Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-07-30

Under Suspicion Of Having Murder
ed Wife and Baby-Was Silent
While She Fled and Baby Placed in
Institution.
James Cleveland Grice, the Sharps
burg youth who recently created a sen.
sation at Lancaster, where he was at
tending school, by being arrested on
suspicion of being responsible for the
mysterious disappearance of his wife
and child, is now said to be in Black
well, Okla, and his wife is said to be
with him
After friends of Grice secured his
release through habeas corpus. pro
| ceedings he spent few days with his
parents at Sharpsburg. Early one
morning he left the town, boarded a
Baltimore and Ohio train at Keedys-
vile and went to Chicago, later pro
ceeding to Oklahoma. His young
wife, whose unexplained absence was
in measure, responsible for Grice' S
arrest. made her appearance in due
course of time at Sharpsburg, spent
a few days with relatives theirs and
then departed for the West
While relatives of the couple are
loath to discuss the matter, it is be-
lieved Grice and his wife are now liy-
ing together in Oklahoma. to which
place they went to avoid the notoriety
in connection with the sensation they
created at Lancaster 1t is believed
here that their child was placed in
some institution.
Grice, who had married secretly
had kept secret the birth of the infant.
He was the star graduate of The Mil
lersville Normal School. Grice through
out all his term of Incarceration,
while waiting for the slow processes
of the law for liberation or trial
knew exactly where his wife and baby
he did not open his mouth to free him
self from the suspicion of having
dealt foully with hem. And Mrs.
Grice knew that her husband was in
the tolls and that he was held under
| the belief that he had had some part
in making away with her Yet she
never raised her voice to free him
| Grice and his wife were married Sc
cretly at Keedysville, Md, by Rev. w.
S. Hartzell on New Years Day last.
He was then 81 years old and she 20.
| They left for Lancaster few days af-
ter their marriage, which was rot op-
posed by their parents. and Grice con
tGued his studies. Mrs. Grice not
only has private income from the
estate of her grandfather, but is to
| fall heir to big estate owned by her
father. Charles Dorsey. a retired farm
| Ell.
| Peter Grice, father Of Cleveland
| Grice, is also a member OF an old fam
lily, and is said to be possessed oil
considerable wealth, part of which
was spent lavishly on C1eveland's ed
ucation. Cleveland was always quiet
and well-bahaved and formerly taught
school in Washington county, Md,
and when he embarked on the matri
monial sea no one found fault with
him, as he and his bride had means
OF their own.
i The Grice couple lived happily to
gether in Lancaster. Pa, until tbs
first part of last June. when a baby
was born to Mrs. Grice The couple
kept the matter very quiet for abou
two weeks. Not even their parents
knew anything about the birth. Finally
according to Mrs. Grice's father tbs
couple decided to put the child in ar
asylum in Harrisburg Pa. Grice hir
ed a carriage on the night of June IA
saying he was going to take his wife
to the railroad station to send hel
home. The last seen OF the woman
and her baby for several week wa!
when she entered the carriage. 4
storm was raging at the time and thu
neighbors expostulated against tax
ing the woman out in such weather.
: Several days after Griee had beer
in Jail and nothing had been heard
from Mrs. Grice. Chief of Police w
G. Bushing, of Lancaster, requisite,
: the arrest of the mother presumabl,
} in connection with the disappearance
, of her baby. Chief Bushing informed
) Chef William Marker, of Sharpsburg
and Sheriff Barber, Of Hagerstown
, that she was likely in either Of tn
two places. Chief Marker went q
, the home of the Dorseys to appre
bend Mrs. Grice, but was unable Z
find her anywhere about Sharpsbure
At the Dorsey home there was absc
! lutely no information about her wher
; abouts. Sheriff Barber and Lieuteu
r ant Of Police Frdinger got an automo
} bile the day the arrest OF Mrs. eric
{ was ordered to make a search for ne
among relatives and friends In HS
gerstown, but this proved fruitless.
The day following the request
| Chief Bushing. Miss Dora Early,
l friend OF Mrs. Grice, threw the mrs
2 tangible evidence on the matter |
show that Mrs. Grice was all righ