St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-19
HIS WIFE'S MAMMA.
Responsibility for a Divorce
Suit Put Upon A Mother
in-LaW.
Aldermen Apportion the
Money Appropriated for
Scourged Dakota.
The South st. Paul Distillepy
Is Not in the
Market.
Plans for New Schools
Adopted by the Board of
Education.

There was considerable life about the
district court yesterday. Judge WilkiD
was hearing the case of the city against
the Chicago, Burlington q Northern
Railroad company. The case was not
finished, but will be continued to-day,
Notwithstanding the general holiday.
Judge Kelly held no court, but Judge
Villas had a real spicy divorce case,
which held his attention all day aud
promises to take up the greater portion
of to-day. 1t is that of Eta e. Reynolds
against George W. Reynolds, which, UNI
conteSting to the bitter end. Judge
Flandrau represents Mr.. Reynolds,
while G. d. O'Brien is prosecuting the
case for Mrs. Reynolds. She claims that
they we've married at Summerville,
Mass, Oh the 9th of December, 1881,
and that she is now twenty-seven and
her husband thirty-siy years
Thurman treatment, drunkenness
and neglect. They lived together as
husband and wife up to May IA, 1887,
when Mrs. Reynolds took her baby and
abandoned the defendant because, as
she alleges, life became unbearable in
his company. The child is now between
two and three years old. and is now,
and always has been, in the custody of
left her husband, who was then living
in New York and holding a position as
travelling statesmen in large jewelry
house. she came to ST. Paul and took up
her residence with her sister, Mrs.
Graves. She claims that before and
since that time she has been dependent
upon her parents for support, Reynolds
wholly neglecting to provide her with
clothing and other necessary comforts
of life. In her testimony upon the wit
ness stand, she informed the court that
while she was suffering the trials of
childbirth her husband neglected her
in cruel manner. and was governed by
his penuriouS nature in the choice of a
physician to attend her, employing
the cheapest. instead of endeavoring
to secure the services of the best.
Her husband, who attended court and
sat back of his counsel, moving about
in his chair in an agitated and uneasy
tale, and related good part of it to the
court through his attorney. He does
not want the disgrace of this divorce
heaped upon him by his "mother-in-
law" MIR. Reynolds declares that his
wife and her mother and sister do not
like him for unacc0untable reasons or
on general principles, and have put
their heads together to root him out of
their midst. He denies each and every
charge made by his wife, arid AYERS that
there is no other grounds for bringing
the action than to satisfy spite and to
effect his social death in the East, where
he is well known and highly connected.
After Mr.. O'Brien, Mrs. Reynolds at
torney, had introduced all the testi-
mony for the plaintiff, Judge Flan-
drau moved that the case be
dismissed for the reason that
Mrs. Reynolds had wholly failed
to prove the first OF any other charge in
her complaint. She charged him with
drunkenness. To disprove this. Judge
Flandrau proceeded to read the aft
davits of number of prominent parties
in the East who know Mr.. Reynolds
quite intimately. The tenor of these
dispositions was to the effect that Mr..
Reynolds never got drunk, was never
seen drunk, and had the reputation of
being temperate man, with a mild.
gentle and kind disposition. AS to the
other charges of cruel and inhuman
treatment and improvidence, Mrs. Rey-
nolds, Judge Flandrau claimed, had
failed to prove. Judge Villas did not
grant tue iluliUil W ulSfllISS. STATING
that he would listen to the remainder of
the dispositions, which will be heard TO-
day. Mr.. Reynolds is of medium
height, light hair aud muStache, and
would be considered handsome man.
Mrs. Reynolds is tall brunette, 1.-the
of form and stately bearing. She
affects an air of dignified indifference
to the proceedings. The testimony will
be submitted and the decision of the
court declared to-day.
NEW SUITS.
d. c. Fairbanks sues j. L. Ware to recover
1929 Tor goods sold and delivered.
Jacob FiIestone sues Henry T. Duke doing
business as the South Park Iron company. 10
recover S23l on promissory note.
Mahlcn D. Miller and R. l.. Wharton have
begun suit against Mathew NJ. Gasser on a
note of S2,70O, given upon certain real es-
tate i'll Dakota county.
George Benz & Sons sue Christ Peters for
1852 for goods sold and delivered
Robert L. Wharton sues the Capitol In
vestment company Oh note of S4666
W. H. and Il. P. Sanborn sue S, D. Lord to
quiet title to lot 8, block s, of MorriSons ad-
dition to West st. Paul.
Cornelius G. Kolff sues John Radke to re-
cover on notes amounting to Sl37.
SUPREME COURT ROUTINE.
Submitted on brief yesterday: Joseph Stew
art VS.. May Z. Duncan: A. II. Reed VS.. Ed
ward Lammel and Louisa Pinger VS.. William
Pinger.
The case of L. A. Cobb vs.. Andrew Bond,
was argued and submitted.
In the case of Ell. Day VS.. William j. Shee-
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