The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-07-25
She Replies 10 Her Husbands
Complaint In His Bill for
Divorce.
Counter Charges Made Against
Him and All Hls Charges
Denied.
She Aiso Asks Divorce ia GRANTED IIsI
on the Grounds Alleged Ia Her
Co1nter Charges,


OF her husband. John If. Con-
rad, lu his suit for divorce, has been 6lsd
10 the Office Of the ole'k OF the district
court. II 10 a very long document cover
ing nearly thirty typswritten pages aud
about Q, 700 worJe. The divorce
proceedings wote instituted some time Last
fall, In hor answer Mrs Conrad denies
wife, both In general and specific terms.
sho olso denies tho allegation Of her hus-
band that be has always during the sight
years OF ihsir married life, dsmeansd him
self toward hsr as faithful and Affection
ate husband. Replying 10 specific charges
sho denies tue allegations Of adultery with
William s. Hopkins. OF ~. Clair springs,
Mich, Richard Bishop. or Joseph A. Baker.
OF G cat Falls. al any OF the times mon
tionel In the complaint or at any
other time or with nny other man or mon.
She depiea the frequent absences fem
home alleged In 1892 except two weeks on
two different OCCASIONS; aud alao denies
that daring her husbands absence al Uorr
on business Joseph A. Baker staid at her
house aud occupied oom communicating
with hers, though admitting that the room
be used was adjacent TO hers. She claims
that Bakers presence at her house was by
her husbsnd'S invitation; that once when
Conrad and Baker remained away from the
house all night che cent his valiss TO the
Hotsl Helena; that Conrad had IL brought
back and insisted that Whenever baker was
In town he should regard that residence as
his. Baker occupied tho guest chamber,
which was next TO her own, except on two
nights whom ho slept In the attis. In order
that Mrs. CourRa's sister might occupy the
guest chamber. Mrs. Conrad states that
hse treatment by Baker was marked by
uniform personal kindness and courtesy,
and abe eniertuined high 20 sonsl regard
for him. but there was never any
relations existing between them which
we're Inconsistent with her absolute purity
aud chastity, and never word or act on
the part OF either which approached. or
could bs distorted into. improper famil-
hrity. The charge that she lived with
Baker at tho b. onaon cottage at ~. AuRus-
tine, Fla. in 1907. 10 denied In toto. She
admils that for a time Baker did occupy o
roomisd laoent 20 hers Ia the Bronson cot
tnge, because this room was one OF this
two which were suitable for gentlemen.
The answer admits making q trip to Nsw
York In January, 1893. with Baker, but
alleges that 1t was entirely In references 10
her business interests in connection with
her fathers estaie. some of which interests
she had been told were In pcrili but denies
occupying the snme berth with him. either
on that trip OF ON that TO Florida.
Mrs. Conrad alleges that prior TO 1893 her
husband had gotten from hsf about 800. 600.
h.. Ill "a atan hat .Lar haH ma hal
TO invest In some mining enterI rises with
the promise that che should lose nothing
except possible profits and the interest on
her money and should have the principal
returned intact in case the venture failed;
and Bnker'a visit TO ST. Augustine was for
tho sole purpose of getting the money she
had promised TO invest She says she in
trusted the management Of her interest in
the mining venture to Baker aud kept the
fact OF the Investment from her husband
for fear he would get the money invested
away from her. fu ther Mrs. Conrad de-
nies that she is not ht person to have
charge OF their childien. whose best inter-
est requires tha, che have them. and claims
that her husband IL an absolutely imrrope'
srson TO have them By reason OF his bad
habits and lack OF moral principle
and OF peouniary means to support and
educate them. She also denies ths,
sho has threatened or intends TO remove
any Of the child en- out OF the jurisdiction
OF tho cou't or TO Europe for 40 indehnite
period. she had arranged in the spring Of
1893 that her children aud hef cousin. Miss
phelenia Barnaby, should spend the sum
mor In Helena aud visit Europe In the fall,
but since the commencement OF the divorce
proceedings this arrangement was not cur-
ried ont.
The answer then goes on 10 make counter
chnrcea aQninat the husband as q second
defense. He 10 charged with committing
adultery with one Lottis Logan In their
resiiencs and ut other places. AZ Dillines
In 1890; that while the defendant was ab-
sent from her Billings home from Septem-
ber, 1889. 10 the latter pat OF June. 1890
her husband mAds improper advances 20
Cora Lswis, the cook and housekeeper. who
rejected them. Al another time. during
her absence In the east she charges that
her husband, st their Billings residence.
had improper relation With "a certain wo-
man having red hair. whose name aud fur
thor description are 20 defendant un-
known" She also chqrRss him with being
intimate al various times during 1892, in
Livingston, at tho AlbemArle hotel with
Mrs, A. ID. Glenn; also that al the sams
hotel, on March 26. 1893. he was intimate
with another woman, name unknown, and
on the same day appeared In the doorway
Of his room In the hotel. clad only Ia hia
niehtshift. aud seized a waitress aud tried
20 drhg her into the room. The attempt
was unsueceesiuL Another charge OF un'
due lntimncg Ia with Mira, j. J. Jackson Ia
a building ON West Park street. Butte. July
26, 1883. On jan. TO- 1894, II is ohuTRsd
that Conrsd, al the Grand Pacific hotsL
Chiango, remained in bed until Annie
u audon, a ehambeTmaid, came In 20 clean
A. ~ Aa
pOaAla to hOr; and the same day visited q
house OF ill.fame on Dearborn attset
whore he had Intercourse with an unknown
woman. Another woman that he 10 charged
with being familiar with 10 Rsbooca Luz,
at her laundry no 81. Augustine, Feb, z,
Isa4. In tho sams city, three days later,
the same odense is charged with nn un-
known woman.
Fora third defense aud counter claim
Mrs. Conrad charges that for years her
huabAnd has been guilty OF hAbiiunl drunk
snness ana intoKioation. For fourth de-
fenso aud counter claim she charges that
her husband haa been guilty OF extreme
cruelty 20 her aimee a few months after
thelf marriage. and that her health has
beon atiously Impaired by II. hhe aafa
aho had large fortune In her own righl
aud that her husband. through pretsnses
AAd threats and unkind conduct auooeeded
in getting large aams ~ toonev tom her
ngefegating upwards OF 800 O,O she also
claims that ahs haa bosn eom pelled ~ Incur
obligations for him amounting 10 about
s. 900, which are still outetendlngi that
she has paid several thousand dollars OF
bills Tor olothoa for him; also for nnmher
OF Wedding preaonts made 30 his elefhai
and thai ans has alwaya aimee her mar
rlage furnished heiself end children With
clothes. Oue item OF $4,000, given him at
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