The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-20
A Catholic Priest Claiming His Wife.
CURIOUS CHAPTER IN MARRIED. LIFE.

From the chicago tribune, June 10
The Of the people Telas0ne Nicholas Stamber
Anthony SCHNEIDER, which before OF Com
mon Pless OF Cook county Hon. john NJ Wilson, pre- sid
sa ON Saturday, presents curious picture Of married
hIe and reveals strange practices the part OF
TIE Catholic clergy and equally strange matters Of
faith on ths part Of the more ignorant portion Of their
II appears that sssat yea. ago, Nicholas 81. st..ss.
risee with Anna Maria schne1er, German girl, the
daughter Of the defendant and good Catholic. Tho
kramer in private room, without the use Of the we'd
ding ring and without witnessed In all other respects
rites Of the Catholic church. the parties agreeing and
eonentng thereto promising to be and wife to each
other AND the priest giving thsn the nupal benedetiOn
After the Father Nicholas took the girl home
and Aspt her an upper servant or treat
ssys herself that although he always spoke Of her his
wife, they occupied separate apartments.
to Nss, Michigan where she entered family in the
capacity of servant Her own account 10, that both
her marriage to and dsssron from her husbad were in
accordance with the advice OF her parents and frends
To use her own language, "she was talked into IL
Up to the time Of his wfs's leaving him, Father Nj
sholss bad continued bin public minstration In the
church, but since then understand he has been de-
posed from the priesthood - has also Father Peter
Kramer.
This suit was brought In the chanoery side of The
Court Of Common Pleas, by the husband TO recover
session Of his wife, whom be alleged was Illegally de
tanned from him BY Anthony Schneider The writ
Schneider to produce body OF Anna Mary
before the court served Schneider the 9th
into hs count, to hs WRIT he Anna Has
at the HOUSE Of Judson about four miles from her
fathers residence, and took her With him.
John H. Wilson in the Court Of Common Pleas, and, in
TO the writ produced the body Of his daush
s.r.Ds the true sssss Of tue case and q Soiog
ont what wishes In regard to living with her
husband the Court ordered the room to be cleared OF all
persons except the officers Of the court interpreter
and reporters for the press, and proceeded to question
We are not Of course at liberty to disclose all that
then elected but 1t appeared In addition to the
above acts that she did not consider the marriage legal
or binding, because her husband priest that she
left her husband Of her accord and that che wished
go With her parents and stay with ths and not
To her husband that she had been edusated
the belief that she could never 30 to heaven she lived
had been to her by her parents BY the priest
by bishop. She gave her name Anna Mary SchnIe
der, and not az Anna Mary stamber.
rage perfectly vaHd and legal one by the laws Of
this State, although it might be matter Of discipline
in their own churcn she could not marry any other
while her husband living, but that she not
compelled to live with him, and asked whom she would
60 vith-her husband or her father She answered
The doors we're then reopened, and her husband and
parents the attorneys on both Sides and the other
members, Of tho bar re entered The husband was in
formed that the body Of his wife had been Produced and
that she here in court that the marriage by the
was not to use any force in compelling her to 70 With
him
The husband now walked across the room to where the
lady STOOD and ntimated to her his desire that she
should 60 home with him But she resoutey refused
could al bis psrsuasions induce her 70 in hsr de-
termination. She left the court with her parents and
the last We Of the dsconsolate spouse he was follow
ing in the wake Of his wife, pouring forth his
treaties, TO which she turned deaf ear.
Destructive STORM IN KEErUuKY-GRlAr DA-
MAGE TO Corn AND WHEAT CRoPs.--0n Monday
afternoon, about half past four O'Clock, small
section Of Shelby, bordering on Franklin county,
was viitsd BY the most violent storm Of wind
rain and hail ever experienced In that region. In
ragged with unprecedented violence. On the farms OF
some ten gentlemen the wheat completely pros
trsted to mako updt for hArvsstins and the
was damaged TO almost An equal extent Large fruit
trees were blown down, and fences carried on BY the
sudden rising Of streams Of water that never be
y and passed OF In very abort period In the railroad
cut near BAgdAd the water In stream deep that
II reached above the trucks Of the ooing ct full
spced despite the fury OF the elements Capt TAlAfsr
70 and other gentlemen IN the ears state that II had
been raining but three four minutes yet 10 violently
that guiss and beds Of streams perfectly dry before the
storm, were roaring out With water three and four feet
snd SIX feet high. We heard ysstsrday 100000
Hxsd % the probable extent Of the pscuniay damage
caused By the storm. This We esteem Q low Asurs,
Judging BY the almost unparalleled marks OF Ssvas o.
ton that visited yesterday, In passing by the
Over three hundred acres Of wheat wsrs entrsy
ruined and almost much Mr.. Basket and Mr..
Taylor were heavy sufferers. Tho storm was . vsry
ing z's nag In ih progress large wheat nsh Of one
gentleman destroyed, HE adjoining corn crop
untouched While field Of wheat belonging to Neigh
Dor snd only separated from the BY fence,