The Eva Hamilton Scandal — Part Four

The New York Times — 6 September 1889

EVA ASKED FOR MORPHINE

MRS. ROBERT RAY HAMILTON VERY NERVOUS

Her Husband Apparently Intends to Leave Her to Her Fate — He Orders Away His Trunks.

Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 5. — The Noll cottage to-day furnished another important link in the new phase of the strange and sensational Hamilton case. A young New Yorker visited it shortly after 11 o’clock and handed Mrs. Rupp, the proprietress, a note of which the following is a copy:

Law offices of Root & Clark, No. 34 Nassau-street, New York, Sept. 4, 1889.
Mrs. Howard Rupp:
Please let the bearer, Mr. Edward R. Vollmer, have my personal property in your possession, including trunks, clothes, gun case, and box of saddles, &c. Yours truly, ROBERT RAY HAMILTON

When Mrs. Rupp received this note she refused to honor it, and referred Mr. Vollmer to Judge Irving. The latter gentleman gave his official sanction, and then began a thorough search of the rooms formerly occupied by the Hamiltons. All the wearing apparel and other personal effects of Mr. Hamilton were quickly packed in a trunk, and even the large photograph album was stripped of his pictures. Mrs. Hamilton’s trunks were carefully searched and every article belonging to her husband taken out, the young man, who was armed with a detailed list, being careful not to take anything belonging to the imprisoned woman. He left on the 3 o’clock express…