Show BRANDENBERG READY fOR fRAY PUTS HIS IS CASE E BEfORE PUBLIC I SAX SAN FRANCISCO CISCO April 26 Facing 26 Facing a three cornered red fight with legal battles Impending In ht N w York CIt City St. St Louis and this city including In the tho list an In Indictment Indictment In- In for grand larceny lareen In connection with a political article purporting to have havo been written b by tho the late Grover Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land Jand a II double matrimonial entanglement and a contest for tor the possession of his small stepson stepon James Cabanne III of ot St. St Louis Broughton Brandenberg the newspaper man und and magazine writer who T was arrested hero I- I Friday night Is spending spend In ing his time In ht the city prison preparing for tOl the llie fm fray He lie declares ho Ito will resist extradition io 10 0 Now New York on the larceny lareen charge on the advice cJ of his attorney that ho will make mako a light for the possession of the Cabanne bo boy whoso whose father Is on the ona way hero here to get the the child and that tho the courts must decide the matrimonial which Involves a n. marriage In ht Honduras and a divorce suit In St St. Louis Louts Takes a Part In regard to the latter phase of his lily predicament tho the writer explains explain that Irs Mrs Cabanne mother of the bey b iy ho he claims Js is his stepson went with Ith him to Central America 1 where she sho secured a n. di divorce ill ill- t vorce orce and they were married Mrs Mm Ca- Ca Brandenberg's banne-Brandenberg's former husband has hasan hasan hasan an application for divorce pending In tho St. St Louis courts Sho She telegraphed the prisoner from New NewYork NewYork York to do all nil In his power to hold her herson son on and a message was received yesterday yes yes- es from District Attorney Jerome of that city to hold Brandenberg In not less than ball Friends of ot the writer and ann his attorney will hold a 0 conference toda today to outline plans planA to resist extradition and to straighten straight straight- en out tho the other ends of ot the case Cleveland's Press Agent In a a. long SI signed article published hero this morning Brandenberg goes Into the details of his alleged dealings s with Mr lr Cleveland a 3 short timo before tho the last Jast presidential campaign He Ho claims that tho the presIdent ex appointed him as ns press pressa a agent nt to sell ta Jio highest bidder a 1 series of ot three articles on tho the political situation According to his statement It was concluded concluded con con- that Cleveland was to get 2000 for tor the series and that Brandenberg was onas to be compensated b by whatever over that sum ho could realize Mrs Cleveland an and the Princeton sages sage's executor F F. S S. S Hastings Hastings Hast Hast- ings verso o wc o made a aware aro of ot tho the agi agreement cement he says nays as Only Onh one of the articles was prepared Cleveland gave him a large number of paragraphs penciled on a bundle o of loose slips o of paper which he claims were to bethe be bc betho tho the basis bas of the contribution Continuing Continuing Con Con- Brandenberg writes What Cleveland Wrote Mr h Cleveland Cle had not written at length on labor lahar and the tariff as I had hope he would Ho lie had however unburdened unburdened un un- burdened burdene his mind on Mr Bryan In two paragraphs ono one on record and th the other otheron on personality These Those I saw must como come out If I 1 was to sell the article to any but buta a partisan periodical but I did not urge uree tho the matter then waiting till later when the they were excised As they arc are things which Mr Cleveland eland chose not to utter the they are locked up with me mo forever I 1 typed the article arranging tho paragraphs paragraphs para para- graphs according to agreed constructive Ideas and hero and there wrote in connecting connecting connecting con con- words and phrases to secure rhetorical rhetorical rhetorical rhe rhe- smoothness and carry the echo from paragraph to paragraph Cleveland Corrected It With the original script and this first typewritten draft I returned to Mr Cleveland tho the following day and we wo went over the matter thoroughly making many changes and again as-aln I took the tho entire mat nat matter ter home an and retyped it When hen I saw him again he ho appeared ill m and seemed to lack concentration Contrary to his habit habitor of or making corrections ho went over the tho manuscript In Ip a 3 tired wa way According According to Brandenberg the ex ex president pres- pres Ident signed the article with a a. pen furnished furnished furnished fur fur- by the tho former armer |