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


want Arthur Browns money; I do not
want Mrs. Browns money. l want a
name for my children" To each and
every one she said that; to Judge King
she said that
Mind Snaps Under Strain.
Those were awful days for this woman.
No man can describe it. we have a
glimpse of it from the testimony here
In the case, and we have a letter which
she wrote at the time, along about those
days, that indicates in some measure how
terribly distressed she was. Her mind
S-as becoming unhinged. She was pass
ing over that border line from the sane
10 the insane. That letter. which they
claim shows upon her part a delibera-
sioa to do harm, / read to you now:
Love seems no more than a mockery
tonight l wanted to see you, oh, SO
much. but it is in vain. I shall kill
her, or | shall hate you. or kin my
self, or go mad. before long. l think
l am going mad now"
When those words were written there
was soul distressed. When those words
were written there was q little woman
that was down in the very depths of the
dark valley of death.
l believe ! am mad now. 7 saw your
lights in your bedroom window, so i go
home
She must have been walking the
streets, thinking Of the misery that she
had brought upon herself, thinking of
the suffering that she had brought upon
children that were innocent thinking of
the IuLHfe LndL was so black Tor them.
feeling that her mind could not endure
the tremendous strain under which it was
suffering.
Il saw your lights in your bedroom
window, so ] go home. l hope 20 die
and TO end this suffering. that is ex-
circulating. The mo~e l love you the
more you are to me, and the harder il
Is to make life's greatest sacrifice. Oh,
! must write, or ! will rave. as 7 am
prompted to. Why did you not come
down minute?
Passing Over BorderIand.
That was no threat. That was the
Shrek of soul going mad. That was
one time when the curtain was lifted |
mind, and you saw that she was pass
ing from sane woman into an insane |
woman.
There is more of distress and misery
written in the words of that letter that |
] have read to you than often comes to |
- 10 know. II was indeed the Shrek Of
= soul.
Mr. Baker-Judge. do you want to |
claim that she was insane at that time ? !
Mr. POwers-I want TO claim that at
that time that woman was suffering the
most intense Of human misery. l want |
10 claim that at that time that poor lit |
tie woman was in the very depths of
despair. / want to claim that at that
time she was in such a condition. and
made so by the man Brown. that she
did not know what she was going to do. !
q nd / want TO claim that from that time
on this woman was a wreck of her for |
mer self, ana that she had started on |
the downward course in intellect. That |
IS what / want to claim.
Mr. Baker-Now, II your honor please, |
] want to call attention to the fact that /
We were not permitted TO offer evidence |
as TO her mental condition down to /
Jan. l. 1905. on the statement of Mr. !
Hoover that up to the year 1904 there !
was no claim made that this defendant |
was insane.
Mr.. Powers-And there is not any made
now.
Mr.. Baker-Au right.
Mr.. Powers thought ! had made my |
self plain. and il is not necessary to /
interrupt me. il seems to me, when l /
But thar letter shows that this woman
was suffering the most intense misery.
Is Il otherwise?
81 hope to die and end this suffering, |
that is excruciatIng-'
Brown Returns to Her.
During those days Brown was loving /
her at times and at times he was very
bitter She was at that time drinking
from the cup of sorrow filled 10 running /
over She tried to support herself, tried |
10 enter into little business OF her own.
indicating that she did not want to De
a tax upon him She was not living
upon him. She was not the kind of
woman that has been painted TO you
here. She tried to support herself. In
1905 he came to her and he said to her
that his wife would not live for a month,
and they add that he said: Il want TO
be good man He did say: Il have
been a mighty mean man; he did say
something oe that kind, but he did not
say what is claimed by counsel TO the
extent that they claim. He went there
and he talked 10 her upon the subject OF
marriage He did not indicate that ne
wanted to separate from her.
Instead OF this woman fastening herself
upon Brown. instead of her preventing
him from being a good man, there never
was time, as this evidence shows, when
he asked her to do a single thing but
that she was ready 10 do it, When he
left at once She did his bidding in all
things. She was his bondwoman. 1t would
have been very easy for him TO have rid
himself of this woman at any time. Had
he told her to go away had he said. Il
do not want you; beta&e yourself from
me; keep yourself from out my sight" he
would not have been annoyed by her pres
ence But he went there TO her: and then, |
two days after the funeral of his wife,
before the grave had scarce been COW
cred, he was down there again talking
with this woman and he was talking upon
the subject of marriage. He told her that
he would have TO wait some time before
Finally, however, along during the fan of
that year. they fixed the date for their
marriage for the second day OF June. 1895;
and he urged her and advised her to OBJ
tain a divorce so that she might be ready.
And she obtained the divorce in Deem
Der of that year, and they We're then
where they might be married. He was
single, and she was single.
Acknowledgement of Children.
N February Of that year, she being in
sistent all the time that there should be
IN acknowledgment of the parentage of
aer children. she procured from him in
=5ruary 1895. the acknowledgment, which
'eads:
u acknowledge Arthur Brown and Mar
in Montgomery as my children by Annie !
VI. Bradley.
(Signed} ARTHUR BROWN"
That paper she looked upon as one of !
Ter most sacred possessions. She went J
md showed il TO Colonel Kaighn while il I
Vas yet damp from the ink with which Y
[ was written. She took IL 20 him after J
wards and placed il among the papers 5
hat she had put there in his charge And {
ct as the year 1905 went on. Brown SEEM | {
d unwilling to right the wrong. In jan [
lary he must have had a conversation :
With her father, because he told her, ': !
rave promised your father that / Will
marry you; and If do not keep my prom c
Sc, may God ayenge it" II was in Ogden !
hat she went, in February of that year.
art OF June or the first part of july,
{e went away shortly after she got to I
ogden without saying goodbye 70 her. 8
he was distressed. and when he returned a
e asked her TO forgive him. A child was 5
Orn in March that lived two days, and Il
hen died. All that spring she was falling h
physically; and when he told her in May a