The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-02
TRACED BY A LETTER.
How Paul d'Hierry Found His
Eaithless Wife.
APosTMAN WAS THE DETECTIVE.
Morse Spent the Wealth of the Woman
He Sedueed and Left HO
Child to Starve.

Paul d Hierry, whose sensational pursuit OF
his faithless xi te and her discoTersiu New YORK
was the sensation Of the day wees or 30 ago,
returned TO this city "Wednesday accompanied by
his little daughter Crba and his fri.nc, John W.
Corson, who rendered great assurance in the
chase. Mr.. Hisrrv, when seen bg q reporter
from TIE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, seemed to take
his trouble philosophlcaly, and Sad lost but
little OF his brightness and good nature, He
was rather averse 10 going over tks details OF
the affair, but be wss very much ancenscd By
the statement given by John Morse: the father
OF his wife's sedQcer. VINO !nema.ed that
dHierry had connived at his wis dishonor
for the purpose OF securing DIVORCE from her
and obtaining custody OF the child Mr.. d Hie-ry
said:
lam preparing reply TO Morse9s article. I
wanted to spare nv wife as much as poeeible,
but cannot allow such imputas.oas on my
good name To go unanswered. l 5aye in my
pocket the confession of my wisa's seaucer,
signed III the presence OF four seattle citizens,
and IL will refute his tsther's chassss. /: had
wanted merely to get divorce frosl Iny vile IL
is not likely would spend 5000 9uniing her
without leay.n g the city.
Il is strange how much space the newspapers
have given TO this affair. II tad 50 cents a
Thousand ems for al that mas been srinted about
u would be rleh. Ali the daily papers from
Boston to san Francisco and from: 81. Paul 10
New Orleans published two 70 thre@- columns of
stun. Most OF IL was pretty CORRECT. although
! never was interyie led or take % the report
ers while Was gone. Neither aid any of the
reporters SO much as ses my wife, sthough the
New YORK Herald published fake :eu; OF her,
which did not resemble her az al. One OF the
reporters for that paper, in his eazerness to ge.
possible scoot, did not hesitate 10: render him
self liable TO be sent to the psuitt4ltisry You
know nay vile and Morse had thc.s letters ad-
dressed TO restaurant at IS Vast Thirtieth
street kept ~ inan named Hood, Then they
would send u messenger their TO est the mail
and bring it 10 them. When ,h.s was learned
the repor'er doaDed a messengers uniform, pre-
sented forged order purportiug To come from
me Tor my wifes mai, got Letter and pack
aZs ana opened them. l subsez3 uently got
them, and they were only Ctr.stsaas presents
from SEATTLE friends.
Il cost me $50 day for detectives. and then
they didn't 90 anything. The police :orce
wouldn't touch the case. SUPERINTENDENT
ByTnes said l would have 10 prefer soIne sort of
criminal charge. but thought gould avoid
sut Il noto-lety. and wanted TO sgsire my wife
as much as possibe. Finally Mr. Corson laid
the matter before Innes, the f,f@nous band
master, to whom he hsd splendid zstters OF in
PRODUCTION Innes lives in great Style In the
Chelsea fats. and Is an IL q tias member of
Iammany. de went down 20 n-pector Viii
iians aud told him the matter mus. be pushed.
as he himself Was interested In il. The result
was that swore out a warrant against Morse
or bringing stolen property into tie state. He
took watch belonging to me- worsa about $50.
With this to start New York'E great police
machine started 10 work.
But alter all this trouble and xSeuse made
the discovery myself. / was feeling rather blue.
the detectives. when one dav I saw: q horse fall
on the pavement anu breath his A big
crowd collected about the scene. and also
stepped up marble doorstep to zee what was
gong on. ! afterwards learned t..at my little
giri was looking out OF q window orger my head
watching tie same scene. While leaving this
scene encountered a mail carriey wearing
Knights OF Pyih.as badge, and got into CONVEX.
sation with him, thinking may he 10 could help
me IN some way. Finally made clean breast
OF what wanted. and he offered 10 he p me all
he could. had sized up The district where the
couple were stopping ali right by rneens OF piece
OF music which my wife had sang to a Seattle
friend, which was postrnarked "DixIrict d. New
YORK City. This mail carrier was the Oldest
carrier Ia that district, and he elgsaestei that
give him eecoy letter 10 mail, winch did. He
then watched which carrier was gwen the let
ter, and We then traced the lette+ to the res.
taurant on West TnirEisth street / went in and
talked with Wood, the proprietor, who was also
Knight OF Pythias, but he said ne did not
know here the couple were; that they had
moved from the place where thsy formerly
lived, the address Of which | secures
at this place found that More owed Mrs
De sose, the landlady. $50, and had left my
wlie's trunk as security. ] knew what the ay-
erage New York landiady was and 5sgreed to pay
the debt II she would help me 10 f;Id my vile
aud Morse She did not know whera they were,
bur she said that before Morse left 5he had told
him that she expected 10 remove snto smaller
quarters soon and he had told hgr to address
him in care OF the Everett house We then
agreed that she should write him letter stat
lug that she was going 10 move, ans as she had
trust him Tor the money due as TO ray out more
money for storing ii somewhere anG asking him
TO cal and take IL away. then pa.l the land
LADY what was due her and waitef! for Morse.
lie came IL due time and the rest Yen know.
Morse had blown IN ali my InoneE He spent
s5t 4 day for wine az the Everett hc;Ise aud lost
Sll00 tnbing one nigat. They w:re living III
mlser able quarters when ] found them. Ny lit.
tie gir4's cheeks were pinchsl with hunger,
ami they had even pawned her finger and ear
rings Their clothes were all il soak along
with their trunks.
My wife is still in New York. Hec relatlves in
Philadelphia wouldn't receive her Row. In fact
they got onto her while she was stepping there
with them and turned her out Thes discovered
that she mad left the house and stay 90 AZ a hotel
with Morse two nights and they found cards in
her room bearing the name OF Mrs. aor:e.
have receive! great number of letters from
women all over the country and enc offer of
marriage About fifteen OF the ietgers offer re-
ilgIous consolation. aad suggest forgiveness, in
closing scripture quotations. aud one woman
impiored ME TO forgive my wife asd take her
back because she herse + had deserted her nus
band and eloped with another man. but had
been forgiven aud had been a good -yomsu ever
since ana felt that her husoan 3 Enezcy aad love
had saved her from the depths OF @egrads,ion.
The ofer OF marr age came from -jsIgIe woman
over -, living in Chicago, but wig.D WROTE me
from Philadelphia, W acre she perhaps me,
as Was stopping az the same hotei from which
she wrote She says that another fnGn is court
lug her, but that he keeps putting m the mar
rlhge on frivolous IreteXts and she would not be-
Aye-se 10 accepting the attentions Oh another
man who mignt 400 aud win hec lo%e.