The Eva Hamilton Scandal — Part Seven

AN ASTOUNDING BIOGRAPHY OF EVA!

The New York World — Sunday, 22 September 1889

FROM HOVEL TO WEALTH.

WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY THIS IS OF ROBERT RAY HAMILTON AND HIS WIFE.

THE WOMAN’S EVIL HISTORY.

It Has Not Before Been Told, and the Like of It Perhaps Never Was Before.

NOW TWO YEARS IN CONVICT GARB.

A Freckle-Faced Child in a Pennsylvania Lumber Camp — Practically Without Education, but with Remarkable Shrewdness of Intellect —What was it that Fascinated a Man of Robert Ray Hamilton’s Refinement, Cultivation and Social Connections? — Photographs of the Woman at Various Stages of Her Career — Her Father, Mother and Uncouth Country Brother — Four Actual Attempts at Murder and Perhaps Two More Contemplated — The Men She has Ruined and Homes She has Wrecked — See What Antecedents This Unusually Successful Adventuress Had!

[Special to The World]

WILKESBARRE, PA., Sept. 21. — While Eva Hamilton was in the little attic-room of the jail at May’s Landing, waiting for the trial which ended the other day in her sentence to the State Prison to Trenton, she…