The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11
KILLED BY HIS OWN DEER.
HERBERT BRADLEY FOUND DEAD
IN A RAVINE on HIS ESTATE.
Lower Part Of His Body showed Many
uls supposed to Have Been At
ack by the Herd and Forced over
Edge Of Ravine-Pound After Dark.

MoNTCLAIR, N. j., Nov. 1O.-Herbert
Bradley, a -four exporter at So William
street Manhattan, who lived in Eagle Rock
Way, between this city and West Orange,
was found dead tonight at the bottom of a
ravine on his estate. The lower part OF
his body showed many bruises. The COM
monty accepted theory is hat he was
gored or butted by one or more Of a herd Of
twenty deer which have tn freedom OF his
land.
MI. Bradley had returned this morning
from a business trip through the West.
At noon he left the house saying that he
intended to walk over the entire twenty
acres Of his land and would return in time
for dinner at. night. When he failed to
reach the house by o O'Clock his coachman.
Thomas Fahey, the only male employee on
the place. went out with Mr.. Bradley 3 son
and daughter to see what was keeping him.
After an hours search Fahey had found nc
Mrs. Bradley then became alarmed and
asked that some OF the neighbors be notified
OF his disappearance and asked to join in
the hun for him. They started out again,
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ley. At the bottom Of the ~ravine. twelve
feet deep, n OF these searchers stumbled
over Mr.. Bradley's body.
DR.. Philip T.. Kriohbaum. a relative OF
Mr.. Bradley, was summoned from Mont
clair, as was Deputy County Physician
Simmons from East Orange. DIR. Krich-
baum decided that death was due to a
hemorrhage Of the stomach.
Mr.. Bradley's country home has been one
OF the show places OF this part of New
Jersey. The twenty acres extend nearly
to Eagle Rock and include nearly every
kind OF landscape. 1t is wooded in parts,
and in the centre is a large artificial lake.
He a always taken great pride in his
herd of deer, which is the largest in this
section.
The deer are usually tame and most Of
them had become 80 attached to him that
they would follow him over the place and
eat out of his hand. To-day the other
members OF Mr.. Bradley's family noticed
that the deer were badly frightened by
the great amount Of shooting that has
been going on since early morning in the
neighborhood. The woods have been so
full Of rabbit hunters that the police have
been appealed to to take precautions against
the hunters for the safety Of, the residents.
After going over the ground careful lily
the deputy county physician and the Mont
clair police decided that Mr.. Bradley must
have had q struggle. friendly or otherwise,
with the deer at the top OF the ravine, which
resulted in ais fall down the side. The
bruises on his body wouldn't have been
made by the fall alone, but the immediate
cause of his death is thought to lave been
due to the fall. There were no bruises on
the upper part Of his body.
Mr.. Bradley has always taken an interest
in all the things that attract the country
gentleman OF the old school. He had a
floral conservatory hat Is famous all over
the State. At the flower show in Mont
clair two weeks ago he captured nearly. all
the prizes for dahlias.
A careful inspection will be made Of all
the deer to-day in a hunt for traces of blood
Some OF the deer had antlers and some
hadn'