The Detroit times., 1910-01-24
GIRL CARRIED LIKE
MAN ARRESTED
Says She's Daughter Of British Mill
tary 0ficer-Charge Not sufi-
cient and She Is Freed.

NEW YORK. Jan. ga young
woman who said she was Marion Ham
ilton-Gray. daughter OF the late Col.
Hamilton-Gray, OF the British army.
was arrested at Eight-ave. and West
Twenty-fourth-st while dressed like a
man. Central ONCE Detectives Nc
Kenna and Casassa made the arrest.
The young woman, who has been
boarding at No. 308 West Twenty
fourth-st. for a few days, was neatly
clad in gray. She wore a soft gray
hat, long overcoat. gray trousers, gray
Rpats over black shoes and gray
gloves. Her pretty brown eyes looked
Indignantly through eyeglasses at the
detectives when they halted her.
II am doing no HARM" she said. Il
have worn boys clothes ever since
WAS ten years old and I was never ar
rested before. 1t is necessary that
should wear mems clothes-very nee
essary."
WHY" asked McKenna.
The young woman merely shrugged
her shoulders and went along with
the detectives TO police headquarters.
There she was arraigned before Lieut..
Funston. She said she was nineteen
years old. the daughter OF Col. Ham
ilton-Gray, who died when she was
four. She was born In Ferozetore, In
dla, she said, and at the age OF ten,
when father and mother were both
dead. she began to wear boys clothes.
"Why?' asked Funston.
Il cannot tell you the reason, but 1t
was and Is an important one" an
swered the girl, smiling.
You'll have to set matters right, II
you can, in the night court" said the
lieutenant.
Commissioner Baker received infor-
nation a few days ago That a young
man was in the city claiming to be
son OF Lord Hamilton-Gray and heir
TO the dukedom of Hamilton, and that
he had applied for assistance to the
st. George society, No. 108 Broad-st.
Manager e. ID. Langley. OF the society.
the detectives say, was informed by
the young man he had left India q
year and a half ago, had been I'm New
York six days and was penniless. He
said he had an income OF $4,000 a
year, but could not get remittance
until May and that he owed board
bill. The young man paid IL and then
went TO live in a boarding house ut
No. ga West Twenty-fourth-st., but
later moved to No. 30S,
The police had a clipping from the
Watertown Standard of Jan. IL head
ed, Marquis Gray an Imposter. Young
Son Of Titled Scotchman Would BE
Over Thirty Years Old. Worked In
Kitchen at Alexandria Bay"
"When Miss Hamilton-Gray was
shown this clipping at police head
quarters she said the story was
highly exaggerated" She acknowl-
edged she smokes pipe and has taken
strychnine for weak heart lately, but
said she has no bad habits.
She told Lieut.. Funston a wealthy
woman living in Northern New York
wanted TO marry her, and she thought
this woman was responsible for her
arrest She added the woman was
very jealous OF herr
Magistrate Kernochan In the night
court asked the detectives IL there was
any other charge than wearing mems
clothing against the prisoner. They
had none, but said they wanted her
held for further examination. Magis-
tTate Kernochan discharged her. She
smiled her thanks and left the court
room with Detective McKennan.
The heir to the dukedom OF 'Hamil-
ton is the marquis Of Douglass and
Clydesdale. He is about three years
old. There Is no Lord Hamilton-Gray
in the British peerage.