Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-13
OREGON.
Sensational Developments In a Murder
Case.

Sensational Developments In q Murder
Case.
PORTLAND, February 11th.-There is great
excitement here to-day over the testimony
before the Grand Jury, that Carrie Bradley,
keeper of house of iil-repute Oh Third
street, was guilty of the murder of the man
found in the Willamette river November
2Ssh, with heavy stones about his neck and
heels. Dolly Adams and Molly Flippan,
inmates of the house. last night, while in q
meudlin state of intoxication, told Constable
Simmons that Carrie Bradley, with Charley
Hamilton and JACK Sullivan (slso called
Pete Sulivan) induced John n. Brown to
enter the house, 6rugged him with laudsnum,
and put him to bed. Attsrwsrd Carrie Brad
ley tied sponge soaked with chloroform
over his nose. The following morning the
Adams girl came down stsirs ard reported to
Carrie Bradley that the man was dead.
Bradley responded: Well, keep your
mouth ehut. He won't go blabbiug about
me any more" She then went up stairs, and.
with pair of brass knuckles, beat the dead
mans eyes. She sent Hamilton fer a spade,
| with the intention of burying Brown under
her house, but the ground was hard clay, and
| grave cculd rot be easily msde. The So me
evening she hired John Malone, low
| hapger-on about her house, to take the body
| aud throw it in the river, paying him
I g1UU lDE IFS Nlc6S. mRtOHO anu SULLIVAN
the next morning Left for San Fran
| cisco. Bradley and Hamilton stayed here
for some time afterwards. They ere reported
| to be on the steamer Idaho, now en- route
! from TIE Sound to San Francisco. The OF.
jsct OF the murder was revenge. Brown was
! a middle. aged farmer unmarried, living near
Freeport, w. T., and had coFre to town for
spree. Dolly Adams, en- inmate Of Bradley's,
ro5bed him of So. for which he had her
, akrI IL v
Carrie Bradley for keeping house Of i'll
repute, and che was arrested under four
charges. 1t is not known whether Brown
bad any considerable amount of money on
his person at the time of the murder. It is
understood that the above statements were
also made to the Grand Jury under oath this
afternoon. Bradley was one Of the wort
characters in Portland, and the robberies in
her house were of frequent occurrence, though
no proof was ever established against her
District Attorney Caples had an intimation
| several weeks ago that she was implicated in
the murder, and that the girls Adams ard
Flippan knew important facts, bus feared TO
| make them known on account of Bradley's
! revengeful character. In order to give the
Bradley woman an opportunity to leave
town, SO that the girls would testify, the Dis
trict Attorney did not press the indictments
for keeping house of i'll repute. Charles
Hamilton, the man who was the instrument,
or at least accomplice, in the crime, was in
former years a hackman il San Francisco.
The Steamer Oregon.
PORTLAND, February 18th h-The Oregon
crossed to sea Friday at 4 P.M She could
not have reached Mendocino By yesterday
afternoon.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
PORTLAND. February 12th.-The northern
wires are down, end no information hiss bstn
received from Seattle as to the colliers
Great Interest is felt here, though it is
thought that the wreck seen eff the Mendo.