The Eva Hamilton Scandal — Part Two

The New York World — Wednesday, August 28, 1889

HAMILTON’S SYREN.

She Smiled Upon Him for Money for Her Favorite to Spend.

HE SUPPLIED A WHOLE FAMILY.

A Young Nabob Who Essayed the Part of the Chevalier des Greux.

Partner in Love with “Josh” Mann.

The Tragedy at Atlantic City the Climax to a Long Career of a Reckless Village Beauty Who Came to the Metropolis to Ensnare Men of Wealth and Honor — Wonderful Infatuation of the Man Who Now Claims to Be the Husband of This Pretty “Manon Lescaut” — He Follows to the Cell Where She Awaits a Probable Charge of Murder.

I.

It is the story of a beautiful, passionate, reckless, unscrupulous woman. It begins in the annals of a quiet neighborhood, borders upon the bagnio, revolves about a violent attachment wherein the want of money is the one source of discontent, and ends in the disgrace of the man of family, of reputation and of millions, who fell into the net spread for him. To tell all of its details would take one to the beginning of the nation, recalling honored names of the last century and a tragedy which startled New York when it was scarcely more than…