St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03
SHE LOVED HIM NOT
For Reasons Good, and So
She Shook Him
Cold.
SHE TOOK HER LITTLE BOY
Along, and He, Scarce TWO
Years Old, Has Wan
dered Not
SHE TOOK HER LITTLE BOY
FROM HIS OWN FIRESlDE.
So Hubby, With a Writ, Will
Try to Get the Kidlet Back,
but Mama, She Says Nit.

A writ of habeaS corpus was sworn
out in the district court yesterday
by George William Schmidt for the
recovery from his wife, Annie, of
their sixteen-months-old child.
Schmidt alleges that his wife de-
serted him without just cause in
August last, taking with her the
child, boy, since which time she
has lived with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Romentzky, on Emma
street, and has turned a deaf ear on
the pleadings of her husband to in
duce her to return to him. He fur
Their alleges that she and her parents
utterly refused to permit him to see
the child. Judge Willis made the
writ returnable next Saturday, when
the mother, her parents and the child
Will have to appear in court and
show cause why the little one should
not be given into the custody of it's
father.
The story of Mrs. Schmidt, whom a
GLOBE reporter saw at the home of
her parents last night, puts quite a
dlHerent face on the case, if true She
mad not received any notice of the
writ having been sworn out, and the
nrst she knew about it was when the
reporter told her. She seemed. lit
tie surprised, but showed unusual self
possession. In answer to the questions;
of the reporter, she said:
I'VE were married before I was
eighteen years old. 1 am not quite
twenty-one yet. 1 left my husband be-
cause he used to abuse me. He used to
get drunk, too. He claims to have re-
formed now, but 1 do not believe him.
Anyhow, 1 do not care for. him. / do
not see how l ever came to marry him.
If l ever cared for him L do not realize
1t now. Of course if a man treats a
woman good, she can live with him
even though
SHE DOES NOT LOVE HIM
the best in the world. But with the
way he treated me and the baby 1
would be very silly to go back and live
with him until ! have two or three
more children SO 1 cannot get away. 1
can take care of one, but 1 could not
take care Of three or four, and / do not
propose to blast my life trying to live
with him. l know ne tries to make
H.,
but that is not so. 1 am a Catholic
and he is nothing, but that would make
no difference if L loved him. 1 would
never leave a man on account of re-.
ligion if / loved him. He could go to
any church he liked and L could do tho
same.
Yes, he sent the priest here and
tried to induce me to go back to him.
n ut ,,;o
me in the matter. either. But 1 just
put my foot down and told him I would
not. AS for his claim that l refused to
let him see the baby, that is entirely
false. He has been coming here reg
ularly from once to twice a week.
always talk with him, but not any
more than L have to. He tries to get
me to go back to him, but I will not.
l have fully resolved on that. 1 let
him see the baby because Judge Olivier
told me should. I went to see Judge
Olivier after 1 left him. A lady took
me to him and he told me what to do.
My husband was here last Wednesday.
and he was here the Friday before. and
the Tuesday before that. When he
was here Wednesday he said he loved
me and the baby too much to make
trouble
Mrs. Schmidts parents are Bohemi-
ans. She is bright, energetic-appear
ing woman, who has a mind of her
own, and gives one the impression that
she knows what she is talking about.
She is working in a factory and earns
enough to support herself and child.
She said that her husband had not Of
fered her cent for the support of the
child since she left him, and even If he
had offered it she would not have ac-
cepted 1t. She expressed great reluct
ance at having to appear in court in
the matter.
schmidt is a Dane. He used to tend
bar at one time, and he was EMPLOYED
as an elevator man after he got mar
RED. Mrs. Schmidt said she did NOT
believe he was doing anything at
present.