Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-12
WELCOMED HOME
BY LOVING MOTHER
Miss Hill Now at seaford, Re-
covering From Auto Mis-
hap on EIoping Trip.

COVOJUH VVoIU HutO WIS
hap on Eloping Trip.
Special Correspondence Every Evening
Heaford. Nov. 12.--Iooking bit IA
ded from her long ride from Boston, |.
Mass. and the excitement attending
the arrests of Totten In Wilmington.
yesterday, after their arrival at tho |
Pennsylvania Railroad station in that
city, Miss Margaret Hill, 19-year-old |
daughter nf Mr.. and Mrs. Ira r. IIill |
OF this town. arrived horre last nigh, |
on the train' reaching Stafford ut 945 |
o'clock. As Miss Hlll allghied from the |
Train Il was noticed she walked with |
a limp. the result OF an automobile |
accident she said she and Totten were
IN at Nassau, n. H.. when their car
collided with another machine.
Miss II.ll was accompanied home by
her mother. who had gone to Dover on
the train leaving Seaford at 4.i5 yes
tcrday afternoon. Quite q crowd of Gu
riosity seekers was at the station
when Miss II!l and her mother ar
rived. but there was no demonstration,
and Miss Hill passed quietly to n wait
ing taxi and with her mother was
The first news received by the par
cnts of the girl since the letter of
last Saturday, postmarlsed at Burling-
ton, N. j.. came early yesterday morn
| ing, when they received night letter
sent from Boston by their daughter.
asking her father TO 20 to Whining
| ton and meet her at noon yesterday.
Whan the message arrived Mr.. Hill
had already gone away. He boarded
the S,l9 a. m. train here yesterday
morning for New York, from which
place he intended TO go TO Boston TO
seek his eloping daughter. Mr.. Hill
had been of the opinion ever since he
and his wife received the letter from
Totten and Miss Hill, a week ago, that
they had gone to the home OF his
mother and he WAS positive that he
could locate them there. Mr.. Hill being
away and their only son. Albert Hill.
being In Dover. playing football with
the seaford high school team. Mrs. Hill
was left alone. About O'Clock yes
terday she received telephone mes
sage from her daughter. requesting
her to come to Dover on the first
train and accompany her home Mrs
Hill hastily got ready and went 10
]
Dover.
The news Of the capture Of the
elopers in the French street station
at Wilmington reached Seaford yes
terday afternoon and soon the entire
town and surrounding country had
heard Of II. Gossip here centered al
, most entirely around Miss Hill, wheth.
er she would he welcomed home AGAR
! | N FOR hqr al r.,
, her parents. but the gossipers soor
;, learned that Miss Hill would be taker
, back. Mrs. Hill had said all along thai
Margaret would be welcomed bach
home should she desire to return Mr.
: Hill is Just as enthusiastic over hi.
daughters return as Is his wife. Mrs
j Hill said Margaret is still our child
, and VIII be treated as such. notwith.
, standing what the outside public ma,
think of her.
, Bitter Against Totten.
Friends of the family here. az wei
as Mr.. and Mrs. Hin, are bitter agains
? Totten for taking the pretty youn,
Z school teacher away, though she ma,
r have been willing to go. They say i
there was any estrangement between
Totten and his wife which would caus
him to want to abandon her, he shoul,
I, have left without taking Miss Hill. an
they also think Totten should b
n dealt with according to law for tn
n act he has committed.
: What action the father Of the cir
!. Will take now that his daughter
= safely back home and Totten With
= the clutches of the law, is not definite
d iy known. but ever since the elopemen
n of the couple Mr.. Hill has expresse
) himself in bitter terms against Totter
= and has said he would not rest unit
: the offender had received his just do
n serts in the courts. Mr.. Hill is strongl
attached to his daughter and ii is b,
10 lieved he will do everything in h
" power to put Totten behind the bar
r Both Miss Hill and her mother wei
in n-communicative on reaching hom
81 but 1t was evident from the appearans
= Of both that they were glad to be I,
is gether again. They said the matt,
I'd had been given such wide publicit
" they decided it would be better not
ID talk for the present at least. Mr.. ar
N Mrs. Hill are we'll thought OF in tn
town and vicinity, where they we
in brought up and spent their entire live
H. and much sympathy is expressed f
V. them on all sides.
ry Owing to Miss Hills automobile a
en- cident she had to be assisted off Il
ge train by the conductor Her atti
Dis was entirely different from what 81
Il wore away, she being nattily dress
lie in black dress with beaded trimmine
TN a brown coat and tan low shoes. wi
ke a hat of turbin shape and a 10,
10 henna plume.