St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
THE SINGER SHOOTING
eliminates in Divorce Case---
Two Sides to the Story.

Mary Singer still insists that the
shooting of her husband, Joseph Sin
ger, was accidental and he still believes
she designed to kill him. Such are the
dlverging dissertations which are
couched in another chapter of the recent
lives of those individuals which was
laid before the public yesterday by fill
ing complaint for divorce in
the district court. The action was
instituted by Mrs. Singer, who alleges
that her husband has given her only
partial support for the past four years.
She also states that she is thirty-four
and he thirty-one years old. They were
married in Bohemia in 1882. He has
given her only 50 per week for few
weeks during the past four years, and
left her to maintain herself the rest of
the time by sewing and washing.
She accuses him of repeatedly
abusing and beating her by strik-
ing and pounding her on the face
and body with his fists. She refers to
the shooting on Nov. II last, and says
he was teaching her the use of firearms,
when the revolver was accidentally dis
charged, slightly wounding him in the
breast, but without any fault OF hers.
He caused her to be arrested and con-
fined in Jail, and while there visited and
heaped abuse and insult upon her and
threatened to send her to the penIten-
tlary for twenty years. He has re-
fused to live with or support
her since the time OF the shoot
ing and her acquittal of the charge.
She asserts that he works for Corless,
Chapman & Drake as carpenter, for
x,,Li I'M raoaiuac nnnd and thqf
he is proprietor of the ''NO Name Res
taurant," near Seven corners, which
affords him a good income, and that he
had $500 in cash not long since, and she
believes he has more money. She asks
the court for an absolute divorce and to
compel him to advance money to
defray the expenses of the suit. and
for an accounting OF his property.
Judge Egan signed an order yesterday
restraining the husband from diSposing
of his property or encumberlug 1T, and
recurring him to show cause why he
should not pay his wife sum OF money
to defray the expenses of her suit. The
hearing to show cause was continued
until next Saturday, in special term.
Joseph Singer filed an answer denying
that he abused his wife, except to push
her from him. He accuses her of
directing vile and obscene language
toward him. He also gives his version
of the shooting, saying that she re-
auested him to teach her the use of
revolver. He removed the cartridges
and showed her how to use the revolver.
After he had reloaded it she asked for it
again, but he refused at first to allow
her to have it, saying that it was then
loaded but upon her insisting he handed
it to her and it was discharged. as he
believes, Intentionally, inhicting q
wound in his breast from which
the ball has not been extracted.
He asserts his belief to be that she in
tended to kill him, and he has declined
to live with her since the shooting. He
says he believes she has money of her
own to the amount of $500. He had 5000,
and gave her half of it Nov. 10 last. He
asserts that he has no money except a
note for s1lO. and thinks he ought not
10 be compelled to give her more money.
as his wages are only S1.40 per day.