Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-08-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

AWFUL DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.  A NURSE GIRL STABBED BY HER MISTRESS. A tragic picture in real life was witnessed on Tue.lay when the startled guests and excited attendants of a fashionable family hotel at the New Jerdey seaside res..rt, Atlantic City, burst in the door of an apartment from whence came screams of human anguish. On the floor of the sitting-room in a pool of-blood was the form of a handsome nursemaid. A baby six mouths old sat near by, evideutly pleased with the attitude of its caretaker. A tail, handsome gentleman, much excited, Was holding a i.londe woman, whose beautiful form was writhing in a furious passion. The gentleman WS3 Cohort Hay Hamilton, a member of one of the eldest families in the United States. i He is the sou of General Schuyler Hamilton, a leader in New York society, and a grandson of the American statesman, Alexander Hamilton. Ho ic a prominent member of the bar, and is man of wealth and influential in the higher walks of politics. Two years it„o Mr Hamilton surprised society and severely shocked the pride of his family and disgusted his numerous friends by secretly marrying a young woman distinguished for bar dashing beauty and her frivolous morals. It appeared they bad quarrelled with re,.;ard to an old lover named Joshua Mann. When the quarrel was at its height the wretched woman rushed to the table, seized a long Mexican dagger, and made a lunge at i Hamilton. He grappled with her and pushed her murderous arm away. The nurse, Mary Donnelly, hearing the noise, rushed into the room, and the wife no sooner saw her than she shrieked, You shall never betray me again," and plunged the dagger into the woman's ando. men. The wound is fatal. In the aute-niortem statement the nurse exonerated Mr Hamilton from blame. The husband and wife were at once t arrested. The affair created a great sensation at the clubs and at the fashionable summer resorts, for Hamilton is everywhere known. The Hamilton tragedy is the talk of New York. Mrs Hamilton was arraigned before the magistrates onWednesciay and committed (without bail) for trtalldr Robert Bay Hamilton was held under nominal bail as a witness. In examination he declined to say how long he had been married to the woman whom he acknowledged as his wife and SA the mother of the child. It appears that Mr Hamilton was cut in the leg during his wife's furious onslaught with the knife, which was part of the hunting outfit used in the Far West. the wounded nurse still lives, but recovery is not anticipated. Mrs Hamilton Was Evungelme Brill, daughter of welbto.do people in New Jersey. Mann, her lover, was her first sweetheart, to whom her heart remained true. During the last year she has supported him with money obtained from her wealthy husband, who has allowed hoc I:1,200 a year for pin money. Becoming suspicious that the gratuity was in part given to Mann, of whose intimacy with -16.1 re Hamilton he had just become aware, the domestic tempest occurred which ended in the raid of the infuriated women. It appears that Mrs Hamilton had partaken freely of wiue during the morning, and that after cooling her aching head in the prison she realised for the first time the position she was iu. Mr Hamilton appears to be infatuated with the beautiful women notwithstauding her duplicity,aud he has secured counsel, and will defend her to the last.