The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

I threatening letters. The first OF these
was addressed to DR.. Love himself 10
was as follows:
DIR. l. N. Love
''Dr. Love-You did not no that was
marble to Mary Rooney and IL Is the
9Th of October In the Catholic Church
| fias Bush in ST. Teresa Church, Brook
lyn. I am going to fixed you she mas
been two months away from her home,
/ in No 92s Dean street, Brooklyn I am
her husband.
mfr. JIMMIE HAMILTON.
NO. 3 James street."
To this was appended the followtnss
Il have been hundreds miles Brook
| lyn looking for her. / Will prove oy
the party and her name Is Miss Marri-
son in Brooklyn. My name is Joseph
James Hamilton II you can bring the
marrig 1 will bring mine into court
At the same time that these annoy
ing and groundless accusations against
her husband began pouring IN on MRS.
Love young Hodgins Love was similar
ly prosecuted by threats OF vengeance
from a Bowery Iodger. who likewise
! fancied himself the husband OF the
beautiful and exclusive society woman
Mrs. George Law eventually James
Hamilton, who had never been heard
of at the Brooklyn address given, was
found to be a waiter In Chambers
street "ham-and" lunch room His
case was diagnosed and he was SEM
to an insane asylum. A similar dis
position was also made OF the nus
band of Mrs. George Law" who fire.
quented the Bowery lodging house.
This was the beginning Of a series OF
prosecutions of the widow and her
children on the part Of cranks.
WOMAN IN THE CLIMAX.
But the last great cataclysm OF the
Love family was to be the work OF q
woman, by whom II has ever and al
ways been played. Once more Del
phine's lurid star rose upon the horizon.
Since her debut upon the stage she had
been most obviously and frankly going
the pace that kills" AT first ambi-
tious to work herself up in her chosen
| art, she aspired to connections with
| companies playing legitimate drama
She had small speaking parts in several
such productions, but luck did not some
her way. She drifted into musical COM
| edy, in which she remained not less
obscure than she had been in drama.
Her last enga cement was with The
Vanderbilt Cup" production, from which
she had withdrawn only a few days
when her sordidly tragic end came.
This happened about o'clock in the
morning OF April S of this year. when
a policeman in the neighborhood OF
Seventh avenue and Fiftieth street
heard scream and saw a woman dash
herself from third floor window OF the
/ STERLING, a fldluSS law uOleA On lndk
corner of Seventh avenue. The uncon-
scious woman was picked up and car
ried into the hotel. where she was
identified by the clerk the same
woman who had been registered earlier
/ in the evening Mrs. Wilson Her
companion was found asleep in ~
drunken stupor in the room and was
the next day identified a young
broker, William III. .McGucken OF so
Lenox avenue
They had both drunk steadily
throughout the afternoon and several
quarrels had ensued. Miss Love was
heard by the hotel employees upbraiding
her companion because he refused to
keep his promise 70 marry her. A few
hours after her removal to Bellevue
Hospital the girl-she was then only
% years old-died. and In her last mo-
ments she regained consciousness sum
GENTLY TO 'exonerate her companion
] Of all blame for the tragedy.