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Show various mixed drinks, continually and to excess, with tho effect that- they were oestroying his mind before his death. "When drunk he would curse a friend and embrace an enemy, He showed this trait In making his will, and It would bo shown that ho was In this state on the day the will was made " Judge Powers reviewed the rela tions of Mrs. Bradley and Senator Brown from the time they first met In 1S92, when Brown was one of tho leaders of the Republican party and Mrs Bradley was in politics." She was a woman of refinement and Brown bent his efforts to win her. She was then living with her husband, hus-band, Clarence Bradley, but their live had not been a happy one. ' Brown stood high in the state and nation," continued the attorney, "and she was flattered by his attentions. His proposition was a peculiar ono. He nsked that she bear him a child. Sho declined his advances, but ho persisted, promising to recognize the child when born. "Later Arthur Brown Bradley, sometimes called Arthur Brown, Jr., was born. "Their relations continued for years, only Interrupted occasionally by thplr own differences. She lived as his wife nt Grand Junction, went to Washington and was introduced as his wife, traveled with his daughter Alice as h's wife, and lived as such in Los Angeles and on Ills Idaho ranch. "Thov were arrested and rearrested, rearrest-ed, taken to the police station, and though the doors of the penitentiary were yawning for him he stood by the wotrtin and declared the boy was his son. A second child was born and named Martin Montgomery Brown after a bosom friend of Brown in Michigan. "About this time Mrs. Brown tried to break up the existing relations and employed Soren X. Chrlstensen to keep Brown away as far as possible from Mrs. Bradley. In this Chrlstensen Chrlsten-sen was only partinlly successful. Mrs. Brown planned a trip around the world, hoping thus to break up the connection, but Brown slipped away to Mrs Bradley in Pocatolld, where he was located by Chrlstensen and Mr. Bradley. "There was a story pcene. In which Brown disavowed the paternity of his legitimate children, and in the presence pres-ence of Mr. Chrlstensen acknowledged acknowl-edged thoso of Mrs. Bradley as his own." Judge Powers said he would further fur-ther prove that Brown in later years had many delusions. Ho Instanced that .igalnst E. M. Allison, Jr., long an Intimate friend, whom he accused of theft from him. Others he accused of being unduly Intimate with Mrs. Bradley. Once a wagon ppattered him with mud on tho street. He became so enraged that he kicked so fiercely that it broke his leg. ARTHUR BROWN WAS INSANE Salt Lake. Feb. 25 Cocktails and mixed drinks had Impaired the brain of tho late Arthur rtrown to the extent ex-tent of almost destroying It, according accord-ing to the opening addrees of Judge O. W. Powers to the Jury which is hearing the contest over the will of j the lale senator from Utah. Judge Powers spoke for an hour this morning, morn-ing, going Into the career of Arthur Prown and reciting in detail the relations re-lations between him and Mrs. Anna I Bradley. Mrs. Bradley sat in the court room seemingly unmoved. With her and I by her side were the two children. I sons of the man for whom she had j given up nil, and whom she aftr-j aftr-j wards slew. These children are the l real plaintiffs in the cane, and were the objects of curious interest bv the large crowd of spectators. Tho jury was chosen yesterday afternoon af-ternoon after examination of talesmen tales-men for several days. The men who ! will pass upon the claims of the two i little hos to a part of the large estate es-tate of the Into Arthur Rrow-n are: Lonh E. Bateman. West Jordan, I plumber; .Topiah I-jrrows. city, cloth-I cloth-I ier; John S. Page, city, tankman; H. C. Wallace, city, contractor; Jamos ! R. Ashcr, Taylorsvlllo. fanner; Rn-, Rn-, dolph Dumbeck, city, healing and ! plumbing; Thomas O'Conner, city, I clothing salesman; A. H Bagley' East Mill Creek, farmer. Tills morning Orlando W. Powers opened his case to the Jury. He began be-gan by staling that the question of tho paternity of the children was more to them than the money, and that the suit wa to Berve a double purpose in establishing their right to the name of their father, as well as to ghe them the means of a livelihood. liveli-hood. To enable tho Jury, none of whom had known Arthur Brown well, to understand. It would bo necessary to show what manner of a man ho was, and he proposed to ' show them his general career and hla peculiarities. peculiari-ties. "A man of high standing at the bar, endowed with great natural advantages, advan-tages, polished by etudy at the he?t colleges, he was possessed of great attainments," said the attorney. These bordered on genius, which is often but a step to mental incompetency. incom-petency. "From oarlv life." he continued In substance. "Arthur Brown was addicted ad-dicted to the use of intoxicating liquors. These he took in the most I demoralizing form In cocktails and |