St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-16
MRS. IRA s. wADLEIGH BEGINS Ac-
TION AGAINST MISS HELEN
HAYS.
PLACES HER LOSS AT S12,575
THIS WILL BE REDUCED s175 IF
THE LADY,S OTTER CLOAK IS
RECOVERED.
Attorney Encell to Bring a Counter
Action Against the Minneapolis
WOman-The RepIevin.

If Mrs. Ira S. Wadleigh, of Mime
Miss Helen M. Hays, Mr.. Wadleigh's
former stenographer, that young lady's
otter cloak, the riot and desolation
alleged to have been created by Miss
Hays dark eyes will be reduced by SITS,
less 20 per cent for wear. But at the
present moment Mrs. Wadleigh claims
she has been wronged to the extent
of exactly $12,575 with interest at 10
per cent from Nov. %, 1895. Only a
Blackstone, who was also a Sir Isaac
Newton, could SO dehcately estimate
the current value, on gold basis, of
the apprehensions, the realizations,
the bitterness and the gloom which
unite in female disappointment and
wifely indignation. But Attorney
Montgomery Germany, Of Minneapolis,
has arrived at this result, and he has
already begun suit in the name of Mrs
Wadleigh, and in the Hennepin county
district court, against Miss Hays, and
asserts definitely the financial cost Of
Miss Hays alleged Establishments
and Of Mr.. Wadleigh's consequent de-
sertion.
1885, says the complaint, a copy Of
which was served on Miss Helen Hays
yesterday, the latter continually and
at divers times INDUCED in "a series
OF arts and overtures of inducement'
towards the shrinking but helpless
lumber merchant $50 that he became
strongly attached" to Miss Hays and
entirely forgot the love for Mrs. Wad-
leigh which he had previously borne
that lady. But maladjusted oblivion
was not Mr.. Wadleigh's only fault
He remembered Miss Hays only too
Well-so well that, as Mrs. Wadleigh
believes, he presented Miss Helen with
money, with gold watch, diamond
studded, with diamond eardrops, with
diamond ring worth $70,and with an
otter coat worth $175." These things
between his continuity, until Nov 2S,
1895, when, it is alleged, he added
distance to disrespect, and fed into
another state for the sole intention of
securing a divorce from his abandoned
wife, that he might marry the Helen
OF his stenographic Had Whereby
Mrs. Wadleigh has lost affection, So
ciety and love" worth $4,000, even at
the reduced values for such commodi-
ties current in the Flour City. Where
by also, Mrs. Wadleigh has been put
to an actual money loss, through the
misdirection of her husbands gifts.
Of $780, whereby, thirdly, Mrs. Wad-
leigh has been obliged to spend SIS
in order to secure her attorneys serv-
ices.
Miss Hays attorney said yesterday
that he should not only defend the
preceding action, but that he should
demand change of venue to the Ram
sey county courts. He will also defend
the replevin proceedings and force
Mrs. Wadleigh's attorney to prove her
title to the property recently taken
from Miss Hays possession. Moreover,
he says he will shortly bring suit, on
behalf .of Miss Hays, against Mrs. Wad-
leigh and Attorney Germany for dam
ages in the sum of $1,000, on the ground
that Miss Hays property was taken
from her without warrant, and that
the proceeding tended wrongfully to
injure her good name. Attorney En-
cell says he believes the suit for
alienation Of affections was brought
against Miss Hays solely as CLUB
to induce her to consent to the loss
of her jewelry, her bicycle, her type
writer and her little brass chair
Mr.. Wadleigh himself has forward
ed to Mr. Encell a clipping from the
G | o b about the case from a little
town in Iowa, and writes that the
whole proceedings of his wife are an
injustice to Miss Hays.