The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-12
THE HAMILTON CASE.

Just as interest in the fate of Mrs. MAY
BRICK collapsed through the communication
of her sentence to Imprisonment for life,
the reading public at home and abroad
were furnished with the commencement of
another great and interesting criminal
case, which, like the novel of the day, has
its immoral shades or of course it would
not climb up into the dignity of a cause
cslebre 1t looks as though fortune con-
Quoted its caprices on the same plan that
the publisher of a story paper does his
romances-it does not permit one to be
entirely concluded before new one is put
on, thus to keep the readers interest un-
ending.
The newest sensation is the already
famous HAMILTON affair. ROBERT RAY
HAMILTON, a man of the world and noted
club member of Atlantic City, New Jersey,
allowed himself to become involved with a
woman of i'll repute, whom it seems he
married, and she stabbed her female ser
want in a fit of jealousy, having quarreled
with and tainted her with infidelity in the
presence of HAMILTON. Both the ''high
contracting parties are in limbo awaiting
the result Of the attack upon the domestic.
This is of itself as Sir LUCIUs O'TRIG
GER would say, very pretty quarrel as it
stands.
Que of the sad phases of the affair is the
fact that HAMILTON belongs to the party of
great moral ideas, otherwise known as the
Republican party, and is somewhat noted
as a ''reformer'' in the ranks. He is a son
Of General SCHUYLER HAMILTON, and a
great-grandson of ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
the distinguished F'ederalist who opposed
THOMAS JEFFERSON and was murdered in a
duel with AARON BURR. He has repre-
scented that very aristocratic circle, Murray
Hill, New York, seven times in the state
assembly, and is an out-and-out blue blood,
silk stocking, or whatever else his predi-
lections and habits may entitle him to be
called.
The revelation of HAMLToN's domestic
affairs astonished his friends and acquaint-
ances who, but fer the carving exercises
alluded to, would have kept on in blissful
ignorance of the character of his inward
life and PERHAPS never have cared
whether his marital relationship was
mesalliance or not. Now that it has all
come out they are shocked and their friend
and associate is pointed at as one to be kept
at arms length for the present at least. He
is living illustration OF the fact that it is
not as a rule the thing that is done which
undoes US, but the being found out, the
finding out in his case amounting to great
deal more than those who are unfamiliar
with the nature of such a case in high social
circles in the east can comprehend. It is
simply an idol toppled from his pedestal
The juiciness of the case is further en-
phasized by the fact that while in the New
York legislature, HAMLToN's favorite
measure and one that he championed with
unusual zeal, was very stringent bill for
the suppression of immortality and vice!
He got it through mis- part of that body, too,
but it persisted in the senate; and he has
always been conspicuous for his advocacy
of measures to make men and women bet
ter. a more conspicuous instance of a
double life does not exist even IN the story
Of ''Dr. Jelyll and Mr.. HYDE" and it is
the newness of the thing, its utter variance