The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-02-05
REV. Or. WILLIAM HAMMOND.
Preacher, Doctor, - ad Beat. Riga.
mist. Etc.

The reverend rascal, William Ham
mond, late Baptist minister at Frank
lin Falls, N. H., who recently tried
to run off with his newly.married
wife's money and was caught, has
brought up in Montreal with another
woman, whom he has been passing
off as his wife there. He announces
that he will soon open church of
his own, but disclosures of his evil
deeds in various parts of the country
are being made so rapidly that he
will not pose long in Montreal as a
minister.
Police Inspector George Richard
son, of Boston, has been collecting
the facts regarding Hammond's
career of clerical and carnal crooked
ness. Inspector Richardson arrested
Hammond in Boston, it will be re-
membered, and defeated Hammond's
scheme to appropriate to himself the
property of Mrs. DR.. Brockway, of
Franklin Falls, whom Hammond had
married under false pretences. Ham
mond falsely represented her when
he was foiled in his attempt TO secure
possession of her property, as
woman of grossly incorporate habits
who had caused him great mortitica-
tion and trials in his christian labors.
Inspector Richardson's sympathies
for the deceived and slandered wo-
man have made him diligent in
tracing out record that shows
Hammond to be an outcast from the
ministry, dead beat, an abortionist,
bigamist, confidence man, an alleged
incendiary and murderer. Ham
mond has been connected with the
Catholic, Presbyterian, Dunkard,
Methodist and Free Will Baptist
churches. His certificate for his last
marriage he oh aimed at Lowell,
Mass, under thc fuse representation
that he was a phy,i'i ian and that he
and his intended bride were both
residents of Lowell. A party making
such false represen ttion is, under
Massachusetts law, liable 10 fine of
! 5000.
Hammond once preached at Bed
ford, Mass, where the record he left,
as given by brother clergyman, was
that of "an outrageous liar and Ii.
centious scamp" AT Allentown,
Pa, he is remembered as "a con,
scienceless liar and profigate. At
South Pultney, N. Y, where he got
into woman scrape and appropriated
to his own use $50 of church money,
he is remembered as "a wolf in
sleeps clothing seeking whom he
may devour." Hammond claimed
at South Pultney that he has been a
Catholic priest. In 1884, Hammond
held forth at Wolf Lake, Ind, as a
Baptist preacher and physician. &C
cording 10 a letter from Ligonier,
Ind, Hammond made himself so
offensive at Wolf Lake in all his re-
lations that when he left his depart
ure was signaized by the firing of
cannon and grand Notification. -"
From Wolf Lake he went to Indian
Village, Ind, where a woman whom
| he called his wife died under suspi-
cious circumstances. His furniture
at Wolf Lake was heavily insured,
and was destroyed in fire which the
inhabitants of the place believed to
have been incendiary. Hammond
turned up at Ligonier, Ind, early in
1885, and attempted to practice
medicine. He confessed to procur.
ing an abortion on a widow, fol-
which he received $50 fee, and
offered himself in marriage to S
woman of loose character, whose
ownership of $1,000 worth of pro
perty seemed to make her attractive
She declined the offer, and in July
1885, Hammond left for the East
His operations at Franklin Falls have
been detailed in the News. The Ode
Fellows, knights of Pythias and Pat
rons of Husbandry, at Franklin Falls
will eventually eject him from the
lodges. Hammond is leprous ant
morally rotten tramp "bum," capable
of any crime under the canopy, ant
dangerous in any community because
he can pray and preach aud "arous
the myodly" like the archadversary O
all evil when he comes on earth to d
} his prettiest. Amy community fndin
itself afflicted with the original of tn
portrait in this weeks Police New
cannot do better than to warm som
tar and shake out a pillow of feather
and give the reverend rascal lastin
black, downy coat and "a long ride o
the sharpest edge of stout rail.
There seems no question that Han
mond made an, attempt on the life {
, his wife at Franklin Falls, N. H., b
giving her suG-cutaneous injection
of morphine. He drew $1,000 frol
; his wife's savings bank account, an
/ got possession of $1,000 bond b,
, longing to her. The $1,000 he hel
, in the form of draft in Boston, pa,
D ment of which was stopped. Han
i, mond was arrested in Boston b
Chief Inspector Hanscom, and take
e to Franklin Falls by lnspectC
Richardson of the Boston detectiv
force. Hammond was guilty of la
ceny, but when his wife found tn
hnr mnnaU wns safe She wac no