The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-07
Police Want to Interview Sa-
lima Ray Hamilton.
Pretty Girls Want Jobs He
Promised Them.
HIS BOARD BILL UNPAID
Claimed to Be Owner of High
Priced Hosiery.
Sneaked Away as His Host
DOZed After Lunch.

If the man who had employed you at
good wages had gone to sleep while you
were talking to him and
If YOU, yourself. as a result had ned
ded and dozed few minutes and
If you awo6e to find him gone and
did not near from him again
wouldn't YOU be angry?
You would
CITY and county peace officers are
today seeking Ray Hamilton, hotel pro-
prietor superintendent of government
mail clerks and without doubt pos
sessing many other occupations, VINO II
is charged victimized f. f. Bigelow out
az nart of a weeks board, worried hie
sister. Mrs E. A. Billings, until she 's
on the verge of nervous breakdoWh'
brought grief to the hearts OF hatL
dozen pretty maids. and Victlmlzed d
,,1,rY1ber of other people. He is at large
and believed to be in the city WorhlhS
further pleasant schemes for MS OWL
entertainment and the educauoh ~
persons who are inclined to trust N
strangers ..,.,,s
iaea no one knows The first trace
the roIice have of him was when ne
.,pneared at an East side boarding ana
rooming house and engaged board ip 20,
three men. They would pc mere an
summer He was superintendent OF the
nail service on the Golden State linn
tied between Topeka and Chicago ne
agreed to pay choice price Tor the
same sort of accommodations. set
passes for every member of the fainHs
to any point on earth touched py ti
railroads He ate his evening Ine0'
and later retired for the evening.
He. Changes Boarding Places.
Meantime the landlady observed that
he hadn't paid out any real money.
she decided TO ask him for it early next
morning and announced this fact III
such a manner that the new poafdeI
heard it Next morning he dian Wal,
for breakfast but disappeared between
and o'clock
If was about : o'clock that he an
neared at the residence of Mrs BILLINGS
1864 Buchanan. Mr.. Bigelow' Mrs. III
Iiugs' brother, had answered an aoNFI-
tisement in q Topeka paper In WHlcl
a man was wanted to run a hotel III
SaIina. He met Mr.. Bigelow and AT
once opened up negotiations Tor ~
services of the latter. He promised ="
advance the money necessary Tor tlie
move pictured beautiful bulldlhs AM
a well equipped hotel III the ~
Kansas metropolis 1t was called ne
..NetropoIitan' It's stairways and phi
lars were gilded. you almost sank OUT
of sight when you stepped on the car
pets and all that sort of thing
nc Wants Pretty Cashiers.
The proposition just suited Mr.. Bige-
low who is an experienced hotel man. /
He arranged to be ready to go the fol- /
loving day which was Tuesday. Mean |
while Hamilton made his home at the |
Billings home Tuesday he wasn't /
ready to return because he was wait /
ing on his wife to come through in |
her car Besides he wanted to employ /
some pretty girls to act as cashiers /
and clerks Did Mr.. Bigelow know !
some pretty. jolly, companionable girls. /
Mr. Billings did.
The girls We're brought in and in |
spected. Every one had every require /
ment. They were ready to put up the !
cash bond demanded. One of the girls, /
quit a steady. good paying job. to take /
that one at much better wages in Sd
lima Metropolitan. So Tuesday passed .
Wednesday. Bigelow wanted to go 70 /
work. But Hamilton still wasn't ready. ,
He wanted more cashiers and his wife (
hadn't arrived. And about this time
Mr. Bigelow began to grow suspicious /
OF his new found employer. Hamilton /
declined to come down town with him, /
and Bigelow inquired of some of the .
people Hamilton lItd mentioned and |
found that they did not know him (
He went home determined that if Mrs |
Hamilton didn't arrive by that night |