The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-16
FISHING FOR GUDGEoNs.
Too Anxious for a Husband. but She Had
Plenty of Money.

ZOO ANXIOUS TOT a HUSBAND, out Sne Hau
Plenty of Money.
Amos F. Hinkey publishes the Riverside Echo
at Bath, Me. 1t is not a very valuable publica-
ton to the owner or the public and its editor
sought other methods to replenish his exchequer.
He inserted in Boston paper the following ad-
vertisement:
All gentlemen who would like a loving and afec-
tionate partner for life please look this way and they
say, yes they do too, she's the handsomest girl
cut and just So and has lots of money at disposal
when twentyone ADA Nj. HINKLEY.
This caught the eye of resident of Boston
who seems to be sadly in need of wife with
money. Charles j. Burgraff, German, the
proprietor of a small stationery store in Harti-
son avenue, answered the invitation. HInkley's
motive appears to have been to get money out of
some simpleton. Burgraf gives the following
version of the affair."
ssYou see, am single man and am not at all
disincined to marriage provided, of course
should meet worthy woman whom could take
for q life partner. L came to this country from
Germany some seven years ago, and since then
have been in the woods of Michigan and three
times to California. as we'll as having been whal
ing in the Arctic beside rounding the Horn a
few times. Well. last June I looked over this
matrimonial paper and was attracted to the ad
vertisement of Ada Hinkley, who claimed TO
have lots of money and wanted a husband. bad
heard of happy matches coming about in that
way so / answered the advertisement, care of
Box 2f8 Portland
II soon got IN answer written in affectiona.e
language Ada told how her guardian watched
over her financial interests. He was hard and
severe, but she must endure his donliueering
methods until she was twenty one, unless she
should happen to marry, in which case under
her fathers will. she would come into possession
of all her wealth and be Independent of her
guardian. She told how her money was invest
ed. She had $50, 600 in real estate in Portland,
$500, 900 in shipping and $500, 600 in government
lN.o1 l0Nlr 4A Teal -. bot
when she asked that send her So. so that
could meet her at Townsend, this State, | began
to smell rat wrote back, and was cautiously
affectionate, but didn't send her any money
Another letter soon came from Ada more af
fectionate than before. She called me her own
darling and as was hers. she had assumed to
ask her guardian for SO. She told how we could
be married at once and that she wanted the
money to reach me to be married. She was in
an awful hurry TO have the ceremony performed.
AS she was anxious to have some one look after
another windfa1l of 1919, 600, which had suddenly
dronped to her by the death of an old uncle her
fathers brother, in California. Ada proposed
that upnn our marriage we should go straight to
Frisco on our wedding tour, which. she said,
would be SO lovely, yen know However.
was suspicious. ] mad drawn some little money
from the bank and didn't care to draw second
time In week. wrote back pretending I
hadn't received the second letter, and was. of
course, affectionate. told how couldn't leave
my store on account of business, although dying
to meet my love.
ada wrote me again. this time demanding
SIS, but would consent TO accept 800 made
up my mind that Ada was q fraud and so ac-
quainted the detective at the postofice to whom
gave all the correspondence in the affair The
result has been the arrest of Amos z. iHinkley,
of Bath, but whether or not he had a woman
confdante don't. know, but think not"
Hinkfey was taken before United States Com
missioner Rand. at Portland, on Monday. plead
ed guilty of using the mails for a fraudulent
purpose, and was held in $500 bail for trial