Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-10-16
WANTS NO DIVORCE
So Says the Wife of Canada's
Postmaster eneral.
SHE IS NOW IN NEW YORK CITY.
Denies the Story that She Game to This
Country for Separation.


| MRS. John Haggart Tells of the Thirty
Years of Her Married INSTRUMENTATION
by Her Husband--He Attempts to Take
Away Her Chi1d--Efforts to Blaclken Her
Good Name--How She Saved Hageart's
Property--An Interesting Story.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16-1n East New
York on Stewart street there is little
two-storv wooden cottage which, in spite
of it's modest appearances, is at present
the home of the wife of John Haggart,
the Postmas ter-General of Canada.
Mrs. Haggart is woman with beau
tiful hair, white as it is possible for hair
to become. Her face still has a youth
full look and in spite of the fact that she
is we'll on toward so years of age. Mrs.
Haggart is still a beautiful woman
Thirty years ago she was Catherine
Douglas, the belle of the little inland
village of Perth, about go miles from Of
tawa.
AS is we'll known, Mrs. Haggart's life
has been stormy one ever since she
married Canada's present Postmaster
General When she left Ottawa a few
days ago and it became known that she
was coming to New York or Brooklyn
it was Immediately surmised that the
object of her trip was to secure divorce
from her husband, with whom she has
not lived for nearly 80 years.
When a reporter preached the subject
of divorce to her yesterday, Mrs. Hag
CART laughed little bitterly and said:
"Why should I want divorce from
Jack Haggart, I'D like to know? have
got along without one for twenty-nine
years, and I think 1 can do so a little
longer.
'tBesides, if I wanted divorce
wouldn't come over into the States to get
one. 1 was married Tin Canada, too.
The present wife of Mr. Foster, one of
my husbands associate officials in the
Canadian Government, was divorced
? here and married again there, and now
she is not admitted to Rideau Hall.
Besides, what good would a divorce
do me anyway? I don't think enough of
men to care to marry again, and l have
q fine house of my own in ttawa left
by my father to my sister and myself.
Then l have money, too, from the esta te
? and nearly two years ago l began an &C
tion against my husband which never
came to trial, as he agreed to pay me
S., 900 year. I was satisfied with that,
/. though I could have had So, 900 had l
pressed the suit.
"When I married Jack Taggart near
ly 80 years ago was only 10 and could
= have married whom 1 liked in Perth
He owned grist mill there and other
property that him made rich. 1 went to
live at his mothers house. 1t was not
very long before 1 found that other
women interested him more than
did and that he preferred hotels and
barrooms to his own home.
cit has been said that used to fire.
| Quent places of amusement more than
7 ought after my marriage.
''The only place I ever went to was
| the skating rink, and then l always went
with Nina Haggart, my husbands sis
ter The tickets he gave US for the rink
represented all the money he ever spent
on US
zone day after my child was born he
struck me. Then left him and wen
home to my father. Then when my DO y
was a year old my husband came
and tore him from me and hid him. He
had the child brought up on an islanC
and educated there by private tutors
He was 10 years old when he came home
and although everything had been done
to ALLEVIATE him from me, he used t.
steal away at times to see his mother
He died seven years ago.
"Everything has been done to catcl
me in some indiscretion, but never has
one word been alleged against me either
IL when have been abroad or at home
Everything that has been said about my
# having made trouble for my husband o.
II having stood in the way of his advance
t. ment is wholly untrue.
Il Years ago 1 saved his property from
d his creditors by refusing to sign away
my right of dover. In fact, the who'll
story of my life with John Haggart
would fill a book; but again I say
do not want divorce"
Mrs. Haggart, however, gives n
plausible reason for her presence here il
New York just now when divorce pro
ceedings would be so detrimental to he
husbands interest