New-York tribune., 1886-07-14
FRIGHTENED BY ADA'S ANXIETY.
TOO ANXIOUS FOR HUsBA.D, Ely SHE HAD
PLENTY OF MONEY.

PLENTY OF MONEY
BosToN July 13 Special. Amos F. lllnk-
ley publshes The Rrersife Echo at Bath. Me- IL is Sos
very valuable publication to the owner or the pabc.
and its editor sought oher methods to r-penlsh ais
excheauer ie inserted in Boston paper following
advertisement
ALL GENrAs sEs Who would like loving ana znec
tonae rer NE please S.k sss %sy ass t
u when ai rwcnry.ons. ADA VI. HIsKLEr
THIS caught eye OF resident Of Boston who seens
to be sadly in need of a wife with money Charles J.
Burgraf q German. the proprietor OF small
stationery store in Iarrisonave. answered the inv'
tion. Hinkleys motive appears to have been TO ses
money out Of some simpeton. Burgrau gives the ioE
lowing version of the affair:
"You see, am single man aud am not AZ All disn-
cned to marriage. provided. OF course. should meet
worthy woman VINO could take for life partner I
came to this country from Germany some seven vean
ago then have been In the woods OF Michigan
aud three times to California, as well as having oeen
whaling In the Arctic beside rounding the Horn tew
times Well last juno looked over this matrimonial
paper and wa, attracted to the advertisement OF Ada
Hinklcy, who claimed to have lots Of money
and wanted a husband. Ihad heard OF happy matches
coming about IN that way answered the adveruae
mont, care OF Box 2is Portland.
"I soon got an answer written in afectonate Ian
cuage. Ada told low her guardian watched over hes
financial interests lie was hard and severe. but sae
tweuty-one unless she should happen TO marry, IN
which case under fathers will she would come into
poasesson all her wealth and be lniependcnt o. hct
xuardla an. She told how her money was lhVesce..
She mad $4,000 in real estate In Portland, S,VooVy
I'm shipping aud $780, 900 In Government bouds l
looked upon her 40 . lucky girl. but when sne asksa
that send her $5, that could meet her AZ ioSh.
send this state, began to smell rat wrote oacK sna
WAS cautiously afectonate but didn't seni any money.
"Another letter came from Ada more anectiohasS
than before She called me her own darling and az
was hers she had assumed to ask her guardian Tor S
Sne told how could be married at once aud tnat she
wanted tho money to reach mo 10 he married. she vas
she was an < ous have look after another
w.ndall OF $4,000 which had suddenly dropped %
nor by tho death OF Old uncle, her fathers oroher
California. Ada proposed that upon our marriage ss
should 10 straight Frisco on our wedding touf
which, shc SAID, would be so lovely you know How.
ever i was uspiclous. had drawn some little money
from tue bank and didn't care TO draw second une
a week wrote back pretending hadn't receiVed ,ni
second ettor and WAS, OF courses afectonate los
now couldn't on account OF pusihosss
although d dyng to meet my love- 49, ,.,,,n.
ada again, this TINS uense."S
$25. but would consent TO accep' ~
made up my mind that Ada was Hsa1
and 40 aqcuanted the detective At the posi- o"e2 -
whom gave all the correspondence IN the sHa.t' ~
result has been the OF Amos f. Hinkry OF ps..
but whether or not he had a woman conniah.e a"A'
UinLIey was taken before United states Commissonek
Rand AT Portland on Monday. pleaded sultsy ot ustx
The mails for fraulent purpose ana was ned !" s'o~
bail for trial