This is the 13th in a series.
Last week’s column on the 1930 trial of Hattie Evans for the murder of her husband and a friend in a Lakehurst apartment ended with a guilty verdict for her and her lover, the actual shooter in the case. Both were sentenced to death in the electric chair.
It has been pointed out that ending the article like that was not fair to readers, leaving them hanging, so here is the rest of this story.
The day after the trial the Asbury Park Press reported from Toms River, “Mrs.
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