The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-06
QUEENS BIOGRAPHY
New Work by Holmes the
Talk Of London
Circles.
ARDLAMoUNT TRAGEDY ECHO
What the Theatres Are Doing
American Jockey Sloan's
Winnings.
ARDLAMoUNT TRAGEDY ECHO
[By Gable. Copyrighted 1897, by The Asso-
ciated PreSs.1

mourning for the Duchess of Teck has
made but little difference in the gaiety OF
| London, although many of the theatres
1 were closed on the day of the funeral.
Aside from this the week has been the
| same as usual
! The phenomenally fine weather prevail
ling is the despair of the storekeepers,
| who say they cannot sell any winter
clothing. The month of October was the
| dryest since 1884. Laburnums, primroses
and wallflowers are growing and straw
berries are being gathered in the south of
| England.
A new biography of Queen Victoria,
written by Richard r. Holmes, F. S. A.,
the Queens Librarian at Windsor, APP
| peared on Friday and is attracting much
attention. 1t was prepared under the
| immediate supervision of. Her Majesty,
| abounds in family incidents, shows the
Queen has never entirely abandoned the
| relaxations of her earlier years and points
out that within the past fifteen years she
has sung with Tosti and has taken draw
ing lessons from Leitch The biography
| gives among other matter an extract
from Her Majestys Journal in 1855, de-
scribing her pilgrimage to the Invalides
1
Il stood at the arm of Napoleon Ill,
| his nephew, before the coffin of Englands S
bitterest foe. l.. the granddaughter of
| that King who hated him most and who
most vigorously opposed him, and this
very nephew who bears his name being
my nearest and dearest ally, the organ
of the church playing God Save the
| Queen at the time Strange and wonder
/ f,,1 y; HUT
of respect to departed dead foe old en-
mites and rivalries were wiped out and
/ the seal of Heaven placed upon that bond
of unity, which is now happily established
between the two great and powerful ma
tions. May Heaven bless and prosper it,"
| From the comments heard in the clubs
| it is not likely that Mr.. John Lawson
Johnstone, of Kingwood Kent, the princi-
pal director of well-known and largely
advertised company, VINO turns out to be
| the purchaser of the Prince of Wales ia
| nous racing cutter Britannia, will be re-
ceived with open arms in yachting circles.
In fact it is rumored that the Prince
| sold the yacht on the express condition
that the purchaser should not race her,
| and that she is to be rigged as a cruiser.
To an interviewer, Mr.. Johnstone said:-
Il do not feel at liberty to state the
| sum paid for her. I may tell you, how
| ever that 1 did not get her cheap.
/ paid very substantial sum, but should
| not care to run the risk of mourning His
| Royal Higness' displeasure by making it
| public
Mr. Johnstone also told the interviewer
how he Had recently paid 9750 (s3, 75O) for
| a bed upon which Prince Charles slept
before. the Battle of Culloden. This. he
| offered to present to Queen Victoria, who
sions had She accepted presents from a
| commoner, and she did not see her way
to accept the bed. However it was a
very pleasant letter, very pleasant"
| said Mr.: Johnstone, who added that the
! Duke of Argyll had promised to come
and sleep in the bed SO soon as the mat
| ter could be arranged. The newspapers
| Jeer at the inappropriateness of the Sc
lection, as. the ,Campbells,, of which clan
Duke of Argyll is the, head, We're the
| deadly enemies of the Stuarts.
| An echo of the famous Ardlamont trag-
| edy was heard at Leeds on Wednesday
when Alfred J. Monsons who in 1893 was
| pupil, Lieutenant Dudley Cecil Ham
| brough. the jury bringing a verdict of
mot proven" wa was summoned for desert,
| ing his wife. The later said her husband
| had left her in February, 1896, and had
| failed to provide for her and her six chill
| dren, all of whom are under sixteen years
/ og age.
| Lieutenant Hambrough, who was con-
nected with leading banking house of
London and New York, and who was heir
to large estate upon coming OF age,
was discovered dead,l with gunshot
wounds in the back of the head, in the
| preserves or an estate in Scotland, which
MonSOn, the young mans tutor had left
London to purchase for the latter. 1t de-
veloped that the pellets which killed the
| Lieutenant were from Morsons gun, and
| the tutor explained that after they had
| left the house at Ardlamont to go shoot
| ing they had exchanged guns The tutor
was afterwards arrested and tried for
Life Insurance Company of New York, a
| short time previous to HambroughS S
| DEATH issued to Monson two policies for
$4,000 each upon the Leutenant's life, in
beneficiary. 1t was also demonstrated
that Monson negotiated with other
companies for, insurance, with Mrs.
Monsoon as beneficiary, upon the
! life of Lieutenant Hambrough, the
/ whole amount aggregating more than
half million dollars. Monson, being a
money, hence, it was said, his making
| Mrs. Monson the beneficiary. Although
| therer was already 100000 insurance on
death, the defence of Monson made a
point in his favor by pointing out the
uncompleted nature of some of the in
surance money was the motive of the
! crime the murder would have been de-
layed until all the papers were in order.
! On the other hand, while it was at first
| believed that Hambrough might have ac-
! cidentally killed himself by tripnping and
exploding his gun as he fell, it was dem
| oiiotid dtSo lndl d tree DedE WUGTG the
| body was found had received some of
| the deadly charge just above the height
| OF mans head from the ground. The
| indications were that the man who fired
/ the shot which killed Hambrough stood
| about thirty PAGES away, as the hair on
| the back of the deceased's head about
| the wound had not been singed, as it
| would have most likely have been had
/ he tripped and shot himself with the
1 muzzle of his gun close to his head. But
as Scotch juries are proverbiably very.
| cautious, the verdict of mot proven set
| Manson at liberty.
! A mysterious individual known by a
| number of names, including those of Ed
| ward Scott and Edward Sweeney and
| engineer of Malbrougals yacht and also
| a gamekeeper at Ardlamont, disappeared
| on the day of the murder and was hunted
| for by the police for long time after.
| wards as being likely to possess knowl-
| edge of the tragedy. After considerable
investigation of more or less misleading
| identity, q series of articles said to have
| been written by Scott were published in
| April, 1894, just after Scott had surrender
| ed himself to the police and had been dis
| charged because the warrant against him
had expired, completely exculpating Scott
! and Monson from any connection with
Hambrough's death
The sporting newspapers have devoted
much attention to TOD Sloane the
| American jockey, since he has begun win
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