Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-24
WITHOUT CAUSE.
The Treatment Accorded Two
Young Men.
THEIR FRIENDS INDIGNANT.
They Were Arrested and Made tt
Walk to This City from Gar
vanza at Night.


On the 3Oth Of October J. d. Fyke's
store at Garvanza was burglarized, and
among other things taken was gun
which was afterwards traced to Adams
gun store in this city. In describing the
man who sold him the gun Mr.. Adam
said that he was tall and had dark
mustache. On November 9Th COM
plaint was made before Justice King, of
charging John Doe and Bill
Doe with burglary, and the warrant was
given into the hands of Constable Nc
Cutchin to arrest the guilty parties. The
Of the man who had sold the
gun to Mr.. Adam was also given to the
Constable, who on the 18th distinguished
himself by arresting an innocent young
man, whose friends consider that he was
treated in an outrageous manner, un-
warranted by law. 1t appears that Mr..
Herbert Bradfeld, whose mother
is Principal of Drawing in the
public schools in this city, and whose
friends are legion, was residing with his
father, whose health is not of the best,
on their ranch near Garyanza. The
young man is possessed OF rather deli
cate constitution, and it was partly for
his own health that he resided on the
ranch. On the evening of the 18th he
left the ranch and walked to Garvsnza
to visit barber's shop. He was accom-
panied by two friends, +. G. Prince and
q young man named Ferdon. When
they reached Garvanza Constable Nc
Cutchin stepped out from store and
placed them under arrest. Herbert
Bradfield inquired the reason for this
action, and Nc Cutchin showed the war
rant charging John Doe and Bill Doe
with burglary. The young men denied
all knowledge of the matter, but Nc.
Cutchin ordered them to march, and
forced them to walk all the way from
Garvanza to Los Angeles, which place
they reached at IL O'Clock at night in q
tired condition. Instead of TAX
ing his prisoners to the County
Jail, as required, the Constable
conducted them to the Office of a private
detective named Metzler. Mr.. Brad6eld
and Mr.. Prince were treated to an extra.
ordinary piece of detective skill in this
Office. They were placed in separate
rooms and state that Mr.. Metzler, after
telling one that the other had confessed,
repeated the same tale to the other. The
young men could not be intimidated in
this manner as they had nothing to con-
fese, land the detective was no wiser when
he got through than when he commenced.
After this sort of a programme had been
kept up for some time Detective Metzler
ordered that the prisoners should be
taken to the County Jail, that they
should be kept separately and that NO
one should be allowed to see them.
This order was carried out and the
young men were then taken to the
County Jail and locked up in separate
cells. There was no bed in the cell
given to Mr.. Bradfeld, and AZ
he was unused to sleeping on
hard floor he was unable to sleep,
and his delicate health was considerably
injured by his nights experience. The
long walk and his arrest and subse.
quent experience, added TO the thought
that while his mother was in this city he
could net communicate with her, shat
tered his nerves, and he walked up and
down the cell for hours. The next
morning it took a considerable amount
of persuasion to induce those in charge
of the Jail to send message to his
mother, who was then attending to hel
duties in the School Department. AS
soon as possible Mrs. Bradfeld obtained
admittance to her son at the Jail, and
when she heard OF the outrageous treat.
ment he had been accorded, she visited
District Attorney Kelly an6 secured
the services of Henry T. Gage. She
then visited the Office of Detective
Metzler and found Detective Harris
in charge. He said he knew moth.
ing of the matter. A short time
afterward Detective Metzler was found
and when he was told that Mrs. Brad.
field intended to obtain General E. P
johnson for bondsman, he said that
there was no need for that, as the mat
ter would be made right. Mrs. Brad.
field then went back to the jail, and
shortly afterward Mr.. Adam went to the
Jail and declared that neither OF the
young men had sold him the gun and
that they did not answer the description
he had given. Mr.. Bradfeld was slight,
whereas the man he had described was
stouter and older.
Mrs. Bradfeld then accompanied the
young men to Caravans, and notwith-
standing the fact thatit had been proven
that neither of the boys had any connec.
tion with the gun, the entry in Justice
Kings docket reads: Defendants
brought into court, waived the reading
of the complaint. They being made ac-
quainted with their rights, defendants
ready for trial. W. W. McCutchin
sworn for people. There not being evil
dence sufficient to hold defendants, they
were discharged"
During the absence Of the young men
from their homes, some person entered
their residences and made search, and
as there is no evidence of search war
rant having been issued, information is
wanted as to who the parties were who
broke into their houses.
The friends of Mr.. Bradfeld are very
indignant over the way he was
treated, and they are trying to
find why he was arrested on the
description given, why he was forced
to walk from Garvanza to this city, why
ne was taken to a private detectives
office instead of to the County Jail.
why private detective had the right to
order him to be confined without means
of communication with his friends, and
why was he placed in a cell without a
bed. They say that If such things are
permitted no person is safe from an
outrage OF a similar kind. The end is
not yet and it is probable that steps will
be taken in some shape to correct such
state of affairs.