The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-04
MRSABRAHAMSTALKS
THE PLOT - NOW REVEALED.
Interesting News About . woman Who
= Alleged to Delight In Drsah-
Ing Up Families.

Through the manifold troubles Of Phil
I'D Abrshams. erstwhile prominent grocer
OF this city and now private detective IN
California trying TO find his household
goods that were spirited away by Mrs.
Kate Hamilton, one little silver cloud has
just made its appearance. Mrs. Abra-
hams. who made that famous trip TO
Honolulu and on returning filed an aft
dayft In the superior court charging her
hubby with conspiring with Mrs Hamii-
ton 10 get rid OF her. now comes to the
front and says opsuiy that after q thor
ough investigation she u certain that Mr.
Abrahams had nothing TO do With getting
her out OF the country. but instead that
the whole affair was planned by Mrs.
Hamilton, who desired 10 break up the
family. Mrs. Abrahams tells q very In
teresing story about Mrs. Hamilton,
whom she characterizes as . bold, bad.
designing woman. who travels around the
country under false pretenses. doing
harm wherever she lives.
Mrs. Abahams told the following story
10 Post-Intelligencer reporter last even
ing:
in September. 1894. hired as servant
Mrs. Kate Hamilton. an elderly woman
who had two children. between the ages
OF and 70 years. After keeping her q
week l found that she did not suit. and
discharged her. She commenced TO cry and
get little cottage across the street and
pave her furniture to ~ IL up. Then Mr..
Abrahams and myself helped her along
by giving her flour. provisions. etc. 1
thought she was a deserving person, and
al the time my husband disappeared
asked her TO come to the house that
evening TO look after things, a. I was
completely unnerved.
The next day / came to the city to zee
an attorney an TO what could be done in
regard TO the store On returning home
Mrs. Hamilton said that Mr. Abahams
had been there and taken two suits Of
clothes. h Of p. badge. some papers
rom under the carpet and some shirts.
found on looking that the articles men
toned had been taken, and supposed her
story true. She also said that Mr. Abra-
mans said that he would write from San
francisco to me through her
since then l have found out thar fha
things taken from the house were given
6y airs. Hamilton to a tramp named John
nuIns ana ihat Mr.. Abrahams was not
al the house at all.
AT different times after Mr.. Abrabarn~.
oisappearance Mrs. Hamilton showed me
1nree letters. one from Victoria. one from
Los Angeles and one from San Francisco
supposed to have been written by my f,us-
band AT that time believed they were.
decided. on her advice, TO go to Homo
H.
ton purchased my tickets I gave her $40
TO buy the tickets and to pay for the
freight on my goods. I also had her check
my trunk. and she insisted that the trunk
should go to Honolulu direct, instead of
being checked only TO San Francisco. as
desired. / don't know how 1t was but I
seemed entirely under the woman's con-
troll. am satisfied now that she was ad-
fninistering slow poison to me and my
child.
II went 10 San Francisco. stayed there
twelve days at the International hotel,
having my meals brought to me at nv
room so that | would not be discoy cred.
and then sailed for Honolulu expecting to
meet my husband after the Arawa sailed.
January L. When he did not appear /
gave the matter no thought, as Mrs Ham,
ilton said I would not see him until I was
day out. When / arrived In Honolulu
and still could not find my husband and
learned that my trunk had been robbed of
all my clothes and the baby's and that
my household goods had not come at all.
/ Immediately saw that something was
wrong. Through the kindness OF passen-
gers got hack to Seattle and then
thought that my trip to Honolulu had
been carefully planned by Mrs. Hamilton
and my husband.
when I commenced 10 make thor
ough investigation. however. / discovered
that my husband had nothing 10 do witt.
the affair and that Mrs. Hamilton had
given me a forged bill of lading for my
goods and had gone TO San Francisco her
self and gotten possession of them. Shs
stored them at the Pacific Transfer Com
pany's etorehouse on Suffer street, as the
property OF Mrs. Kate Hamilton. I also
learned about her giving the things TO the
tramp Burns she said my husband got.
At different places found different things
1tra hs.1 s~str IN, ct
Through Miss Efinghouse. of George
town. learned that Mrs. Hamilton con-
tesssi 20 her forging the letters that she
told me came from my husband. and also
said that she would send me and my kid
20 HE'LL as she had already sent two
others
About the 18th OF November I had a
severe headache. and as my husband was
IN the hospital Mrs. Hamilton came over
and said she would fix the headache. Then
she put some kind OF powder in a glass
OF water and told me 10 drink II. I did "a
She said and about an hour later com
menced 10 foam at the mouth and was
delirlous for three or four hours. She said
that she though the powder might have
been too strong. l was Ill for several days
but had no more vomiting spells for
week
Mrs Hamilton said that Mr.. Abrahams
told her she ought to stay at the house.
She did 50 and UP TO the time reached
San Francisco had those vomiting spells
every day. and the baby Also had the
same spells. Mrs Hamilton said the baby
had swallowed a tack After I reached
San Francisco Rad jus, one vomiting AZ,
and none since then.
II ASH well sss ttSfie6 that she was giving
me some kind % drug. She told Miss
Ffirgshofgse that the baby would be dead
before had been away a month. and that
would never see Mr.. Ahrahans again.
She also said she hated me and had sent
me away.
~ have been Informed that Mrs. Hsmil-
ton was known sn Denver as Naige Char
iris. ard was also notorious IN Everett In
August. IS9f''