The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-27
RAY HAMILTON'S BODY HERE.
BROUGHTE4sT SECRETLY AND BURIED
Nv GREENWOOD YESTERDAY.

r Lies In the Burial Plot or His Grand
father. Ralph Rny-No Opportunity TOR
Eva Mann TO Sec 1.-THE story OF Hts
Melancholy Death Recalled.
The body OF Robert Ray Hamilton. who was
the son Of Gen. Schuyler Hamilton. and who
was drowned In Snake River. Wyoming nearly
two years ago, was brought to this city yes
terday and buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr.. Marchant, Superintendent OF interments
at the GENE tery. said last night that the body
was buried early yesterday forenoon in the
plot Of Mr.. Hamilton's grandfather. Ralph
Ray. No stone marks the grave. and there was
no undertaker's name on the card that con-
tains the record OF tho burial.
Adair g. Aldred OF Fourth avenue and
Twenty-sixth street were the undertakers.
however. At their office all edge Of tho
burial was denied. Gen. Schuyler Hamilton
sailed for Europe several weeks ago. and
Schuyler Hamilton. Jr.. Is In the country.
Secrecy was maintained in the transfer Of
Robert Ray Hnmilton's body from Wyoming
to New York and its burial In Greenwood.
because very likely it was fcarod that If 1t be-
came known the woman calling herself Mrs
Eva Hamilton might insist on scoinR the re-
mains and crente q scene
The fact fthe removal came out at a meeting
OF the Health Board yesterday morning, when
Adair Aldred. the undertak ers. made an ap-
plcation to Register NaGle for permission to
transfer Mr.. Hamlton's body. upon its arrival
here from the Grand Central depot across the
cityto, Brooklyn. With this application was
death It was an ahd"vit sworn to BY CoTener
ming. The necessary permit was granted to
the undertakers. and before noon the burial
Ind been et I a,eeonmpli;s,hed. 1t, ,., t. AZ.
awaiting in ,sccIusion the day when a trial in
S0H Ms "' tss ssns' h ss ne
was 80 years old. He had served his constitu::
sns well IN the Assembly, ePa and wss Great
Inc nSs sbSns Il Nurse
Mary Ann Ann pon3nslly , es Noll CSt.aest At
nan who ~, has since called herself Mrs:
esmad rsh. to Ets tie ane M i ias ms
She had gone. through the form Of marrying
Robert Fay Hamilton and he acknowledge
Ieen engaged to care for an eight months odd
hapy, was. seriously wounded by the ivory
stabbed hor. Eva Mann was Convicted Of
felonious assault and was sentenced to two
years in 1.-THE The Jersey Pententary She was
Meantime 1t had appeared that Mrs Ham
ilton; previous to, her marriage with Hamtl-
baby supposed to DO Hnmilton's was a child
purchased for $40 in order to induce Hami!;
ton TO marry the woman; That she had lived
his wife. was not disputed.
Until these details OF her past life were
to ,t he woman IN Eventually he Brought suit to
| Rnnu the marriage. on the ground that before
VIE he s Sa She s de b wa
legally. married to this man involved long
it was va, while this suit was pending that
Hamilton went into partnership with John
Dudley Sargent. who had been stage driver
iishh tourist resort son s"msShsre near Yellow
stone, Park. Hamilton wanted to get away
from New York until his case was called for
Lodge. near Jackson's Lake. This was in
june Snd for some time Hamilton dropped out
On tho morning OF. Sept: IS. $780, THE SUN
hnd seaE hr
Snake River, in Jackson's Hole, At ilrst every
a son Of President Noryin Green OF tho Vest
ern Union Teiegraph COMPANY. with, a party
brarches Of fallen tree in BIT OF still water
general description Of Hamilton. although it
found his watch and fly book. ' ~''' "'''
later i was asserted that Hamilton had been
seen alive after this body had been found.
2ne man pr%efsSd to have seen him in
had been received from him from various
who did not be icve that Robert Ray i Ham,
ilton, was dead, To settle these doubts
the. body was disinterred on Oct. Q. 1891.
and was carefully examined for such marks
as would identify it II it were the body Of Ham.
ilton. This. exaMination established beyond
Robert Ray Hamilton. After this examination
the romans were again inferred within q short
distance OF Hamilton Lodge. and there they
have remained until they were removed to
New York for burial In Greenwood.