Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-23
ELoPED WITH THE MUSIC TEACHER.
The Husband Followed and Found the Err
ing Wife in New York.


ing Wife in New York.
Assistant Attorney General Paul d'Heirry o,
the state Of Washington, who has been hunting
for his missing wife Tor some time, has at last
found her in New York He is thirty-two YEAR
old, lawyer well known on the Pacific coast
and his wife is eight years younger.
Two years ago he employed a. teacher for his
wife Edward G. Morse Of New York. an in.
structor in music. Morse is tall, good lookine
and a fine musician. He formerly belonged to
the Marine Band. The wife is an accomplished
woman, an excellent musician and q fine lin
guist. She fell in love with Morse and the two
eloped from Seattle.
Before going she sold for SIC, 900 property in
Seattle. She came east. as she told her hus-
band, In order to visit relatives and brought her
little girl nine years old. Morse married q
daughter OF an old family Of Flushing. L. 1.
He lost child about year ago.
The clippers went to San Francisco and then
came east. stopping in Chicago. The woman
appears to have become infatuated with Morse.
He did not love her to the same degree. Three
weeks after his wife left when Mr.. Henry
could hear nothing from her. he became sus-
picious and started to find her.
AT the Palace Hotel in San Francisco he saw
on the register re. G. Morse, wife and child -
With the help Of a friend named John Carson,
a lawyer of Seattle. both Masons, aided by diff
ferent lodges and police and detectives in
ington and to Philadelphia. At Philadelphia il
was discovered that Morse. who had gotten pos
session Of Mrs. d Heirry's money, had borrowed
$50 from a friend. They traced the pair to
New York, and finally to boarding house on
East 21st street. where they had arrived on JAN
uary ID. Morse had spent good deal of money
for board at the Everett House.
The landlady of the house told the pursuers
that Mrs. Henry appeared to be very
wretched, fearing Morse would desert her, and
had attempted to take her life. Mr. d'Heirry
and Morse. according to the landlady met at
her house last Thursday. She said:
II opened the door and Morse stepped into
the hall and walked into the parlor.
'D'Heirry was behind the door. As Morse
entered the room the husband confronted him.
D'Heirry was very calm, but his face was quite
bloodless and his voice tremblel.
"'You know what want said he, Where
is my child, Orba?
What do know about Orba?' asked Morse
attempting to appear unconcerned.
Don't waste tins. | have followed YOU '
Mr.. d Henry pulled thick bundle Of letters,
dispatches and photographs from his coat.
he might try to run or fight. l had seized that
heavy poker" said the landlady, pointing to a
heavy iron that lay before the open crate, "and
would have Drained the wretch had he moved
Ihe bell rang again. and this time 1t was
Carson. who came into the parlor.
=" Il will take you to her. said Morse. The
three men went out together. That was the
last saw OF them until Friday morning Then
Mr.. d Henry came to me and told me what had
happened.
MY wife, said he, seemed almost to have
expected me. She did not cry. She said 1
could take Orba. who was in the next ROOM but
she begged to be allowed to see and to kiss her
onco more.
She told me she knew the child would be
better off with me than with her. But she said
that as far as she was concerned she did not
care to come back to me, even should forgive
her.
II have taken n STEP Mr.. d'Heirry told me
she said, from which there is no turning back
| will abide by what have done. prefer
it So
''AIr Henry told me he had found her at
the Cosmopolitan restaurant, at 10th street and
Sd avenue
He told me il ever heard his wife was in
want should care for her and let him know
He paid me the money that Morse owed me
for board and went back to the Hoffman
House. He told me also that he had secured a
confession from his wife in the presence Of Mr..
Carson. Whether he intends to get a divorce I
do not know"
The landlady said Morse did not love the
woman. He only wanted her money.
Mr.. d'Heirry was a. the Hoffman House Sati1r-
day night with his child. He said his wife was
insane, brought on, he thought, by her love Of
music. She has been under the doctors care
for two years and appears to be threatened
with consumption.