Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-25
BARG AIMED TO SEPARATE.
An Elopement and the Purchase OF
a Husbands Compliance.

Z An EloDement ana the HuNth@SO "a
Husbands Compliance.
Some time ago the NEws published an
account of the Marchand-Hill elopement
case. Mrs. Frank L. Hill, OF Greensburg,
/ Pa, clipped with j. T. Marchand, a young
lawyer OF Greensburg, and one OF her
husbands friends The pair went TO
! Pensacola, Fla. They were followed by
/ Chief OF Detectives O'Mara, OF Pittsburg,
/ and Detective WetherhOrn, OF this city,
and were captured. The capture created
/ az much OF a sensation as the elOpement.
Hin acted as il distracted after the elope-
ment, and the fact that be returned on the
same train with Mrs. Hill and Marchand,
the latter two occupying one berth and
Hill and O'Mara another, caused no little
surprise.
The case was taken into the courts. A
Pttsburg special says that O'Mara.
WetherhOrn and Hill have been indicted
by the grand jury there for conspiracy.
The Indictment was procured upon the
testimony of Mrs. Hill, the wife OF the
latter. Mrs. Hill is said to be rich in her
own right, and the surmise that she set
tied the case with money has now been
verified. Ii has been proven that she
gave her husband $4,000 in order to con-
sent TO a separation aud permit her tOliye
win Marchand. To this she testified be-
fore the grand jury. She said further
that she was threatened by OMara and
Hill with prosecution and was forced to
leave Florida and accompany them North
under threats of Imprisonment when
O'Mara was not even provided with the
necessary legal papers. Detective Weth-
erhOrn, she says, aided O'Mara in this.
She claims that O'Mara received big
share OF the money. suit has also been
brought by Mrs. Hill against her husband
and O'Mara to recover her money and
property. Hill gave the following ac-
count OF the negotiation with Mrs. Hill
after the capture of the clipping couple:
She Mrs. HID said she would never
leave Marohand aud would never live with
me again, and proposed again that we
should separate, and that she would give
me $4,000 aud we each go our own way.
When / found that she would not come
with me | accepted her offer. She gave
me about 81, 800 there and said she had
some bank stock in Pittsburg that she
could not sell without my joining in the
transfer. She proposed that we return
To Pittsburg, sell the bank stock and
give me the balance. / consented She
then wanted Marchsnd to accompany us
as her attorney. / refused, but finally
consented. We then started for Pitts
burg; reached there on the morning of
March last. We then went in a car
riage to two of the banks where she had
stock. She requested O'Mara 10 20 along
to identify me as her husband. Marchand
also went along. She made the sale of the
stock. OMara identified me as her hus-
band, ana ! joined in the trans
fer. The money was handed TO her.
Marchand, at her request, counted
it, handed IL back to her and she put it in
her satchel, The proceeds of both sales
amounted to $1,000. She then proposed
change OF the arrangement made at PEN
sacola. Said If she would give me 50 900
as agreed upon it would not leave them as
much ready money as they wanted. and
said she wanted me to accept So, 700 and
deed Tor the Greensburg properly. She
insisted upon this, and finally consented.
l employed Mr.. Hunter. and she or Mar
chand spoke to young Mr.. ReardOn. Mr..
Hunter drew up two deeds-one by my
wife and me to O'Mara, and one by O'Mara
and wife to me. The deeds were deiV-
cred and she gave me the money. which,
50, 100 in all, and l gave a receipt Tor it.
Ehis was all at her own request. / never
made threat against her, or uttered a
word to intimidate or compel her."
Detective WetherhOrn says there is not
a word of truth in the charge of con-
spiracy so far as he Is concerned, and he
knows nothing about the case further
than that he was employed TO locate the
clipping parties. He had nothing to do with
o. Mara and knew nothing about the in
dictment until told of 1T by a NEWS
reporter yesterday.