The Eva Hamilton Scandal — Part Ten

Robert Ray Wants A Divorce!

The New York Times — 3 October 1889

WANTS A DIVORCE.

Robert Ray Hamilton begins suit to have his marriage annulled.

That Robert Ray Hamilton is cured of his infatuation for Mrs. Swinton’s protégé is evidenced by the fact that he has begun a suit in the Supreme Court to have his marriage to her annulled on the ground of fraud and the existence of a previous marriage. Judge Patterson, in Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday granted a motion made my Mr. Hamilton’s lawyers, Root & Clarke, to have the service of the summons in the case made on Mrs. Evangeline L. Hamilton by publication. It will be published for six weeks in two newspapers and a law paper, and copies of it will be mailed to Mrs. Hamilton at the county jail at May’s Landing and at the State prison in Trenton.

In the complaint, which is verified by Mr. Hamilton, it is stated that the marriage of Robert Ray Hamilton to Evangeline L. Steele was performed by the Rev. Edson W. Burr of Paterson, N.J., on Jan 7, 1889. The story of the deceit practiced by Eva Steele in palming off Baby Beatrice on Hamilton as his own child is fully told, and Mr. Hamilton declares that the woman knew he would not marry her unless he believed her representations to be…