The Eva Hamilton Scandal — Part Five

The New York World — Thursday, 19 September 1889

EVA HAMILTON AT BAY.

THE LATEST CHAPTER IN THAT MOST EXTRAORDINARY OF DRAMAS TOLD BY THE WOMAN HERSELF.

Arraigned in a Jersey Court.

Robert Ray also testifies and tries to shield his wife.

BUT HIS LOVE IS PLAINLY DEAD.

The Wounded Nurse Describes the Circumstances Leading to the Assault — Eva had Quarreled with Hamilton and Torn the Clothes From His Back — She Wanted to Have Him Arrested, and Called Mary Vile Names — Then the Two Women Fought and Mrs. Hamilton Used the Knife — the Husband’s Story.

[Special to The World]

May’s Landing, N.J., Sept. 18 — With all her tigerish nature in check, cunning, crafty, and alert Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton appeared in the Atlantic County Court-House to-day to answer a charge which, while of no great significance itself, brought to light one of the most astounding stories of conspiracy, of turpitude, of plot and counter-plot, ever revealed outside the realms of improbable fiction. The overacting that she did in real life was duplicated on the witness-stand today. As cleverly and successfully as she…