Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-03

| standing at the corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and G street northwest He had
just refused to drink with Frank K. Ward
prosperous business man. who was ar
| rested, charged with the crime tried and
acquitted. Frank X. Ward was released
! on bail of SIS. 200 pending his trial. his be-
ing the first case of bail accepted In the
District when murder was charged. Later
Ward was found dead. having II is said
been killed by a street car on BrightWooc
avenue.
The romance wrath made its star ap-
pearance In dingy old Criminal Court No
l during the trial of a woman named
Mary Harris, who was accused of killing
a man named Burroughs in one OF the
Treasury Department corridors in 1S6t
or 1857.
The woman had come here from a west
ern state. where she had known her al
legged victim. Standing behind a pillar in
the corridor, she sent into his office for
him. When he emerged. before the wom-
an had spoken to him. he was shot down:
Joseph Bradley, prominently identified
with long line of jurists. assumed heI
defense and when counsel and defendant
appeared in Criminal Court No. l his
arm supported her. and his delicate at
tentions told the onlookers that Cupid was
busy.
Then followed the long days OF the trial
before Justice Fisher. with whom Brad
ley time and time again disagreed, until
he was disbarred, only to be reinstated
and complete the trial with an acquittal
for his client. Then I'm short time the
bar knew that Joe Bradley had argued
another case in favor of Mary Har-
riS.
Incident of Bradley Trial.
Perhaps the most pathetic incident of
the whole Bradley trial. now SO fresh in
the memory of the public. and which re-
ceived little public notice. occurred one
day at noon recess when the throngs
were crowding about the frail little wom-
an who was being led to her cell in the
basement. Sitting the noise or the crowd
around the little prisoner. came the
strains of a cornet in the plaintive notes
of Nearer My God to Thee"
Over the faces of those who bent for
ward in morbid curiosity to catch a
glimpse of the woman whose life former
Senator Brown had ruined came a
change. and lips unconsciously framed
the words Fen though it be cross that
raiseth me-" The notes died for a mo-
ment and then the slvery appeal rang
out Lead. Kindly Light. The little
some one in the crowd murmured The
way is dark, and ! am far from home"
1t was an unconscious appeal on the
part of an Open-air Y. NJ. Z. A. meeting
to a merciful God. Ana uhknoWins that
within sight. almost. Annie Madison
Bradley was being led from the dock. a
band of open-air worshipers stood at the
southwestern corner of the city hall.
But two decades have passed since the
court became one of the model halls of
Justice in the country.
During the first years of its occupancy
but a small portion Of the building was
used "a offices for the administration of
justice. and the other portions Of it were
given over TO municipal offices. while In
the basement the caretaker and his family
lived and municipal offenders or the petty
sort were confined.
The present organization of the court
is the outcome of the labors of COM
mission appointed by Abraham Lincoln,
then President Of the United States. upon
which served Justices Cartier, Oiin and
Fisher.
At the time Henry Cooke was elected