Salt Lake Herald | 1907-11-17 | Page 1 | Handiwork of Judge Powers

HANDIWORK OF JUDGE POWERS Salt Lake Attorney Framing a Hypothetical Question for Use in the Bradley Case LIKELY TO BREAK RECORD INSANITY EXPERTS WILL PROS PROD PROBABLY j ABLY BE CALLED Special to The Herald Washington D C Nov 16 Judge Powers said today that the early part of or the coming week In the Bradley Bradle trial probably would be occupied in hearing the testimony of newspaper men and policemen who talked with Mrs Brad Bradley Bradley Bradlay ley lay Immediately after the shooting of Senator Brown Question Another development is to be toe the propounding of a hypothetical question which will perhaps exo ex exceed eed ed In length that employed In the noted Thaw trial Judge Powers has been working upon this question for a number of days finding it necessary necessary each day to make some material change on account of the developments during the trial The question will embrace every feature of ot the hearing from front the beginning of ot Mrs Bradleys relations with Senator Brown up to the moment that she was placed behind the bars The question It Is understood will not be used until near the end of the trial when it is planned to put upon the stand one or more in insanity insanity sanity experts for the purpose of es eff establishing establishing Mrs Bradleys Irresponsibility ity at the time she fired the fatal shots Judge Powers said that as yet the de defense defense Cense had not selected those medical experts Documentary Evidence In the event such testimony should be he introduced by the defense the th gov government emment will introduce experts in re rebuttal rebuttal rebuttal most likely Drs Jelliffe and Brush of New York used ud u by b District Attorney Baker on similar occasions There is a mass of documentary evi evl evidence evidence dence held in reserve by the defense perhaps the most Important contained on a single sheet of paper bearing the business heading Arthur Brown Salt Lake City with the following words which the defense says will be Identified as Browns handwriting ing I 1 acknowledge that Arthur Brown jr ir and Martin Montgomery Brown are my children by Mrs Annie AnnieM M Bradley Bradle Signed Arthur Brown BrownA A Connecting Link Links This paper in itself might be deemed 1 less important by the defense were it not for the fact tact that Brown repudiated the children in his will and it le Is ex fx expected that this scrap of writing ob oh obtained obtained tamed perhaps upon one of Mrs Brad Bradleys Bradleys Bradleys leys numerous visits to Browns office for the purpose may be the connecting link in the story which she will tell tellIn tellIn tellIn In view of the unsavory character of the story stor which It is expected Mrs Bradley will tell when she goes on the stand the Washington Star this even evening evenIng evening ing appeals editorially to the court to exclude women from the audience dur during durIng during ing the coming week