The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-22
Gives Abundant Promise of Be-
Ing Sensational in the
Extreme.
WORK OF SECURING
JURY Is PROCEEDING
Hearing Is to Be Resumed at
10 O'clock Wednesday
Morning.

was begun in Judge Morris l.. Ritchic S
division Of the Third district court at
10 clock Monday morning, was ia
ken until Wednesday morning at 1880
clock Monday afternoon, with not
juror procured in The two hours and u
half preliminary session.
The adjournment for Monday after
noon WAS taken because Judge Orlando
". Powers. chief counsel for Mrs. Anna
Nj. Bradley, had an important case to
| argue in the supreme court that alter
| noon and for today because this Is a |
| legal holiday The effort to secure a
| Jury will be resumed at 10 clock We'd |
| ncsday morning.
| In the brief preliminary session Mon
| day morning five talesmcu were passed
and two rejected for cause by The PLAIN
tiffs. The talcsmcn passed arc Hamp- |
den s. Bcatic, salesman for the Il. G.
| NJ. l.: Christian Berger Of Murray, |
farmer; Joseph +, Davis Of this city, ice
cream man; Louis +. Bateman of this
county. plumber; David Archbold, farm
cr The men rejected are William II,
Ashby of this city, dry goods dealer,
and Henry johnson Of this city, realty
dealer
Cause of Challenges
Ashby was rejected on account of
| bias, Judge Powers challenging him for
cause and Judge William II, King. prin
clpal counsel for the defense, resisting,
but the court sustained the challenge.
johnson was excused partly on ac-
count Of temperament and partly be-
cause he lays too much stress upon the
weight of deeds mort cages. wills and
the hike that are properly signed, wit
messed and acknowledged,
As is well known, the Brown VIII
will be attacked larpely on the grounds
that the senator was intoxicated when
he executed it and therefore not capa-
bic of making "A Will, and when Judge
Powers attempted TO get satisfactory
answer from johnson as TO whether, IN
the face Of the properly signed. wlt-
messed and acknowledged instrument, be
would give due weight to evidence tend
ing 10 show that the tcstator was intox-
icatcd when he made the will he was
unable 10 do so and he therefore chal-
longed Johnson for cause, Judge King
resisted the challenge, but the court,
after a lengthy discussion and the re-
| viewing of the questions to aud an
swcrs of johnson, during which the
talesmen were excused from the court
room, sustained the challenge.
n sustaining the challenge the court
said that it was too much Of question
of temperament with Johnson The
talesman, he said, appeared To BIO too
dogmatlc, jumping at the conclusion that
the instrument was all right because IT.
appeared to be all right. and expressed
the opinion that this trouble may be cx-
perienccd with other talcsmen.
, The uneXamined talesmen IN the jury
5 box at adjournment were Josiah Bur
: rows aud Oliver Hodgson the last
, named being councilman from the First
ward of this city.
Two Knew Senator.
Only one OF two of the ralesmep ex-
= amlned knew Senator Brown, and these
possessed only a casual acquaintance
e with him. None of them ever sup
4 ported him politically or heard him
make a political address or an address
TO a jury. That counsel for the plain
tiffs fears the effect of the late for
mer senator's forensic powers upon the
p jury even at this late date was plainly
indicated by Judge Powers S thought
fulness in questioning every talcsman
: as TO whether he had ever heard Senator
. dress a jury, Every talesman expressed
= sympathy with the law permitting chill
4 dren born out of wedlock to share in
the property with legitimate children,
and one or two volunteered the state
ment that they do not think that he
sins of the parent should be visited
c upon the child,
The care being exercised In the Sc
) lecting of the Jury is merely another
indication that the case viii be bitterly
contested from beginning TO end.
The spectators were few. Dressed in
! deep black and heavily veiled, Mrs,
Bradley appeared in the courtroom and
listened TO the proceedings intensely,
occupying seat close to Thomas Mar
, ioneaux partner of Judge Powers, and
/ keeping her ewes riveted upon the tales
men practically all the time. Her plain
e black garb was not relieved by even
dash of color in her hat In the mid
Il Of ho rrononlip.c lJ.c c
+ mother Mrs Mary Madison. who is
S the nominal plaintiff as guardian ad
0 item of the Bradley children. entered
S the courtroom, taking seat half way
\ back. When the proceedings ended,
Mrs, Bradley passed to her side and
, The two chatted for several minutes.
The children around whom The fight cen
terS were not present
Will Bo Sensational.
\ it is expected That jury will, be Sc
cured Wednesday afternoon late. That
e Mrs Bradley will bc called TO the stand
I TO recItc her alleged wrongs at the
I hands of Senator Brown early in the
= hearing was the statement Of Judge
: Powers Monday evening. This story,
rs was her story III the murder trial.
j viii bc both pathetic and dramatic. IL is
: expected.
Manv letters passed between Mrs.
Bradley and Scuator Brown the early
part of 1902 when Mrs Bradley was
in Los Angeles. being crowded with
letters. and Judge Powers SAYS that
practically all those bearing upon the
: paternity OF the Bradley children will
be introduced especially those in which
: Senator Brown addressed Mrs Bradley
c as '|mv wife, and signed himself as
c ''vour husband. These arc somc OF
the same sensational and ancctionatc
n letters that were introduced in the mur-
: der trial.
: The precise manner ia which Senator
: Brown was shot has never been clearly
@ explained that is, rs to all the lii lc
Q details, and II may be that the walls
/ of Senator Brown 5 room in the Raleigh
) bote at Washington. ID. G., viii be
made TO give MP the secret OF just BOW
= the shooting occurred, i'll the present
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