, 1897-09-04
w. RUSSELL WARD LEAPS FROM 4
PULLMAN GOING FIFTY
MILES AN HOUR.
And is at Once Ushered Into Eternity
The Man Who Eloped With a Cali
fornia Miliionaire's Wife-The Body
Found Near Wheatlands, Iowa
Mind Probably Deranged.


the wife OF Millionaire Bradbury OF Los
Angeles. leaped from the window Of a
Pullman car while the train was rushing
through Iowa last night, and was killed.
4. telegram was received from Wheat
lands. Ia, almost at the same time that
the train pulled into Chicago, which said
that Wards body. clad only in a night
robe had been found near that station.
1t is believed he was demented.
1t Is lot known at what hour Ward
jumped from the train, as no one saw
him. His absence was discovered BY
Conductor Roundy when the train was
between Geneva and Chicago. All OF
he suicides clothing and effects were
found in the berth he occupied.
The police Of Chicago are mystiied
over the case. Yesterday afternoon the
following telegram was received at the
central station:
Please send a good man to drawing
room B, car No. 2, Of the ~east-bound
overland Northwestern train. arriving
in Chicago at 1870"
The telegram was sent from Fremont,
Neb. yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
1t bore no signature. Detective Broder-
lex met the train at the depot and on in
vestigaticn he found that drawing room
B was the room that the suicide had oc-
cupied. The detective was informed by
Conductor Roundy that the telegram the
police had received had been sent by
Ward, he leaving the train at Fremont
long enough TO send it.
Tying the police to have u detective meet
the train is not apparent.
All OF Wards effects. consisting Of
several expensive satchels and his rail-
road ticket. are in the hands OF the Pull
man company. The suicides name and
residence was learned from his ticket.
His destiny was Buffalo.
c. F. Goldman, conductor, and C. M.
Galloway, porter OF the Pullman car &C.
cupied by Ward, said that prior to his
retiring last night at 10 o'clock he ex-
hibi;ed no signs Of insanity. The body
will be held at Wheatlands until the
dead mans friends can be communicat-
ed with.
Another report is to the effect that
| Ward was brought into the train at
Fremont, Neb., by a gentleman who was
well-dressed and apparently a business
man OF middle age. There was nothing
unusual about him. and neither he nor
his friend attracted any attention. Just
before the train started from Fremont
the other man placed Ward in the state
room and shutting the door behind him.
leaped from the train. 1t is moi known
whether he locked the door from the out
side. Immediately after leaving the car
the stranger rushed to a telegraph Office
and sent a message to the police Of this
city, requesting them to take his friend
in charge when the train arrived. The
police are inclined to believe that Ward
was OF unsound mind, and that he was
sent to this city by friends.
kilograms have been forwarded by the
police to Fremont requesting further
evidence.
Ward was IN Englishman. He was
married and had a large family IN Eng
land. A short time ago he visited Los
Angeles, where he met the wife OF John
Bradbury, a reputed millionaire. Both
The husband was abroad at the time,
and a sensation was created when Ward
eloped with Mrs. Bradbury to San Fran
cisco. Bradbury, when he returned
and heard of the elopement, went after
his wife, and a reconciliation took place
In Chicago.
The police believe Ward intended to
end his life in his apartments. They
think he evidently sent the telegram to
them while having such an idea in his
mind. 1t was his intention. they say, to
have killed himself on the train and
have his body found when the train ar
rived here.
San Francisco, Sept. 3.-W. Russell
Ward Of Santa Monica, the Englishman
whose sensational elopement with Mrs.
John Bradbury OF Los Angeles to thia
city in July last resulted in their arrest
for adultery, was discharged on Thurs
day. August 6. and left here for New
York on Monday evening, presumably to
join his wife and family in England.
Under ordinary circumstances he should
have reached Chicago at 7:45 this morn