The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24

found him, and Mrs. Hamilton went out
to see him. He told her plainly that he
would not live with her again. She re-
turned to Kansas City. In 1886 he came
here. too, and got divorce from her. In
1887 he brought his present wife here from
California and married her. They had
three children.
One of the strangest things In the story
Is that although Hamilton and Johanna
were divorced, and he was married again,
they continued to love each other dearly
and to write each other letters that
breathed the warmest affection. Mr.
Hamilton attended to her financial af-
fairs and did repairing upon the houses
she owned. She was worth $1,000, and
in 1894 she made viii leaving Mr.. Ham
iltons boy by his second wife all of her
estate. The boy died in the spring of 1896,
and although Johanna Hamilton the d-
vorced wife, would never look upon his
face when he was alive, she went to the
funeral and placed a costly wreath of
flowers on his grave.
After the death of the boy she made an
other will, leaving all her property TO her
divorced husband. She died in February,
and no win could be found. Her broth
ers and sisters claimed the estate. T. J.
Hamilton claimed it, too. He filed in
court a copy Of the will which she had
made leaving all her property to him, and
asked that it be declared her true wiz
That was an unheard of proceeding
heretofore in this county Lawyers
searched for parallel cases, and several
instances were found where a will was
made and accidentally destroyed, and a
copy of the will was admitted to probate
after It's contents were proven by wit
F nesses to correspond with the genuine
will. The most famous of these cases was
the RAT case in which a will was made
and witnessed, and, after the death of the
testator, the will was found gnawed into
undecipherable shreds by rats. A copy of
that win was proven and probated.
A long trial Of Hamltons claim was
had in the Probate Court Their affec-
ton for each other was shown by letters,
it was proven that she did VIII her prop
erty to Hamilton, but, unfortunately for
him. it was Shown that a month before
her death she consulted lawyer about
drawing up new will and directed him
about what requests to mention in it, and
the lawyer went so far as to make a
draft Of the will, bit she never returned
to sigh il. This, taken in connection with
the fact that no VIII was found, led the
Judge 10 conclude that she must have de-
stroyed il, and he decided that she died
without a will.
Let me, while I think of it, tell a rela-
ton story told me by the new Congress-
man from Ohio" writes "a Cabinet Mem
bers Wife" giving her Inner Expert
ences," in the April Ladies' Home Journal.
This is his first term in Congress. When
he and his wife came to Washington early
in October they brought along an elderly
aunt of his wife's for visit before the
season began, as she was too deaf to en-
joy society. One day he took the old
lady out to drive in a high, open vehicle,
called here a trap. His wife was unable
to go at the last moment, so the aunt
mounted behind, and he in front, as he
drove himself Being new to the place,
they had hardly any acquaintance. Great
" to his establishment in a short time
as they drove along, people began to bow
TO him from every side. He said that for
one short. moment he saw himself a great
man, but al the same time his surprise
increased until he turned around to ex-
press his establishment to his Aunt Pris-
ella, even if he had to shout, and in turn
ing the mystery of the bows was solved
the old lady sat bolt upright, sound asleep
with her head fallen forward Every
lurch of the vehicle bowed her head, ana
the people along the streets were only re-
turning what they took to be her saluta-
tons He spoke TO her. but she could not
hear, so he turned about and drove home
When he stopped in front of the house
she Weakened UP, and was mortified to
death"