JURY IN TEARS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 321, 21 January 1908, Page 2

JURY IN TEARS.

■ MURDICIIESS TELLS THE 'IT! VtllC .. STORY OF HER Hl'E. New York, November 20. A dramatic climax in the trial at Washington of Mrs. Bradlev for the murder of her lover, Senator Brown, was reached to-day, when the prisoner' herself went into the witness-box in her own defence.

Hie unhappy woman recited in tones Which reduced the crowded court, to tears the tragic tale-of her life and relations with Mr. Brown. It was a tale of passionate wooing by a man of eminent giftrs and handsome presence, who appealed both to her love and to her pity to save him from passing his ilavs ill tragic loneliness. For vein* he prosecuted Ins courtship, until finally, loviii" 111111 with all her heart, r-he consented hi accept him oil a written understandiii" that as soon as he could obtain a di" force and get free from the bonds of his inhappy marriage she should become his egal wife.

Mrs Bradley, who was suffering from pitiable weakness, declared that her boys "'ere christened in Senator Brown's presence and in his own name. Letters addresrted by the murdered senator to he prisoner, full of appeals to iei emotions and passionate protestations that he would devote his life to caring for her, impressed the court prolouudly. On , me occasion Mr. Brown caned "i his _ bitterest political opponent, Mr R. Titlow, and solemnly informed Inn, that he intended to protct Mrs. Bradley for life and to niarrv ileitis soon as he was free.

The jurymen, as Mrs.' Bradley's liamv ion approached it* ,-loso, <IM , lot attempt to restrain 1 lieir tears.