The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

uDon the stand no motive appeared for
the purchase of that gun. But at that
interview in Pocatsllo. Mr.. Christensen
says. this woman was assaulted. and
her life was threatened: and the fol-
lowing morning Brown bought the
gun, and he said TO her: If my wife
assaults you, shoot her" Besides that,
ne said: Our relations have become
such that some man nay feel that he
can accOst you upon the street and
you should carry it for your protec-
ton"
So then. 1 say, there comes another
witness for us. Soren Christensen. And
they broke up that morning with the
declaration upon the part of Mrs.
Brown that she wanted nothing more
to do with her husband. She virtually
cast him off into the world. She viz
tually said: GO with this woman"
She had heard him denOunce his own.
She hsd heard him admit that he was
the father of the children Of this Wo-
man. She had heard him say that he
was not the father Of Max. She want
ed nothing more 20 do with him, and
she told him that morning, Here our
ways part" Consider for a moment
what effect that naturally would have
upon this wOman's mind. when you are
considering. finally. the eliminating
events that led to the reinforcement of
her reason.
Cast off py Brown.
Here she was loving a man who had
promised that he would separate him
self from his wife and would legitima-
tie his child. Here she heard that wife
declaring that she wanted nothing
Whatever to do with that husband, and
sending him forth into the world.
Then, again, she went back to the
farm; and it was while she was on the
farm that that incident occurred when
the telephone message came. like clap
of thunder out of a clear sky, Leave
my farm at once" It came from Sen
ator Brown: and again she took that
long drive She saw in the morning pa
pers that he had cast her off, and had
gone back to his wife. She had heard
what was said there in the interview
at POcatellO. She had heard this mans
prOtestations of love and fidelity. She
hastened down to learn from his own
lips what was meant; and he, coward
like, had fled; and she went 10 Judge
Henderson; and you remember the in
terview that she had. 1t was not until
about thirty days had elapsed, away
along in the latter part of June, that
she saw Mr.. Brown; and then he told
her that he had not gone back 20 his
wife in good faith. He was not yet
ready that this woman should leave
him. He still was holding her to him
with links of steel. He still had her
bound to him. He still had her as his
servant and bondwoman.
Il have not gone back to my wife
in good faith. I had to do it to save
myself from the penitentiary," said
Brown. Save himself from disgrace!
The woman was already bearing her
share of the disgrace.
Again Trusts Her Lover.
But she believed him again. She
trusted him. She was a woman. And
later there came the suggestion that
the child, about to be born. was not his
own. That must have been an awful
shock to this woman. That must have
been a terrible shock to this woman.
That was sufficient to unhinge the
mind of a tender, loving, affectionaJe,
intense woman. 1t does not take much
after all to cause men and to cause
women to fall physically. In your own
presence you saw counsel upon the
other side yielding to the strain of this
trial; you saw how he was affected in
the course of his argument. And so 1
say that. with this little woman. the
mere suggestion that was made to her
at that time was sufficient to cast her
entirely from her mental moorings.
The child was born, and il was
named, in October, Martin Montgom-
ery'-One of the closest friends of Ar
thur Brown. Later they were called
upon to plead in court; and when they
went there to plead. before they went
there she was visited by his friends It
was insisted that she should stand
trial. But she went there, and she
pleaded guilty" She placed herself
upon the scaffold, and she pinned upon
her breast the scarlet letter. She did
not propose to cast any reflection upon
her children. She did not propose, by
any technicality, to indicate that they
were other than the children of Sens-
tor Brown. Later his trial came on, in
1904; and it was about that time that
there were made the offers Of financial
assistance. There was the offer by
Judge King, called by the prosecution,
but in reality a witness for the defense,
for he sustained the testimony that We
had already offered. There was the
testimony of his brother, Major Sam
King. There was the testimony of
Soren Christensen. There was the tes-
timony of Colonel Kaighn. One after
another these men went before that
woman and held before her eyes the
golden apple. One after another these
men went before that woman and
wealth. But she spurned them all. She
was no wanton. She wanted not the
wealth OF Arthur Brown. She did not
propose to have those children that he
had brought into the world cast upon
the world without a name. She spurn-
ed the offers because she wanted a
name for her children. She was not
breaking up a family in so doing.
Why? She was exhibiting the highest
and the hottest instinct that inhabits
the human breast-the maternal in
stinct. She was defending her young.
Defended Her Babes.
The meanest animal will turn when fts
young are attacked. The mother win
cast herself into the flood; she will rush
through flames; she will throw herself
from precipice that she NAV save her
child. And this woman was attacked IN
her motherhood II was urged that she
go forth into the world with these lit
tie children without a name for them
That name to her was more than an
else, because it was their defense. We
admire the animal that fights TO death
for its young Ought We not TO admire
the mother who seeks to save the child
IN the future years from the disgrace
that will be heaped upon it? She was
not breaking up a family. It was the
earnest effort of q mother to save her
child. And every man who remembers
the mother who gave him birth. who re