The Eva Hamilton Scandal — Part Six

THE VERDICT!

The New York World — Friday, 20 September 1889

PUT AWAY FOR A TIME.

ROBERT RAY HAMILTON’S ADVENTURESS-WIFE SENTENCED TO TRENTON PENITENTIARY.

Two Years in Convict’s Garb.

Calmly She Heard Her Fate, But Wept Bitterly in Her Cell.

She Denounces Her Husband.

While Trying to Make a Statement to The World She Was Led Away by the Sheriff — The Judge Borrowed a Lesson From the Maybrick Trial and Argued as well as Charged — One of Inspector Byrnes’ Men Waited with a Warrant to Arrest the Woman, had She Been Acquitted.

[Special to The World]

May’s Landing, N.J., Sept. 19 — “Two years in state prison at Trenton.”

Evangeline Hamilton, wife of the representative of the Murray Hill district, heard her doom pronounced this afternoon by a cold-faced Judge, without the slightest semblance of emotion. Indeed her countenance was so thoroughly impassive that the natural sneer which has always hovered about the corners of her Cupid-arched mouth was plainly perceptible. There were undried tears in her eyes, and her hands were clasped nervously over her handkerchief, as they were yesterday, while she listened to the…