The evening world., 1889-09-04
The Inspector Says he Can Produce the
Baby'S Real Mother.
Josh Mann and Grandma Swlnton
A~rraigned at the TOmbs.
evidence Of Bigamy Which is Likely to
Free the Assemblyman From His
Pseudo Wife.

space III Police Headquarters.
To Inspector Byrnas the woman said this
morning:
II can't sleep with an iron grated door be-
tween me and the sweet sunshine I love SO
we'll"
The Inspector smiled cynIoally.
"Josh" was next awake.
JOSH took matters very p~hilosophically. As
he sat with the grumbling old woman at
breakfast he said whats the use of worry
ing nom. Take things as they GOMEZ"
DO We go to court again to-day " she
asked querulously.
II don't know" he responded indifer-
emily.
Yes, you will this afternoon" struck in
the Inspector, who presided at the break
fast.
Josh drank a great quantity of water during
the night. and this morning has the appear
ance of a young man who had been on q pro-
tracted spree.
The prisoners asked for the morning news
papers after breakfast. and they perused the
accounts of their confession with consider
able satisfaction.
Inspector Bvrnes says that he not only
knows the midwife from whom the four
babies were obtained but also knows and
will produce ut the proper time the mother of
the child that Ray Hamilton has always
known as his own.
Mrs. Swlnton and her dear boy Josh were
arrested on Monday afternoon, as told first in
yesterdays EVENING WORLD Sporting Extra.
The specific charge against them is conspir-
ing TO defrsud.
Last Thursday evening Inspector Byrnes
was furnished with facts by Elihu Root,
Hamilton's lawyer and friend, sufficient 10
enable him to arrest Grandma" SwintOn
and Josh"
When they left Atlantic City they came
here and mt IN af Tho 81 Nborlac untal
When Detectives Hickey and Crowley called
there to pick them up on Sunday night,
though, they had disappeared, and it re-
quired nearly twenty-four hours more before
the Hawkshaws could locate them.
Crowley kept a watch ON the hotel. and on
Monday morning he saw Mrs. Swinton go in
and heard her ask the clerk if any mail had
been received for her. The answer was q
negative.
She dined there, and when she went away
Crowley followed her. She led him to 1856
West Twenty ninth street. where he arrested
her as she was putting her latch-key in the
lock of the door.
JOSH FELL INTO THE NET.
Crowley took her to Headquarters, leaving
Hickey to watch the house for Josh, who
came along about 8 P. M.
He was very much under the influence of
liquor. As he staggered up the steps of the
house Hickey planted his heavy hand on his
shoulder and said: II want you"
Meekly as 9 lamb the fellow turned and
accompanied the detective.
He was given a cell adjoining his mothers,
and now Inspector Byrnes has made public
the full story of how they entrapped the
brilliant gentleman, Robert Ray Hamilton,
into a marriage with Eva Steele. Parsons,
Mann, or whatever may be her name.
HOW HAMILTON Wal GuLLED.
Briefly told, the story as told by
Grandma" Swinton and Josh in connec-
ton with facts discovered by the Inspector
himself, is that Eva induced Robert Raw
Hamilton to marry her by pretending that he
was the father of IL child, which in reality
she purchased from q midwife for the sum
of $40.
Eva had been Robert Rays mistress for
nearly three years last November, when she
decided to make him take her for q wife, and
called upon Mrs. Swinton and Josh 10 assist
her i'll the plot.
They decided that Eva should get a baby,
and make Mr.. Hamilton believe 1t was his.
If they succeeded they knew he would not
suffer the little innocent to 60 through life
Eva had Mrs. Swinton make a lot of baby
clothes aud thoy were ready about the 10Th of
December. q few days before Eva and Josh
went to Elmira.
f AS MANN's WIFE THEN.
There they lived as man and wife, or at
least Mrs. Swlnton in her statement says so,
and she also claims that upon one occasion,
when Eva's brother was in trouble, " Josh ="
went upon the stand and swore point blank
that he was the Woman'S husband.
II he told the truth Eva is o bigamist. az
the occurrence happened before she married
Hamilton during their stay in Elmira.
COULDN'T FOOL DE-. MORSE.
Mrs. Hamilton frequently called upon DR..
Burnett Morse, the leading physician there,
for medical advice and tried to give MIN the
impression that she was to become a mother.
The sturdy old practitioner refused to give
,ner q certificate. saying that she was not in
any such condition. Thereupon Eva paid
him and told him his services were no longer
required.
GOT A BABY FOR $40.
On Dec. II, 1888, she bought a baby from
n midwife for $40. and on Christmas Day she
and Josh returned 10 New York.
Grandma" Swinton was then living III q
small nat oyer a grocery store at Thirty-frst
street aud Fourth avenue. They went there.
Have you q baby's cloak and cap ?" asked
No replied the grandma.
Well, let's go downtown and buy them"
Sala Eva, gSyIy, and the party started and
Went 10 the Bowery. where the baby was
EQUIPPED with the desired clothing.
Swinton's,, and next day engaged board ct
lo5 East Twenty eighth street, where they
lived as man and wife.
ao Meantime ga 96H ne. they engaged and furnished a
nat NJ ZOS East Fourteenth street, over o drug
store, and when ready they moved there with
TUG DaDy' and again passed as man and wife.
ITS DEATH THE FIRST OBSTACLE.
All the time the woman kept urging HamIl-
ION TO marry, her. She urged the union on
Ihe ground that she was the mother of his
halo, and his only. She had to halt q while
because the Laby was taken i'll and died.
Dr' Kemp, of 267 West Twenty third street,
attended the little one during it's sickness,
H y %nen It died gave a certificate of death,
Mann, daughter of George and Alice Mann"
breast milk"
ANOTHER BABY poUaHT.