The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-06
BRADBURY HANDLES
/. BUSINESS FROM JAIL
Aged Millionaire Keeps Grip on
His Affairs Despite Inn
prisonment
Insists He Is Negotiating for
Lease of Property lnvoly-
ing $1,000, 900

$500 1919 aus "s-El Oii iIIc
cell in the county Jail William B. Brad
bury, the imprisoned Corte MADEIRA
millionaire, engineered the movements
of real estate deal involving $1,000
600 today, with the expectation that it
will be brought to satisfactory con-
clusion tomorrow Included in the
transaction is the plan to lease his
property at California street and Van
Ness avenue.
Despite his imprisonment the aged
millionaire has not allowed his bust
ness matters to pass out of his control.
His cell has been converted into an
Office and, though his desk is dry
goods box and his fixtures rude and
emphatically unpretentious, his grasp
of his personal affairs has not slack
ened.
II have real estate deal, he said,
which will involve s1.000,000. L ex-
pect a man from San Francisco to call
on me in my cell tomorrow in regard
to it and | expect to see it satisfac-
torily settled. In this deal is a pro-
posed lease of my property at Van
Ness avenue and California for a long
term of years.
AAC that the dDpllCd-
ton for writ of habeas corpus made
by his attorney, Charles H. Fairall, to
the supreme court had been denied
brought forth a contemptuous outburst
from Bradbury. II expected as much
he said. Il could hope for nothing else
from the judges of the supreme court.
For some reason they are prejudiced
against me and nothing l ask will be
granted
The news of the action of the SUI
preme court was told to him by his
wife, who was visibly affected by the
decision. "A pardon from the COVER
nor is my husbands only hope now"
she said.
KEEPS MESSENGER BUSY
Bradbury. accustomed to every COM
fort and luxury, feels keenly the cramp
and discomfort of his prison quarters.
Surrounded by newspapers, he sits on
cane bottom chair either reading or
writing. From his cell there has been
constant flow of messengers with
kilograms and letters, and SO busy is
the old man that he found it necessary
TO purchase a little electric bell with
which to summon the warden when he
wishes to call for messengers.
IF I am permitted" he said, Il will
install long distance telephone in my
cell. l have lot of business matters
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penitentiary, and a telephone would be
of great help to me. 1 am going to
have this cell properly fixed up. lam
going to have a bureau with mirror
in one corner; in the center will be a
table with a reading lamp. and / will
put a bookcase against the WALL
The only persons to visit him yes
terday were his wife, his pretty niece,
Miss Van Sickle, and magazine
writer Except during their brief
stays he was alone the entire day
The loneliness and lack of friends
seems to have done more toward
breaking down the stoical outlook
with which he gazes on his fate than
any physical discomfort. 81 will be
all right here" he said, unless l go
crazy l have been accustomed to an
active life, and this close confinement
and loneliness gets on my nerves. The
trouble with me is that am too honest
for this world. Another man in my
place would have kept out of sight
instead of going to the sheriff's Office"
Bradbury's attorneys busted them
selves today circulating a petition
among the citizens of Corte MADEIRA re-
questing Governor Gillett to pardon
the millionaire. The supreme court
did not render any opinion in denying
his petition for a writ of habeas corpus
Explains His Reprieve
EUREKA, Aug. 5.-Governor Gillett.
when questioned in regard to the. re-
prieve granted to William B. Brad
bury. said he did so in order to have
an opportunity of reviewing the evil
dence in the case. He declared that
though the trial Judge and the jury
had recommended a pardon for Brad
bury, he did not wish to be governed