New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-13
Shocking Murder and Suicide.

W. S. Bradley shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide at the Hotel Cort-
landt at Chicago Both were shot through
the head and died instantly. Walter s.
Bradley was a member of an old and respect
able family in Chicago. w. H. Bradley. clerk
Bradley, ofthe firm of Baird & Bradley, deal
ers in real estate, where his uncles. Mrs
Bradley was a Miss Hathaway and is sister
of Charles B. Hathaway. of Corn Exchange
National bank The couple took rooms at
the Hotel Cortlandt. They quarreled, and
Mr.. Bradley left the hotel. Next morning he
returned and requested an interview with his
wife, awaiting her in the parlor. When she
came down the quarrel was renewed and re-
suited in death to both of them.
This is the third tragedy of the
kind that has taken place within week
Both We're employed on morning paper; the
husband as reporter and the wife a literary
editor. Bradley was "black sheep" in the
family. He was at one time employed by
the Pullman Palace Car company, but was
convicted of embezzlement and was con-
demned to years imprisonment in the
state penitentiary, from which he was re-
leased four or five months ago.
After the bodies were taken to an UNDER
takers establishment, Frederick Mann, ofthe
and jobbers, entered the hotel office and in
quired for Mrs. Bradley. Upon being
told of the shooting he was over
come with grief and raved around the
place, exclaiming sit was life thrown awayl''
and "Oh, the brutel'' When told that the
bodies had been removed he rushed out ofthe
Office and started on run for the undertake
er's. When shown into theroo where the two
bodies lay, young Mann was completely over
come with grief. He threw himself upon the
dead woman's body, kissing her hands and
face, otallyunmindful ofthe blood which stain
ed her clothing and face 1t was some minutes
before he could be dragged away from the
body, and when he did leave her he stood up
straight, his teeth set, his lips tightly drawn.
and looked at the body of Bradley Only
a moment did he stand thus, then, with
an oath, he said: aOh, the thief, villain,
brute, let me get at him. With thistle made
a rush at the body of Bradley. and would
doubtless have thrown it upon the floor had
not Lieut.. Ross and the other officer stopped
him and forcibly dragged him from the room.
Frederick Mann was seen at his place of bust
ness after his return from the undertaker's 8,
and upon being asked If he was relative OF
Mrs. Bradley said no, that he was only 9
friend: that he had known her since child
hood. and knew all about her troubles. He was
very fond other and had repeatedly warned he1
against Bradley, telling her that if she did
not leave him and keep away from him he
bradley would certainly kill her. He saio
Mrs. Bradley had decided to part from llel
husband, and that was the direct cause o
| shooting. 1t appears that while Bradley
was in prison Mann was in the habit of es
corting Mrs. Bradley to and from her night
assignments. The consequence was thai
Bradley became insanely Jealous This, to-
gether with Bradley dissipated habits, lee
1 to frequent quarrelsl q nd eliminated in til,
TRACED Mrs. Bradley was. at one tipe con
nected with the stage.