The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-18
Mrs. Minnie Kuhnert Want 5
Her Husband Again.
She Takes Back What She Said
About Him.
QUEER EXPLANATION
Given by a Married Woman of
Why
She Left Her Husband-Her
Sister HypnOtized Her.

st. Louis, June 1s.-This is a story of
love. hypnotisms marital infelfcity and
reconciliation.
The principals were Mr.. and Mrs. Gus
tav H Kuhnert of 2314 South Broadway.
The Kuhnerts will soon embark on the
sea of matrimony for the second time if
Mrs. Kuhnert is humble enough in her
apologies and retractions.- She must take
back all the hard things she said about
Gus during the six weeks they have been
separated ana comply with other condi-
tions set forth in written agreement.
Above all things she must keep herself
out of range of the hypnotic influence
which both she and her husband believe
caused all their troubles.
Mrs. Kuhnert is dark-eyed and hand
some and prior to her marriage about a
year ago. lived with her mother, Mrs
Minnie Stoehnert, at 221O Hebert street.
Kuhnert has a lucrative position as
master machinist for the Fink Granite
Milling company. Mrs. Kuhnert was
very pertinent when she told the story of
her matrimonial troubles to a Post-Dis-
patch reporter.
I'VE were married on April %, 1886,
she said, and went to live in a pretty
home at 29l4 South Broadway. We had
each saved up a little money. We fur
nished our home nicely and were very
happy until a change, which I cannot
now understand. came over me.
My husband was steady and very kind
to me and had cause to be proud of him
land was until three months ago.
About that time my sister Laura be-
gan visiting US. She is a peculiar girl and
always had a strange influence over me,
even when was living at home before
my marriage.
She never liked Mr.. Kuhnert. I don't
] know that she ever said or did anything
that made me believe this but some way
. just felt that it was so.
When she would visit US I would al
ways think Of my husbands little faults,
real or imaginary. and would brood about
them after she had left. On the few oc-
. casiOns when she made remarks about
my husband il seemed to me that I had
thought of the same thing just before
she spoke.
She had made q good many visits be,
bore she openly found fault with Mr.
Kuhnert She made remarks that
would have resented had any one else
made them. But I seemed powerIess to
reply to her. Six weeks ago our house
was robbed. My watch and some other
jewelry were stolen I reported the mat
ter to the police.
The next day my sister called at the
house She told me that my husband
must have taken the jewelry. I had
never thought of such thing. but I be-
Ueved my sister blindly
Laura told me she would give me 500
and a gold watch if I would leave my
husband and go back to mother.
Nearly all the furniture in the house
belonged to me. One day, while Mr.
Kuhnert was at work, 1 moved our house,
hold effects to mothers house and left my
husband.
'Laura's influence over me was stin
strong and I pushed the investigation of
the robbery. thinking all along that I
would find my husband guilty.
Il had been at home only a short time
when Laura told me she was going to get
married and would like to buy nv furni-
ture. I sold her the furniture very cheap.
Now she's married to a man named schu-
cat. She has husband and is using my
furniture, and well, I'm living at home
with my mother. I guess they've given
me the bag to hold.
Il have found out that all of my suspi-
cions about my husband were unfounded.
know that he did not take my jeveIry.
and know I have been very foolish I
know my sister hypnotized me. Now that
she is married she has no influence over
me
I am going back to live with my hus-
band. He says he viii forgive me if
undo all the injury did him.
Mr.. Kuhnert has drawn up the follow
ing agreement, which Mrs. Kuhnert has
signed:
Mrs. Minnie Kuhnert. in the pres
ence of her brother, Fred Stoehnert,
desires to give back the good reputa-
ton of her husband. She is sorry she
did wrong and spoke wrong about her
husband. She takes back every blame
she put on him. She Acknowledges
that her mind was controlled by other
persons, especially by her sister Laura,
who undermined her peace since she
was married. She left him from 1914
South Broadway. took everything with
her and sold the furniture to her sis
ter Laura. 221O Hebert street
After all she got sorry. She found
that she had wronged her husband.
He Is innocent of all the troubles and
quarrels she had with him. She says
her husband is a respectable and good
man, man to live in peace with any
wife. She would like to live with him
again, and Will replace the furniture
and dc her best for him and not listen
to other people any more
AIRS. Kuhnert says she will keep the
agreement to the letter and viii buy new
furniture and stand all the expenses of a
second matrimonial venture.
Mrs. Laura Schucat. the sister, who is
alleged TO have caused all the trouble,
lives at 1925 Montgomery street
She was highly incensed when told
what Mrs Kuhnert had said about her
She paced the floor and vrung her hands
for i've minutes before she would consent
TO make q statement of any kind She
was washing clothes when the reporter
called.
There's not a word of truth in it, she
said I never Influenced my sister
against her husbang. On the contrary
when she complained about him I used
20 tell her she was foolish. that she had a