The herald., 1897-07-03
Mrs. Bradbury and Ward
Seeking Happiness
THEY ARE IN SAN FRANCISCO
AND TALK TO THE PURSUING
MOB OF REPORTERS
An unfounded Rumor That the Fair
Lucille Attempted to Purchase
Poison-Admits Her Guilt

After an uninterrupted journey of
twenty hours, during the greater part of
which time they remained in the seclus-
ion Of their stateroom in the Pullman
sleeper, Mrs. John Bradbury and II.
Russell Ward have safely arrived in San
Francisco and are now busily engaged
In lodging small army of newspaper
reporters who are hanging like grin:
death to their heels. The following AS
sociated Press dispatch tells the story
concissly:
SAN FRANCISCO, July Mrs. John
bradbury, whose elopement from Los
angeles has caused sensa ton through
out the state. arrived here this evening
on the Los Angeles train. H. Russell
Ward came with her and after leaving
the ferry boat the pair drove to the
Western Union telegraph office, where
Mrs Bradbury dispatched several mes
sages. While she was inditing the tele-
grams Ward paced up and down the
pavement, manifestly ill at ease, Mrs.
Bradbury, on the contrary, being calm
and self-contained. Both Ward and Mrs.
Bradbury declined to be interviewed by
the reporters who had followed them to
the telegraph Office and drove off. fol-
lowed by procession of carriages con-
tanning newspaper men, determined to
locate their abiding place and to ascer-
tain their future plans.
After leaving the telegraph Office Mrs
Bradbury and Mr.. Ward, her compaa-
lon, took rooms at a lodging house on
Post street just above Grant avenue
Here the couple were interviewed and
told the story of their elopement in a
matter of fact way. Mrs. Bradbury
does not deny that she sought shelter III
two notorious resorts in her home city,
but she excuses that incident as being
case of any sort in a storm They were
fearful of pursuit.
On Thursday night it was decided to
escape from Los Angeles. The Pullman
car porter secured the tickets for them
and, contrary to their expectations, they
were not disturbed during the trip to
this city. The fugitive wife of the mil
lionaire expressed herself in these
words:
you may call this an elopement. a
love match or anything you like. Most
people prefer to call it scandal I pre-
fer to call it a romance. 1t is true tha
showered upon me. had place in So
ciety But all these did not satisfy
Col. Bradbury has been a kind, con,id-
crate and indulgent husband. After say
ing this people may judge for themselves
why left this home of elegance. Sim
ply because believed that had right
to plan out my own life; to go in search
of happiness. This have found in the
companions ship of Mr. Ward 1 have
found him gentleman and trust in his
honor He will not desert me-
Mrs. Bradbury denies that she pawned
all her Jewels but admitted that money
was scarce and that she had to send out
for a comb and toothbrush after reach
ing this city. She proposes to have a
good time and says that Ward will be
able to provide for her.
The elopement continued to be the
only subject of gossip on the streets yes
terday and the matter was discussed IN
all its bearings. Generally but very little
sympathy was wasted on either of the
elopers, but Mrs. Grundy was busy re-
failing the indiscreet actions which have
occupied the tongues of the gossips about
the fair Lucille for months past. Among
the stories floating about was one to the
effect that when Mrs Bradbury went to
the drug store at Sixth and Flower
streets on the morning of her flight from
home she endeavored to procure some
poison, and from that it was presumed
that she was contemplating suicide.
In reality she had no such foolish idea
She visited the place for the express pur-
pose of telephoning to Ward and Incl
dentally to purchase few little articles
On entering the store she asked the clerk
for a toothbrush, a box Of face powder
and then requested that he compound
for her some prussic acid throat gargle
She was perfectly composed and did no.
seem in the least nervous or excited. To
her request the clerk replied in surprise
that he could not make her a gargle of
such a drug, which was one of the most
deadly poisons known to chemists, but he
would concoct one containing chlorate
|of potash, which was probably what she
wanted.
X At this Mrs. Bradbury smiled and
sid: "Oh. is that so; make up your
gargle then; / don't want any poison,
but thought that was what the name
of the medicine was that 1 have been
using.
While the clerk was putting up her
purchases Mrs Bradbury asked per-
mission to use the telephone, and it was
then that she called up Ward and in
Dletently called upon him to meet her at
once at Westlake park The future
movements of the couple up to the time
that they locked themselves in their
otateroom and were whirled, northward
were fully detailed in the Herald yes
terday.
Now that it has become known that
Ward has gone for good billie against
him are cropping up on every hand. Ee
owes bob" Eckert, the Santa Monica
saloon man s54 for liquid and solid re-
freshments; there is said to be a little
matter of $400 he has forgotten at the
California club; even Pat Flynn, the
teeper Of Mondonville roadhouse, where
{he guilty couple stopped in their flight,
WAS left to mourn their visit Wards
baggage is still at the Van Nuys hotel,
where he also leaves bill. He is now,
according to the above dispatch, in
search of happiness but will undoubted-
" find some thing else when what money
he now has gives out.
An Athletic Missionary
Among others visiting Los Angeles
81 their way to the Endeavor convention
b Charles T. Studd, wko was some years
ago one Of the leading cricketers and