St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-19
INSTIGATED BY HIS WIFE,
Asks Divorce in st. Paul From
the Woman Who Accused
Him Of Adultery.
ANOTHER PINE FRAUD SUIT.
Mrs. Ellen CorcOran Wants a
Divorce Other District
Court Suits.

Rev. John j. Lange has commenced
all action for divorce from his wife,
Wilhelmina, filing with his petition
some rather sensational letters. The
reverend gentleman has been mis-
Sionarv in this state for the past four
teen years. connected with the German
Evangelical synod. He has been the
pastor of churches at Sank Rapids,
Mathew Lake, Albany and Rockway,
MINI. AT present he lives in st. Paul.
but his wife lives i'll Benton county. lie
is forty-eight and she fifty years old.
They have seven children, Paul, aged
twenty-four years; Helene, twenty-five;
Elizabeth, twenty; Ernst, eighteen;
Dorothea, sixteen: Fred. fourteen, and
Hanna, aged eleven years.
1t is alleged that he has been loving
husband, but that the conduct of his
wife has been inhuman, and ended in
her DESERVING him and the children
Aug. 5, 1892. She has continually, as
alleged, slandered and prosecuted him,
ana devoted her time, energy and influ-
ence to running him i'll his calling and
TO depriving him of his property and
every means Of support. In 1898, as set
forth, she stated to people in the church
and neighborhood where he was pastor
that he had been guilty of adultery
with various members of his church
and congregation, and especially with
young lady in the congregation, and
also a widow. She charged his own
daughter with accusing him with max
ing indecent proposals to her, and
caused his daughter to tell many per-
sons in the congregation that he had
made indecent proposals to her, his own
daughter.
He gave. as he says, his wife money
to visit their daughter Helene in Grant
county, Minnesota,in August, 1898, from
where she wrote letter to him to the
effect that the visit was only pretense
to get away from him-she would never
go back. He might care for the children
but not 10 concern himself about or seek
her, as their ways would go separate.
He was on farm then in The midst of
harvest. He has since refused to live
with her. She, on the other hand, as
alleged, has slandered him and declared
repeatedly that she would ruin him.
She has received against his consent the
salary due from his congregation, caus-
ing him to lose title to his farm, valued
at $500. on which there was a mort
gage for $1,000.
In October, 1898. she had a meeting OF
his congregation at Sank Rapids called
to try him on an accusation of adultery,
and he was discharged as pastor. In
the same month she wrote letter to
the trustees of his congregation at AL
bany, Mimi, accusing him of adultery,
refusing to support her and sending
her away from home to have her out of
the way. She also wrote letter to the
president of the synod on Oct. 8, 1898,
stating that her husband, the pastor at
Long Prairie, had sent her away from
home. She had meeting of the synod
called at Sank Rapids in October. 1898,
which tried him upon an accusation
which is set out as follows:
lone day my husband said to me, I
have committed fault with a female
the consequences of which will soon
come out. My existence will be ruined
if you do not save me. You can save
me if you go away from me. Then my
husband made me copy and sign letter
which he has written aud then l went
away from him. Afterwards l heard
that my husband had been intimate
with two female persons, one widow
of Sank Rapids, Mrs. Fink, who was in
the house of my husband as company
for our daughter Elizabeth. To that
girl my husband gave gold watch as
present. That girl went out nights and
my husband sought her with a lantern.
and when they returned the lantern was
blown out"
The wife also, as alleged, caused their
daughter Elizabeth to 20 before the
committee and congregation publicly
and charge him with indiscreet pro-
posals to her. his own daughter. All of
the charges are alleged to be false. In
November, 1898, the wife is accused of
breaking into the house while the