The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-08
SHE GAVE HIM A DOWRY
DIR. HAMILTON GOT $4,000 FOR MAR
RYING A sEPTNAGENARIAN.
Required Settlement Before the Ger
emOny-She Is Worth $4O.OOO-FIed
from Her Brother.

Further facts were ascertained yesterday
concerning the marriage of DR.. Henry Ham
ilton and Mrs. Sarah K. Lisk at the White
Ribbon House Monday by Magistrate Lock-
man. She is seventy-ive years old and he
under fifty
Before the ceremony was performed there
was transaction in the office of Magis-
trate Lockman which showed better than
the marriage record the position of the
groom in the case. AT about 10 o'clock the
pair came into the office and informed
Magistrate Lockman of their intention of
getting married. He was somewhat sur
prised when he fully realized the situation
There stood before him a man in the prime
of life and an aged, decrepit woman. ST
must have this marriage settlement at
tended to before the ceremony is per-
formed said the groom, and then it de-
Veloped that there was some property to be
transferred by the bride to the groom. He
insisted that it be attended to before the
bridal party went to the hotel, and there
was no objection on the part of Mrs. Lisk.
She seemed to be as anxious as he to have
the matter settled. ea
Accompanying DIR. Hamilton and Mrs.
Lisk was w. S. McCaull, a Chicago attor-
ney. He had an instrument prepared which
cages by Mrs. Lisk to DR.. Hamilton. They
wanted Magistrate Lockman to acknowl-
edge it. He read it over and then wrote on
a piece of paper for the eyes of Mrs. Lisk:
DO You know the contents of this paper?
II so sign II and will acknowledge it.
Mrs. Lisk read it over carefully, and
nodded her approval.
Magistrate Lockman then wrote: do YOU
acknowledge the same to be your voluntary
act and deed?"
She wrote: II do and signed her name.
This attended to the party repaired to the
White Ribbon House and the ceremony was
performed, the questions being written for
the bride by the magistrate.
In the course of conversation with the
groom he told Magistrate Lockman that he
and Mrs. Lisk had agreed upon a marriage
out of purely business motives: The home
of both, he said, was Joliet, ILL.,, and this
was also the home of a brother of Mrs.
Lisk. She was worth about $4,000 in bonds,
mortgages and property, and her brother
had been trying to have a conservator APP
pointed so that he could get control of the
property Mrs. Lisk had fled from him to
New York and had later made the arrange
ment to meet Or. Hamilton here and be
married to him.
An attempt was made to see Mrs. Lisk
Hamilton yesterday afternoon. DR.. Hamil-
ton left the city an hour after he was mar
ried and he could not be asked to verify the
story he told Magistrate Lockman. At the
White Ribbon House Mrs. Clark was en-
countered in the hallway. She was told the
errand, but natly refused 10 allow the re-
porter to see Mrs. Hamilton
1t was suggested that the refusal would
better come from Mrs. Hamilton herself
and the landlady finally consented to carry
q card up. In about ten minutes the card
was returned with the following from Mrs.
Hamilton: II can see no reporters. Have
nothing to say to them, so please ex-
cuse me-
Mrs. Hamilton expects to leave for Joliet
to-day. DR.. Hamilton, her middle-aged
husband, is said to be a travelling specialist
with Joliet as his Headquarters, He has
practice in various parts of the country,
and with his partner makes long trips.