The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-28

he was the highest one On the list,
| politics interviewed and the position
was given to the candidate who got
| the lowest percentage. Considering
this humiliation. DR.. Baker prompt
| ly resigned. Now it is reported the
| Thaw's are preparing papers in anoth
| er application for writ Of habeas
corpus and review of the case! with
the cherished hope this time of win
| ming.
| Unless the temper of the Customs
authorities of the Port change, it is
| likely that the "forgetfulness" of Mrs
| William A. Hamilton, cousin of La
| dy Decies and of her mother, Mrs.
| George Gould, will prove a rather ex-
pensive lapse of memory. Mrs Ham
| 1lton, who is strikingly handsome
woman is the wife of a former Vice
| President of the ST. Paul and South
| western Railroad
| In view of the drastic measures that
| have been taken by Collector Loeb for
more than a year to enforce the Gus
toms regulations, the failure of the
returning voyager to declare on her
| return this week 'the tr1nkets" she
bought on the other side is consid-
cred surprising. Especially is this
so, since the present administration
of the custom Office has given ample
evidence in the last twelve months
@AoI II 10 III IcSpSCleI OI persons ana
seems to take particular citation in
exposing the attempts of the rich and
influential to get foreign purchases
through without paying duty.
the statement Of the fair passen-
ger that "she had quite over looked"
the formality of making declaration
OF these purchases is an old story to
the inspectors and counts for nothing
nowadays. The contraband has been
seized and in all probability will be
confiscated, although their owner, real
lzlng her mistake and feeling the hui
initiation Of the unpleasant publicity
that has attended the incident. has
offered to make restitution, plus the
heavy penalties prescribed in such
cases. Some months ago when Rob-
erta Hill, well to do young wo-
man was sent to jail for three days
the. port, 1t was said that similar
punishment would henceforth be Wis
tied upon all offenders, male or fe-
male who were caught trespassing.
Whatever other punishment may be
meted out to her, it is considered
strongly probable however, that the
influence Of the Gould family will be
powerful enough to save Mrs Ham
ilton from this further modification.
Locals geneologists have been busy
for week trying to prove that John
Edward Geraghty, the Newport cfauf-
feur who eloped with Julia Estelle
ter of Amos Tuck French. the bank
err Is descended from the ancient
Kings Of Ireland. It is no secret
that this strained attempt to bolster
up the proletariot escutcheon Of the
bridegroom is CALLING to the Frenchs
who are a proud and naughty family.
Herbert O'Hara Molineaux, the gem
eologtst who claims to have made the
discovery and stands sponsor for it,
AYERS that the Geraghtys trace their
ancestry back to the fighting mon
archs of Erin-the same he adds from
which the present reigning family Of
Britain have sprung-and that in the
matter of pedigree they have no
reason to side-step to the Frenchs even
If one Of their family did marry AL
fred Gwynne Vanderbilt and is thus a
sister-tn-law of the Duchess of Marl-d
borough. "a 5'as-~
The antiquarian finds that Geraghty
is descendent Of Brian, the brother
of Mall of the Nine Hostag es one
of the most powerful and famous war
riors in ancient Irish history, who
fought himself to become Ard RICH, Or
overking Of the isle. Brian himself
he must not be COMPOUNDED with the
more famous Brian Boroimbo, or Brian
of the Cowk Tribute, known in it's
English form in poetry and romance
as Brian Boru-was considerable of a
warrior.
With the prison pallor imprinted
deep on his face, a veritable ghost OF
his former self, Captain Peter c. Hams
Jr., P. s. A., the army officer who on
August 18th, 1908, shot and killed VIM
e. Annis. whom he believed to have
broken up his home was brought to
the city the other day to testify in
his action against his wife for abso- |
lutte divorce. His two years in Sing
Sing Prison, where he is serving out |
an eight year sentence for the murder, |
have so transformed the officer, who
is son Of Brigadier General Hams, |
U. S. A. retired, that few of his old |
friends would recognize him.
He presented pitiable spectacle on
the stand and excited the sympathy Of |
the large crowd which had assembled |
there to see and hear him
His wife, with whom he has had |
no correspondence or communication |
Of any kind since his original arrest
for killing Annis, put in no defence. |
parents. Captain Hams started his |
action for a dissolution Of their mar
riage tie while I his trial twas still |
pending, and it should have been CALI |
ed more than year ago.
Mrs. Hams at the time put in a de- |
renee ana O0mdnOeQ dl1InOHy DuC Wnen |
this was refused by the court, she
withdraw her answer and announced /
that she would allow the case to pro-
coed to trial undefended
During the confinement of Captain |
Hams in Sing Sing, his children have |
been cared for by General Hams, |
who dissipated his entire fortune in I
providing defence for his son on the |
1atter's trial for murder and is now |
dependent upon his army pension.
Andrew 10th, who has just been re- |
leased from a Pennsylvania prison |
where he served twenty years for the |
murder of a man he never saw, dur |
1891, while awaiting the departure OF |
his ship for his old home in Hungary, |
has been the object of much interest |
here for a week Andrew Carnegie, |
as a balm for the sufferings endured |
by the unfortunate man, now go years
of age who worked in his Homestead |
steel works at the time of the Staying |
has awarded him a pension of $40 a |
month for the remainder of his life. |
With this money 10th intends secur-
ing little house and garden for his
faithful wife in the outskirts of one
of his native cities and in the tranquil |
pursuits of the simple life, will try
and forget his horrible experience.
Speaking Of Stephen 10th, the man
whose confession of the murder, made
recently on his death bed resulted in
the discharge of the grizzled old man,
no wi