The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
REPEATER BRIDE ARRESTED.
MARGARET HAMILTON LOCKED UP
FOR BIGAMY.

Bridegroom No. 2 Said to Have Accused
No. 1 OF Proposing That They Poison
Their Wlfe-CharEe Promptly Denied
Tho Girl Spends the Night In jail.
Margaret Hamilton, the young woman Of
milestone. l.. l., who is said to have mar
ried Frederick Kirkman Of Flushing on
Sunday, Oct. II. and then on the next day
to have gone through marriage ceremony
with Edward Roche, was arrested for big
amy yesterday afternoon and locked up
in tho Queens county JAIL in Long Island
City.
As the crime Of bigamy is said to have
been committed tn Manhattan, her case
will be laid before the Grand Jury of New
York county.
District Attorney George Grieg of Queens
county summoned before him yesterday
and the Rev. Dr. F. j. Schneider, who per-
formed the marriage ceremonies, and VIII
Lam Hamilton. father Of the girl.
Both kirkman and Roche insisted that
they had married Margaret Hamilton, the
two olergymen said they had performed
the marriages, and Hamilton said he had
the two marriage certificates.
The District Attorney submitted tho five
af1davits to Magistrate Connorton in the
Long Island City police court, and the Mag
istrate Immediately issued q warrant for
the girls arrest on a charge OF bigamy,
and gave II to Detective Butler to serve.
Hardly had the Magistrate issued tho
warrant when Mr.. Familton took District
Attorney 0Tieg aside and asked him what
was going to be done to Kirkman, husband
No. 1, for threats he had made against his
young wiie's life after he discovered that
she had married Roche. Roche Is private
attached to the hospital at Fort Totten,
Willets Point.
Mr.. Familton told me-, said the District
Attorney, that Kirklnan went out to the
fort to see Roche last Wednesday and de-
liberately proposed that the two husbands
should take advantage Of Roche's medical
knowledge to prepare a box OF poisoned
candy and send 1t to their wife who WAS
still living at the Familton home in White;
he would have nothing to do with such a
plot, and Kirkman went away
The District Attorney said that he could
not act on such slender evidence Kirk
man, before leaving Long Island City,
absolutely denied the tale. Then he went
to his home in Flushing packed his trunk
and started for Scranton, Pa, whore he
has job as fireman on railroad.
Detective Butler accompanied Mr.. Fam
iton and young Roche to milestone and
served the warrant on the girl. She was
taken before Magistrate Edmund Healy
at Flushing, and he offered to admit her
to bail in 81 600. Her friends were either
unable or unwilling to furnish the bond,
80 she was locked up in the Queens county
jail.
The whole case will be threshed out before
Magistrate Connorton in Long Island City
Jury of New York county.
At yesterdays investigation, Roche IL
said to have suggested that kirkman COM
PEELED the girl by hypnotism to marry him.
She IL herself quoted az having said that
she was forced into the first marriage at
the point Of pistol. The Rev. Mr.. Thorpe,
however, told the District Attorney that
when he performed the ceremony she
seemed quite self possessed and willing
kirkman is only Is years old. He re-
signed place as fireman on the Long Island
Railroad last week on account OF the scandal
Roche came to Fort Totten from the West
six months ago.
Half an hour after the girls arrest her
family were found chatting with young
Roche on the steps OF their cottage. They
refused to have anything to say as to the
reason for the double marriage.
Night Warden Theodore Geiser of tho
Queens County Jail found, late last night,
that the commitment of Margaret Hamilton
had not been signed by tie Magistrate.
This discovery caused him great distress
He seemed to be afraid he might he liable
for damages for keeping the young woman
in custody.