The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-14

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gambling spirit. This time he
lost heauily and embezzled
several thousand dollars to meet
his losses on the green table.
His theft was discovered by the
railway officials, and this time
he was arrested and tried for
embezzlement.
Bradley was convicted. Be-
fore he was sentenced he sent
for w. H. A. Pike, district
1 judge-elect of the Second Judicial
district of this state, who was
prosecuting attorney, and told
him pathetic story, Bradley
said that he and fis wife had
lived happily until they moved to
Salt Lake City, where Mrs.Brad-
ley met Senator Brown. He
said that they had seven-year
old boy, and that Mrs Bradley
tried to steal the child when she
left him for Senator Brown, and
that he had sent the boy east to
his own parents, where he was
contributing for his support.
Amid tears Bradley showed
Judge Pike letters from his wife
telling him that she did not love
him any more and that she was
going to live with Senator Brown.
Judge Pike was moved by the
mans story Of his downfall, and
when Bradleycame up for sent
ence, made an eloquent plea for
light sentence for the man
whose conviction he had secured.
Bradley was sentenced to two
years in the state prison at Car
: son. After he was taken to Jail
he made an exemplary prisonser.
He helped the prison officials in
keeping the records of the PEN
itentiary, and within few
months after he was taken to the
penitentiary he was a trusty.
, For year and a half he did
T penance for his theft, and then
! Warden Consadine and Judge
: Pike, who knew the reason for
e Bradley's downfall, appeared be-
i fore the state board of pardons
i with a request for his release.
K He was pardoned and immediate
t ly afterward disappeared.
t Nothing has been heard from him
since.
e Thirteen years ago in Salt Lake
: City, Clarence A. Bradley was
It happily welded t. Anna Madison.
e He was youna man of more
e than ordinary ability and held a
e position of trust with the Rio
% Grande Western railway. APP
n parently a bright future was be-
le fore him. Mrs Bradley was a
n talanted and accomplished young
le woman. They seemed particular
ly well mated.
a Two children were born to the
N couple and there was nothing to
mar the match until after the
st young wife was introduced to
lg Senator Arthur Brown by the
I'll latter's wife. Slowly but sure
n ly the fascination for the public
Id man superseded the love which
belonged to her husband.
ID Gradually the pair became
i'll aliented.
Young Bradley still loved his
I'd wife despite her infdelity, and
v thought that her affections were
ry no longer his nearly destroyed
Mt his reason. He sought solace ir
sv drink. Toward the last he otter
as occupied a drunkard's cell at the
n station. Finally he left Sal
as Lake and went to Nevada.
The legal separation of tn,
ut once happy COUPLE did not occul
~ until last February, when Mr.
or Bradley asked for a divorce tina
he she might become the wife O.
all the man who had wronged her
To She charged her convict husban
Ilv with desertion, and he set up hi
defense. ("
he Clarence Mackay, head of til
up Postal Telegraph Service, will /
ar in Nevada in a few days /
est checkmate the plans of Il
al, Western Union to herd his con
ac- pany out of this State.
III The Sheriff of Esmerale
wv county has offered a reward
$100 for the arrest of par
W calling himself L. L. Cav or