The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-27
CHAPTER IN ADlVORCE CASE
ARREST OF A FEMALE DETECTIVE
EMPLOYED IN THE NATTER.
Mrs. Sessions Got $4,000 From the
Father of the Wife, on Plea That
She Gould Locate Money of the
Husband and Is Now Charged
With False Pretences-A Marriage
Story.

Boston Herald: Worcester, Nov. 19. =
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Sessions, who does some
business as a bill collector and some
as a private detective, was arrested
4 as she was coming out of her Office in
the Burnside building this morning or
a warrant for obtaining $4,000 from
George L. Stevens of this city under
false pretences. The arrest furnishes
another chapter in the sensational
! story growing out of the strained re-
! lations existing between George H.
! Hill, treasurer of the w. H. Hill En-
/ velope company, and his wife, Ella L.
! Hill. who is the daughter of Mr.. Stew
! ems.
This young couple have found their
marriage a failure. She is big mas
culine-looking woman, nearly six feet
tail, and some time ago her husband
sued for a divorce from her on the
ground of cruel and abusive treatment.
The wife, intrenched in her fathers
home came back with a suit for sep
arate maintenance. The divorce suit
has been continued to the December
term of the superior court, and the
separate maintenance proceedings have
been appealed from the probate to the
supreme court, where they are now
pending.
ABOUT Three WEEKS ago MIS-. Hill
made an unprovoked assault in Main
street car upon Edna E. Tanner, strik-
ing her in the face. The girl had her
arrested and she was fined $25 in the
central district court. She appealed
and the case is now awaiting trial in
the superior court. The cause of the
assault is not clear, but Miss Tanner
is an acquaintance of Hill, and it is
supposed the wife believed her to be
in I1x hn b1c
Mr.. Stevens, the father of Mrs. Hill,
employed the Sessions woman to pro-
cure evidence to be used on his daugh-
ter's behalf in the divorce proceedings,
and the story is that after she had
been so employed for a time she came
to him and told him that she knew
where Mr. Hill had-$47 900 in a safe
deposit and trust company in Provi-
dence, which she could get hold of and
have attached in the suit brought by
the wife for separate maintenance. She
said she knew the president OF the
company, and could arrange so that
he would hold it so that it could be
attached, but that it would cost $1,000
to do the job. Mr.. Stevens, who is a
wood carver at 1856 Union street. placed
implicit confidence in the woman and
hustled about TO secure the $1,000,
which he paid over to her. These
facts are set forth in the complaint
but Mr.. Stevens and his counsel de-
cline to discuss the case.
The woman was taken to the CEN
trail police station, where she was held
in 900 bail. An attachment was
placed on the household goods at her
residence, 495 South Bridge street, and
upon her horse and carriage, which
she kept at one of the city stables
This attachment was for $4,000.
Mrs. Sessions is wen known in this
city, where she was born about 80 or
40 years ago. Chief of Police Raymond
says he first knew her about three
years ago, when she came into his Of
flee and asked if any women detectives
were ever employed by the local po-
lice. She said she came from Cincir-
natl, where her husband had been a
detective, and she claimed that she had
assisted him in his work, and had be-
come familiar with the duties of a
detective. Chief Raymond told her
that he had no use for female detec-
tives, and she afterward opened the
collection office in the Burnside build
ing.
Mrs. Sessions maiden name was Will
lard. Her first husband was named
Sessions, and she prefers to keep his
name, though she. after his DEATH
married John Healy, a blacksmith,
who keeps a shop on Bridge street in
this city. Mr.. Healy told a Herald man
today that he has not lived with her
for some time, although he pays the |
rent in the house where she lived, al !
494 South Bridge street. LAS a matter |
Of fact" said Healy, Il lived with her |
only for 20 days after the marriage. |
The reason we separated was because |
I could not afford her extravagant |
manner of living