Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — WASHINGTON MURDER TRIAL WHICH ATTRACTED ATTENTION OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON MURDER TRIAL WHICH ATTRACTED ATTENTION OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

Although some of the salacious features which were looked for at the trial of Mrs. Anna N. Bradley for the murder of Seuator Arthur M. Brown were eliminated by direction of the court, there was enough of the sensational competed therewith to hold the attention not only of Washington but of the entire country. The prominence of the man and the attractiveness of the woman, together with the manner of the shooting, Invested the case with unusual Interest.

Arthur M. Brown, leading citizen of Salt Lake City, man of great wealth and for a brief time United States Senator by appointment of the Governor, was a close friend to Mrs. Anna N. Bradley. This was some years ago when the frail-looking defendant was robust of form and beautiful of face. For Brown’s sake she deserted her husband, and although he would not heed her pleas to marry her, she clung to bin*. About a year ago Brown went from Utah to Washington. Mrs. Bradley heard that he was going to marry Mrs. Anna C. Adams, mother of Maud Adams, the great aetrbss, and she followed him. At his room in a Washington hotel they had a loud talk, the result of which was that she was said to have shot him and he died five days later. He refused to say anything concerning the tragedy. Mrs. Bradley, it is said, never denied the shooting, pleading temporary insanity. Mrs. Adams has declared that there was no foundation for the report that she was to have married Brown. When the case came up for trial in Washington Mrs. Bradley’s story upon the stand was that Brown won her love by protestations of undying affection and promise of marriage; that he urged her to get a divorce and Induced her to get her trousseau. The chief counsel for Mrs. Bradley was Orlando W. Powers, a native of New York, who went to Utah to live and is the leader of the Gentile party there. He was made associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah by President Cleveland. He has sat in the State Legislature and has been an unsuccessful candidate for Congress, Once he declined a United States Senntorshlp for an uuexplred term. The Jury brought in a verdict that -she was not guilty of the alleged murder of former Senator Brown. The plea of temporary Insanity at the time the killing took place won after an allafteruoon and night deadlock of the Jury.

Woman placed on trial in Washington for the killing of former Senator Brown of Utah, the presiding judge and leading attorneys in the case.