The San Francisco call., 1897-07-11
Trouble
FOR MRS.
BRADBURY
She Is Now to Be Prose-
cuted for Her
Ofense.
WARD Is HELD TO ANSWER.
The Woman Did Not Keep Her
Promise to Testify Against
Her Lover.
ATTORNEY SWEENEY is WRiTHFUL.
The Briton Made His Appearances il
Court Cleanly Shaven and
Quite Disguised.

| At his best w. Russell Ward could moi
| be accused of being handsome man, but
when he appeared in Judge Lows court
yesterday for the purpose of hearing the
| last sad kneIl in his case-the charge that
he induced Mrs. John Bradbury to leave
her home and husband in Los Angeles
he was positively homely. He had shaved
off his mustache, possibly with a tore
thought of future life, and looked an en-
tirely different man. Even his own attor-
ney, Garret McEnerney, did not know him
at first.
But to make a long story short-and
really it was not such a long story after
all-Ward was held to answer for is Of
tense against society to he Superior
Court. His bail was raised $1,000 and he
will now have 10 stand trial before jury
of his peers, a trial that may result in his
being sent to San Quentin or Folsom for
an uncomfortable term of years.
The Police Court proceedings were
wholesomely brie:. Mr.. McEnerney had
taken his cue from the remarks of Judge
Low on Thursday evening and had con-
Guided that 1t would be use less to take
up the time of the court with lot of evil
dence the only effect of which would be
to burden the record. The Judge had al
ready said that he believed Ward to be
guilty and that was apparently enough.
So it was then. that there was no pyro-
technics wien the case was called up. The
Judge, III his usual quiet way, asked if the
defense was ready to proceed.
'We submit the case, said Mr.. Nc
Enerney.
That meant that after all no defense
was to be offered. When Judge Low sug-
gested that it might be we'll 10 walt until
the attorneys for the prosecution arrived,
Wards counsel rather pettishly remarked
that there was no need of waiting for any
body.
VERY well, then" said Judge Low,
who can be unctuous himself when he
wants to- "the defendant is held 10 an
swer before the Superior Court, with bonds
fixed at S2000.'
That's all right" said McEnerney, and
with that he produced $1,000 from his in
side pocket and handed ii over TO the
clerk. Wards friends had already put up
$1,000 in cash for him, so the amount
turned over by Mr.. McEnerney m ade the
new bond square.
you can go now, Ward; I'll send for
you when l want you" said McEnerney,
as he jammed his hat on his head and
stalked haughuly out of the crowded
courtroom.
All this, uOWcfeI, Was merely the Iul-
fillment OF a prophesied court proceeding
1t was not the story OF the dav in connec-
tion with the Ward Bradbury scandal.
What was of far more interest than that
to those who had been let into the secret
was the official declaration of the officers
i of the Society for the Suppression cf Vice
that they now intend to prosecute Mrs.
Brad bury 10 the bitter end, despite what
has been said to the contrary. The same
evidence that has sent Ward to the Supe-
rior Court will be used against her, and it
is difficult to see how, with the same Judge
hearing the case any thing but another or
der TO answer to the Superior Court can
result.
1t is true that until Thursday the officers
of the society were ndly disposed toward
Mrs. Bradbury, and were ready to consent
to a dismissal of the charge pending