St. Paul daily globe., 1894-04-21

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Mr.. Walter Holcomb. the $40 at
torney who issues divorces to order,
favors the GLOBE and the public with
the following statement:
To the Editor Of the Globe
Dear Sir: You will do me the com.
mon justice to publish this communica-
ton as broadcast as you did an article
in this mornings GLOBE entitled "a
Nice Candidate" am sorry that you
should have deemed It wise to turn this
into personal campaign. In regard to
the articles OF separation published in
that article in this mornings GLOBE,
desire to call your attention to a few
errors of fact. In the first place, the
parties were not deceived into believing
that instrument divorce. They agreed
upon the terms Of separation, and E l.
ward Paul agreed to pay her certain
sum. Both understood the full purport
and limitations Of that instrument.
They separated and went their ways,
he to Little Canada, and she drift
ed to Duluth. where she waived the
formaiity of divorce and assumed
to marry John Lang. Those articles of
separation were drawn up not as
divorce. but because l advised Edward
Paul. after hearing his story, that he
had not sufficient proof to enable him
to procure divorce. When Edward
Paul learned that his wife had assumed
to marry Lang in Duluth. he came into
my office and requested me to procure
him divorce: thereby showing that he
understood that he had no divorce. l
append her affidavit to show whether
she was deceived. That she ever
claimed that she understood that docu.
ment to be divorce. is false. Now. my
dear sir, if your sensibilities are
shocked by the contents of that in.
strument as being too foul to publish in
the GLOBE, and If the intelligent
readers of the GLOBE wish to risk their
morals with the contact, they will find
the uneXpurgated edition in The Green
Bag, the leading humorous legal pub
lication of the United States. 1t is GER
tainly sad spectacle and possibility
that confronts the people of this city to
think of communicating the municipal
bench with the author Of such horri-
BILE instrument. The document was
sent to the Green Bag without my
knowledge, and no apologies were Of
fered by that periodical. The position
of the st. Paul GLOBE seems to be that
those obnoxious articles of separation
were ain index of gross ignorance. The
Green Bag published the, same in full
as a specimen of intelligent humor. I
am sorry the Green Bag was mistaken.
l will say this, that Edward Paul
made complaint against his wife with.
out my knowledge or advice, solely on
his own motion. Respectfully,
WALTER HOLCoMB.
st. Paul. Minn., April 20, 1894.
AFFIDAVIT OF MRS. LANG.
State.of Minnesota, County of RAM
sey, ss.--Annie NJ. Lang, being duly
sworn, deposes and says that she is the
same person who was the wife of Ed
ward Paul; that her articles of separa-
ton from said Edward Paul were pub.
lished in the st. Paul GLOBE on April
20. 1894; that both she and her said hus.
band were fully aware that the same
were not IN any sense divorce. and
were agreed upon because said Paul
was unable to prove any grounds for
divorce; that the attorney. Walter Hol-
comb, Esq, fully explained said instru-
meAt to herself and said Paul; that
neither were in any way deceived into
believing said instrImeDt a divorce;
that. after the execution of said instru-
ment, said Paul procured divorce in
the courts, and thereafter and on June
Z, 1892, affiant duly married John Lang.
ANNIE M. LANG.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
April 20. 1894.
[Notarial Ssal.l G. T. NEwcoMB,
Notary Public, Minnesota.
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