The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-06
JUST LIKE EVA MANN.
A Young Woman who Bought a
Baby to Make a Rich Youth
Youth Marry Her,

NEW YORK. August 6. 1s92:-A case
that in many features resembles the fam
Gus ten dollar baby imposition upon Rob-
ert Ray Hamilton. by the scheming ad-
ventures, Eva Steele Mann, is made
public today.
In this latest case, which, unlike the
Hamilton affair, has proven a farce in
stead OF tragedy. the de-
luded victim is Ezra Park Foot,
Vice President of the Duluth, Red Wing
and Southern Railway, and the son of
Sllas B. Foot, prominent leather de aler
OF st. Paul. MINI. He Is twenty-six years
old and stands high in st. Paups society
circles.
The schemer is Florence Miami Blood
of Philadelphia and New York, sometimes
known as Matte Lawrence. and whose
present address is unofficially stated as
the Kings County Penitentiary.
The unfortunate baby whom she
palmed of on young Foot as his OVID, and
thereby forced him to marry her and ele-
yate her to social level, is pretty, three
year-old William Henry Campbell. the
son OF Mrs. Theresa Campbell. who lived
at No. l, l5o Steb bbins avenue. this city.
THE STORY.
The details of the narrative were
evolved by Lawyer William Travers Je-
1ouHc, WHO WAS 0upIOyeu DY MIS-. camp
bell to recover her child after she had be-
come suspicious that she had been de-
ceived in consigning the little one to Miss
Blood.
According to Lawyer Jerome young
Foot met the fair Florence several years
ago in Philadelphia, where he was study
ing medicine. She was short, plump
and pretty brunette OF twenty, and,
as Foot found to his sorrow, when his in
fatuation for her cooled and he tried to
rid himself OF her, she was as adroit a
schemer as she was an attractive siren.
Foot and she We're separated for year.
when she suddenly appeared at Lancas-
ter, Pa, where he was stopping. She
brought with her a cute little boy baby,
about year old, which she teartully in
sisted was his offspring, and that she was
the loving mother.
Young Foot WAS thunderstruck. But he
was also honorable. In accordance with
Florence's wishes. he made her Mrs. Park
Foot on December IL. 1890. in Camden. N.
j.. and with his simultaneously acquired
wife and family went to his home IN st.
Paul.
Florence Blood's lifelong dreams
seemed now completely realized. She
longed to shine as the wife Of wealthy
man.
She was soon in the good graces of the
elder Foot, who also developed a strong
RranUIRtnerly aHec5lon Tor HaDy Willie.
THE FLAW IN THE SCHEME.
But like all schemers Florence made
one little blunder Through letter from
Lawyer Jerome, old Silas Foot one day
discovered that Willie was not
his grandchild, but was the son
of Mrs. Campbell, who had parted
with him on condition that she was to
see him, know of his welfare and have
frequent photographs of him.
Not only had these conditions been un-
fulfilled, but Mrs. Campbell had not even
heard of her sous adopted mother
The elder Foot packed bis grip and
came on to New York in hurry From
Lawyer Jerome he learned that DIR. Elise
Landau, whe keeps q private hospital in
East FoFty-afth street, had inserted
an advertisement in the city papers
asking for baby Tor adoption.
Mrs. Campbell answered the advertise
ment and through DR.. Landau obtained
an interview with a young woman, who
said she was Mrs. E. ?. Foot. She parted
with Willie, Lawyer Jerome says, on the
conditions above mentioned.
When Mrs. Campbell later sought
tidings of her boy she was repulsed by
DR.. Landau, who threatened to have her
arrested if she didn't keep away.
Then she sought Lawyer Jerome, who
persuaded DR.. Landau, by somewhat en-
phatic suggestions, to give him mir.
Foot's" address.