Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
FOOLED WITH A BABY.
A Wealthy Young Man of st. Paul
Taken in by an Adventures
JUST LIKE TUE HAMILTON CASE.
he Plan Would Have Worked if the BabyiE
Mother Had Kept still
HER ANXIETY LED TO A DIVORCE:

, ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE prsYArcH.1
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Ezra Park Foot, Q
young man OF 26, who lives with his parents
in St. Paul, has obtained a divorce within .
month from his wife, who he had found to
be an adventures who had tricked him very
much as Eva Mann did Robert Ray Hamil-I
ton.
For six months after her marriage Mrs.
Foot moved in St. PauPs best society. Her
name is Florence Miami-Blood, and she
met Mr.. Foot in Philadelphia several
years ago. They fell in love with
each other, but. after a time the.
young man stopped calling. Tha
woman arranged a scheme then by
which she could get hold on Mr.. Foot In
December, 1890, she came to New York and
introduced herself to Mrs Elise Landau, Of
ITO East Forty-f!th street, as Mrs Foot
and said she wanted to adopt baby In
answer to the advertisement which Mrs
Landau published NJ =. Theresa Campbell,
of 1150 Stebbins street he annexed dis
trict, offered her 3-mon.hs - oaby, Willie.
for adoption.
Tho 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 demanded
that Foot marry her at once, aud to avoid
scandal he consented.
The wedding occurred at Camden Decem-
Der II, 1890. Mr.. Foot took his newly mads
wife to St Paul and introduced her to his
father, Silas Foot. retired leather
dealer. She was welcomed as one of the
household and her deception prob
ably would not have been discovered
if Mrs. 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 tho
midwife would give her no clew to the boys
whereabouts.
Superintendent Jenkins, of Mr.. Gery's
society, advised Mrs. Campbell to put the
| matter into the hands of LawyerW. Travers
| Jerome. Mr.. Jerome sent for Mrs. Landau
| to cali 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 a note with this
written on it: 'Mrs. E. P. Foot, st. Paul !"
The Old Gent cman Quickly Tumbled.
From a st. Paul directory Mr.. jerome
| found that Silas B. Foot was a wholesale
| leather dealer there and he wrote q long
| letter to him, giving all the facts IN the
| case ne knew. Fortunately be had written
to the father-in-law of the Blood woman.
| 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 un-
hesitatingly picked out her child's picture
| from number shown to her BY Mr.. Foot.
The old gentleman started back for St
| Paul in hurry, but his daughter-in-law
had been warned in the meantime and had
left with the baby for the East in spite OF
her husbands protest.
Mrs. Campbell gave mp all hope of ind-
| 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 house of relative, at 4541 Say
brook avenue, and finally agreed to give up
the child. Now Mrs. Campbell has her
child again, snd Ezra Feesebas obtained I
divorce. The woman has diAppearsd