husband has had her case moved to a Superior Court in Boston.

Loretta Burrows Marsh, 49, was arraigned in a West Roxbury District Court earlier this month on charges that she hired a hit man to attack her husband Philip Marsh, 55, an arson squad investigator based in an area of Boston known as Hyde Park.

Her case was switched to a Suffolk County Superior Court on August 16 and she will be next before the court on August 30 for a bail hearing.

Currently, she is being detained in the Nashua Street detention centre because she was unable to raise the $200,000 bond the court had ordered.

"Her trial date will be determined after the bail hearing,'' a Suffolk County Superior Court clerk said.

"They will next set a date for a pre-trial conference and another date for motions so it will be some months before her case is even tried.'' Mrs. Burrows Marsh was initially charged with attempting to commit a crime when she was first arraigned. But additional charges of attempting to commit a robbery were brought against her in Superior Court.

She was represented by lawyer Nancy Hurley. Mrs. Burrows Marsh was employed as a hairdresser in Boston. It was not known whether her husband was present in court at her second appearance. He was not in court for her first appearance.

It is understood that he went to the Boston suburb of Quincy to seek a court order of protection against her.

The news of her arrest and subsequent arraignment was front page news in The Boston Herald newspaper.

In the article, neighbours were said to be stunned to learn that Mrs. Burrows Marsh allegedly plotted to have a man enter their home through a door she would have left open.

Once inside the second floor Randolph apartment, the man was to tie her up and take some jewellery.

If her husband resisted she is alleged to have told the hit man to break both his legs. If he was killed, however, that was an outcome she allegedly would have been happy with.

She is also alleged to have told the hit man that her husband had a life insurance policy worth $75,000 and she would share some of it with him.

But the hit man, who she approached in Hyde Park on July 30, went to Boston Police and they arranged for a second meeting between the two.

The second encounter was captured on videotape.

A third meeting took place on the night of August 2 with an undercover Police officer posing as the would be attacker.

BERMUDIAN BDA