CAREER OF AN AMERICAN ADVENTURESS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2701, 2 November 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)

CAREER OF AN AMERICAN ADVENTURESS.

The developments in the case of Robert Ray Hamilton, and his alleged wife, the beautiful adventuress who recently stabbed her nursemaid during an altercation at Atlantis City, U.S.A., are (says a correspondent at New York) astounding in their nature. Inspector Byrnes took up the threads of what he suspected was a conspiracy against Hamilton, who is a man of wealth, and he soon unearthed something which he asserts is a criminal scheme on a par with the famous BardellOiuiningham affair of many years ago in New York. Inspector Byrnea's detectivoa discovered that the woman who passed as Mrs Hamilton was married to Joshua Maun before she became known as Hamilton's wife. The child, which the latter supposed to be his own, was obtained by Eva Mann from a baby farmer for ten dollars. " Mrs Hamilton " was helped to deceive her supposed husband by a Mrs Swintou, a dressmaker, and the mother of Joshua Man. Shu went to Elmira, and it was while staying there that the baby was supposed to be born. The detectives have ascertained that she was accompanied to Elmira by Joshua Mann, who lived with her there as her husband at Hamilton's expense. Maun and Mrs Swinton were arrested by Inspector Byrnes, and they confessed on Wednesday evening their part in the conspiracy. Hamilton was married to the woman after the baby was brought to New York. Eva toll Hamilton that he was the father of the child, aud she persuaded him to give the poor little thing his twiine, and in January, at Puterson, New Jersey, in the presence of Mra Swiuton'n brother, na insurance agent, Ray Hamilton, the son of an illustrious houre, went through it marriage ceremony with a clever' intrigante. He has at length broken uway from the links of infatuation which bouud him to the woman, and is resolved to allow the law to take its cour.-n.