The San Francisco call., 1904-03-14
PALACE GUEST
GOES TO JAIL
Reckless Display of a Gun
Gets Henry Bradburn, Utah
Mining Man, Into Trouble
LIVELY SCENE IN HOTEL
Threatens Watchman's Life
When Latter Escorts Him
to Office to Settle His Bill

Henry Bradburn, a well-known min
ing man of Utah, whose rough and
ready appearance plainly suggests his
calling, loaded himself with liquor and
a blg-sized firearm yesterday after
noon and then proceeded to break IN
on the usual tranquility Of the Palace
Hotel. AS a result he went to Jail,
where he was charged with carrying
a dangerous weapon and disturbing
the peace of the dodgers and employees
OF the big hostelry. Bradburn and his
wife and John Harnan. another
wealthy mining man Of Colorado
Springs, arrived at the Palace Satur-
day. Yesterday forenoon the two
miners took aboard large quantity of
liquor at the neighboring saloons and
then adjourned to Bradburn's apart
ments at the Palace, where a sump
tuous lunch was ordered Table talk
eventually turned to the question of
their individual strength and to dem
onstrate their prowess as collar and ell
bow wrestlers they doffed their coats
and went at it, while Mrs. Bradburn
and a lady friend stood by and watched
the sport.
AS the struggle for the first fall pro-
gressed, the contestants enlivened the
scene by smashing a lot of dishes and
creating enough noise to startle nearly
every guest in the hotel. 1t was at
this stage Of the game that Watchman
Patrick MCGOWAN ,ushered himself into
the presence of Bradburn and Harnan
and ordered them down to the office
to settle their bills, which is the meth
od of procedure in cases of ejectment
at the Palace. Harnan meekly COM
piled Mth the request and was paying
over his coin at the cashiers window
when Bradburn, in company with the
watchman, made his appearance in the
office.
Immediately he began looking for
trouble and when the watchman asked
him to be quiet he drew a big revolver
from his coat and, swinging II around
under the nose of the watchman, loud
ly informed that peacefully inclined in :
dividual that he would blow his head
off If he attempted to interfere. He
made a similar threat to a colored por-
ter and then, apparently realizing that
he was having things all his own way,
he Strutted about, uttering all kinds of
threats. Meanwhile, however, tele-
phone message had been sent to police
headquarters, but II was nearly half
an hour before assistance came and
during that time Bradburn and his gun
were keeping everything at bay.
Finally Detective Ross Whitaker
and a patrolman arrived, just as Brad
burn, leaning through the cashiers
window, was heaping abuse on Assist
ant Cashier Bettman Slipping quietly
up to Bradbufn, Whitaker placed a
"twister" on his right wrist and before
the mining man had fully realized that
he was under arrest his gun had been
transferred to the officers pocket. A
second later another handcuff was cir
cled about Bradburn's other wrist and
the man from Utah, who, but a few
minutes before, was prepared to con-
vert the hotel lobby into a morgue, be-
gan to look as docile as a pet fawn. He
began to make all kinds of excuses for
his conduct and even insinuated that
the hotel watchman had placed the pis-
, tol in his pocket as joke, but the Off
GERS turned a deaf ear to his protests
and apologies and placing Bradburn in
a patrol wagon whisked him off to the
Hall of Justice, where the two charges
mentioned were placed opposite his
name on the prison register. Mrs.
Bradburn later settled her husbands
bill at the hotel and departed with her
baggage.