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Description: Bradley Trial Page 6
Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C., USA
Washington Times November 13, 1907 Bradley Trial Page 6
Feeling at Home Is Evenly Divided, Says Utah Judge
Judge D. H. WENGER, summoned from Salt Lake City as a witness for the prosecution on the case against Mrs. Annie BRADLEY, said today that the approaching trial would abound in sensationalism if all the details are brought out.
“Speaking of the public sentiment in Salt Lake, of which you read so much now,” said Judge WENGER, “my observation is that sentiment is about evenly divided among that portion of the public that is taking any interest in the case at all. Both sides, perhaps, forfeited a great deal of the public’s sympathy and interest on account of the gossip concerning the couple several years before the tragedy. Their relations were exploited before the courts, and I believe the impression is that they were an open secret.
Brown’s Will Had No Effect.
“The publication of the contents of Senator BROWN’s will, in which he repudiates the paternity of the two children, called by Mrs. BRADLEY, Arthur BROWN and Montgomery BROWN, has really had little effect so far as I can see in creating sympathy either for or against the defendant.
“I have a general idea of what I am expected to testify to in the present trial, although I do not know specifically what the Government is expecting to prove by my testimony. I believe some of the other witnesses are similarly situated. We had but twenty-four hours’ notice that our presence would be required, the subpoenas being served the very day we should have left Salt lake for Washington. Consequently, we are here at great personal inconvenience, and I was forced to leave the hearing of an important corporation suit in which I was interested in order to catch my train.”
To Tell of Their Relations.
Judge WENGER said that he had frequently been associated with the late Senator BROWN in the hearing of suits, and had personally known both Mrs. BRADLEY and the Senator for some years. He will testify to his knowledge of the relations between the two, which were first hinted at during the McKINLEY-ROOSEVELT Presidential campaign, at which time Mrs. BRADLEY was secretary of the Republican club at Salt Lake, and came in constant contact with Senator BROWN.
Judge WENGER was for several years judge of the city court of Salt Lake, and is now a practicing attorney at the Salt Lake bar.