The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-01-23
TAKING HIS CHILD HOME
Last Act in the d'Heirry
Elopement Case.
gHE CHASE ACROSS TmH CONTINENT.

Music Teacher Horse, who Ran Away
with the Wife of tho Assistant Attorney
General Of Washington. Gas Not bo
FouRd-AIrs. d'Heirry Tried 20 Kin Her
self and Daughter Whom Nsrso Deserted
Them in New YOrk.
NEW YORK, Jan. GA baptisnal
ceremony has rarely been perfosmod under
more distressing circumstances than one
NJ which the Rev. Mr. Mel, assistant to
the Rev, DR.. Rain sford, oiIiciated at the
rectOry Of st. Georges Protestant Episco
pal church yesterday afternoon The
candidate was the pretty 7-year-old
daughter OF Paul d'Heirry, Assistant
Attorney-General OF the State of Wash
ington, and formerly colonel of militia
A yelled lady, who proved TO he the
mother of the child, was one Of the wit.
nesses, and il was ut her request that
the ceremony took place.
When the words were spoken which
consecrated the little girl To God, the
mother seized the child and all but
smothered it with kisses.
Them with loving glance at her hus-
band and 3 Caress Tor the child, Mrs
Henry saidi "Good-by, Paul; God
bless you, Orba,' and staggered out of
the room.
When Attorney General d'HeiTy part
ed with his wife at the altar he saw her
perhaps for the last time. Mrs. d'Hierry
had been led into q course of action
which the husband, fondly as he loved
her, could not condone.
She bad plpppd with "a r,nnv y1-bpv,, har
husband had befriended, and had taken
the child with her. Col d'Herry had
followed them across the continent, and
after months of search bad discovered
their whereabouts, got possession OF his
only child, and prepared to return to-day
to his home iu Seattle.
Cold Henry, who is distinguished Re
publican politician and lawyer in Wash
ingtOn State, WAS married in 1890 Five
years later baby girl was born to them.
Soon afterward d d'heirry built beautiful
residence in Seattle and presented it to
his wife as birthday gift, Mrs. d'Heirry,
who was musically inclined, induced her
husband soon after they established them
selves in their new home to employ Ed
ward @, Morse 60 instruct her and her
little daughter upon the piano and
organ.
In November last Mrs. d'Heirry told
her husband that she intended visiting
relatives in the East and Col d'Heirry
gave her $4OO to pay expenses of herself
and little Orba, as well as tickets over the
Northern Pacific railroad. he was ignOr-
ant at the time that his wife had disposed
of the house he had presented to her and
oJher property worth 100000
The day Mrs. 'Heiry left Seattle,
Il. L. FL
prised d'Heirry OF the fact that the
music teacher and Mrs. d'Heirry had
gone away together
On discovering the elopement d'Heirry
consulted brother lawyer and they in
stituted a search for the wife and her
companion. They followed the fugitives
from city to city, and having enlisted
the services of SupG. Byrnes and Inspector
Williams, ascertained that on Dec. 10
last there mad appeared upon the register
of the Everett house, this entry: "E
Morse and wife"
Investigation demonstrated that Morse,
the woman and child had takea rooms,
seven days later, with Mrs. Dc Sote, a
French boarding house keeper In East
Twenty-third street.
On calling there d Henry was informed
that Morse had left there Jan. 13. lie
| also ascertained that Morse had deserted
his companion and had taken nearly all
the money she had possessed. The land
! lady declared that one night after Morse
had disappeared she found Mrs. d'Heirry,
whom she supposed was Morse's wife,
side by side with listle Orba, fast asleep
in their room with the gas unlighted
and turned on at full head.
A few days afterward Morse reappeared
| and was confronted by the Colonel at
| Mrs. De Sote's house. Before being
threacened, Morse conducted the husband
to the wife and daughter.
They went to a restaurant at Third
avenue and Sixteenth street known as the
| Cosmopolitan, and in room over it, dis
| covered mother and daughter. The wife
/ begged to be forgiven and besought the
father to spare her the child
Col. d'Heirry would not listen TO this
suggestion and at last Mrs. Henry said
''Yes, it is better 90. Sic will be better
off with you"
The husband and wife parted. Col
d'Heirry went back to the East Twenty
third street boarding house, paid the bill
Morse had contracted, and then took his
daughter to the Hoffman house
The Colonel agreed to have the baptism
take place, at the wife's entreaty. III
starts for home to-day
Morse's whereabouts is unknown. Th,
| e.,