The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-15
WAITING FOR THE RETURN OF
THE EX-ASSISTANT SECRE-
TARY OF STATE.
BEGAN A SUIT FOR DIVORCE,
WHICH JUDGE KELLY GRANTED
YESTERDAY, ON THE GROUNDS
OF DISCRETION.
TWO OTHER WOMEN SET FREE.
Anna Witha's story of Cruelty
Mrs. Caroline Barry Tells of
Her Husbands Leaving.

Mrs Amelia Wildt was granted d1-
torce by Judge Kelly yesterday, from
her husband, Peter w. Wildt on the
ground of desertion. The defendant in
the suit is Familiarity known as Capt.
Wildt, and was up to year ago last
spring, assistant secretary of the state
of Minnesota. During a pleasure trip
in Europe in the early summer of last
year, it will be remembered. the cap
tain was called home to resign two Of
fees for which he was drawing double
salary under the state. Secretary of
State Berg held on to Wildt until every
prominent Republican in the state got
after him, when he reluctantly let his
old pal go.
The parties to ne divorce proceed
ings were married in Albert Lea, in
1870, and, according to the story of Mrs.
Wildt, lived happily until April, 1895,
when her husband deserted her and
has since, contrary to her expressed
wishes, continued to live apart from
her. Capt Wildt is fifty-three years
old, while Mrs. Wildt is forty years of
age. In reciting the story of her trou-
BILE to Judge Kelly, Mrs. Wildt evidenc-
ed unmistakable sincerity and sorrow
at the step which she had been COM
PEELED to take.
CASE OF CRUELTY.
Very often the greatest difficulty to
be faced in granting divorce is the
satisfactory disposition of the children
Of the litigants, but Judge Otis, in
the district court, yesterday, disposed
i
court to assign the custody Of a two
year-old baby to the father against
whom she received a decree.
Anna Witha sued Joseph Witha for
divorce on the grounds of habituaI
drunkenness and cruel and inhuman
treatment. The trial developed a sad
story of bIghted hopes. The couple
were married when the wife was but
seventeen years old and the husband
twenty-five. He had been a drinking
man previously, but promised to reform
when the couple became man and wife,
but according to the story of the plant
if, the honeymoon was scarcely past
when the defendant regularly filed
himself full of whisky and subjected
her to cruel treatment and brutal as
On one occasion he threatened to kill
both the mother and his child with a
razor. The child is now two years old,
and the young wife besought Judge
Otis to give it into the care of it's faith
er, as she was poor in health and could
scarcely support herself. His people
were at present in custody Of the little
boy and were able to support the in
FAINT, so the court complied with the
request of the plaintiff.
ANOTHER DISCRETION.
Mrs. Caroline Barry, forty-eight
years old, married Thomas NJ Barry,
fifty years of age, Feb. 8, 1891 The
couple lived together until March, 1895,
when the husband left for parts I'M
known, and yesterday Mrs. Barry OBJ
tanned divorce at the hands Of Judge
Kelly, on the grounds of desertion. The
story of the brief married life as told
by Mrs. Barry, was to the effect that
she had considerable of this world
goods laid by when she married Barry
and had never opportuned her husband
for money, not even to the extent Of
asking him to pay for her railroad