Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-15
HAMILTON IS DEAD
No Longer Any Doubt on the
 Subject.
THE REMAINS DISAPPEARED.
A oOroneTs Jury Pronounoes Them to Be
 Robert Rays

The Runners that He Had Been Seen Alive
 and Only Feigned Death Dispelled--
 Identified by the Teeth. Fracture of
 the Leg, and Other Evidence--verdiot of
 the Coroner's Jury.
 MARKET LAKE, Idaho, Oct 15.-Coro- ner Henry Code, of Evanston, Uintah County, Wy, arrived here yesterday after journey of two weeks duration to Jackson's Lake, in what is known as Jackson Hole in the northwest corner of Wyoming, where he held an inquest over the body of the late Robert Ray Hamil- ton, of New York, who was drowned in Snake River more than year ago. The story of the last days of MT. Hamilton, already partly known to the public, is now complete.
 The story of Hamilton's Hason with Eva Mann; the latter's attempt to mur- der nurse; the trial, and the disappear ance of Hamilton from public view, are all too we'll know to need repetition.
 Sept. 15, 1890, dispatch from Helena, Mont. conveyed the startling intelligence that Robert Ray Hamilton had been ac- cidentlv drowned in Snake River, in Jackson's Hole, some three weeks be- fore.
  complete that people soon commenced to doubt it, for several reasons, among them the brief announcement of his death; that his father did not seem much worried over the account; and because of the statement of Henry Strong of Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., who had been in the Yellowstone Park, came East and declared that he had seen Hamilton alive in the park, having hu hic Unicn EUa1l Oc his features.
 The Hamilton family tried to keep the matter quiet, but it would not down. On the contrary, as time passed the be- lief that Robert Ray Hamilton was alive grew stronger in those who thought most about the facts Tourists return. ing from the region brought strange stories. The men who conducted ths search were, with one or two exceptions, not acquainted with him in his lifetime, | and not willing to swear the body was his.
 Thursday, Oct. 1, to set all doubts at rest, Coroner Code left Market Lake Station with 8 party to disinter the body and hold an inquest. The body was exhumed, and certain marks upor it agreed so exactly with the description that had been taken along that all fur ther doubt that Hamilton was dead wal | forever settled.
 The distinguishing marks were thu front teeth and fracture of the leg. The witnesses were all reputable citi zens. The jurors in the inquest wer' Robert E. Miller, Andrew Madison, ans c. F. Hamm. They render the following verdict:
 State of Wyoming, County of Utah:
 We, the Coroner's jury. empannelled to in | quire into the cause, time and manner of tn death of the person whose body lies before us do find that the name of the deceased was Rob ert Ray Hamilton, a native of the Unitet States, aged about 39 years and that he cam | to his death in the State and county aforesaid by being accidentally drowned while attempt | ing to crossi Snake River, below Jackson Lake. According to the evidence furnishes by his watch, which had stopped when he en tered the water and by a note which he lief on tag at the south end of the lake, Rober | Ray Hamilton was drowned at 930 o'clock o Saturday night, August 23, 1890.