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Show WOMAN FIRMLY REFUSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE MAN i Mrs. Anna M. Bradley Springs a Surprise in the Adultery Case Against Arthur Brown. Spicy Letters Written by the Lover Before His Ardor Cooled Enjoyed by the Crowd in the Court- room. I 4- "My Own DarJInp:: -- "With slnccrcst love, Arthur." "Dear Dolly: 4- -f ' -r 4- "Good morning, 3Wccthcart, A." -f 4- 4- "Beloved:" ' '4- -f 4- "My Own Dearest Dolly:" 4 4 4444444 4-. 4 44444-4 These aiq some of the superijcrip-llons superijcrip-llons and endings of letters written by Arthur Brown, now being tried for adultery In the criminal division of the District court, to Mrs. Anna M. Brad-Icy. Brad-Icy. Thc defendant scowled and ground his teeth while the letters were being read by the County Attorney. Mrs. Bradley refused to testify against her quondam lover, otherwise than to state that she had pleaded guilty to the same offense for which Brown Is being tried and that he hi thc father of her children. She. however, fur- I niahed the County Attorney with a I number of tho letters written to her by Brown prior to April 16, 1903, tho date of the alleged offense in the Information. In-formation. LARGE CROWD PRESENT. Tiie reading of the lettera was listened lis-tened to with attention by the large crowd In the courtroom. .It was a painful task for the reader to decipher the chlrography. the letters evidently having been written In huste, and, contrary' con-trary' to expectation, the epistles were no models of diction. They were wrltv-ten wrltv-ten by the defendant to Mrs. Bradley when she was on his ranch in .Idaho. Nearly every letter in the possession of County Attorney Westervelt contained writing on the front or back of the envelope, en-velope, where evidently the defendant had added some afterthoughts. In one letter the defendant talka of their living together on the ranch In Idaho; he speaks of getting her things up there, and 'of getting MrF. Bradley a piano, and mentions "boy." In another an-other he says: "What to do with children chil-dren is now the question, because I do not know whether you go East or not;" and further on: "As ever your own; don't be Jealous about me, as you have no occasion. Nothing new only love a little warmer." In other letters let-ters he speaks of them being after him; of his coming to live with her If they do not get him In the penitentiary, and rays in one: "I see nothing ahead of us but ruin." ENOUGH OF LETT E IIS. Only iour or five of the letters were read. The attorueys for thc defense objected to each letter as Introduced, on the ground that they were only cumulative cu-mulative evidence. When Judge Ring stated that the defendant would not offer any testimony to disprove the facts stated in the lettera, the court ruled that no more be read. Mrs. Bradley, vho was called to thc stand in the forenoon, nearly broke down on several occasions. When asked If she had Eeen tho defendant on April Hi, 1903, the witness, addressing address-ing herself to Judge Morse, said: "If your Honor please. I am here In obedience to the summons of this court. I have pleaded guilty to this charge, but I cannot bring myself my womanhood rebels against testifying In this case. I cannot do It." Judge Morse said that she would not be compelled to testify to any matters that might degrade or ruin her character, char-acter, and when another question similar sim-ilar to the first was asked by Mr, We.i-tervell, We.i-tervell, she said: MRS. BRADLEY-S PLEA. "I don't want to auswer that, Judge. Tt is dishonoring my children, and I cannot do It. I said my womanhood rebels against this. This man Is the father of my children, and I will not do It." Thu other witnesses examined by the State were Col. E. W. Tat lock, who I testified to a conversation bi'tucm him- ' self, the defendant, Mrs Brown and Mrs. Bradley, in the prepence of n stenographer; Rodney C. Badger, who testified that the defendant paid the rent for the house In which Mrs. Bradley Brad-ley lives; Clinton Lowe and Mrs. Nellie Nel-lie C. Taylor. Tho latter resides next door to Mrs. Bradley, and ?aid shu had' seen the defendant there so many times sho could not recount them. OPENING OF THE DEFENSE. The State rested Its case at .T lo In the afternoon and Llndsey R. Rogers mr.de the opening statement for the defense. de-fense. to the jury. He said thc defendant defend-ant would prove that Mrs. Bradley did not come to the Independence rooming-lng-house on the night of April lfi. 1903, and that It would be Impossible for a person across the street to see Into the room occupied by Mr. Brown and distinguish dis-tinguish the occupants. Ho also stated that the Jurors themselves would be taken to the placp, to satisfy themselves them-selves on this latter point. EVIDENCE IN DENIAL. Alfred Tallmantes, an engineer, was thc first witness sworn. He produced a map showing the location of the room and Its relation to a point on tho opposite op-posite side of tlie strecL The other witnesses wit-nesses examined were Detective George Chase. A. L. Rich. R. T. Burton, Jr, and Fred W. Price. They all testified testi-fied that they had attempted to look Into the room from tho point Indicated by Witness Dowse the dnj before, and that, although they could, sec parties In tho room. It would be Impossible to see their faces with thc blind not raised more than sixteen inches. At thc conclusion con-clusion of the examination of the last-named last-named witness adjournment was taken until 10 o'clock thin morning. |