Says She Will Fight her husband's Divorce Proceedings to the Bitter End.

West Chester, Pa., Feb. 4. "I am fighting for my honor and that of my children," said Mrs. Caroline L. Hills, wife of Rector G. Heathcote Hills, of Holy Trinity Church, who has brought suit against her for absolute divorce, to a reporter this evening.

"This case may be pushed, and I will fight it to the bitter end that I may be fully vindicated before the courts and the people. Howard Garett, with whom I am charged with having been intimate, will never appear against me at the trial."

Mrs. Hills, looking pale and attired in a neat-fitting costume of black, cam e in town this afternoon. She walked to the rectory, where her husband is residign with his other as housekeeper. She rang the bell and was admitted to the room where teh rector sat in an easy chair. Little emotion was displayed by either as they confronted each other.

"Mr. Hills," she said, "I have come to take away the furniture in this house which belongs to me."

"Very well," was the reply, "you can have it."

Mrs. Hills then produced alist of the articles which she wished to secure, and in company with Mr. Hills and his mother, a tour was made of the house, she selecting the articles which she claimed as her property. None of her claims were disputed, and few words passed between the husband and wife.

"If you have any news for the children," she said to Mr. Hills as she turned to leave the house, "I will carry it to them."

Mr Hills then, for the first time, spoke of them, merely inquiring as to their health. Mrs. Hills replied that they were in the best of health, and left the house as quietly as she had arrived.

According to Mr. Hills, the matter of the divorce case was not mentioned, but Mrs. Hills says he asked her to plead guilty, but she refused to do so. Mrs. Hills made arrangements with a local expressman to ship the goods she had selected at the rectory to the home of her father, in New York, tomorrow.1

• 1. Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/5/1897