Show READS LIKE A ROMANCE Story of Drc ° ption Intrigue and Final Ex ptsarfi of a Noraaa of te WtrH Special t TIIE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YOIIK AugU5 Through a scheme hatched in this city by an adventuress and by the use of a balj obtained from its unsuspected un-suspected mother has resulted a caso of intrigue deception and discovery rivaling and closely resembling the celebrated Robert Hay Hamilton affair I is the story of a woman of tho world in an effort to gain money and social recognition Ezra Park Foote the deceived husband is a young man about lUi He is vicoprebi dent of the Duluth Red WIng Southern railway and is also interested in his father fath-er leather business Ho is us well known socially as tIn business being an accomplished musician and the organist of the First Presbyterian church Ho became be-came infatuated with D handsome woman known as Florence Blood wliiio studying dentistry in Philadelphia After n time his ufiections towards the woman cooled u1ectons and she secured a baby boy in this city Ironi a poor woman Then she presented herself to Foote with the child and said S ft HE WAS THE FAT ER OF IT Footo then married her and took the woman and child to his parents in t Paul where the two were received with open arms This was in December 190 Laterly the mother of tho child wanted her offspring back and through he I efforts olspring tbrougb el01ts of tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and oxDistrict Attorney Attor-ney W T Jeroniq located its whereabouts Jerome communicated with the Foote family fam-ily in St Paul and the whole scheme came out The Bioud woman took the child to Phitadelphiu where it ass recovered The revelation of the manner in which he bud been hoodwinked into marriage witb Florence was a terrible blow and divorce di-vorce proceedings were at once instituted which have Just resulted in a decree in the husbands favor The whereabouts of Mrs Foots arc not known but i is supposed she is in this city or Philadelphia THIS STOUT DAS A SEQUEL Rich old Mr Silas Foote the father of Ezra became so lond of the baby during the time he thought he was really his gran cuid that hu lound he simply could not get along without him so Mr Footo camo on to New York to see Mrs Camp bell the boys mother and after great urging urg-ing he succeeded in getting the mothers consent to adopt the child and the mother knowing this time that her baby was to bo in good keeping kissed VVilliogoodby with a smile amid her tears |