The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-20
A Catholic Priest Claiming His Wife.
CURIOUS OHAPTER IN MARRTED LIFE.
from the CHICAGO tribune, June 1871

lFrOm the chicago Tr1oune, June 10 y
The Of the people reatone Nicholas Samber
Anthony Schneider which before ths court OF Com
Pleas OF Cook county, Hon. John n WILSON, pre- sid
B on Saturday presents curious picture Of married
lie, and reveals strange practices the part Of
the Catholic clergy and equally strange matters Of
faith on ths part Of the more ignorant portion Of their
II appears that about year ago, Nicholas sts.ser,
riage with Anna Maria Echnie6er German girl the
daughter Of the defendant, and good Catholic The
Krames in private room without the use Of the we'd
ding ring and without witnesses In all other respects
rite. o. the Catholic church, the parties agreeing and
eopsenng thereto promising to be and wife 70 each
osasI ana Inc priest giving tns% .ns nupa Oensdeon
After the ceremony Father Nicholas took the girl homo
and Ae her a. an upper servant or treat
ssss herself tha although he always spoke Of her as his
wife, they occupied separate apartments.
to Miles, Michigan, where she entered family in the
capacity Of servant. Her own account 10, that both
her marriage to and dsssion from her husbad were in
To use her own language "she was talked into it /"
Up to the time Of his wifes leaving hia Father Nj
church, but since then understand he has been de-
posed from the priesthood, has also Father Peter
This suit was brought in the chsncery side Of The
Court Of Common Pleas by the husband TO
ss Of hs !, 3 DC
commanding Schneider to produce the body Of Anna Mary
before the It served Schneider the eth
into the count, to serve lie WRIT he found Anna %ars
at the house Of Judson about four miles from her
fathers residence, and took her with him.
On Saturday the defendant appeared before the Hon.
John III. Wilson, in the Court Of Common Pleas and in
% TO the sr produced the body q his dausa
aseertang the true state of the case and Of fnding
ont what her wishes in regard to living with her
husband the Court ordered the to be cleared of all
persons except the officers OF the COURT interpreter
and reporters for the PRESS and proceeded to question
We not Of course at liberty to disclose all that
sas then ELECTED but II appeared In addition to the
or binding because her husband was priest that she
left her husband Of her accord and that she wished
to go With her parents and stay with thsm and not
to with her husband that the that she wished
TO husband that she had been edusated in
the belief that she could never to heaven she lived
had been made to her by her parents BY the priests
BY the bishop. She gave her name Anna Mary Schne
DER and not a. Anna Mary Stamber
Judge Wilson informed the young lady that the mar
rsge was perfectly valid and legal one BY the laws Of
this State although i might be matter Of discipline
while her husband living, but that she
compelled to live With him, and asked whom she would
promptly, with her father.
The doors we're then reopened, and her husband and
parents the attorneys on both sides, and the other
members, Of the bar entered. The husband was iu
formed that the body Of his wife had been produced and
nss .nd v. he
was not to use any force in compelling her to 80 with
him,
lady STOOD and intimated to her his desire that she
should 70 home with him But she resolutely refused nor
could al bis induce her 10 in her de-
TERMINATION She left the court with her parents and
the last Of the disconsoate spouse he follow
ing In the wake Of his wife, pouring forth his en-
TREATIES, TO which she turned deaf ear.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM m KENTUoKY-GRlAT DA
Corn AND WHEAT CRors.-0n Monday
afternoon, about hAlf.pa four O'Clock, . small
section Of Shelby, bordering ON Franklin county
viited by the most violent storm Of wind
rain and hail ever experienced In that region. In
the vicinity Of Chrstiansburg Bagdad and Con~ostion
ragged with unprecedented violence. On the farms OF
trsted to make updt for harvsstins and the corn
was damaged to almost equal extent. Large fruit
trees were blown down, and fences carried Oh BY the
sudden rising Of streams Of water that wers never be
fore known to 70 full The storm came up sudden
Iy end passed of In very abort period In the railroad
cut BAgdad the water In stream deep that
II reached above the TRUCKS Of the oeing st full
speed deepie the fury Of the elements Capt Tslafsr
70 and other gentlemen IN the state that II had
that guss and beds Of streams perfectly dry before the
Storm roaring out with water three and four feet
deep. Tho hail also drifted In some PLACES Ave
end hx feet high. We heard ysatsrday 500. 900
Hxsd the probable extent Of the pscuniary damage
caused by the storm This We sstesm . low Agurs,
judging By the alnost unparalleled marks Of Ssvasa-
ton that We visited yeserday, In passing By on the
Over three hundred acres Of wheat wsre entrsy
ruined, and almost ~ much cerp Mr.. BAskst ana -.
errac II pursuss no particular hns Or ecurs1 -.
ing rs rag In It's progress. large wheat held o. one
eentisan was Destroyed his adjoining corn crop was
untouched while held Of wheat belonatn9 = nssn-