The San Francisco call., 1898-12-07
STORY OF MIDNIGh1 CRUELTY
LILLIAN DRAGGED FROM HER
 BED AND BEATEN.
Mrs. Brandes Appears in Court to Have Her Preliminary Exam ination Continued for
 One Week.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
 oOS RrnadMaY. Dec. 6.

SUS BTOduWdy. beC. D.
 William A. Brandes charged with beat ing his daughter to death marched for ward a big pace toward the hangman' s tree to-day when his alleged fiendish bru- tality was portrayed by the startling tes- timony given by Witness J. S. Harvey, who was called for the first time during the preliminary hearing and who showed considerable reluctance in answering.
 MT. and Mrs. Brandes had told Harvey that Lillian, the murdered girl, was incor- rigible, and witness had suggested that if she were brought to account she might afterward become a good girl. Witness then went on to give facts concerning one occasion on which he knew the girl had been brought to account" That oc- CaSion, said the witness, was just prior to November 15
 Tt happened about l or o'clock in the morning." said he. when BrandeS had just returned from his watch. 1 was awakened by the noise in the room above my apartment at Brandes' home, where l roomed It sounded as though a child was being struck with a strap, and she cried out for mercy. 1 also heard Brandes talking loud and profanely."
 Thus the murdered girl had been treated after being dragged from her bed. be- cause the father had accused her of not only stealing dollar, which she tried to borrow from a baker to return, but also $l5 put away for the rent and bottle of
 Witness Harvey had last seen Lillian Brandes at dinner on Friday, the even ing before she breathed her last.
 She did not eat with the rest of us, though continued the witness, for. ac- cording to MT. Brandes, she wasn't fit be- cause of the alleged theft Her meal, therefore, was served in the kitchen. That day she had hunted in the back yard for the articles she had lost.
 When Brandes knocked on my door on Saturday morning he was excited and said, For Gods sake, Harvey, get up; the girl has taken poison.' He was dressed even to his tie. but was without coat. He went for doctor, but did not hear him leave the yard with the horse.
 When Brandes again came into my room after Dr. Whitworth's arrival, he said that Lillian had taken poison-had strung herself up and that the girl had now spoiled her Christmas, because she had stolen the money and poison.' "
 In testifying as to the beating. witness said that he heard at least a dozen blows with an interval between each blow and during these Brandes was very profane.
 When asked as to whether Brandes was usually good and kind to his family, wit ness said: "Brandes occasionally did his family good turn"
 During this morning Mrs. M. Godfrey was cross-eXamined by Attorney F. w. Sawyer, but the latter was unable to her testimony regarding the facts of Lllians terrible beating the night she (Mrs. Godfrey was in the parlor with Mrs Brandes.
 The hearing will be resumed tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and at it's conclu- sion the preliminary examination of Mrs. Ella Brandes will take place. The prose- cution has a separate case against her, though many of the witnesses will be the same. Mrs. Brandes was brought into Justice Gifts court this morning to have her case continued until next Tuesday morning.