The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-08
LOCKED UP IN TIE ToMBs
Joshua Mann AND Mrs. Swinton On
able 20 Give Bail


NEW YoRK, Sept. Joshua Mann and
Mrs. Swinton. the Hamilton conspirators,
were held his morning in 81, 500 bail each,
bv Justice Hogan in the tonbs court As
sistant District Attorney Jerome a,ked that
that the bail in each case be fixed al $500.
In reply to the justice the prisoners stated
that they could fur ish onlyS5O0 bal each.
Being unable t. furnish s 800 bail the
pris ners we're locked up In tho tomos
That Robert Ray HamiltOn's fortune was
the ultimate o. ject OF the conspiracy
headed by his wife there is no doubt, but a.
the conspiracy was thwartSd before it had
fully developed it will be very difficuls 70
prove to the satisfaction of criminal court
the full latent of tue conspirators. The mar
rage was acco npl shed, the false heir had
been produced and accepted, and the will had
been made, which, acc riding to one Of the
consprators, upon the removal I Robert
Ray Hamilton would have placed in the
hands of the woman who had / ducvd him
TO give her his name the hole, or, at any
rate, the bulk, of his estate in trdst for the
Child, and, in ctse OF the removal OF the
child, for herself alone.
WREN RAY is DEAD I'LL MARRY YOU.
"When Raw is dead I'll marry you,n is
what Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton said TO
her lover, josh Man after shs had finished
reading over TO him this will. At least
Josh says so, and josh was satisfied with
that promls' a though under nstu Al condi-
tions HamIlton's chances OF life was worth
five of his To the mind OF Inspector Byr es
thisgces to sho that Eva was not mar
ried e Mann. When Mrs. Ha milton
was arrested for staboiug Nurse Donnelly
in Atlantic City there was a certain sachel,
about the safety Of whcI she was very So
licitous, and which she insisted upon carry
ing with her &c prison. 1t was said that It
contained Hamilton's will and the papers
in an agreement for separation, over
which was said to have begun the
quarrel between Hamilton and his
wife which eIded in the stabb,ng Of |
the Donnelly woman. lnspec or Byrnes n |
Thursday sent for Mann to be brought into |
his private room. what do you know |
about will made By Mr.. hamiltonp |
was the aim and substance of all |
the questions that the inspector put to him, |
though tue language, as may be
imagined, covered a good deal more ground. |
Ate. while Mann gave In aud told |
story that he said vas The truth. tne whole |
truth, and nOtaing bu. the truth. The |
substance OF 1t was that soon after her |
marriage TO Hamilton, rs. Hamilton |
showed him a paper which she said |
was Rays will" OF course Mann could |
not remember all its det Ills, bat The sub
stance If 1T was that all of Hamll- |
toms property as lett u his daughter |
Beatrice and Mrs. Hamilton was made sole |
executrlx and la dian of the chilli. Ii |
Beatrice Ell before coming of age, the |
mother was to receive the whole esJa e. !
Mann saws that Mrs Hamilton read tue
will over to I'M carefully, and tnat he can
not be mistaken as to its terms. II there
were any clauses in it qualfyi & the bsquests
in any way, or tina would have kept Mrs.
Hamilton lro II getting hold OF Ham lton's
jewels. family pate, and other estats as
tlntr i
up that Mann did not recog IZe them, and
neither did Mrs. hamilton, Tor she a> very
Jubilant over the POSSESSION If the will, and
told Josh hat she would marry him as soon
as Ray was dead.
MRS. HAMILToN's FORESIGHT.
josh, of course, denies that there was any
conspiracy to put Hamilton OUT OF the way
involved in this. He saws that Mrs HamiI-
ton told hun that Ray was very reckless in
riding horseback, and might &c. ki l. d n
time. This, he says, is what he Supposed
she meant in referring to the proba .ihty
of hamiltons dying in time for Mann 10
enjoy his wife and his roperty. Josh re-
peatcd his statements taaG ho had lived
with Mrs. Hamilton as her husband al nos1
constantly for everal years past, ana that
he ew she had no cnd. He said thai
there had never been any marriage cere-
mouy betweent en-.
The detective and the midwife went |
to Alta tic City day or two ago for the
purpose Of ideAtlf wing the cnIld as the $40
baby. The mid wife refused to say Ger
tainly that Mrs. Hamilton was the woma
who accompanied Mrs. SwinJon wnen the
baby was purchased. Mrs. ha milton had
fallen away greatly in fe h, aud is now
merely shadow Of her old self This
probably accou Is for the mid-wlfe's I'M
certainty, for after nes return o this city
when she sa6 photograph of Mrs. Hamil-
ton as she " as at tGe II ne q baby was
secured she recognized it instantly,
BABY BEATRICE IDENTIFIED
The child itself the midwife identified
positively as tie one Mrs. Swiut0n had
procur d. There was a mark on it which
she .ew, and besides That she rsmem cred
it by its ears On TAXI the cAild Mrs
Hamiltoa had complained became its ears
stuck out queeriy from its head and IN
that account the mid wife was sure that
Beatrice Hamilton wss the same child.
Inspector Byrles has comp. eted his record
of the SwInton woman's lie, and it indi-
Gates that Josh is really her son after all.
She was born IN 1922, and in 1917 married a
DR.. Kemp, no died in lS49 BY him she
had one daughter, who became an actress.
and Is now pla ing under the name OF
Stevens. In 1850 she married aman named
Mann, and Joshua is the child oft atu N.
The couple kept b ardi g-house IN this
city. Mann died in 1851 and about 1860 she
married Swintou, who was in the govern
ment EN- / y and lived in Albany. SSinton
died in 1873 and Ms. SNiutJn and Josh
came to this city. They lived until 1850 oae
Macdougall street, and since then have
dritIed arOuni, airs. Swim on working as
nurse. houseksepeS, dres4mAker and at
whatever else she could nnd to do Josh
has been supported most OF tAe time by Eva