
who urged her to sever her relations
with Brown, but the latter dissuaded
her. saying he would throw every
thing else down for her.
Mrs. Bradley declared that Brown
said to her: Don't be led
away from me by what any one says
to you"
Relating the particulars of a second
arrest in Salt Lake in 1908, Mrs.
Bradley said that Brown vehemently
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