The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-10
ON THE BoWERY.
There Hiram Maxim Met Woman Twen-
ty Years Ago.

ty Years Ago.
New York, October S.-Hiram S. Maxim
of machine gun fame was arrested late
last night at the hotel Manhattan by a
| Central Office detective and taken to po-
lice headquarters where he was looked
up.
ABOUND the arrest the police threw a
veil of deep mystery. Further than to
saw that his last name was Maxim and
that the case was of some Importance,
Detective Sergeant Webb, in charge OF
the detective bureau. would not talk.
Even this information was withheld un-
til nearly Q a. m. today. At that hour
carriage drove up to the Mulperry
street entrance of headquarters and
Magistrate Cornell and former Mayor
Cooper stepped out and hurried into tne
building.
They had come to bail the prisoner, ana
they did SO quickly, after which ne lero
police headquarters with them.
1t was announced that the prisoner was
Hiram S. Maxim, and that he had been
eoAA eooSA ia " WdE10AU AoSs~>> ~ - -
Brown, recorder of Poughkeepsie. de
was charged, it was said, by woman
who gave the name of Helen Maxim, and
said she was his wife, with abandonment
and disorderly conduct.
Sergeant Webb said that WAS all he
knew about the case, except that former
Mayor Cooper had furnished the requisite
bond, that Magistrate Cornell had accept
ed 1T and that the prisoner had been re-
leased.
Detective Rynders made tho arrest. 1t
was learned later that Mr.. Maxim had
denied in most positive terms that the
woman who accuses him was his wife,
or that he had abandoned her.
He came to court this morning In car
riage drawn by a fine span Of horses.
He assembled to the police court room,
where Magistrate Cornell was sitting IN
Judgment on the mixed array of DRINKS
and disorderlies, Bowery women and
petty thieves
Mr.. Maxim looked woe-begone. he
fingered at the outer rail, and looked
about him YEARLY.
The reporters seized him and he made
this statement to them:
ssThis woman bothered me once be-
fore. 1t is pure case of blackmail, moth
ing more. She has no claim upon me.
never was married to her, couldn't be,
for I had a wife and three children when
I first met her, and had no intention
or inclination to marry her.
"That was 20. years ago. was strolling
in the Bowery when met her. We fiirted
and scraped acquaintance. We wen
about for few weeks and had good
time. Her name was Helen Layton. She
was sometimes called Nell Malcolm. She
was we'll aware that I had a wife and
family.
81 had forgotten all about my expert
ence with this Bowery girl when, five
years afterward, / was in Philadelphia.
A policemen came to my hotel and ar
rested me on a warrant charging me
with bigany. couldn't recall her at
the moment and she did not appear
at the police court when was arraigned,
and was discharged and the charge was
dismissed.
ST afterward learned that she was at
this time living in the notorious house
of Mrs MoFadden in Samson street.
"That was Is years ago, and that is the
last 1 heard of Helen Layton or Nell
Malcolm, until this warrant was served
upon me last night at the Manhattan
hotel, where am stopping with my wife
my only wife.
"This is cass of blackmail. There is
somebody back OF this woman"
| Detective Rynders said that when he
went to the hotel Manhattan he found
was surprised at the affair. Mr.. Maxim
said:
so, it's the same old story. I know
| all about it. and also who is at the bot.
| tom of it. +"
Hiram Stevens Maxim is the inventor
of the automatic rapid-tlre gun which
bears his name. He is IS years old. He
invented a dynamo machine which was
brought out by the U. S. electric light
ing company and also achieved fame with
flying machines. He was born in Maine,
but for many years has n AIDE his home
in London. He is millionaire. He mas
carried on an acrimonious controversy
with his brother Hudson, in the press
and elsewhere for the past year.
The hearing was held in the magis-
trate's private room, and lasted only i've
minutes Mr. Maxim was formally turned
over to Poughkepsie detective.
Mr.. Maxim said later that he met the
Layton or leighton woman while he was
living on Union street, Brooklyn. He
added that after the Philadelphia episode
she appeared in London and sought him
out in his apartments. He said he had
to eject her foroibly. He said she had
got some one to write him threatening
letter, saying that If he did not pay her
SIS, 600 he would be exposed and ruined
in business
oughkeepsie, NY, October s.-Hiram
S. Maxim, the Inventor of the machine
gun, was arraigned in the police court
here this afternoon charged with b1gamy
and abandonment. He pleaded not guilty
and the case was adjourned until Friday
next at psSm. Frank B. Town, lawyer
of this city, went his bail in the SUN OF
$4,000. and Mr.. Maxim returned to New
York this evening.