The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-20
FAMOUS WILL CASE
TO Be TRIED HERE.
BradIey-BrOWn Contest to Be
Heard BY Jury in Dis
triCt Court.

The celebrated Bradley Brown will
contest case will be opened before Judge
Morris L. Richie and a jury in the
Third district court tomorrow morning,
with Orlando w. Powers and Thomas
MariOneauX representing Annie NJ
Bradley and her two children, while an
array of counsel viii defend the action
which seeks to set aside the will of for
mer United States Senator Arthur
Brown, who was killed at Washington,
d. c., Dec. 8, 1906, by Mrs. Bradley.
The case has gained international
prominence, because Of the noted case
at Washington in which Mrs. Bradley
was placed on trial for her life. She
admitted shooting Brown, and defended
her action on the ground OF the 'un-
written law" which was upheld by a
jury and she was DISCHARGED, later COM
ing TO her home in Salt Lake to make
a living for herself and children.
The will of Arthur Brown bequeathed
all Of the estate, said to be valued at
from $4,000 to $4,000, to Max Brown,
son, who is an attorney IN Salt Lake,
and a daughter by a former wife, who
lives in Ohio. Mrs. Bradley contests
the viii on the ground that Brown ac-
knOwledged being the father Of her two
children, and that he left a subsequent
document in which he made such &C
acknowledgement, and made the two chill
dren benetciartes in the estate.
Left Valuable Estate.
Mrs. Bradley contends that the Brown
estate is worth from S150, 900 TO 5000 ,OO0
The chief ground for contest, however,
is that when Brown executed the will
now filed for probate, he was mentally
incompetent to execute a viii, having
been intoxicated at the time
The testimony of NJ. W. Newcomb a
photographer, who was one of the wit
neSSes to the will, IS TO the effect that
Brown was sane and rational and per-
feCtly competent when he executed the
Will a few months before his death,
Other witnesses, however, will testify
/ that Brown was totally incompetent.
Justin r. Davis, a court stenOgrapher,
also witnessed the viii at the time of its
execution, and later William L. Dunn,
an attorney, affixed his signature.
The will mentions the two children bv
Mrs Bradley, known as the Brown
Bradley children but Brown repudi-
ates them by saying they are not his
/ children. Wherefore, he leaves them
nothing in the will
Expect to Prove Contention.
The later viii, which has never been
p4OuuCeu, IS expected TO prove the con-
tentiOn that Brown Acknowledged the
Bradley children as his, and that he
made some provision for them. 1t is
said there is ample proof as to the ex-
ecutiOn of this later document.
The proof that Brown was father of
the Bradley children will not be gone
into as extensively in the will contest as
it was handled at Washington during
the trial.
Should Mrs. Bradley succeed in
/ breaking the viii, her two children will
! become benefciaries and will share in
the estate with the other heirs.
While Powers & Marioneaux are con-
testing the case for Mrs. Bradley and
| the children, W. H. King of Salt Lake
viii lead in the defense, and he will
have associated with him E. 2. Storey
| of Salt Lake and o. H. Hilton and
Caesar Robinson Of Denver. Mir. Pow
ers won international fame by his de-
tense Of the case at Washington in 1907,
when he secured an acquittal of Mrs.
Bradley against the combined attack
| Of some Of the most skillful attorneys
| in the country.