The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-10
FOOLED WITH A BABY.
A WEALTHY YOUNG MAN TAKEN
IN BY AN ACTRESS.

Just Like the Hamilton Case - The
Plan Would Have Worked II the
Baby's Mother Had Kept Still-Her
Anxiety Led to Divorce.
From the Pittsburo Dispatch.
New YORK, Aug. ezra Park Foot. a
young man of &c, who lives with his parents
In st. Paul, has obtained divorce within a
month from his wife, who be had found to
be an adventures who had tricked him very
much as Eva Mann did Robert Ray Hamil-
ton.
For six months after her marriage Mrs.
Foot moved 10 St. Paul's best society Her
name is Florence Miami Blood, and she met
Mr.. Foot in Phila 1elphia several years ago.
They fell in love with each other, but after
a time the young man stopped calling. The
woman arranged a scheme then by which
she could get a hold on Mr.. Foot. In De-
cember, 1890, she came to New York and
introduced herself to Ars. Elise Landau of
ITO East Forty-ftth street as Mrs. Foot and
said she wanted to adopt u baby. In answer
to the advertisement which Mrs. Landau
published Mrs. Theresa Campbell OF 1850
Stebbins street, in the annexed disrict,
offered her 3-months-old baby, Willie, for
adoption.
THE BOGUS BABY WAS ACCEPTED.
Mrs. Foot took the child away with her
to Lancaster, Pa, where Mr. Foot was,
and told him the child was his. She de-
manded that Foot marry her at once and
to avoid scandal he consented.
The wedding occurred at Camden, Dec.
IL, 1890. Mr.. Foot took his newly made
wife to st. Paul and introduced her to his
father. Silas Foot, retired leather dealer.
She was welcomed os one of the household
and her deception probably would not have
been discovered if Mr.. Campbell the mother
Of the child. had not grown uneasy about
her offspring. She had expected to hear
how her child was getting along, but no
word was sent her. She tried several times
to get Information from Mrs. Landau, but
the midwife would give her no clew to the
boys whereabouts.
Supt. jenkins of MIR. Gerry's society ad-
vised Mrs. Campbell to put the matter into
the hands OF Lawyer W. Travers Jerome.
Mr.. Jerome sent for Mrs. Landau to call at
his office. He read the riot act to Mrs.
Landau when she refused to give the name
of the woman who had the child, and the
next day she sent note with this written
on it: MRS. E. p. Foot, st. Paul.
THE OLD GENTLEMAN QUICKLY TUMBLED.
From St. Paul directory Mr.. Jerome
found that Silas 3. Foot was a wholesale
leather dealer there, and he wrote a long
letter to him, giving all the facts in the
case he knew. Fortunately he had writ ten
to the father-in-law of the Blood woma u.
Old Mr. Foot saw through the whole scheme
of the adventures. at once, but he wanted
to be sure of his ground so he came on to
New York with Willie's picture in his
valise. Mrs. Campbell unhesitatingly
picked her child's picture from a number
shown to her by Mr., Foot. The old gentle
man started back from St. Paul in hurry,
but his daughter n-law had been warned in
the meantime aud had left with the baby
for the east in spite OF her husbands pro-
tsst.
Mrs. Campbell gave up all hope OF find
Ing her child, but an investigation in Phila-
delphia soon put Mr.. Jerome on the track
of Mrs Foot. She was found With the child
at the home of a relative, at 454l Saybrook
avenue, and finally agreed to give up the
child. Now Mrs. Campbell has her child
again. and Ezra Foot has obtained a
divorce, The woman has disappeared