Show BITTER ill Infra REBUKE t FOR MRS ADAMS Marriage Story Questioned by Mrs Bradley and Browns Children ACTRESS BEWAILS TRAGEDY WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE MY MYOWN MYOWN MYOWN OWN HAPPINESS s 5 Special to Tho The Herald Washington Dec if Mrs Annie Anni Adams mother of Maude Adams in the tho hotel where sho she is registered under an assumed name today told the story stor of her grief at the tile death of For Former Former mer Senator Brown and her ber pity for the tho th woman who killed hilled him To think that I am the cause of hu hi death she wailed I 1 wrote him the day of or his death she said absolving him from all obi obligations to me mo If he could brighten nor hl clouded life UCe I told him I was wan willing to sacrifice my m own happiness if he lie felt that he ho owed a duty to me meThe meTho meThe The Tho letter Jetter which Is I now in the hands handi of Danied AV W V Baker tho United States district attorney was the special delivery cry ery el letter leter l ter mailed in New Ne York lit itt on the day of the tho senators death and which reached Dr White his at attendant attendant attendant a few minutes before his dis dF distinguished d patient passed away The letter began Dear Heart It was a Jetter expressing the writers deep deI affection and also tho the spirit of it showed that Mrs Adams had risen to the height of giving ging up the man whom sho she loved lond for the sake sal e of an unhappy woman ho had wronged and it seemed her ber ruling motive motie that he might do that which she was at last lest persuaded was his highest duty In Jn one ono of tho tim senators letters he had written I 1 want you OU to see seo with my owa ow eyes ey hear 1111 with my m cars ears hato hate with my hate and love with my love said Mrs Adams Pleaded for Mr Mrs Bradley Senator Brown and I were w rc to have havo ha been married soon and I 1 had planned to togo too togo go o to Boston and join my m daughter Maude Adams at the time lime the tragedy or oc occurred Brown was to have cometo New NewYork NewYork York to join us 18 I had not intended mak making making making ing the matter public but in view of re recent rEcent r cent developments I 1 feel it necessary that the world should know the exact situa situation tion lion Mrs Adams said suid she was the author of or orthe the letter which reached the emergent g r hospital a few hours before Senator Brown died She said she mailed it in New York when she heard he lie was sink sinkIn In r I I I I I rin In the letter I bogged begged bt gge l Senator Brown to marry Mrs Bradley before he lie died 1 as to give ghe her two children a name ia il the tIle world said Mrs Adams Ad m mIf If Mrs Irs Bradley had hall asked mo meto to with withdraw draw I believe the tragedy tr gedy would have hae been bea en avoided That letter I wrote to Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Brown asking him to make Mr Mrs Bradley his Ills wife wiCe for the uke of the two children arrived too late District Attorney Baker is engaged ia in drawing the indictment against Mrs r Bradley for presentation to the grand jury He expects the indictment will b bp returned so that she can be arraigned during durin the coming week weel and the tile trial set for or May or June Jun Mrs Bradleys Comment Mrs Bradley Bradle at the United States jail today denied dented that she had any km knowl knowledg knowledge wl edge edg of a proposed marriage between Mrs Irs Annie C Adams and Former Sena Senator Senator Senator tor Brown It is passing strange she said sad that Mrs Irs Adams should have waited until after death had sealed the tho lips ups of S Sen Senator n ator Brown before she made any an an announcement announcement announcement of oC this contemplated mar marriage marriage I certainly never heard of it an l when I 1 called on Senator Brown at his hij room in ln the Raleigh hotel on Saturday last he lie said nothing to me in regard to it Mrs Irs Bradley is making the best of tho the situation today and is I as comfortable is as asIt isit isIt it Is possible to be in the dismal surround surroundIngs Ings pf the district jail Reports published publish l that bhe he is being guarded to prevent her from committing suicide are not correct as she manifests no tendency in that di and has evidently settled down to the effort to get out of oC the dilemma into which she has brought herself hersel Accompanied by Max and Alice Brown the body of oC former Senator Brown left Washington ashington at noon today for Salt Lake City Cit where funeral services will be held Surprise to Children The secret engagement of Arthur Brown and Maude Adams moth mother er was a shock to the two children of ct the murdered lawyer When hen Mrs Adams announced it neither of the children hal hai ever seen Mrs Irs Adams It is apparent that they feel that their fathers atten attentions attentions to Mrs Adams impelled the dis discarded discarded carded Mrs Bradley to kill lm him and on that account they did not accept her suggestions that she the body bod to Sat Sait Lake City We know nothing about her or of or fathers relations with her said tho thi son Max Brown and do not believe they the were engaged to be married The report that there was ever an art intention of Mrs Irs Adams Joining either r me me or my sister in Washington and go going going ing lag with us to Salt Lake City is absolutely absolutely untrue We Ve dont know Mrs Irs Adams and know no reason why sha li should go with us The first we heard beard of oC the alleged en engagement engagement of father to Mrs Adams was wasI when wren we read it in the newspapers yes es esterday We e do not believe it and are ara surprised at the announcement which came after his death Browns Son Bitter Young Brown was wa was disinclined to dis din discuss discuss cuss the contents of the special deih delivery ery eo letter he had received from Mrs Ir Adams but he plainly intimated that she had sought to have him aid her in a suppression of or facts in the relations be he between between tween herself her elf and Senator Brown BrownI 11 I did not know he further said that it was waa my fathers purpose to her herin herIn in New York and I 1 know absolutely nothing of their relations I am conn conf confident I Ident dent the Ufe th United States wll mete out justice to the tho slayer of mv my father which was I am confident a premeditated murder Dad had done a great deal for Mr Mn Ir Bradley and paid her large sums of money during the years of their unCo unfortunate acquaintance The of counsel for the thc defend resulted today in Attorney Leckie for formally formally mally withdrawing from the tho case ca e He lie Issued a statement this thiB evening explain lag Ing ng his connection with Mrs MN Bradleys defense and his reasons for withdraw withdrawing ing in which he says in part The first news of the killing was brought late last Saturday by b a newspaper reporter who informed me at the same time that I had b been ten en retained by b Bartch Bagley of Salt SaltI Lake I ake City to defend Mrs Irs Bradley A ft Afew AfeW few minutes later I received a telegram from that firm finn instructing me to look after aner the he prisoners interests 1 I saw her Continued on Page 2 BITTER REBUKE FOR MRS ADAMS Continued from Page 1 immediately and did all that the occa occasion occasion occasion sion demanded at the tre time to protect her case Leckie Feels Aggrieved Tuesday t I learned that that Utah acquaintances acquaintances of Mrs Irs Bradley Bradle had urged her to accept the services of ot Attorney Hoover of this city and on Wednesday I 1 received re received received from her a n letter jetter which I sub subsequently subsequently subsequently learned had b been en Jen prepared for tor her signature by lIy the firm of Wells Veils Hoover advising me that she had re retained retained this firm but desired me to co cooperate C cooperate operate with them in her defense A copy COP of this letter was given to the press presa for publication by b Wells Hoover and andIn andIn andin In view of this unprofessional action I immediately notified Mrs Irs Bradley that I should withdraw from flom tho the case I 1 took part in the proceedings yesterday at atthe atthe the tho inquest at Mrs Bradleys request but later when her letter to me was given out for publication I could not with self seU respect act further for her herA herA herA A conference of the friends of Mrs Anna Bradley the slayer of Former Sea Sen Senator Se ator Arthur Brown was held in the of ef offices Of flees of Bartch Bagley her local at attorneys attorneys tornes last evening The case was dis lis discussed discussed cussed in detail and it was planned that Judge Bagley go east in a t few days das to join Mrs Bradleys attorneys in Washington |