Evening journal., 1891-06-11
IS RAY HAMIL TON ALIvE4
a Man Who Saw Him Two
...- Weeks Ago. ..-...AAasA
HENRY STRONG WILL THUS SWEAR

He Claime That He Met the Supposed
Dead Nan ln Yellowstone Park am&
That Hamilton Was Travelling Incog-
nito--sarnsnt Tells Different Tale.
NRw YORK, June II While Robert Ray
Hamilton's friends and his late partner
are going about closing up his affairs and
settling his estate, a witness turns up who
Is willing 90 swear positively that Mr.
Hamilton is not dead unless be has died Inn
the last two weeks The witness Is Henry
Strong formerly Of Greene, Chenango
county, n. Y. Hedeclares that two weeks
ago he met Robert Ray Hamilton face to-
face in the Yellowstone park region. He
is certain it was Mr.. Hamilton. He reeog-
nized him at once by his face and his voice-
what He Thinks He Knows.
Mr. Strong came 20 New York two days
ago and said nothing TO anybody about his
meeting Mr. Hamilton or his double until
he read in yesterdays papers Of the arrival
Of Partner Sargent and his slightly con-
fused statements. Finding, AS he says.
that the death story was being persisted
IN and MIR. Sargent was telling about find-
ing the body and burying il, he concluded
TO tell what be knew, or thought he knew
about The matter.
Not Known as Hamilton.
II have been Ia California for the last
year or two,n he said, ''and started home
three weeks ago by way OF the Northern
Pacific AT Yankton | stopped of and
took the stage route into the Yellowstone
park to see what 1t was like.
There are no towns in the park, you
| know-only scattered hotels for tourists
| At one OF these hotels--I have forgotten
the name OF 1.-two weeks ago tomorrow
morning | saw Mr.. Hamilton. He was
apparently travelling through the-park aS
| 1 was aud had not been long at the hotel
/ He was alone, SO far as | could judge. 4
| did not speak TO him because | found one
| that he was not known there as Robert
| Ray Hamilton, and | thought that II ha
wanted to remain unknown IL was none
Of my business. / saw him going ahout
and heard him talking 70 other people.
How He Knew Ray.
II could have recognized him by HIS
voice IL / hadn't seen his face at all. 4
knew that il was Mr.. Hamilton the minute
observed him. The people around the
hotel did not know where he came from
or where he wac going. | stayed thcre
only a short time, and had no chance to
find out more about his movements. He
didn't 70 away In the direction that
went. lie looked very well and was wen
dressed, but like a traveller and not like q
resident. / never had any personal ac
quaintance with him, but knew bis faca
and voice very WE'LL | was in Albany dur
ing the winter Il 1889, when MIR. Hamiltor
was serving has last term in the assembly
/ | and went often to the Legislature.
!. Il Was particularly Interested in Mr.
. Hamilton, because he was the only Repuh
: iicau from New York city, and | am Re
publican myself, and because he was
4 | bright young man. ! saw great deal o
him la Albany and frequently heard hin
4 speak.
wnIlng TO Swear TO 10.
"when was in California / read differ
4 ent stories about his being dead and bein
\ alive. am viking to testify on the Wi
"a ness stand that saw l' 80 -. ..-'~ vs- ,.,,,
e ago" - = 49, S'.s
sar- Strong looks like an honest farm.
G. ana talks like man who knows what 4
r - ABOUT, but he is a little out OF range
p hh geography anyway. The Norther
IS facilc railroad doesn't run through Yanl
ton, and a man who would set out {
travel by stage from Yankton TO YelIov
stone Park would have about 700 miles 4
n remarkably hard wheeling before him.
e Sargent Tells Different Tale.
d John $. Sargent, the ranch partner o
j. Robert Ray Hamilton, who has come her
! from his ranch at Marymere, Wyo.. =
I proveto General Schuyler Hamilton tha
: his soH Is really dead, told the story yester
D day of Mr.. Hamilton's death and the find
6 ing Of his body in Snake river The rtor,
! Is substantially as it has been publishes
before.
Sargent says: "There is no question a
I all that the body found was that Of HamiI
ton. Irecognizedi IL myself, and the thing,
J that were found on il were proof concln
sive. lie had probably been in the watel
week when found. His watch hal
stopped at 980 We buried him al sun
rise on Sept. at my ranch did mo-
make the news Of his death known unit
he had been buried because was so busy.