St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-12
How Mrs. Charlotte Nicoll
Minton Fooled Her I'm
suspecting Hubby.
Ugly Charges Made by Both
Parties to a Coming Dr.
Vorce Suit.
The Duluth News Gets Into
a Libel Suit Of Small
Dimensions.
Formation Of a Big Elevator
Company in the City Of
Grand Forks.

PARKER, s. D., Feb. 1.-THE soiled
linen of another very prominent New
York family is soon to be aired in South
Dakota. The plaintiff. who asks for the
divorce, is Mrs. Charlotte Nicoll Minton,
OF Flushing, l.. /. Her brother is the
famous De Lancy Nicoll, district attor-
ney for New York city, one of the at
torneys for the New York World and
one of the main tigers of Tammany
hall. The defendant is j. McKim Min
ton, one of the editors and proprietors
of the Illustrated American of New
York. The case is set for trial tomor-
row here before Judge Smith, but the
defense will make an effort to get a
postponement until next week. Judge
Smith has already granted the defense
its request for a jury trial, and when
the case comes up the people of Parker
can get their fill of salaciousness.
The parties to the suit were married
at Bayside. l.. l., in October, 1888. If
the complaint and answer are guide.
they did not live happily together.
Along in June, 1891, Mrs. Minton took
her two children for few months at a
fashionable watering place in the East
She promised her husband to write
daily as to the
Health and Happiness
of the children. Arriving there she ad-
dressed to her husband over one hun
dred postal cards. and upon wrote: 1--WE
are having nice time, the children are
WELL" or 1.-THE children love; they are
WE'LL" and other messages. These she
dated ahead and then employed some
one to mail them for her. and at once
left for Sioux Falls, arriving here in
company with Mrs. james q. Blaine Jr..
about the LIST of July. She registered as
Mrs. McLain," and was so known for
several months. Soon the newspapers
of the city began to get letters from New
York Inquiring whether Mrs. j. McKim
Minton was in Sioux Falls. This led TO
an investigation, and soon MRS. Nc
Laln' was proven to be Mrs. Minton.
Her husband, by the way, was getting
his postal cards from Saratoga while
his wife was establishing her residence
In Sioux Falls. In her complaint Mrs.
Minton charges about all the grounds
recognized by the South Dakota laws.
She says her husband has been guilty of
Willful Neglect.
that he has failed to provide for her:
that he has been extremely cruel. hav-
Ing many times struck her; that he has
called her unprintable names; that he
has been guilty of adultery, and that he
is an habitual drunkard. The defend
ant comes back in his answer with a
wholesale denial of each and every
charge. He alleges that the plaintiff is
not proper person to have the custody
of the children, in that she is guilty of
the excessive use of intoxicating
liquors. He charges her with adultery,
and cites the family home in Flushing
as one of the places where his
wife proved unfaithful. He says that
also at Bayside and at 252 West Forty
sixth street, New York, during July,
1890, his wife had improper relations
with her lover, who, he says. owned a
yacht, and that Mrs. Minton used to go
on excursions with him without the at
tendance of chaperon, and to the
great scandal of the family name. There
are now on file here some seventy-five
dispositions which have not yet been
opened. These, it is understood, will
be read III full to the jury.