The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
DRESSED AS MAN
 TO EARN LIVING


 GIRL OF 19 NfASQUERADES FOR
 TEN YEARS, REPRESENTING HERSELF AS HEIR TO THE DUKEDOM OF HAMILTON IN SCOTLAND-ARRE IN NEW YORK. BUT MAGISTRATE SETS
 HER FREE.
 New York, Jan. 21.-Inspector Me- Cafferty received word recently that young man calling himself Marion Hamilton. Grey had appeared in var Ious places in the State and represent ed himself to be heir to the Dukedom of Hamilton in Scotland. The inspec- tor learned also that the young man had recently come to this city and succeeded in tracing him to the Ho- tel Latham.
 The management there recalled hav- ing had the man as a guest and said that a bill of $10.50 he had incurred had been settled by the St. Georges Society when it developed that the young man was without funds. Society recalled the visit of Marion Hamilton Grey. He said the young man represented himself as a nephew 1 of Col. Hamilton-Grey of the British Army in India, and had declared that 1 he had an allowance of $4,000 a year,
  porarily abroad because of trouh.le he had had with the executors of his l fathers estate Therefore he needed 1 help. The St. Georges Society paid
 his hotel bill and provided him with furnished room in West Twenty l fourth street
 l With this tip Detectives McKenna l and Cassassa went up to Twenty ! fourth street and encountered their
 quarry near Eighth avenue.
 Come with us. We want to talk l to you,'' said the detectives. What do you Want?' replied their l prisoner.
 Why, you're no man. You're a girl,'' exclaimed Cassassa at the sound of the voice.
 Well, what's the harm in that?" responded Miss Marion Hamilton-Gre i T never said I wasn't l The detectives took their prisoner to i Headquarters, where, having no other l charge to make, they charged her with masquerading in mems clothing. She
 refused to say anything about herself | except that her father had been Col. l Hamilton Grey, and that he had died
 when she was 4 years old. She had
 been born in Ferozepore; in the Pun 1 jab. She said she was 19 years old.
 An old friend in India had advised i her to adopt mems clothes as an easier
 means of making her living and she | llc1o IO1Io"Cu 11Ao ehuNA AOO Lol NllCf AeAoI l ten years.
 The girl was taken to the Night Court but refused to tell Magistrate l kernochan any more about herself | than she had told the police. The 1 Magistrate would not hold her and | the girl left the court room and took
 a car to her furnished room.
 The detective had clippings from a
 Watertown, N. Y, newspaper, to show
 that the girl had pretended to be a
 noblemar there and in Ogdensburg
 N. Y., while working as a menial in
 several hotels and cook in a hotel
 in the Thousand Islands.
 l The sole thing that Miss Hamilton
 Grey had to say about her arrest | was:
 "I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a wealthy widow of Newark was | behind this. She fell in love with me
 and never forgave me when I would Int marry her.
 l. The girl made a handsome youth in | her boys clothing. Her brown hair was clipped short like a mans and .I'she wore gray suit, gray slouch hat
 and gray overcoat with a gray stock
 She had black patent leather shoes and wore blue spats over them.