The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-07

BALTIMORE Feb. IA despatch from
Chicago states that Judge Tuley has de-
livered decision il the now celebrated
McCaffery will case constituting the viii Of
John McCafery and establishing the rights
OF the respective claimants TO his fortune
An estate of over $60G GO will be distri-
buJed in accordance With the decree of the
court.
This case is now recognized as one OF the
leading and most celebrated Of the nine
tenth century Judge Tuley, who has
beenupon the bench for over two decades
and is considered the abIest chancellor in
Illinois, said that 1t was not only the most
remarkable case that had ever been on trial
before him. but that it was the most re-
markable and romantic case of which he
had ever heard
The shares to come to Marylanders IN
der the decision are approximately as fol-
lows: Mrs. Marian Hooper, Baltimore,
S1G0 COO; Mrs. Annie Whelan, Baltimore.
So .000; Mr.. John II. Seaman, HageFstewn,
Sc, 066; Mrs James ". Seaman, Hagers-
town S3S Gee: Mrs Sarah G. Hemphill.
wife OF John ". Hemphill, of DOynsyille,
near HagerstOwn, $1,000; Mrs Nancy E
Ter. wife of Charles B. IZer, townsville.
VILE SIG. coo; Arthur Z. German ShIpley,
of townsville $40 GEO. Mrs. Emma F. Da-
Wis wife Of Cyrus NJ Davis, near Downs
Vile, 10000; Lewis G. Stanhope ShipIey,
near townsville, $4,000; Lester Shipley.
near Townsville. $4,000.
John McCaffeTy. then a fine specimen OF
a young, sturdy freshman. met pretty
III lass named Mary Dawson and courted
while she was living with her mother
arifsle. England, just across the border
Teen England and Scotland and a few
rs ride from GTetna Green. AS par
Al favor was lacking the young couple
-sed IN 1896 Cthe year before the crown
H OF Queen Yictoria) TO Gretna Green
ere, il is alleged, they were married
according 20 the simple Scottish rites then
permitted and that they took each other
for man and wife without the assistance
Of q clergyman. but before the village
blacksmith who then tied the iron knot.
II is also alleged they were subsequently,
married in = Presbyterian Church No
record. however. OF this marriage could
ever be found. although search was duly
made.
John McCafery, in 1910, being of an en-
teTpTising disposition. emigrated TO Amer
So, where his consOrt followed him the
n after They left behind them their
lie girl, Nancy, at her grandmother
1e. in Giastry, Ireland, because, 1t was
ged. she had a burn On her foot and
suffering from the measles. This lit
child afterward formed the centre of a
hillary but most interesting romance
,meriCa MCCaffery, after being no
for q few years, settled in the early
4G's at Corning, N y, where he lived with
his wife until 1913
In the meantime it was disclosed in TIE
evidence in cases which have been pending
for some years that Mrs. McCaffery car
ried on an affair with another man named
William O'Daniels, q dashing young fell
in the employ of John McCanery,
ch. II was stated was the cause of the
aration OF McCaneTy and his bride.
ich occurred on June day at ferFyslip
New York, where the McCafery canal
ats. which he had built in 184l, were ~
moored TO the wharf One Of the most
markabIe things in the case was that
Edwin J. FaTber of Baltimore, who repre-
SCENTS tBo-thirds of the residuary estate.
discovered and put upon the stand some of
the men who built John McCaTerey'S boats
in 1877. the men who caulked them, and
two other witnesses who saw that scene OF
separation in 1s4S. Charles F. T. Beale
another attorney IN the case. discovered
the nurse of John McCafery's children
Rebecca Shepard. and the widow of the
man who superintended the building Of
his boats.
When Mrs Mary Dawson McCafery left
John McCanery who was then poor and
eloped with William O'Daniels, as she had
originally eIoped with John. she lived with
O'Daniels as his wife for sixteen years,
and when he died she applied TO the Uni
ted States Government foc pension as
his widow and obtained and drew Il for
thirty years
McCafery after the separation emf
grated 10 the Dismal Swamp Canal. and
also piled with his beats alCng the Chts-
apeake and Ohio Canal between Alexan
dria and Cumberland. In the interim he
had taken to himself a second wife. whose
maiden name was Marian Douglas. whom
ne vas also supposed to have married.
With him and with her resided all the
children of his first wife. except Nancy,
several Of whom had been born in this
EnmntrE and he also had tEEn child zen b.