The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16
MARRIED To HIS HOUSEHOLDER.
Mr.. Horace p. WeddeII, the Cleveland
Banker, Becomes InsanelY Mad.

Mr.. Horace p. WeddeII, the Cleveland
Banker, Becomes Insanely Mad.
Cleveland Special.
Society was excited to-day by the announce
ment that Horace p. Weddell. the banker, who
assaulted S. T. Everett on Wednesday, mad. Oct.
q, married Mary Zimmerman. his housekeeper.
The town IS talking of the affair and his children
have left the homestead, never to return. Mary
Zimmerman is Il German woman, forty five
years old, and has been in the Wedde1 family as
nurse and housekeeper for twenty-five years.
There is a romance connected with the family.
The Weddells have always been leaders in So
elety here, are well known throughout the State.
and were pioneers in northern Ohio history.
Horace I. Weddell thirty years ago was a bright
young fellow, very rich, but of domestic tastes.
In 1886 he met a Miss WEIGH, of a NAL town in
Maine. She was visiting friends Of his and was
handsome and high-spirited, but poor. Horace
Weddell fell in love with and married her. She
as pred to lead in society he loved his home.
She wanted the banker to leave the old, ram
bling homestead and build on Euclid avenue.
Her husband refused and was stanch in his re
fusal. Three children were born, and Mary
Zimmerman nursed them. Horace Weddeil
and his wife lived together for twelve wears.
One day WeddeIl and his wife had a more bitter
quarrel than usual She drew Il knife; stabbed
her husband in the breast, and left the home
and city. She took her children, hurried to New
York, and thence by steamer to Europe. This
was in 1858, and she never returned. Last June
she died among her children in Florence, ITALY.
and was buried there. During her stay in
Europe Weddell continuously honored her
drafts, and the expense is said to have been
5000, 600.
The children were brought up with anti
american ideas. and this enraged their father.
The housekeeper was installed as mistress of
the house. The foreign airs of n son and
daughter, who visited their father three wears
ago, separated them from him, and when they
objected to Miss Timmerman's presence and
authority in the house, they were CURLY told
to go to their mother. they did, but when
she died all three children came home again.
Since their return the house, has been torn
asunder by quarrels, and, together with his
financial trouble, Horace p. Weddell has been
driven nearly mad. His, assault on S. I. Everett
was cause by arrangement consequent to
his trouble. The morning that he assaulted
Everett the children. had demanded Miss Tim
punishment, and IA scene had come out
of their fathers refusal to, send away his wife,
for she was such, though everybody was in the
dark. The children feared the loss of the estate
through the housekeeperis influence, and were
thus making war on her to drive her out After
one scene, Oct. 5, Weddell sent his honsekeeper
to Meadville, Pa, and followed, in company with
Judge Rufus P. Ranney and F. A. Sterling, the
following day. There the Rev. Richard Craig
head married Horace p. Weddell and Mary Tim
norman. This afternoon the town was Informed
OF the marriage by a notice in the Herald. The
children left the house, never to return, they
say. They say their father is mad, and may
move upon him by a legal route.