The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-10
SHADOWED AS SPY,
FOUND IN COFFIN
Detective Hunting for Pauline
Hamilton Meets Man Ar
ranging Funeral. J
GERMAN PLOT SUSPECT
Artist Said to Have Been @
Member Of the Kaiser's
Household.

A Department Of Justice inspector
was walking up and down before East
Thirty-ninth street yesterday morning.
Hei was scrutinizing closely all who
entered or left the building. for the great
arm OF the Federal secret service was
slowly reaching out for on apparently
innocent person who lived In that apart
ment house. who had won some fame In
the art world and who had. to all ap-
pearances. been rather secluded OF late
While the Inspector was passing his
time In the sunshine. idling here and
there on the street. n man sped up the
steps OF the building and entered. 1t
was but a moment before the Inspector
was after him and questioning the visitor
az to the reason for his visit.
Conversation developed the fact that
Mrs. Pauline Hamilton. an artist. who
lived In the building. was under sus-
piclon of being a minor tentacle of that
great octopus the German spy system
She had been known to associate with
pro-Germans. and II is reported that the
name of Nine. Storch entered into the
conversation.
Object Of search Dead.
Pauline Hamilton cried the visitor +,
IT am here to complete arrangements
for the funeral OF Pauline Hamilton.
She Is dead
The surprise OF tho inspector was
manifest He had heard nothing Of any
death. Neither had the Department OF
Justice.
Further information on the part Of
the visitor. who was A. b. Woolsey or
the F.. f. Campbell undertaking estab-
lishment at 1870 Broadway, developed
ha Coz hot
Hamilton hal died at the Flower Hos
pital Sunday Of superthyroidism. and
that her remains we're to be cremated
that very afternoon at 3 o'clock This
had been ordered by Mrs. A. NJ. Libby
Of 7 East Thirty-ninth street. said to be
a sister of Mrs. Hamilton.
Upon hearing the surprising news
that the woman he was supposed to
be shadowing was lying in the funeral
church of Frank e. Campbell the In
spector hurried to telephone. Within
a short time Department OF Justice men
were at the funeral establishment. The
cremation that was to take place at 3
o'clock was postponed an hour. and
even the Board of Health was called up
to see II the funeral might not be put
on until the next day. In short the
Department OF Justice wanted to sat
isfy itself that the woman in the cas-
ket was really Pauline Hamilton and
not a substitute.
Knew Her in Vienna.
The difficulty of proving this was ap-
| parent for the woman had but few ac-
quaintances who could be found. The
| inspector. who had been shadowing her
| for weeks. never had n really close look
at her face. But friends were found
when people appeared for the funeral
services. Among them was Vernon
| stiles, an army entertainer, who lives
| at so West Sxty-seventh street. He
knew the dead woman. and said that he
! had known her several years ago IN
Vienna. Alice Kauser. the play broker
who was born In Budapest. also knew
| her.
| An hour later the cremation took place
and the remains of the suspected woman
| disappeared in the crematorium.
Department of Justice men are still
! working on the case. 1t is rumored
that the late Mrs. Hamilton was for
seven years n member OF the household
of the Kaiser. Report also has 1t that
the Emperors favorite portrait was
| painted by her. II was also stated that
Mrs Hamilton returned to this country
from Germany Ave years ago. Her
death certificates gives her parents as
/ Germans, WIN ilNeu IN w 'sSoHSh''
Husband Killed n Man.
! Pauline Hamilton was born Pauline
Kruger and twelve or fifteen years age
she was living In Minneapolis. 1t was
! at that time that she met Frank Hamil-
ton a newspaper man, and married him
! Hamilton created some notoriety wher
he killed a man In a quarrel and was
sentenced to prison. Later the couple
went TO San Francisco. where Hamilton
died It was subsequently that Mrs
Hamilton went TO Germany to complete
/ her art studies.
At the Campbell undertaking estab'
lishment It was reported that the por'
trait of a man of Teutonic appearance
had been inserted In the casket at The
request Of Mrs. Libby. One employed
said he thought from the appearance o.
the dead woman's hair that it had beer
bleached but short time before hel
death. Many of those present at thu
funeral were OF seeming Teutonic origin
Those friends who commented on thu
appearance of the Department of justice
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