The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-15
HUSBAND EXPOSES
MRS. HAMILTON

MRS. HAMILTO
4verrault, Supposed to Be Dead.
Il y Will Aid Dupes in Having
Il Her Punished.
EE NEW YORK, August 14.-Dupes OF
Mrs. Bina +. verrault, otherwise ."Arrs.
Helen Hamilton who engaged them
selves 10 marry the fascinating IA widow
and incidentally parted witt, their cash
in Jumps. met face to Il face the hus-3
band OF the woman yesterday in the Of
fee OF Francis J. Carmody, assistant.
United States district attorney. and had
heart to heart talks with him. AS a re-
suit, all resolved to devote themselves
to bringing about the punishment Of the
Enlmble witted operator in the heart
market. 81 s4G5 ~ IN
Yerrault. whom nobody supposed to be
Yin the land OF the living. since Mrs. Yer
Erault had assured even her attorneys that
he had died many months ago. wa liked
into Mr.. Carmody' 8 o nee and grimly an
5nounced that he was there to tell all he
knew OF the life and exploits of his
wife. ~ rs "a ,s
5f4 He was closeted with Mr.. Carmody y a
long time. Meanwhile James 8. McCle-
Ian. OF Philadelphia IL, whose bank account
suffered to the extentSo OF 81, 6oo. and Leo
Keislor, an insurance man, connected
with the Mutual II fe whose susceptible
sity cost him S. 900. and two or three more
/. who did not announce their identities.
Z but who belong to the same atrlmonial
club with Nc lelan and FSeisler, anxious
5ly waited in an ante-room.
Mrs. Hamilton" Missing.
Ss5 While Verrault was telling his story the
woman was hurrying away from s$ the
scenes OF z her financial coups. United
States Marshal Henkel and his assistant,
who had gone to her house. No. 323 West
Eighty-second Street. with a second war
rant for herg arrest on the charge y Of
swtndling through the malls, In which
Keisler was complainant found she had
disappeared, and althou Oh Marx g Miller,
her attorneys. subseQuen tly KS assured
United States Commissioner Shields she
would be in the Federal building by 8
O'clock, she did not fulfil their assur-
arces NJ Later the marshal said she had
gone & outside the Jurisdiction. but that
she would be brought into court this
morning. ggls sFs Ss
George T. Verrault, clean shaver,
slight man, perhaps thirty-five years old,
Hof No. 1914 Benson Avenue, Bath Beach,
made long statement to Mr.. Carmody.
He made 1t appear that Mrs. Yerrault
was one OF the tools OF a. band OF con-
fidence men who supply funds for renting
sumptuously furnished quarters where
wealthy men are neeced through letter
4 writing, personal wheedling or by resort
to the ancient badger game. !
Verrault said his wife was born In Iron
ton, Wis. thlrty-five years ago. and that
/ her maiden name was Bina Finn egan. She
lost her father and mother early, her
father being killed In brawl X and she
was taken into the family of George T,
II Moore, a banker OF schoharie. N. I. and
4 acted as nurse to his children. When
b she grew0ur she was employed In an In
surance office In Chicago. where she
4 for euphonic reasons. Later she took the
name OF Mrs. Bina F.. Brown, in Chi
cago, and under that name was arrested
for intoxication and shoplfting.
Met Her in Philadelphia.
slYerrault said he met her in Philadel-
phia In 1902 as Mrs. Brown, a widow, nd
after three months married her. Within
, week sha was ted for shoplifting
and intoxication. They moved to Balti-
moro, and then to New York, where, he
4 said, she contracted debts with many dry
goods firms. notably one OF x, 600 with H.
"a B. Chaflin & Co. These transactions Inn
PEELED him to leave her. and he has not
lived with her slnce. Being Roman
Catholic he has not sought divorce,
"a year ago she lured him into a dark
street, where he was set upon by five
men, his wife and two other women, and
severely beaten. 5g rs IT II
Il Mrs. Verrault has said she has daugh.
fa1~l 4 Sn
asserted, Is the daughter OF another NO.
man, living In the house. In the house
are five men and two women
besides Mrs. Observation-Disclosures Brown
Montgomery, and the servants. Mrs. ],
Pemberton Brown, who has achieved no
toriety In the case as Mrs, Izella Brown,
3 Is represented to be at the head of the
household. She and five brothers hail
from Nova Scotia #I III
Il Information lodged with the authorities
is that two or the men ", the house havo
served time In the State prison in Spring
field, Mass, for playing the had dyer game
these mon has been arrested many times
in Boston for swindllng as a spirit
medium It also Is said they opened a
grocery store In Lake Street, Chicago,
and sold for cash the stock they had
bought on credit, and then caused the
arrest OF the buyer for removing stolen
pro perty. Two women In the place were
connected with the blackniall Of a caps
tain Of police two Years ago, when they
lived In West Thirtysthlrd street, near ear
{ broadway. B. 5t5S
fa3 II is said many men In Wall Street
have boen inyeisled into the Eighty
second Street house and robbed. More
than score have o ffeTed to make conni
plants before Mr., Garlpod y, but Ms the
}otfenses charged BY them have been
against the Etateslaw he has been obliged
to refer them to Ss District Attorney
Jerome. d Me- 4 ~
7. Snyder's G Complaint.
H Fraderlck snyd der, N no lives at No. a 4
Manhattan Avenue. comp lined to the
Eighth Street Police statloll last nlght