Evening journal., 1921-11-07
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TOTTEN SAYS
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that night, circumstances arose after
arriving at the home of Mrs. j. M.
Dickerson, near Bridgeville, where
Miss Hin boarded, which resulted in
an agreement that they both leave
Dover together the next morning.
He stated that now they were away
they were glad they took the step
when they did, but before taking the
step he said both considered the
matter seriously and prayerfully.
one part OF the letter read we are
sure we made no mistake and that
our lives we're intended for each
other. and that a complete under
standing would show any fair-mind-
ed person that the real right was for
them to be together and the re..l
wrong would be for them to re,lain
apart"
Another part of the letter stated:
I'VE do not feel any sense Of guilt
not because we are criminals in mind
but because the moral law based on
the foot stool OF individual cases is
above the civil law
Prof. II. r. Stahl, superintendent
OF Seaford public schools. has re-
ceived a letter from Totten posted
at Burlington, N. j., last Friday
night, in which Totten mailed him
the key to Miss Hin's desk at the
district school near Bridgeville,
where she taught and asked the su-
perintendent to go to the district
school and get Miss Hills belongings
and send them to Hoboken, N. ]. In
the letter to the girls parents, Tot
ten told them he was going to take
their daughter to the home OF his
mother, said to be Brookline, Mass.
He stated they would remain there a
week. From the tone OF the letter
received here from the couple. II is
judged thy are travelling by auto
mobile.
Miss Hin is 10 years old and Tot
ten is % years old and married, his
wife now being I'm Dover Miss Hill
has brother, Albert Hill. a mem
Der OF the Seaford High School and
baseball and football player
Mr.. Hill, father Of the missing
teacher says il struck him like a
bolt out Of a clear sky when he was
informed that his daughter had run
away. He says the first he knew OF
it was last Thursday when Totten
and the girl left Dover together in
rotten's automobile. Since that time
Mr.. Hill has used every means to
locate the runaway couple. He says
that on last Wednesday night his
daughter, accompanied by Totten,
whom he did not know then, drove
10 his home in Totten's automobile.
They arrived about seven o'clock.
and when ne was told that Totten
was statistician Of the State School
Board and had stopped at the board
ing house Of his daughter near
Bridgeville to bring her to see her
parents, he thought no more of the
incident until the disappearance of
the couple became known Thursday.
Totten and Miss Hill remained at
the Hill home here Wednesday
night until about 10 o'clock. the
evening being spent in social con-
versation. Totten told Miss Hills
parents she was getting along fine
in her school duties About 10 o'clock
the couple got in his automobile and
departed. Totten was to have taken
Miss Hill to her boarding house ir
the country on his way up the State
to his home in Dover. The nexi
morning about Q o'clock. Mrs. Dick.
erson. with whom the attractive
school teacher boarded. called th'
Hin home here on the telephone, In
quirlng where Miss Hill was. WheI
She was told that the girl left with
Totten the night before to go to he
school and boarding house, Mrs
Dickerson told the Hill family tina
their daughter had not arrived
there. The family Immediately be
came alarmed and Hill called up thu
state Board OF Education's Office a
Dover. but learning nothing definite
from there he got on the traiI
Thursday afternoon and visited
Dover where he was informed o
the facts in the case.
Mr.. Hill is incensed over Tottei
running away with his daughter
and has said since the affair has be
come generally known that II Tottei
is caught he will invoke the Fedora
law against him.
Miss Hill was educated in the pub
lie school here and then took
teachers summer course at the Oni
versity OF Delaware. She was frs
assigned as a teacher at a distric
school at Thompson's Station. nea
Newark. where she taught all las
year. She boarded in Newark. Tbi
year, when school opened, she va
assigned TO a school at Hockessir
but later was transferred to dis
trict school near Green's Hill. be
tween Bridgeville and Georgetown
This assignment brought her close
TO her home. and she came TO Sc
her parents over the week-ends.
Miss Hill has pretty blue eye
a wealth OF black hair and petite FIG
Il ure and Is very attractive. All Of he
~ wearing apparel, with the excepuo
OF what she had on the night she Wis
y tied her home. Is in her room. a
was also her clothing at the HON
il OF Mrs Dickerson, near Bridgevill'
e where she boarded.
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