St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-09
DISHONORED HIS FAMILY.
A Gay Old Lothario and His Numerous
Am0urs.
CHUMMED WITH A DRIVER.
Letters Indicative Of His Ardor and
Affections Found in His Trousers
Pockets.

For six months there has been pend
ing in the district court a suit for di
vorce, instituted by Mrs. Jane M
Gregg against her husba nd, John w
Gregg, the proprietor of the Chask;
Brick company, doing BUSINESS OF
Fourth street, near Wabasha. The
case was called yesterday before Judge
Brill, and occupied the attention of the
court until adjournment. From TIT
evidence introduced the grounds fol
the complaint and the allegations were
substantiated, tending to show the
provocation of the plaintiffs action to
have been of the vileSt and meaneS1
sort.
The first witness placed upon the
stand testified that upon seven differ
ent occasions he, III company witt
Gregg, visited houses of ill-fame, botf
here and in Minneapolis. He was EN-
plOyed by Gregg as teamSter, an6
upon Gregg's solicitation they would
calllat the rooms of various lewd and no
torious characters and spend the night
Other evidence showed also that Gregg
was on very intimate terms with Ida
Schultz, a woman whom he is said to
have supported, while still living with
his wife.
The next witness was the colored jan.
itor Of the Davidson block. He sWore
that Gregg would call every day at the
rooms of women rooming i'll the build
ing, and that upon one occasion he saw
Gregg holding one of the
WOMEN IN his LAP.
Answers to letters written by Gregg
to women in Chicago, ILL.,, and Excelsior,
Mimi, were then read to the court.
They were as spicy as might be ex-
pected addressed to man of his style,
and were written in rather affection
ate vein. He wrote to one woman in
Grand Rapids, Mich, to meet him in
Chicago, and it was brought to light by
the stand, that he left for Chicago
shortly after the date of the letter. BE
also had a flame at Excelsior, Mimi, to
whom he on one occasion sent s. bill,
with which to buy herself new dress.
To such generous letter he received a
reply which his wife found in the
pocket of her maynard spouse, and
noting its future worth as testi-
monial against him, preserved it
for the final crisis of all her
woes. This letter was full of thanks
and ardent regard. She had bought a
new dress, and said in her letter, "If
you OF MI. - could only see me in my
new dress-but then you can't-so |
guess I'll wait till you come up" Mrs
Gregg testified that she found these let.
terS-siX or seven of them-in MIR.
Gregg's clothes and on his Office desk
during the year 1887, at which time she
had already suspected her husband and
employed counsel and persons to watch
his actions. She stated that he came
home one morning, when Night had
just lifted her curtain, and presented
such sickening spectacle in his soiled
and stained apparel that she saw evil
dence of the nature of his nights
carouSe such as made her sick.
In December, 1887, Mrs.. Gregg went
to California. No sooner had she left
the Gregg home than-as she says
Gregg nursed the flames of his mean
and lowly desires and did much to
incite her to the condemnation she
DECLARED IN HER SUIT.
While Mrs. Gregg was in California
several of her relatives were watching
the movements of Gregg and kept her
informed, either for better or worse, of
the conduct of her husband. 1t was
while she was away that it is init
mated, that Gregg did his worst to
bring this shame upon his grown-up
family. The case will be resumed
tomorrow, at which time the
other links of the chain of
evidence will be introduced.
Mrs. Gregg is large, stately woman,
with dark hair and eyes that appeal to
general sympathy. She is modest
but neat in her attire and takes the ull-
fortunate affair very hard. Often dur
ing her examination she was moved to
tears and seemed DESTROYS of leaving as
much unsaid as possible, and yet as
serted the rights she possesses as a
faithful wife, whose life and home have
been smirched and sullied. She is
fifty-fve years old and has several
daughters who are married and reside
in this city. Unlike her husband she
has the air OF a refined lady, while he is
small in stature, very dark complexion
and always grinning. He seems to be
callous to anything like disgrace and to
enjoy the distress his wife endures in
testifying to facts which severely touch
her sense of mOdesty.