Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-27
W0MAN'S REVENGE
Mrs. Robert R. Hamilton Stabs
 Her Child's Nursc,
ATLANTIC CITY's SENSATION.
A Quarrel Bot,e cen Husband and wife Re-
 sults in Terrible Tragedy.

Hamilton Arrested and Held Without
 Bail-Her Husband Also Locked Up-He Is New York Lawyer and Has Been a
 Member of the Assembly, Result of a
 Marriage With a Disreputablc Woman.
 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 27.-Mrs. Victoria Hamilton, wife of R. H. Ham, uton, who Is said to be a grandson of Alexander Hamilton and son of Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, of New York, was arrested yesterday for a murderous as- sault on her nurse girl, Mary O'Donnell.
 She seriously cut the girl with Mexi- can dagger.
 The place where the tragedy was en- acted is known as Noll's Cottage. It is an unpretentious structure, near Pacific avenue.
 week ago party consisting of Rob- ert Ray Hamilton, his wife and child and a maid named Mary Donnelly, all of New Yrrk, registered at this place.
 The Hamiltons had frequent quarrels and made things disagreeable to the rest of the guests.
 Yesterday afternoon, while MT. and Mrs. Hamilton were in their bedroom, and their child, but eight months old, was sleeping on the bed, sounds of fu- rious quarrel were heard coming from the room.
 Mary Donnelly, the maid, who hap pened to pass the door at the time, rushed into the room with the intention of getting inc child out of harms way. In the middle of the floor were Hamil ton and his wife, clinched and evidently bent upon doing one another bodily harm.
 In attempting to reach the child the maid was forced to separate the com batants. She half shielded Hamiltons body with her own, when the wife seized a Mexican dagger and plunged it into the pit of the maids abdomen.
 The frenzied woman watched the eff feet of her work with all the ferceness of a tigress. Reaching over the pros trate form of her victim, she plucked out the weapon and coolly wiped off the blood with handkerchief
 The cries of the maid attracted the at tention of Officer Riddle, who rushed into the house, and after a desperate tussle with the man and woman, suc- ceeded in getting them to the Police Headquarters, with the assistance of a fellow officer.
 The scene in tho bedroom was horri- ble one. On the floor lay the victim with her intestines hanging out and the blood streaming from the gaping wound.
 Mrs. Hamilton and her husband wore arraigned before Judge Irving, who committed Mrs. Hamilton to jail with out bail to await the result of Mary Don nelly's injuries. Her husband was also committed as witness. The cause of the quarrel between the man and wife Is owing to the presence of an old admirer of the woman, named | Joshua Mann, of New York. He fol- lowed the couple all through the West, and has been stopping at the Verona | Cottage with his mother and sister since | the arrival of the Hamiltons. Hamilton was for eight years the rep resentative of the Murray Hill district in the New York Assembly. He Is we'll connected in New York, and at one time figured as a member of McAllis. ter's -Four Hundred.'' His wife was notorious character and morphine victim. She has several aliases and for years conducted one of the most notorious dens of iniquity in the metropolis. Hamilton met her three years ago, and after number of clan destine meetings, was forced into | marrying her.