New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-05
HAYILTO TELLS a CURIOCS STORY.
HE SAYS HE HIRED BLACK ART DOCTOR 10
PIT HIS WIFE OUT OF THE WAY.

PIT HIS WIFE OUT OF THE WAY.
James l.. Hamilton, tho mulatto. who Is now in the
Queens County Jail charged with the murder OF his
Wife who found in a pond near Wnhcid WIN hcr
throat cut made strange statement yesterday TO one
NJ his ,alors He denies knowing anything about tho
murder lie says he last saw his vile on Ihursaay
last AT spnngve, Flushing. wlSrc they went 10
scther to look at house. lie attributes her oe''1 W
doctor practising the black art whom, he says. he
er, met yenr ago at Great Neck. Just after he had
failed 10 obtain divorce fr om his wife. The doctor
assured I'm no could get rid Of his wife through tho
art, but although he followed the Instructions gwen
him nv the doctor" his wife did not disappear Then
tho doctor offered b. get her ont Oh t way TOT "io
Us assured Hamilton that there would oe no nfiruer
In IT, and requested to 50 ahead. ia'h''oh says
bc believes tho man to whom he lent his cane on Sun
day. ost.nsiby to kin q dog with, was either the eoc
Tar, mr. some one sent by hin TO get the cane, and That
te doctor killed MIS-. Hamilton breaking the cane
which WAS found her body, over her head hrst
and then cutting her thrat.
Hamilton SAYS that l,e educated for the minis
try at Lincoln University, aud that no met MS wie
while visiting Flushing two years and half ngo. he
became Intimate with her, and when she was ao'ut
To become IA mother. she compelled him TO marry her.
He had found that she too fond OF other men, ana
n year aao hied to get divorce, but iaied
Coroner Brandon aud the other ofncials VINO arc
working up the ease against Hamilton say '"aV Ms
story Is the product Of vivid imagination ana deVoid
Of truth. and that they have conclusive evidence
against him as the murderer. The inquest VIII DC
t..vun nt Newtown tomorrow afternoon.
witnesses will be produced 10 prove that Hamilton
and hs wife rode on the train from Flushing 10
Winfield on Sunday night although they did not rlac
IN the same car and that he met her on the platform
.t winfield station. liamltons statement that he
nye his wife hi, cane witch found near the scene
Of the Murder because she WAS i'll with reuHntsIn
viii be controverted by tie physicians WHO hiade
the post -lnotem examinations, WHO VIII swear
that she was In excellent physical health at the
time 4 her death, although pregnant for ioaf
months Two women Will testify 10 seeing
Supre resembling Hamilton and his wife, pass their
ho,,se o., the nigit of the crime and walk down the
track TO the Long Island Rail- cad IN the direction OF
ire pDnd wherc Mrs. IIamilton's body WIS af,crwaN
found. -. ,,..o....,, -, ,,,.,
nr,oner's clothing any OF his effects. Coroner Brazil
dom Ina, found "A pair OF drawers Ia iiainiiion's room
that have been soaked in muddy water up 10 the knees,
and Yesterday morning H. nncartl.d from under "A
burcuu I'm the suspected mans room pair of SOCKS
in;t showed that they had been saturated IN similar
muuner Iiamilt( MS boarding-honsc per, MIS-
NOrris will testify that the negro entered her mousse
ni q O'Clock on sunday night aud changed ms sunday
Clothes for n suit, but retained on his fet a
pair OF patent-leathcr oxford ties. These have not
been found.