New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-07
REPORTER AND MURDERER
A CHICAGO NEWSPAPER MAN KILLS HIS
WIFE.
THE WOMAN WAS ALSO NEWSPAPER WRITER
KILLING HIMSELF AFTER MAKING SURE
THAT THE FIRST CRIME WAS COM,
PLETED-NsANE CONDUCT OF


THAT THE FIRST CRIME WAS COM,
PLETED-INsANE CONDUCT OF
THE woMAN's FRIEND.
fBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
Chicago, Feb. 6.-Three double murders have
occurred in Chicago within the last five days
In the first two cases, men shot women who re-
fused 10 marry them, and then killed themselves.
To-day Walter S. Bradley, reporter Of The
Globe.n murdered his wife, the dramatic critic
of the same paper, and then killed himself
The murder took place at 10 a. m in the parlor
of the Hotel Cortland. The couple registered
at the hotel last Thursday On Friday even
ing the clerk heard them quarrelhns IN Their
room. There was a scutiie. ana theh a SOUND
as if some one gasping hoarseiy lor oreath hush-
ing TO the door, he found IT locked he knocked
but received only gasplng response "here-
upon he broke in the door, ana luSt III timc' as
Mrs. Bradley was showed against the wall, her
throat in the savage grip OF her husband hanuS'
her eyes staring wildly and the olood IN her
face almost ready to burst the veins Inc room
bore signs of recent struggle, and her husband,
coatless not satisfied with choking, knocked
her head against the wall The clerk succeeded
in tearing the brute away from the defenceless
woman and admonished him to behave himself
not appear again until this morning.
Mr. Evans the proprietor of the hotel SAID
that Mrs Bradley told him last night that She
cxpected her husband this morning, and that
she feared violence and asked him TO be ready TO
helm her should ANYTHING occur When Bradley
first entered the hotel paror this morning, his wlle
was seated in an armchair, reading oooK ana
chatting with Miss Evans. lie bowed to poth
and taking a seat on the piano stool, Dcgah
commonplace talk with his wife. Miss Evans
went into an adjoining room lew mohenVS- h''el'
and through the open door could near Une 'oouilu
of their voices No harsh words were spoAeu,
however, and Sic began TO thInh ti'"O an
differences had disappeared, when pistol ShoU
startled her Glancng through the door' she ID"
Mrs Bradley rise to her feet, her arms outsVreuceu
imporngly toward her husband, VINO sCoou q
couple of yards in front of her ono seene"
about TO speak and took hall step toward hiln'
As she did So Bradley raised his arm ana 'ooN
careful aim His wife closed her eyes, ana the
next moment sank TO the floor with DuleU hopc
in her forehead. Then the clerk came IN. brau-
ley chased him out, and upon returning, "aAhcu
quickly to his wife's body. He gazed ct u lof
n second. pushed it with his foot 20 see if any
life were still remaining, and finding no response
raised his revolver to his head and fired. me
in the wall Determined not to fail again, he
placed the muzzle of his revolver against his
right temple. and jammng it hard, fired, and
dropped like log TO the floor
The inmates Of the house, alarmed by the
shots. rushed into the parlor, but the two were
mast all human aid. Half an hour after the
shooting cab drove furiously up to the Cortland
| Hotel and young man jumped out ana rushed
| headlong into the dhce. ..;.i,,. tis borde
J theatricalIv above his head and then preosihs
them to his forehead, Is it trueF Has thaU Oru'e
And himself. toe" answered the clerk. -,
The man groaned, and rushed back ana forth
! with agOnized gestures. lie thch uroEc ~ @ oio
undertakers shop where ths DOaCS Ic nroved nrT 70
| he was admitted TO this rear ro0ni' ana tlerS
| he went into spasms and Mysteries, mOahnP anu
crying lie bent over the deaa %o" n,cr ",' 70 thr
improyiSed bier in which lay the BODY oil inc
murderer iot anu 9uIT Tou devil YOU murderer' he
sbonted in frenzy, shaking his two fists at the
| inanmatc body ~ 90 ,.ioIort flat q
| pOiCeman was ObllSed 10 'dN0 III" ~
anu ei knew he would do it, the thief he con- con-
tinued pacing back and iorth Ia InG oliG[, me-, " ,
| ,vrinOinG his hands" if they had only Caheh LILY
waiter Walter s. Bradley was nenheW OF ", Wlt H.
Bradley clerk of the United States ClIcuiT Coun% @
ana an onS %af time employed on The St Paul Pioneer
Press and The St Paul Ray this eHd ctg 9i'0 NQf little
i%T Re wear @UR ago he was convicted of the embez
Of $3.50 beong to eG sentfnced to- one
in the Pntenqy He was me 1S5atsa S6 ts9 been 5eq5
or five months ago 81 SnSe nH TN The Clio Globe
Mrs. Bradley was about twenC-eglSht gS {Ga[9 {ohas
old She had been employee o,O on that h had been
e2Gdo employed on The Times, and hThS Herald
She was the daughter of Judge talhaMay way 90 TT V
Mann who is a member of the firm OF u. ~ v,
Mann Co., found at his Place Of o5d 09'nSSS mpo4
after his return from the qnder,]el& IT. "Tu Rradev
he only ffa% nam n fla! a5d& SG Pa
t%ios IIe was fond of her, and had repeatedly
her against Bdfy GS keed tsE AWAY Ref from Hi him
pdin o would certainly kill her. He said Mrs
bradley had decided s to part IRON OF the Sr shoons RSh
'"I It amnearS that while Bradley was IN prison
Mann was in the habit of escoTng Mrs RIsda bradley a
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