Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-30

John Bradley was too conspicuous a
man to escape long or get very far"
He had a SON and daughter, " I said.
"Yes. Luke and Kate Bradley
Immediately upon discovering John g
abSeace l sent up to his house and Luke
came down. felt sorry for the young
man. He was reused out of a deep sleep,
and had difficulty in making him un-
derstand his father had gone. "He has
been killed., he exclaimed. And then,
taking my hand, he added, And Mr..
WinteTburn, my sister and myself will
assist you 10 the extent of our powers. -
Detectives leave no stones unturned.
and accordingly l inquired my way TO
the Bradley cottage. 1t was "A small,
square white house, with green blinds
and a sloping roof. The front was en-
tirely surrounded by narrow veranda,
upon which Kate had trained vines,
making pretty green screen. The door
yard was small, but the lot extended
back "a considerable distance.
must say now that never saw a
sweeter girl than Kate Bradley. When
/ went to the house and introduced my
telf as a detective she threw open the
door and invited me in. She had heard
about the note under the safe and her
ayes were red with weeping But she
freely conducted me over the house,
opening the bureau drawers and clothes
presses belonging to her father and 9TH
erwlse aiding me- Here is all he had, =
she said. And as came away she whis-
pered:
Tiff you find him will you tell me
rlght away, so that can go to him?"
she pleaded.
And | can assure you that if it had
been merely my personal feelings that
were at. stake and not my professional
reputation the search for John Bradley
would have ceased then and there
The family had little money in the
house, and before / left sweet faced
Kate had begun to do embroidery for
one of the dry goods stores, and Luke
for | Swallowed him-had applied I'M
successfully for work at half dozen
places.
] could not help plying the son and
daughter, although l worked unceas-
ingly for the slightest clew of the father.
After six months steady work and
the expenditure of several Thousand dol
lars of the company's money / was
obliged to report that had failed on
the Bradley case. If had received one
clew, l had received one hundred. and
in all haste / would start out i'll pursuit
of short, stockily built man with
slight halt in his walk and the habit of
combing his hair over one ear. But l
would arrive only to miss my man en-
tirely or to find that it was not John
Bradley whom had traced. More than
a thousand times 1 had reason to be
thankful that 1 knew my man by sight,
for by this knowledge / avoided the
trouble and expense of taking along an
identifier with me.
No detective likes to own himself
beaten, and TO me such AN acknowledge
ment in this particular case was doubly
CALLING, for it might mean the entire
loss of the patronage of the Merchants
Express company. And so when the
Bradley family broke up through sheer
Encouragement / followed the brother
and sister to the Pacific coast and kept
sight of them for months.
Finally they drifted out of my sight,
and the Bradley case all but left my
mind
1t was fully five years later that a
private case-I think it was divorce
took me out 10 Sydney.
From Sydney to Melbourne is con
siderable distance, but Australians do
not consider it too long journey to
travel to see the great sporting event Of
the year-the running of the Melbourne
cup. And so when party of friends
with whom was seeing the sights of
beautiful Sydney invited me to join
them in an excursion to Melbourne for
cup day l enthusiastically accepted
their invitation.
/ have Travelled great deal and wit
messed all the great races of the world,
from our own Suburban in New York
and the Derby in Chicago to the Grand
Prix at Paris and the English Derby at
EPSON Downs. But l must declare that
the concourse of people in Melbourne on
that cup day exceeded i'll greatness, rich
held. The women were respondent in
fine costumes, for in Melbourne even
the servant girls save from cup to cup
for new gowns, and from the clubhouse
and grandstand out to the free field be-
yond, which rises in hillock back of
the clubhouse, all was ablaze with life
and beauty.
The course, which is a short cropped
green sward, firm and thick, wound
round the center field where gathered
the common pleasure seekers; while in
to the Golfers Of the falirs the wheel %
fortune men and the cup souvenir stands
there flowed constant stream Of silver.
But the most attractive scene Of all
to my eyes was the front row Of boxes
on the grandstand. These were filled
with all the beauty Of Melbourne, while
aloft sat the several governors Of the
Australian colonies and parties of Off
Gals and their ladies.
In the boxes were not only all the