St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-16
SAIN T Paul.
WEBER DIVORCE CASE.
The Defendant Writes the Globe
Letter.

The Defendant Writes the Globe a
Letter.
To the Editor of the Globe.
think family matters should not be
given to the public through newspa-
pers, but as many friends wish me to
reply to the article published yester-
day, will mention a few Of the causes
of this suit, and leave the rest for the
courts to decide. 1t is true my wife
has charged me with unfaithfulness
at intervals the last few years. which
1 denied, but she absolutely refused to
give me the names Of her advisers,
which any good woman would and
ought to do. Some neighbors
OF friends were jealous and anxious to
break up my family; others done it
for political purposes. My wife has
refused to live with me for over two
years. Cat this point Mr.. Weber goes
into personalities which have little
bearing on the CASEY
During the summer my wife has re-
ceived 500 per week for the support
Of the family, and I paid out ex-
tras, including clothes for five children
and $1,000 household bills, and the last
few months have been giving an at
torney for my wife) $50 per week until
Dec 26, and 800 for my wife's attor-
ney's fees for advice, for which she has
refused to buy clothes for the children,
which I have bought, as they COM
planned bitterly. She told the children
they were spies, which was wrong.
Since Dec. 26 I have paid her $40 per
week. My wife's attorney advised
my wife to move out Of our home in
| the Eighth ward, saying it was on &C
count Of a suit against me for $500 due
On second mortgage, saying she should
occupy the property she inherited on
avoid f.
tachment on it. This was unnecessary,
as. I could have paid the 500 within
q few months, and held my prestige
in the Eighth ward, where my friends
live, and for whom I done so much
for when I served as alderman for four
years, but 1t is partially a political
scheme to do me I'D in my future po-
litical aspirations. The property was
not foreclosed yet, and we had years
time after foreclosure for redemption,
and live in it.
A couple Of months ago I went to
a friend and told him to go and inf1u-
ence my wife's attorney to have this
thing stopped, but they done nothing.
L was stopping at home. l will say,
further, that an old crank has been
my mothers adviser for years, and on
account of his son not receiving
nomination last fall, he advised my
mother to go back on me financially,
and that 1 would not be elected, etc.
This Is the way I have been handi-
capped and unreaSonably prosecuted
for over twenty years. This is all l have
to say for the present, probably more
some other time. I will not fight the
divorce;only the alimony. Yours re-
spectfully, Henry Weber.
P. ST. sent few friends, including Sena-
tor Pottgieser, and he succeeded in getting
my wife to acQuiesce to a reconciliation, but
she, after going to her attorney, changed her
mind. The enclosed the reasons that
believe she has been poisoned by her attorney
and her sister, who is living with her. 1t
was stated in yesterdays article that l agreed
to pay since October last $50 per week tenn
paid only $11O This is an error. I paid the $50
per week since then until the latter part of
December. Then l wrote this enclosed letter
to my wife and paid her since January last
500 per week. amounting to S110 in one month.
My wife yesterday agreed to settle for another
stipulated amount and should take the three
Oldest children. This the children wished for
some time. but l wished again yesterday a
reconciliation, ard the children to stay with
their mother
LETTER TO HIS WIFE.
st. Paul, Jan. 8, 1896.-Dear Sophie: 1 am
compelled to inform you that l cannot and
will not longer pay you $50 week to pre-
vent your going ahead with your action for
divorce. 1 know that this amount is three
times more than you need for your proper sup
port, and therefore 1 cannot consider the pay
Hienl VI SuCh d sum do ii6Ht, winch Wiii Hol
submit to any longer even if l could afford
to pay the amount, whatever the results may
be. I have no terms to offer you other than
these: ~
complete reconciliation. overlooking all
that is past move back in the old home
stead, and 1 will support the family in
proper manner according to our means and
pay interest first mortgage as long as 1t
is not foreclosed: also pay taxes and arrange
for payment Of the second mortgage OF
$780, so that no judgment will be entered
against YOU Now, if you are willing to
change your plan, this for the sake Of the
children as well as yourself, and keep away
from vile influences. 1 will make another eff
fort and if there is a spark of love or true
womanhood in you, you will accept the above
proposition, which is not intended to any law
yer or political enemy or jealous friend, but
to you. l will live with you peaceably, in the
future, be of steady habits, which l had prom
ised you after last election, and have been do
ing for some time. will assist to train the
children to obey. I also want you to move
back into the old home as 1 wish to regain
my political prestige in the ward that have
done so much for in the past.
If my future political aspirations are full
filled I can then decide If the homestead Is
worthy Of redemption.
Now, dear Sophie, have always loved you,
and if had not would not make this propo-
sition after being as I am forced to believe,
ill treated by you. Let love go above every
thing We are both young yet, and in good
health. Let us put heads together and
fool those politicians and sensation mongers.
kill those reptiles and bury the Ratchet, live
and perpetuate the true love of former years,
and, as I said before, keep away from evil in
fuences and conf1de in your husband every
thing Life is too short to go to law, and you