Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-16
A BRACE OF RUNAWAY WIVES.
Two Hasty Marriages-TwO short
HOneymOOns-TwO Sud len ElGpe-
ments-One Suit for DivOrce-TwO
Contradictory Stories by Hus-
band and wife, the Wife's being
h0ur Qn Deck.

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Contradictory Stories by Hus-
band and wife, the Wffe's being
the Most 1nteresting-Judge Bar-
bOur ON Deck.
From the New York Sun. September 81
Thomas w. Grove, young man Of
twenty-four, who is real estate agent,
having an Office in Pine street, met Zad-
iaceinia Hill, very pretty young lady
Of seventeen, at Woods Museum, on the
18th of July last. They occupied ad-
joining seats, and entered into conversa-
ton about the play. An acquaintance
was thus formed, and after the perform
ances Zadiaceinia and her cousin, Stella
Hill, who accompanied her, upon the in
vitation of Grove, went with him to
restaurant and partook Of refreshments.
During the following two weeks they met
almost daily, and on the 22d of July
Grove and Zadiaceinia were married by
the Rev. VIM. B. f. Smith, at his sem
mary in Twentieth street.
At the same time Stella was married
to Frank Noe. partner Of Grove In the
real estate business, and the two couples
went to pleasant rural retreat in West
chester county to spend the honeymoon
On the 10th of August the girls sud
denly disappeared, and in a few days
afterward Groves wife, who is the niece
and adopted daughter of a wealthy citi-
zen living on Lexington avenue, COM
menced suit against him in the Supe-
rior Court for the annulment of the
marriage and for divorce. Her story is
that on the day previous to the marriage
he drugged and stupe6ed her with brandy
and other liquors, representing them to
be sherry wine and lemonade, and that
when she returned to consciousness he
represented to her that unless they were
married her character would be ruined
for life; but that if she married him it
would save her reputation, and he would,
Immediately after they were united, have
the marriage tie dissolved. He then
further stupefed her with liquor, and
while in this State the ceremony was per
formed She AYERS that she never
voluntarily lived with him as his wife,
and abandoned him at the earliest OPP
portunity. She also asks for divorce
on Scriptural grounds, and makes allega-
ton in support of her prayer in that be-
half. Grove denies the statement about
drugging says that when he first met her
with her cousin Stella at Woods he told
Zadiaceinia who he was, and that he
boarded at the Coleman House. The
next day they called upon him, and his
future wife was introduced to him for
the first time by Stella, who he says was
the means of procuring him to marry
her. They afterward continued to call
on him, and he became foolishly iniatu-
ated. Before marriage and shortly after
their first acquaintance, Zadiaceinia ac-
knowledged to him that she was ineapa-
citated from hunting in the train of Di-
ana; but feeling greatly attached to her,
he thought by his marriage to reclaim
and reform her, and declares he is conf
dent he would have been able to do so,
had it not been for the evil influence ex-
erted over her by Stella. who has been
her inseparable companion. After sur
reptitiously leaving Westchester county
on the 10Th of August, he says the
two women went TO board, under the
name Of Wright, at Q question:
Bile house in West Thirty-second
street; and he asserts that Stella (now
Mrs, Noel is well known as an unfit
companion for respectable women.
They subsequently went to board, he
says, at a respectable house, and their
conduct was such that they were turned
out. The case came before Judge Bar.
bour yesterday, upon motion on the
past of the wife for an allowance for ali
mony and counsel fee, pending the prose-
cution of the suit. In opposition Grove
produced the affidavit of the clergyman
that he questioned the parties closely
beiose aQlemnizing the marriage, and that
there was not the slightest evidence of
intoxication on the part ofany Of tbemi !
that Stella gave away the bride; that all
seemed in high spirits and good humor;
that Za9iaceinia performed her part
with alacrity' that there was no
appearance Of coercion. The driver
who conveyed the party to and
from the minister's made affidavit that
he first droye the girls down TO Pine
street, where they wers joined by the
two men, and ihat after the ceremony |
as we'll as before, the girls appeared in
particularly good humor. The argu;,
ment Of the ease vas adjourned HEtil
Monday, when it viii probably be heard