New-York tribune., 1901-07-14
MRS. HANNA OFF TO EUROPE
SHE ESCAPES SENATOR'S son AT HOTEL
AND ON SHIP.

HER FORMER HUSBAND AND GORDON OF
DETECTIVES WATCH THE SAVOY
AFTER HER FLIGHT.
| Pursued by her former husband and band Of
| Pinkerton detectives Mrs. Carrie May Earring-
! ton Hanna slipped away to Europe yesterday.
according to certain eye witnesses. on board the
! Cunard liner Campania. After the steamship
had gone her former husband Dan r. Hanna.
| the of Senator Hanna. of Ohio, confessed
that he had been outwitted. At 7:45 p. m. he
hurrledly left the Waldorf Astoria which he
had made his headquarters here. to start for
Buffalo. The detectives then quietly left the
hotel, looking rather sheepish.
When Mrs. Hanna looked out of her rooms In
the Hotel Savoy early yesterday morning. she
saw Gordon of detectives strung around the
hosiery. She not surprised. She had ex-
| pected to see detectives. The escape from her
Cleveland home Thursday. the battling of
| the Sheriff. who had attempted to restrain her
| from going. under authority Of the writ which
| her former husband had obtained the smuggling
of her three boys out OF the house and to a
! New-York express. the arrival in this city Fri
day morning. the hurried ride from the Grand
! Central station to the Hotel Savoy-an these
seemed trivial incidents to her compared with
/ the immediate proDleln OF escaping from the no
tel to the seamer On obtaining the morning pa
| pers she learned that her former husband was
hurrying TO this city. and that he expected by
means of the detectives that lay in wait all
| sides OF the hotel 10 capture her soon she
dared TO leave the place. Papers had been
/ drawn up the night before, she also learned by
/ Taylor & Seymour. of No II Broadway. Mr..
/ Hanna's attorneys. to compel her TO produce in
court her three children.
ARRANGING FOR THE ESCAPE.
FROM IN .u,ploye of the hotel It was learned
! last night that Mrs. Hanna. finding herself
| surrounded. arranged to make her escape by a
rear exit The Baroness de Pallandt. who had
/ accom- panied her from Cleveland and had
/ planned TO go with her on her European trip.
! had made study of the hotel the night before.
! il is said and had laid out the plan of cam
pagn with great care The Savoy has Il front
| entrance in Fifth-ave. and a side entrance in
| Fifty -ninth-st. 1t is through these that all
guests come and go and 1t at these that
tho detectives watched for Mrs. Hanna and her
three with greatest vigilance.
| Accordingly, Mrs Hanna the Baroness and
the three sons decided to leave the hotel through
an exit into Firty-eighth-st which is rarely
used This exit is reached by way of the BollSen-
| hayn apartment house. which has recently been
| added TO the Savoy and is known as the Savoy
Annex
| At 10 in the morning. the employees Of the
hotel declare the little party slipped out into
| a carriage which was waiting in Fifty eighth
, St This rapidly driven toward the North
River.
The carriage with the fugitives had hardly
driven away from the hotel when Dan r. Hanna
rushed out of the Grand Central Station. He
had just arrived from Cleveland in pursuit of
1T, rrI
son at once went to the Waldorf Astoria, where
he registered. hut was not assigned to a room.
After hasty breakfast he accompanied a man
who appeared to be his lawyer. In a cab they
driven IN the direction of the Savoy.
HANNA OBJECTED TO THE EXPENSE.
Although Mr.. Hanna when asked on leaving
the hotel why he trying to prevent the
departure of his children for Europe. refused
to make any answer. IT is understood trat he
objected to the expense of the trip. Mrs. Hanna
took the children abroad last year md then
presented him a bill of more than $4,000
This he refused to pay. and a lawsuit was the
result. The divorce was granted In 1898. ard
Mrs. Hanna receives alimony of $4,000 year.
To her was given the custody of the three chill
dren
In order to arm himself for his move Yesterday
Mr.. Hanna through his lawyers, had secured
n writ or ndDedS corpus from Justice McAdam.
The writ was granted on the strength of the
decree Of the Cleveland Court of Common Plea
appointing Senator Hanna guardian of the three
children.
The Senator's son was next seen about o.3O
a. m. pacing UP and down the sidewalk In front
of the Hotel Savoy. After measuring off a
large part OF mile in this way. he took the
position of sentry on the northeast corner of
Fifty -ninth-st and Fifth-ave where he could
command view of both the front and side
doors OF the hotel. The detectives also kent I'M
the watch in the corridors OF the hotel and in
the street outside.
AN AIR OF MYSTERY
The porters and hall boys OF the hotel had
air Of mystery about them. On being asked
whether Mrs Hanna was there they would
shrug their shoulders shake their heads and
say they had never heard of her. The clerk at
the desk appeared to protect his guests for he
allowed no cards to go to the rooms where Mrs
Hanna and the baroness had been the night be-
fore and from which they had fed more than
hour before. The clerk answered the aues-
ton as to whether Mrs. Hanna was stayng
there by saying:
'I know of no one here by that name
When asked II the Mrs. r. w. Jones, of Bos-
ton.'' who had registered the day before with
the Baroness de PallaSdt not In reality
Mrs. Hanna ne again answered. evasively:
1T may be, but 1 really cannot say"
Mr. Hanna finally became tired OF his seat
the fence OF the Hotel Netherland and de-
cided that he would see his former wife without
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