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ern teen IS A GREAT SINNER. FULL STORY OF DR. WILLIAM HAMMOND'S: CAREER. Kvery Left Traces of His Crimes on Continent—Hly -Recgat Arrest in New Orleaps——In His Life Ie Many Part. Has Played R: WILLIAM . Hammond, who is said ‘by the po- lice 'to be one of the most noted and ro- mantic criminals the world has ever known, was ar- rested in New Or- leans a few days ago. The heads of police and detec- tive departments in several cities rank him above Holmes and Durrant, in the scale of crime. He is described in-cir- culars sent to the police of every city in the United States and foreign coun- tries as a doctor, lawyer, Protestant minister, thief, bigamist, abortionist, Catholic priest, confidence man, fake real estate schemer, murderer, all- reund crook, and until last week @ fug!- tive from justice. He looks more like a minister than a crook. He is meek and lowly in appearance. He is slightly bald, and what hair he has is auburn. He wears a thick, short auburn beard. He always wears a pious expression, and his.smile is one of peaceful resig™ nation. The complete story of Dr. Hammond’s life has never before beén printed He wab born in 1844, in the village of Lachute, about forty-five miles from Montreal, Canada, and is now 51 years of age. Chief Inspector J. i } HAMMOND. (As a Methodist Preacher.) M. Coulter, of the Boston police, has put jn more time looking up the life of Dr. Hammond than any other officer DR. in the country. He says that, al- though the early part of the man's life | he said he practiced as 4 doctor, and about $12,000. He gained possession of this money and skipped out, leaving his wife in an unconscious condition, resulting from morphine. The timely arrival of a neighbor was all that saved the woman's life. Chief Inspector Hanscom, of Boston police, located Hammond in. that eity,,but, not having the necessary papers for an arrest, the? doctor was perstiaded ‘to return to Franklin Falls under the escort of a de- tective. On the pronsise of Mrs. Brock- way, as his wife decided to call herself, to refrain from prosecuting him, Ham- mond returned her all her’ property. Before she had recovered from the ef- fects of the poison he left the state of New Hampshire, taking with him as his wife a pretty servant girl named Cisste Colby. He went to Montreal, Can, first, and attemptéd to practice medi- cine, but, being driven from that city by newspaper notoriety, he went to Quebec. It was in that city that the police searched his home and found a large assortment of burglar’s tools. Hammond left America in 1887 or 1888, and was next heard from in Australia, The newspapers of that country pub- lished long stories about his work as a converted Roman Catholic priest. A description of the man, along with a batch of newspaper clippings sent to Chief J. C. James, of the MeTbourne po- lice, by a recent . steamer, has just brought this reply, which gives the story of the criminal’s operations in Australia, New Zealand and Honolulu: “We have during the past two or three years had a visitfrom a doctor and | preacher of that name in Melbourne. | He connected himself with the body | with which I am connected as secretary | for the Associated churches. He came here from England; gave out that he was a converted Roman Catholic, and brought a wife with him, whom he mar- ried at Malta, a very estimable lady He left here with her-and preached in | connection with the church in New Zea- | land for a few months. Then about the-end of 1889 he went to New Haven, Conn., United States of America, where on the 20th of July, 1890, his wife died. } In a letter he sent to us at Melbourne he said that she died of an internal | tumor. followed by an attack of grip. The only information of her death that we ever had was from himself. About seven or eight months afterward he came back to Australia, and at Mel bourne was married to a New Zealand | young tady,- who had property, which he at once converted into money. He then went to Honolulu about 1891 with his new wife, and remained there until some of the iocal editors began to pub- lish in their papers the extracts already alluded to, when he—and I think his wife with him Japan.” It was on Sept. 12, 1889, that Ham- | mond, accompanied by his wife, ar rived in the town of New Haven, Conn -is said to have gone to | production wholesome, is somewhat clouded, it has been pretty well established that his rare native | ability was polished by careful educa- tion. } Hammond married early in Canada, | but a report from there says his first | wife died while still quite young. Ham- | mond adopted the church as a profes- | sion, and as a teacher he was at differ- | ent times connected with the Catholic, Dunkard, Methodist and Free Will Bap- tist churches, He was an Odd Fel low, Knight of Pythias, Red Man and Patron of Husbandry, but has been ex- nelled from each in turn on account of his bad conduct. He lost a church in Montreal at one time and needed money. He forged letters of recom- mendation upon which he obtained a Very responsible position in a bank, but the fraud was discovered and he was foreed to flee. That was in 1895. He ame to the United States and estab- lished himself in Yreka, Cal., where he was given thepulpitina Baptiet ehurch. 4 is charged that he soon married one of his congregation and placed $1,000 insurance on her life. She died sud- denly within a few months. Hammond left Sacramento and next appeared at Indian Valley, Ind., where he married another woman and insured her life. She died as mysteriously as the woma’ in California. Winter came,.and the doctor went to the Jand of flowers and sunshine. On Dec. 1, 1886, he appeared at Macon, Pasco county, Fla., where he pought a large tract of timber and phosphate land from William. Vickers. The deal was made on paper, and be- fore the money had ‘been paid over offi- cers from Indiana had Hammond ar- rested. This is the first time he was taken into custody. He was carried to the gount¥ jail af) Brooksville, and a man named Freecroft went on his bond, which he jumped. Hammond was next found in Savannah, Ga., where he was arregied. Hammond was carried back to Pasco county, Fla., but on the night before his preliminary hearing he sawed out of the little Brookeville jail and escaped into the wilds of Witcula- coochee swamp. His next feat was the marriage and desertion of a young girl at Albany, Ga., only a short distance ‘from where he broke jail. Then he went into New England. It was in the summer of 1887 that Hammond made his appear- ance in Boston, four months after his marriage to Mrs. Brockway, widow of a wealthy physician in Franklin Falls, N. H.,.where Hammond filled the pulp at the leading Baptist church. Before he left New Hampshire he indyced his wife to sell her property, atmotnting to } | slippery Dr. Hammond This Mrs. Hammond was a very beauti ful woman, 31 years of age, and of a lovable temperament. She died under suspicious cirenmstances in Jaly, 1890. | For four Years there is no trace of | But fourteen months ago he turned up in Hallowell, Me.. where he opened an office and be- gan practicing medicine. He built up an extensive business. During the first week of last November he ordered | medicines from several drug firms. He did not pay for the shipments when they arrived. Instead he skipped out and was gone a week On Nov. 11, he reappeared in Hallowell at 6 o’clock in the morning. He ordered a hasty | lunch and refused to talk to any one, except to say that he was in town for business, and that he was en route to Augusta, Me., to secure counsel to pros- ecute people who were hounding him. Waiting outside were two strange men anda woman. He left the restaurant like a flash, and has never been seen in Hallowell since.’ The following night he appeared at the office of the city éditor of the Boston Globe, where he declared his innocence. The same day the. owner of the office occupied by Hammond received a letter from the doctor authorizing him to give the key to Mr. McCue, who would paek his med- icines and other possessions and serd them to New Orleans. Oney thing is certain. Hammond went to New Orleans, He - arrived theré en Nov. 28. On the same day he read a “Help Wanted” advertise- ment in a local paper setting forth that« Bauman, Deitrich & Longshore, New Orleans real estate agents, wanted col- lector and canvasser. He was at work in tHfis position when arrested. From State Office to Engine. T. Jy Hennessy, of St. Louis, Mo., who years ago was nominated and elected state railroad commissioner, has re- turned to his old oceupation, that of lo- eomotive engineer, At the time of his nomination he was an engineer, with a run between St. Louis and Poplar Bluff. He gave up his job to make the canvass,-and was elected. His six years’’ term expired last year, and in January of this year he started a little business, but it was not a success. Ha applied ta the Iron Mountain for a job, got it, and took out his first train to Little Roek last week. An Ohio boy has just been cured ét a broken neck by Cleveland, Ohio, str- geons. This is the first case of the kind on record ‘ é J JAS. A. HERNE’S VIEW. THE AMERICAN APOSTLE OF REALISM ON PLAYS. Should Repraduse Nature—Our People Are Tiring of the Sickly, Unwhele- some Imported Drama—They Waat Native Plays IVE me a down- right good Ameri- can play, full of pa- thos, merriment Sand realism, and \not one of - those mawkish, sickly, sentimental, sensu- ous dramas, abounding in im- possible situations, ; j which foreign play- wrights are continually tossing over to us apd which many of our leading ar- tists’ and managers eagerly grab at. America is a fertile field for dramatic action. Abundant material can be found throughout its broad domain for the production of any manner of play, whether it partake of pastoral or urban life, of comedy or tragedy. I believe in keeping as close to nature as possible and depicting scenes and incidents which happen jn our own country and in our own times. The rising genera- tion shonid know the history of its own country—and contemporaneous history at that—before studying that of other nations. And I know of no better, in- structor, no better history-maker, than the stage, for no teacher, no cold type, can make such an indelible impression upon the mind of youth as a well- turned drama. That is the reason’! speak with such earnestness and di- rectness. lam not a partisan by any means,and do not mean to decry foreign plays of merit. Man or woman could-read the works of the immortal Shakespeare or witness their presentation a score or more of times and still learn some- thing. So, too, in a minor degree, with the works of Richard Brinsley Sheri- dan, Richard Lalor Sheil, Bulwer Lytten and men of that stamp. The plays I object to are those which give the widest play to the imagination and which’Have hardly a shred of the fact to | build upon; which appeal to the worst passions of mankind instead of the no- blest sentiments; which abound in an- achronism and portray exaggerated sit- vations which lead up to impossible de- nouements. Sueh plays are history de- stroyers and intellect perverters. Of late years: 1 am pleased to note there is a strong tendency upon the part of our people to encourage home and to applaud clean, instructive American i + JAMES A. HERNE. drama—drama typical. of American life, pastoral and urban, political and social. Such plays, for instance, as “The Mighty Dollarj’” “The Gilded Age,” “The Old Home tead,” “The Sen- ato?,” “Ambition,” “Shenandoah,” and “Shore Acres,”\0 SOME FACES SEEN f which I have the good IN THE “ARTIST’S MODEL,” NEW. YORK. fortune to be author and am now play- ing at the Fifth-avenue theater, New York, have met with as pronounced fa- vor as any of the passionate, turgid, stilted, erotic dramas of foreign play- wrights, And with good reason, They appeul directly to the hearts of the people. They-are in closé touch with nature, and they either recall scenes of ehild- hood days'or portray those which they are familiar with in youth or in man- hood. They are pure and invigorat- ing as well as being strong in dramatic action. 1 will not attempt to analyze these plays, as my readers are probably as familiar with their qualities as your humble servant, but I will make: bold enough to ask what sermon could bet- ter point to a moral than the little pas- toral comedy I am now presenting? he scene is laid off the picturesque coast of Maine, near Bar Harbor. A no- ble fellow stifies his affection for the woman he adores and goes off to the war to serve his country in order that the younger brother he loves, who was also amitten with her charms, may win her. When that brother does win her, he surrenders his share of the farm to the two people he loves best on earth. In time the younger brother, now mas- ter of “Shore Acres,” listens to the voice of the tempter, the real estate HERNE IN “SHORE ACRES.” speculator, and becomes money mad Despite the protests of the self-sacri- i Wi y ficing brother, he enters into the schemes of a land improvement com- pany and cuts up the homestead into village lots, after first mortgaging the farm to get the necessary funds to con- struct cottages. He even sacrifices the plot of ground which constitutes his mother’s last resting place. He has no reom for “sentiment.” That superfiu- ous feeling must give way to the Mo- loch greed. The “boom” which has struek the coast is to make him rich beyond the dreams of avarice. He ‘forces to flee from his home in a fear- ful storm the daughter he worships be- cause she would not abandon the man she loves to marry the man who tempted him. The good brother gives the young couple every dollar he has in the world to flee and prevent murder, for the father is savage, gold hungry and de- termined. The bubble bursts. The land company fails anid the speculative brother is ruined. When his skies are canopied with darkness and despair, when all hope has fled, the good brother turns over to the erring one $1,700 back pension which he opportunely receives, saves the homestead, bring tears of con- trition from thé~gambler, brings back his favorite daughter and her husband to the home and fills the whole house hold with joy and thanksgiving. If that does not point a pretty moral, I don’t know what does. Mind you, I say this in .no vainglorious spirit, not in any pride of authorship. T am sim- ply strtving to illustrate as best I can the theery I have advanced. JAMES A. HERNE, Thére will be no war between the L. A. W. and the Cycle Board of Trade. Cool heads in the latter think it inad- visable. es Pema CAD \A SINGULAR FEUD. Brothers Who Fell Out about # Matri- montal .Lrrangement, “The queerest feud I ever heard of,” said M. ©. Allen, the -well-known sportsman, to @ Minneapolis Journal man, “is one that I encountered while hunting in southern Humboldt county. I noticed our guide carried a repeating rifle, a big*revotver‘and a knife half as long as his Jeg., He proceeded with the greatest caution and appeared to be on guard continually, I knew there were no hostile Indians in that country and my curiosity was aroused. Finally I asked him what the trouble was. “'Oh, I yoost look out for some fel- low,’ he replied in his Swedish dialect. “ “what's the trouble, anyway?’ I tn- quired, s : “‘O nuttin’ much, Maybe.a big man mit a goon watch me pretty close, too.’ “Who is he?’ ¢ “'Oh, he is my brudder, Las’ time I fix him plenty, you bet. He come back now und maybe he fix me.’ “Inquiry developed the fact that the brothers had settled in Humboldt some years ago and our guide, who was mar- ried had left a pretty sister-in-law in Sweden. The brothers talked the mat- ter over and finally agreed that the mar- ried one should send for the girl, and when she reached this country he would give his old wife to his brother and take his sister-in-law. . “The girl arrived in due time, but she was so much prettier than the unmar- ried brother had expected that he was loath to accept his brother’s cast-off wife. Finally he married the girl and then refused to compromise the breach of contract by paying what his brother had expended in getting her to this coast. A quarrel folowed and the guide pinked his brother in the shoul- der with a rifle, ball and landed him in the hospital for three months. The other vowed vengeance and they do Ht- tle now but watch the mountain trails, fully prepared to renew hostilities at a second’s notice.” LIFE NOT WORTH TEN CENTS. Small Value Pat Upon It by # Man Whe Was Saved from Drowning. From the San Francisco Post: A fat man carrying a gun and leading 4 dog made a dash down Market street for the Oakland ferryboat. He could have caught it if he had walked quiet- ly along, but he became excited, and old Time commenced having fun with him. The dog would run on the wrong side of the telegraph poles and hy- drants and tangle up his chain in the legs of pedestrians. By the time spent in apologizing and untangling the dog he was delayed until the little gate closed in his face. Then he ran around to the big gate, dodged around a mail wagon, and made 4 run for the boat. The deck hands raised the apron aad the boat moved slewly out, but he was determined to catch it, and, gripping his gun and dog chain a little tighter, made a run and sprang into the air. The boat was only six feet away, but the dog balked the apron. The hunter stopped in the middle of his leap, his feet flew out toward the steamer, and he droppéd into the bay like a load of hay. -A small boy who was fishing from the wharf dropped his pole, splashed into the water and towed the fat man to a pile, where he clung till a boatman pulled him out. “My boy, you saved my life,” he ex- claimed enthusiastically, as he kicked the dog and tried to wring the water out of his shotgun. “Let me reward you.” He thrust his hand into his clammy pocket, and fished out a wet 10-cent piece. “There, my boy, take that; but don’t spend it foelishly.” “No, sir; I-can’t take it, sir.”” The boy pushed the generous hand aside. “I didn’t earn It.” “Why, you saved my life, boy.” “Yes, I know it, sir, but it ain’t worth 10 cents.” — The Wholesale Polsoners of London. The wholesale attempts that are con- tinually being made to poison the Lon- doners are well shown in ‘the annual report of Dr. Saunders, the medical offi- cer ofhealth for the city. Stockraisers sent up last year no less than 430 tons of diseased meat; that is, excluding Sundays, asthe hospital points out, about a ton and a half for every work- ing day ef the year. Now, a ton aad a half rof. digéased’ and putrid meat re- duced to pounds, consists of 3,360, and as each pound is amply sufficient to poi- gon its man, woman or child it follews that our cousins in the country are_will- ing to poison Londoners to the tune of 3,260 per diem, or, excluding Sundays, at the rate of 1,051,680 per a m. In other words, if all the dise meat which is received would” be eaten it would not take more than four or five years to accomplish the poisoning of every man, woman and child in Lon- don! ~ Napoleon's Art Project. The grandest attempt ever made to raise the arts to a pinnacle of perfection was Napoleon’s project to assemble all the scattered masterpieces of painting and aculpture in one collection. This he actually effected, and for ten or twelve years the Napoleon museum in the Louvre at Paris was the wonder and admiration of the world. vy” ia
