The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-11-15
NELLY BLY, Is sHADOWED.
She Causes the Arrest of Private Detec-
tive Who was Following Her in q Cab.

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| tive Who was Following Her in a Cab.
| New York Nov. 14-Nellie Bly,, or
Miss Elizabeth Cochrane, who married
! the millionaire Robert Seaman, in Chi
| cago, last spring, caused the arrest last
night of Robert Hanson. private de-
| tective, whom she accused of following
! her in a carriage. Hanson declared that
Mr.. Seaman had hired him TO do il,
and Mr.. Seaman appeared at the police
! station and confirmed the statement.
He gave bail for Hansen Nellie Bly,
it will be remembered, made a tour of
the world, a few lears ago, and caused
a great sensation by her trip. At that
time she was in the employ of the New
York World, which service she left
some time ago.
About $50 O'Clock last night han
som cab drove up to the corner of
Broadway and ThiI'ty-fourth street and
stopped. At the same moment anoth-
er hanson stopped on the opposite cor
ner From the first cab sprang a wo-
man, who walked up to Policeman
Rhinehart and said: "Officer, there is
a man in that caib.'' pointing to the one
on the opposite side of the street, "wlho
has been following my cab about all
day, making a memorandum of my ev-
Rhinehart went over and arrested
the man in the other cab, and ordered
the driver, John Donaldson, to drive TO
the station house. The woman, who
was Mrs. Seaman, followed in her cab.
At the station house the prisoner, who
was a short, stout, well-dresSed man,
ayppeared i'll at ease.
Mrs. Seaman said she had frequently
seen him in her husbands library. To
Sergeant Marion she said that every
where her cab had stopped the prison
er's cab had stopped also, and she had
seen him make a. note of the places she
had entered. For three weeks she said
she had been followed, and she made
up her mind to put a stop TO it.
Why" said the man then, "her nus
band has employed me to follow her"
''Oh. that is what wanted to know"
said Mrs. Seaman
Sergeant Marion entertained charge
Of disordeTly conduct against the pr!s-
oner, who said he lived at Catskill and
who showed a special deputy's badge
When he was being led to his cell he
said: Send for Mr.. Seaman at is
West thirty-seventh street, and he will
go my BAIL
A HUSBAND WORTH MILLIONS.
and as the prisoner disappeared she
entered the cab, saying to the driver,
GO to the Imperial hotel" Half an
hour later Mr.. Seaman entered the sta
ition house and said he desired to go on
Hanson's bond. When he saw Hanson
he smiled, and after signing the bond
the pair left the station together. Mr..
Seaman said that Hanson had charge
of his property in the Catskills. but had
been in New York two days Mr..
Seaman is said to be worth s., 600, ,0O0
He is a director of half dozen banks
and interested in several mines He
is over 65 years old and quite feeble
Mrs. Seaman appeared in the jefferson
Market court today, as complainant
against Hanson, whom she charged
with annoying her on Saturday night.
Mrs. Seaman said that for the last
three weeks her husband, who, she
claims is for some unknown reason
Jealous of her. has been having her fol-
lowed by three men, one of whom is
Hansen. After hearing the evidence.
Magistrate Mott decided that the de-
fendant had not been guilty of any il
legal act and discharged him. Mr..
Seaman did not appear in court