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

upon the dark forest of insanity and
despair.
Insare When she Shot.
We have here, then. as was said by
that wOrld-renOWned alienist, DIR.
Evans, the culture-bed (as he so strik-
ingly described it here to the jury
ready TO receive the seeds of mental
death. The seeds were sown by the
hand she loved, and they grew and they
thrived, until the bullet sped upon that
December day; and the prayer that he
had made for vengeance upon his head
if he did not keep his promises to this
woman for the wrong he had done was
answered.
vengeance is mine, saith the Lord;
will repay"
The early life of this woman, as I
have already indicated, was most I'M
fortunate. She met Senator Brown.
who, it seems, almost Immediately be-
gan his efforts to possess her There
were days and months before he sue
ceeded in his object. She was a woman
of repute in the days before she met
Brown; in the days before she surren-
dered to him her associates were
among the first ladies of her city She
belonged to clubs that were exclusive.
Her tendencies were along literary and
artistic lines She was a woman with
out guile or thought of evil in her
mind. Then, after days and weeks and
months, approaching the citadel of her
love so gradually, 80 subtly and vet so
determinedly, Brown, using all the arts
that can be used by one so skilled as
he, worked upon her feelings. until, one
day, she found she loved him. And for
her to love was to be lost: and she fell.
You may wonder why she fell; Won
may condemn her and say, "Why?''
But she was woman. She loved: she
fell. In 1900 a child was born to them.
and of it he said: This is my son. in
whom l am well pleased"-a son re-
sembling him, christened in his name.
and she, herself, believing in his love.
did not .believe it possible that anv
man could ask a woman to bear for
him child and not love her.
Brown Suggests Divorce.
In 1901 he urged her to obtain a di-
vorce. He suggested divorce upon his
own part. Months and months before
he had told her of his unhappy life at
home All! That is the surest roadway
to Woman's heart-fOr a man to tell
how bad he is, for a man to tell of his
griefs and of his sorrows and of his
unhappy life; for somehow in woman's
nature there is something that always
causes her to feel that she could do
better by MIN. that she could lift him
uD and make him a, better man. He
sent her to Grand Junction, and ne told
her that his suit for divorce was pro-
crossing; that everything was going all
right. Daily he wrote to her, some
times three, four. five times a day. AMI
this woman who had longed for love
was receiving love; and she believed in
her trusting nature that that love,
guilty though it was then, would some
day be legalized by the law by the
action of her lover.
When he did not write he telegraphed
her, and he visited her. And they read
from the poets. and they read from the
authors; and finally he told her that all
that was standing between himself and
the divorce of his wife was the mat
ter Of the division of the property. And
then. unseIffsh as she always appears,
as disclosed by the evidence, she
showed her absolute dnselfishneSs by
saying: Give all your property to
your wife and TO Max You have not