The San Francisco call., 1908-03-04
WINDOW BETRAY[R
OF MRS. HANBURY
Ardent Love of Wealthy Brew
er's Wife for Student Is
Revealed in Court
She Longs for Darling Brad in
Passionate Letters to the
Young Sargent

Tales of sights seen through a win
dow, the shades of which were not
drawn. were told during the testimony
introduced by David Hanbury, the
wealthy English brewer, in the divorce
proceedings against his wife, which
came up for hearing yesterday. The
witnesses asserted that Mrs. Hanbury
often had met Bradley f. Sargent, a
Berkeley student, in her rooms at the
Casa Iona apartment house.
The most sensational evidence was
that of Miss Eleanor Mugler, Berke-
ley school teacher, who had room in
an adjoining apartment house and who,
in her deposition, declared that she
saw a woman and tall, dark man.
hugging and kissing each other dur
ing the late. hours of the night. The
woman she identified Mrs. Hanbury.
though she refused to be positive about
the Identification. The man she did not
know. but she said she heard the
woman refer to him as Brad"
Miss Beatrice Paige, a telegraph
operator, who lived in the Casa Iona.
said she knew both Mrs. Hanbury and
Sargent by sight, and that she often
had observed the latter visiting Mrs.
Hsnbury late at night
This was but a portion of the DAM
aging testimony introduced. Letters
addressed to Bradley Sargent and
which were of a highly compromising
nature were identified as having been
written by Mrs Hanbury. One of the
servants employed at the island home
testified to being given letters ad-
dressed to Sargent by Mrs. Hanbury
with the request to mail them and
keep silent. Chauffeurs testified to
wild night rides to the beach with
stopovers at various roadhouses.
TRAPPED BY DETECTIVES
Through it all Mrs. Hanbury smiled
and shrugged her shoulders. At times
she exchanged meaning glances with
her sister, Marguerite Mansfield, as If
to indicate that she was thoroughly
weary of the affair.
Mrs. Rita Holtz. one of the witnesses
for the husband. said that Mrs. Han
bury and her sister lived with the two
Sargent boys at fat in Lyon street
for two weeks while Mr.. and Mrs.
Sargent were away. Mr.. and Mrs.
James G. Chown corroborated this evil
dence
z. T. Holden, chauffeur, testified
to taking Mrs. Hanbury and Miss
Mansfield on an auto ride with two
men he did not know. 1t developed
yesterday that the two men were pri-
vate detectives working for Hanbury,
who. the attorneys for the defense de-
clared, not only shadowed Mrs. Han
bury, but also got her to go out au-
tomobile riding and discuss her divorce
proceedings with them.
LONGS FOR DARLING "BRAD.
In one of the letters written to Sar-
gent Mrs. Hanbury signed your low
ing wife, Nell" In another she speaks
of her love for him and deplores the
/ life she led with Hanbury. The let
ters are as follows:
VALLEJO, Cal, July II, 1907.
By Darling Brad know, dear. you anx-
ious about me- and I am wondering what you
are thinking and where you are tonight; Oh,
/ thing but strenuous love affafrl / never suf-
fered so much in my life before the times
so long. and don't get up until o, either. No
place to 90, no one to talk 90 and nothing that
win please. / wonder if things that way to
you Probably not, for you are man and can
go about alone or find amusement with crowd
OF boys, while Nell is sitting alone in her room
Now, I mnst stop gushing, for would moi
have you think ] had a bad case on you for
worlds No. Just fond Of you Brad. darling;
my foot down and said I would not go bach
there. He was frightfully upset, for he expected
He phoned today and asked me to engage
rooms at the Fairmont and tickets for Ethel
] BARRYMORE
down on the $3.50 boat and return Sunday.
He will be busy with hay buyers and ] will
see you.where,sI do not know; but will call you
with you tonight, if only for a few hours. .
Never mind dear, 1t won't be long. Keep busy
and time win hy. Be good boy and don't for
get your loving wife, NELL.
4HAs 1T PRETTY BAD"
My Darling Brad-1t is just 10 minutes since j
/ left you, and here am writing to you Guess
/ have 1t pretty bad
God. what dull, gloomy world, and what a
bore this life is when You are away from the one
person you love. hate to even talk about it.
Brad, I going to tell you truthfuly that
never really loved you until this last time with
you. liked you very mueh-your style, ways
disposition, ETC.. but / never saw in you what
recently discovered unselhshness." How
woman loves to see it in man. You know,
/ Brad. that have never known since left home
what 1t was to have unselfsh person around
me, and on that account l afraid I have
grown to be like them-selfsh and Indifferent
never think how horrible 1t Is to be selfish
until am with you. and then almost hate my
self, Please forgive me, Brad; one person has
made that way.
Brad, why did you not change your mind and
come back TO the hotel? / phoned on my way
called me Nell. darling over the phone
the boat, but 1 guess God does not love me
because am so bad and will not answer my
because e yST did not come come back to
Buster has quite rep. in Vallejo canno,
talk about that tonight though. 1 want yor
TO realize after you read this letter that Mel
does love you with all her heart and soul, and
Brad, can't give up my husband What am
going to DO? For Gods sake tell me If you can
At last / have loved but, alas, too late and tot
well. Goodnight, my darling. Lovingly,
NELL
The cross examination of the wit.
J nesses did not take long and the de-
fense failed to shake the testimony il
/ the slightest degree The case will be