Show E MADNESS 11 TO Bt BY ANNA love lov mania the new disease of or the emancipated woman put murder in Bradleys Bradley's heart and lure her to Washington to send a bullet into Browns Brown's body tody Will Win the jury stop to weigh the effect of mania love cold ld unswerving law uT Thou ou not kill kill- killis is read to them and the prosecutor weaves the story of the shooting before them l Robert jRobert bert the noted German sociologist sociologist-in in his treatise on The Theola The Theu u ola of Emancipated Women tells what ails women like Mrs Bradley arise anse such as sent her to Washington D D. D C. C on that fateful f says a woman in that condition i is insane and it is inhuman to punish her for any criminal act what rut he says of love mania love mania cis of f women up t to times imes have been governed holly holy by their emotional na nil would uld be well if this we were 6 The e much vaunted in very modern brought t their their constitutional emotions into dan dan- ten ten destructive conflict with that is still and remain adolescent In mot t bo be otherwise than that a and therefore imper imper- power must cause the nd fundamental impulses to Thus from the ardi ardian n of social conventions formerly was woman has de- de under Hinder under stress of conditions her personal desires desire's into the lessof less of social law lawbreakers less iless it has always been true no fury life a woman woman woman- lath Wath But in this dawn of her power bedlam contains no Lbs l wrecked as that of loving woman whom aces aces compel to bring her im im- und to bear on n the difficult f her happiness r i a was Freed bowed boned to the so- so Itha forbade the rC realization I love dream and while they I they drooped anCle and anCl e omen did not combat a aBger than themselves stronger individual man or wo woo huse created and maintained al f and benefit by of the whole human ey accepted it were part of it is social order order order-a a necessary power When a man that power he does so with of defeat He sur sur- Ith Ithe start instead of wreck- wreck upon a a. a problem that is the modern woman schooled facile but superficial the different She is the Ithe new wine of her conof con- con conI I of mind Like all half-de- half rc es s hers is truculent Pre- Pre Ln nothing thing to her Precedent edby man before she was was was' think for herself Now that I mind of her own why should I IlU I auto lU tO to be governed by the th Mages fLages men ages men's mens s wisdom acc I 7 So poising her new weapon pon she challenges the I i women men who are moral by v l madness is the only form format that at will cause them to established social con con- l 1 1 jit it is not only unlawful i jai l to punish r fr n h a woman act ad w wha whatever t ever er She is isit is Sh it should b r. r subjected ted to restraint and scientifically r what ails her namely sex- sex Anna M. M f. f Bradley is ti al in the Criminal court gt n 1 D. D C. C next fall faU charged murder minder of Senator ex-Senator Arthur Utah the court and the law law- oth will be practically dark for dark for there is no noncourt records for the de- de radley will set up 1 o StartlinglY original as this p Byer ver yet added to the pop pop- pops op- op s in a woman bat bat- for her life If she lion one on the witness stand as stand as mill willi be done since the deed Iii she is charged is amply ren en admitted by herself ands and s x rs Bradley will swear s 1 U therefore I was in- in killed Senator Brown 1 j she ehe goes oes on the witness will will wiIl be her defense Some ome me of that theory theory- will hang Jey s fate If she is acquit- acquit will have to revise iti itin it it- i in ing g g in love and nothing else Bradley insane then all al wo wo- insane the insane the degree of to the tho depth of land and d the obstacles which it ite nce ence e of obstacles in if acknowledged p sanity Ind jury will have an import import- favorable bearing on Mrs lease Case for few women have haven n loving oving and hoping against Is than she did In the bee be- be e other woman woman the tho wife wife wife- I sirce reethe the man she loved she happy future as wife and this love had early involved of maternity after year tear went by ande and laPPY e was was still there Although Was u n as s well as nearly every- every tahi knew of f the relations Brown and Mrs Bradley fed no purpose of freeing her grow gr w. w tars ars passed and there were n. isn The he eldest reached the children are able to realize positions aVe are are or are not the therose rose Iose of other children Still Iii loved and waited ey pa pa- a year year or so ago tho the ob ob- removed Mrs Brown died d was free For several Bradley waited confident pes pes' and expectations would Then timidly at first she sho he ilie man she loved of what Ife jie Ie He temporized She Shel l ed She began to ur urge e him l nd i nd by letter to do justice their children I her evasive answers Last to Washington Sh Slid She thing that made her fear to desert her and cr er woman She packed up their correspondence and and d state of mind followed followed ington lington She visited him t 1 There was a quarrel lot of his disposition to still mands and she shot him rested and five days later he lie died from the effects of the wounds made by y her hand Letters etters He Wrote At Mrs Bradleys Bradley's s 's trial quite a number num aura num ber her of letters written to her b by the theman theman theman man she shot will viII be submitted as evi- evi evidence evi dence that he Ie acknowledged the paternity paternity pa paM of oft t her two children and that she was justified in her expectation that he would marry her within a reasonable rea reasonable rea rea- timo after he he became free to do so Here are several several- of these these let letters let x May 1905 I hereby acknowledge Arthur Brown and Mark arlt Montgomery Brown to be bemy bemy bemy my children of Anna M. M Bradley ARTHUR M. M BROWN NEPHI Dec 12 1901 Mrs l Dolly Maddison Brown My Iy Own Precious One One One-I I was as so glad to see you JOU so courageous this morning but I knew that you ou had been correspondingly depressed I wish I could express to you my mv exact feeling I had it at Denver have Denver have had it for days I r think only of the dut duty I owe you the wrong I have done you and ours I feel guilty that I am ant not always at your our side protecting you from insult and from injury but if not there in body I will always be there in spirit I cannot quite tell teU you how dearly deady and devotedly I love you vou I neither regret nor nor cease cease- to live I have just left you but I need to see you rou today more than ever In fact I need you every hour to help to cheer and to hold you in in my embrace When Brown Cried When I look backward I see bee what a different man I would have e been been- had I married you in early manhood How I would have loved you if the opportunity opportunity opportunity of knowing you bad had then come to me I read that sad story stry of Arthur while the tears ran down my cheeks cheek tears not for the I fiction but for t the e real for us Love me as I love you God knows I have never loved anything so much Let us ns stand shoulder to shoulder for life You are my own dear wife mine by a true tnie love your love your gift divine I will try to protect you to deserve you and will wn make malc you rou happy and will always always al al- al ways be he your own ARTHUR P P. S. S Love S.-Love Love to Arthur and arid a warm wave wa-e of unusual love is in my heart tor Jor you YOUR OWN ARTHUR Darling My My- Darling Doll Dolly How Dolly How How I wish you vou and I and the boy were seated seated seated seat seat- ed in in a house of our own loving each other as we will in the future I have reread what letters of yours I have and see pee how dreadfully you felt but the bright dream will come true I hope you ou will enjoy it as much as your our anticipations picture I feel very tender tender tender ten ten- der toward you now and always Kiss the boy and know that I am loving you ou and have you ever in mind and heart YOUR OWN DEAR ARTHUR Beloved I I love you in jn the truest best sense a man nan can love lore a woman not alone for the passion that is so warm between us but bet in a higher and truer way I love to be with you to hear you to be close to you This morning when I got up I kept wishing I could have beard heard you sing some sweet son song last night that its music music- might rin ring in my ears till I saw you again Good Good-b Good bye e. e dear wife good-bye good for a brief I will write every mail maH My life my hope my all is bound up in you and you only Be good to me Love me as I do you As ever your own ARTHUR The formal letter acknowledging parentage parentage parentage par par- of Mrs Bradleys Bradley's children was was found not borne out iI in Senator Browns Brown's will which leaves his property to Mrs Browns Brown's a children Championed by Her Pastor For many years Mrs Bradley held a a. good social position in Utah She interested interested in in- herself actively in public affairs affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs and was an energetic worker in inthe inthe inthe the church to which she phe he belon belonged ed Recently Recently Recently Re Re- her former pastor the Rev David David Da Da- Da vid Utter of the Unit- Unit church church Denver announced publicly his desire to testify testify testify tes tes- for Mrs Bradley at her trial Rev Mr Utter Talks In a remarkable statement the Rev Mr Utter declares it to be his belief that love made Mrs Bradley insane He says I pity and respect Mrs Bradley I pity her just as I would pity any poor unfortunate fellow creature who was mentally deranged upon any point for forI I fully believe that her cruel wrongs and her infatuation for the Senator at atthe atthe atthe the last rendered her insane insane on that one ne point The The infatuation of womankind for mankind bord borders rs on insanity in ina A great many cases A woman really infatuated infatuated with a a. man has but one desire to have that man for herself Family tics ties marital bonds honor and all else are as nothing She must have lave possession possession pos pos- session of ot that one oho man regardless of cost to herself or others It is a phase of pf insanity and I b believe lieve must be reckoned with as such Such Sueh the of Mrs was case Bradley She was deeply madly madly- infatuated with witha a man she and all Salt Lake knew to be what he was Understand me Senator Brown was a superior man in all aU ways way but one I The I The second Mrs frs Brown knew him She bad had reason to know him Hence when she he saw the growing infatuation her husband and Mrs Bradley she called upon me mo thinking that my influence as Mrs Bradleys Bradley's pastor and teacher might induce her to leave Salt Lake City New Defense More than six years ago I went there and talked over old times with Mrs Bradley I gradually led up to the subject foremost in in my mind and arid then discovered what I had not before believed d that Mrs frs Browns Brown's fears were well based I pleaded with Mrs Bradley Bradley Bradley Brad Brad- ley and when I left felt that I had done some good although she would not leave the city Then came the awful news of the murder last year Senator Brown had gone to his judgment tint and the poor woman he so cruelly wronged was left to face all aU this trouble I. I Mrs Mrs Bradley was a woman one could well be proud to call can friend I respect her for what she was I pit pity her for tor what she has endured through h her r foolish infatuation tion for a man she knew was bad to the heart But a woman in love thinKs not of goodness or badness kindness or cruelty and whether the object of her love be a thief or a murderer the woman who is really infatuated overlooks this and cares carel for nothing but that she has the theman theman theman man of her choice So o it is settled that the great murder trial set for next fall faU will bring forward forward forward for for- ward the novel defense of love insanity ity Doubtless experts o on i both sides will thrash the subject dry But the defense will have celebrated philosophers pliers on their side whose writings tend to support rt this theory theory that hat especially especially es es- in women love love is ma madness ness On this page an eminent sociologist elucidates the point in a way that seems hopeful for Mrs Bradley |