Milford chronicle., 1915-11-26
ARREST FATHER
OF GIRL CAPTIVE
Man va Locked Up Daughter
Held Without Bail.
WARRANT OUT FOR Wife

Maryland Man Charged With Assault
With Intent to Murder for Impris.
ening Girl Eleven Years.
Frank Marshall, the St Michaers
farmer, who is accused OF imprison.
ing his daughter. Grage, twenty-eight
years old, in an attic room at his
farmhouse for eleven years to break
up a school girl romance, was held
without bail by Justice Of the Peace
Tharp. in Easton, Md. for further
hearing.
Marshall was arrested at the home
of a brother, w. o. Marshall, near
Kirkham, about six miles from East.
on. Sheriff Stephens and a half doz-
en- constables had been searching for
him. Marshall left his farm house
after telephoning a challenge to the
sheriff to come aRd get him. He
threatened to shoot any one who
came on the farm to serve q warrant.
Marshall accompanied the sheriff
without a word. He first was taken
in a motor car to the farm house.
where he spoke to his wife, Rose, a
few minutes. you had better wait
for some money" she said to him as
he stepped in the sheriff's car.
"I don't need any to get out OF
this" replied the farmer.
A large crowd awaited the arrival
of the machine, but there was NO
demonstration as the prisoner walked
into the Justices Office, and a minute
later was escorted across the street
to the Talbot county jail. Marshall,
who is charged with assault with In.
tent to murder. may not be given his
further hearing for a week.
While Marshall was arraigned be.
fore Justice Tharp, a warrant was Is
sued by Justice DOdsOn. Of st.
Michaels. for the arrest of his wife,
the stepmother of Grace on the
charge of assault. TIE complaint |
was made by Miss Emma L. Davies,
agent of the Children's Aid society. |
Tharp earlier has issued a writ for
Mrs. Marshall, but, after comforting
with lawyers, refused to permit It to
be served. He declared the wife
could not be arrested as a co-princi
pal with her husband.
Grace Marshall. ignorant of the out
burst of indignation spreading
throughout the Eastern Shore because
of her Imprisonment, is lying at the
home of Mrs. NJ. H. James, an aunt,
and Is responding rapidly to nursing
Marshall denied he had imprisoned
the girl to break up a school girl 70.
nance. At the same time, residents
recall that her sweetheart was John
Yewall, a farmland, twice her age,
who died five years ago. Yewall's
death was said to be FASTENED by an
that the girl was dead.
The Marshalls, the authorities say,
announced about that time that their
daughter was dead. They say they
gave ont this news when another
much younger, died of diph-
iberia. School chums of Grace Mar.
shall were fooled by the assertion, It
Is declared, and group of her class
mates sent flowers for the funeral.
The farmer, who is fifty years old
and Is tenant on the farm OF Tor
ner State Senator Richard S. Dodson,
1 Democratic power in Talbot county,
declared that he did not pen up the
girl on account of the romance, but
because she was insane. This state
nent, however, is contradicted by
Senator Dodson, who recalled that
bout eleven years ago Marshall went
o his home and said he intended ito
hoot a man bothering his daughter" I
"It's all lie about me treating my
laughter brutally," shouted Marshall.
She is crazy and we hept her at the
arm to give her kind treatment. We
ould not bear to have her taken to
hospital, where she would be away I
rom us" Mrs. Marshall said she
lersonally attended Grace daily.