Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-04-01

A Description Of the Personnel ana
Behavior of thfs Celebrity.


CAicGgo Wees.
"It's q lie. made out Of whole cloth T.
Kissed Brady in court to-day. He was
called to the witness stand by. the Star
Route defense late this afternoon. He is
a bury, thick set man, with a very short
neck. His face is coarse featured, dark;
forehead low; eyes small, gray, %twinkling;
nose piggish, thick, lariDg; cheek bones
high and flushed with color; while mus
tache and beard of 8 rusty. sandy color
hide the lower part of the face, and bristle
around the full neck to the suit Of coarse,
spike-brown hair, matted down upon the
top Of the bullet shaped head. Brady's
face is that OF q huge eater, a lover OF
smusty stories, and a free circle OF loud
mouthed jokers. He would be ill at ease
in a party Of gentlemen. When in the
Postoffice Department he had but few as
sociates outside the contractors and the
Department. He has, however, in spite
Of his flesh, the energy Of a lunatic. He
is of the type Of men who perspire at every
pore when the thermometer is below zero.
He has a high temper and such an utter dis
regard for the good or bad opinions OF 9TH
ers that he has been restrained by none OF
the influences which sway ordinary men.
With his thick, rhinoceros hide he would
have been content TO wade through any
slough of scandal, provided in the end be
should reach safety for his money and
person. When the Star Route scandal
first broke out Brady shifted contemptu-
ously and talked about blackmsil, Then
he laughed derisively at the Congressional
investigation. That was conducted by
men of bis own kind and was easily met.
He bought himself u of the finest
houses in Washington, and set up a hand
I'm road wagon and a gay, housekeeping
team, with a coachman and tiger in blue
livery. He tried 10 give dinners and
LIvK DOWN HIS DISGRACE,
But even the hide OF a %rhinoceros fails
sometimes. A few politicians, without
any too much care for their regulations,
consented to eat his dinners and drink his
wines, but they soon became discouraged.
His horrible attempts at conyiviality gave
all his guests ar indigestion. Soon every
one fell away, and then Brady was left
alone. When he rode out, with a shining
silk hat showed down over his matted hair
to his grea: ears, he never looked to the
right or TO the left. Sunk into the folds
Of his iN-itting ~overcoat, he drove out
pointed at by the people on the streets, as
one would indicate q successful retired
burglar. Even his coachman and tiger
appeared to have a wholesome dislike for
their master.
Gradually even Brady grew tired of his
solitude. Each day the interminable coils
of evidence joined one more twist abou.
him, until he saw his dearly beloved
property in danger, and the walls Of the
penltentiary casting a shadow across his
path. One day he went out to drive in an
unusually pensiye frame Of mind. In the
course OF his drive he came along the Bla-
densburg road, where coGvicts from the
workhouse are sometimes sent in gangs to
work upon the highway. He stopped the
team for a moment and gazed with a
surly curiosity upon the hideous garment
Of the brutallooking felons. Then suddenly,
as if awakening from q disagreeable dream,
he reared ont: Drive on, by God. Drive
as if HI were after you. Don't stop a
minute lonser,' 1t was the day following
that the animal strength of the man reas-
serted itself. He was in a corner, but he
knew how TO fight. He would not lie
down until the last blow was struck.
First lis grca. house was sold, and the
cash SIPS. COO slowed away in a safe
place. Then, with the energy of a steam
engine, he proceeded to realize from all
his property Investments.
HIS suILEN RAGE.
In a weeks time the wealth of this man
was beyond the laws reach. Now he has
only the safety Of his body to protect. He
went on to the stand to-day in the interest
Of that protection. With what sullen
rage did he strike the bar in front Of him
as he hoarsely denied every scrap of evil
dence brought against him, cunningly
ieering at the half-witted, feeble-minded,
utterly WORKOUT and vacant-looking jury
men as he talked. What will be the effect
OF his testimony can be accurately estima-
ted. 1t is merely an elaborate plea of not
guilty. He will fight to the end, appeal
ing to every technically. Should all fail,
he will run like a Wild boar over and
through any one who tries to stop him in
his mad rush for a hiding place.