Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-14
AIRING MINISTER FAMILY LINEN.
w. 4. Mynster Files an Answer to
His Mife's Petition for DiNOrcc.

w. ~ Mynster Files an Answer to
His Wifc's Petition for Divorce.
w. A. Mynster filed yesterday his answer
to the petition OF his wife. Sophia b. Mynster,
applying for divorce and almony. In the
paper placed in the hands of the clerk Of the
court Mr.. Mynster makes a very strong re-
sistance to Mrs. MINISTER'S efforts to secure a
large amount Of money in the shape of ali
mony. In her petition filed several weeks
ago the woman made some rather sensational
allegations concerning her treatment by her
husband. She alleged that for the six
months prior to her application, Mynster had
only furnished her money on three occasions
On the first occasion she obtained, after
arduous labors, the sum of 81, and on the two
succeeding occasions 75 cents and Is cents,
respectively. Accompanying the husbands
paper are afidavits by Frank Peterson, the
grocer whom Mrs. Mynster alleged shut her
on by the order of her husband, Ira C. Myn-
ster, ]. J. Stewart, Leonard Everett, E. e.
Mayne and ID. j. Hutchinson, who averred
that the plaintiff had no real substantial rea-
sons for starving while trying to live on
S3.S5 for period of six months, despite the
fact that the grocer shut her off" which he
alleges he did not do. Part of the affidavits
support the assertion of Mr.. Mynster that his
wife has in her own name property in Oak
land Cal, worth $4,000, which is slightly
incumbered, but is productive enough to take
care of the incumbrance and pay a good in
come besides. They also assert that she has
eighty acres of valuable and productive land
near Astoria Ore, and 100 acres in the state
of Washington. all of which is entirely unn-
numbered, and worth $4,000 In addition
to this, she has large block of paying min
ing stock. MINISTER asserts that up to April
l she was privileged to go to any grocery or
store where Mynster had dealings and get
what she required in the way of food and
raiment Mynster denies her statements
about the value of his property, and asserts
that the property which she specifics in her
demand for alimOny belongs to his mothers
estate, all of which is heavily incumbered.
He says she conceived the idea that he was
millionaire, and came all of the way from
Oakland to catch him, upon the advice of the
late DIR. Poulson and some spritualistic
mediums, who had informed her that Mynster
was millionaire and a good catch for even
2 wealthy widow.
MIR. Mynster goes ahead and details the
many sad phases of his life since he met
the woman and became entangled in matri-
monial alliance with her. He announces that
she has made life a weary burden to him.
and was not content to let him have even q
spoon or set of knives and forks from the
plentiful store of such things left TO him by
his mother and which Sophia got into her
possession after her marriage. When she ap-
piled for a divorce and they began to live
apart Sophia seized all of these things and
raised a terrible scene in the apartments
on Broadway adjoining his own in which she
lived, when he stepped across the hall one
day and asked for a spoon. The petition
concludes with the statement that she has
been threatening to go back to California for
a long time on the grounds that the climate
here did not agree with her, ard the final
fare-up came when MINISTER was unable to
give her the amount of money she desired
to travel back in state consistent with the
pretensions and position of a millionaire's
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