The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10

Lec2cd From a California Train
and Killed.

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anime His Car.
Chicago Sept. 4.-There has been a
tragic sequel to the series of incidents
III connection with the elopement of the
young wife of one of the many million
ares in whom California abounds. Rus
sell D. Ward, the hypnotizer, is dead,
while Mrs. Bradbury is again restored
to her HUSBANDS favor as a result of her
eApre. slons of deep contrition for her
inlatuation and indiscretion. Ward
committed suicide yesterday morning
by leaping irom a drawing room car
while on his way from California to Chi
cago. He crawled through the window,
clad only in his night shirt.
Ward was evidently insane when he
threw himself out of the car window,
as he had been acting peculiarly for the
greater part of the trip, and frequently
sent kilograms to various parts of the
country. When the train reached Ere
mont Neb. he sent a telegram to the de-
tective headquarters in Chicago, re-
questing them to meet the train at the
Northwestern depot yesterday morning.
He signed the telegram "R. w." and for
several hours the police in this city en-
Geavored to find out who r. w. could be.
The telegram gave the police no infor-
nation, but the sending of 1t makes the
police believe Ward intended to commit
suicide on the train, and sent the tele-
gram for the purpose of having the police
find his body when the train arrived in
this city.
Ward boarded the train at San Fran
cisco at $50 o'clock Monday evening.
He was Immediately assigned to drawing
room B, car two. He had tickets through
to Chicago, but did not display much
money. Ward was dressed in a new suit
of black cloth. He had been stopping
at a hotel in San Francisco for some
time. After being given possession of
his apartment in the pullman car, Ward
remained away from the other passen-
gers most of the time and spent all his
time in his own apartment.
Early Thursday morning he began to
show signs Of insanity. He told the con-
ductOr of the train who he was, ard
acted in very peculiar manner. At
nearly every stop the train made he
would get off and send kilograms One
of these messages he sent to a resident
of Los Angeles saying that if Mrs. Brad
bury wanted him she could come to him
but for the present he would have to go
to England and visit his wife. Another
telegram was the one he sent to detec-
tive headquarters at Chicago. 1t was
sent from Fremont, Neb., and read as
follows:
Please send a good man to drawing
room B, car two, of the eastbound over
land NorWeStern road arriving in Chi
cago at 1880 tomorrow morning"
Lieutenant Collins received the mes
sage and, thinking it was in regard to
some fugitive from justice, turned it
over to Lieutenant Hass, and yesterday |
morning the latter detailed Detective |
Sergeant Broderick of headquarters to |
meet the train at the depot
All Thursday and Thursday night |
Ward acted in restless manner and |
frequently created CONSERVATION among
the passengers by his peculiar actions. |
He remained up all night and refused to
retire until o'clock yesterday morning |
when he approached the colored porter
and told him he was going to sleep |
Ward then went into his room, and when
De Kalb, Ills, was reached, the porter
knocked on the door of Wards room. |
but received no answer. He made sew
eral efforts to get into the room, but
without success, and then abandoned the
idea.
When the long line of cars pulled into
the Northwestern depot Detective Brod-
erick leaped on board and endeavored to
gain entrance into the drawing room.
The door, however, was securely locked
on the inside, and all efforts to gain an
entrance were without avail for the time.
However, the train crew finally man
aged to get into the room through an
annex and when the detective was ad- |
mitted the room was found to be empty.
In the meantime the police and officials |
of the Northwestern railroad proceeded |
to learn the mans identity. Wards eff
fects consisted of several expensive |
satchels and his railroad tickets. The |
satchels were examined by the pullman |
railroad officials at the depot, and it was |
through the papers found in the satchels |
that his identity was learned. The |
Northwestern people were notified of this |
fact, and the train dispatcher of the |
Galena division of that road ir1medi- |
ately proceeded to have the body looked |
for kilograms were sent all along the |
line as far as Fremont, and orders were |
given station agents to search for the
remains. Several hours later dispatch |
was received from Wheatlands, Ia that
the body had been found alongside the
tracks near that place. The body was
dressed only in a night robe, and was
much bruised. The remains were taken
to Clinton, Ia, where they are being
held.
Ward was an Englishman. He was
married and had large family in Eng
land. short time ago he visited Los
Angeles, where he met the wife of John
Bradbury, a reputed millionaire. Mr..
Bradbury and his wife are still young.
A sensation was created when Ward
eloped with Mrs. Bradbury to San
Francisco. Bradbury, when he returned
and heard of the elopement, went after
his wife. and a reconciliation took place
between the two at the Wellington hotel
in this city Mrs. Bradbury left Ward,
and all was forgiven by her husband.
MuiIy Among TrooVs.
Brussels, sept. Snail advices have
been received from Ugnda stating that
mutiny has occurred among the troops |
of the Congo Free State in the Toro dis
trict. The mutineers, it is said killed
81 Belgian officers and men and de-
stroved all the forts, committing depre-
dations right and left. This report is re-
earded in Brussels as merely another