The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
Mrs. Henry F. Evans of Olathe,
is Divorced
Because Her Husband Squan-
dered Her Fortune
FIGHTING AN OCTUPUS
She Contributed $365,OOO to
the Cause
And Then She Stopped and Sued
For Divorce.

New York July I9-''Do not marry a
wealthy woman, even If your name bring
to her talent a place in the geneaIogy Of
men, who fought at Hastings or prayed
at Plymouth Iustre of experience in af-
fairs For you shall roll in wealth. be-
cause Of her love, and. one day, when she
shall have learned that money. in the
view of commonplace minds. which are
fntoIerant, is everything, she shall break
your heart with her reproaches." So
spoke Henry F Evans
Evans is secretary and treasurer of the
North American Investment association,
former oil merchant, ruined by the mon
opoly of the Standard Oil company He
spoke thus. because his wife has obtained
a divorce from him at Olathe, kan, for
the reason that he has used S365.O0o of her
money, without paying profit to her
An old philosophers authority for his
apothegm would not make it more valU-
able, for he spoke it in fmpuIsive SINGER
ity. in his home, at No 234 Jefferson ave-
nue.. Brooklyn The place has sad air,
if it were depIoring necessarily the alb
sence of it's mistress.
She was Il years of age when she was
married to Henry F. Evans at Kansas
City. fifteen years ago She was Fred
eriza Holmes. and her parents business
men ana heirs OF business Ln0ur WOu14
have regarded as a sacrilege her becom-
ing the wife Of a man who was not in
business Evans was a popular merchant
who knew how TO create and organize
But it was not happy marriage She
had weIl-cuItured mind but she worked
always. attentive to her housekeeping
and caring little for pastimes. She be-
came the mother of two children and gave
her soul to the dear creatures
TUh n
her parents: her husband extended his
business and dealt in millions He found
no other happiness thai this dealing i'm
piled The tranquil joys of home seemed
Indifferent TO him
He explained these things, grief REDEEM
ing his eyelids- He said he was seven
teen years older than his wife and had
never thought it possible that he might
have heart younger than hers But
money was TO him always q means, not
an aim
I was ambitious for her" he said. IT
was sure that I might succeed as an in
dtviduaI against a corporation. and the
Standard Oil company proved to be
stronger than I. I was ruined. but Mrs
Evans entrusted the conduct of her at
fairs TO me, and I had no doubt that I
could make them brilliant
sonora, Mexico, tempted me. I mort
gagged Mrs Evans real estate and invest
ed the money in the La Dorado mines
there They are inexhaustibIe. and the in
vestment is good, but there came a
drought in 1892 and all the money that my
associate. Mr. Macpherson. and I sent
there could not redeem the property.
We needed more money. Mrs Evans
brother advised her not to give more TO
me So I struggled with all the strength
that confidence in ones Judgment, mo-
mentarily defeated, can give I worked
to give water TO the mines night and day
as sailors work to pump water out Of
ship.
L engaged the services of one ]. A
Sanborn. a mining engineer. of Ports
mouth. y. H. who is now in an assay
Office at Elizabeth N J. He went to the
mines as my agent, but he stopped at
HermosiIIO, the capital of Sonora, listen
ing to comments of my rivals
He has made a deposition, which was
used by my wife in her suit a Olathe It
is full of statements that I shall disprove
in the appeal that my counsel. 1. Q. Pick
ering, is making
--SanbOrn has made in it the most child
ish charges He says that rnismanaged
my wffe's money at every part of the IN
dertakfng. He says he found her in our
Brooklyn home in want He says that
rnortgaged her piano and could not re-
deem ii for her. Here is the piano. He
and borrowed once a s. bill from a serv-
ant to buy cigars.
The Rev Dr. Hendry testified at the
trial in my favor He is my wife's cousin
Sanborn's deposition says the Rev DR..
Hendrys testimony is not true And to
think that Judge Burris. in that OIathe
court. granted a divorce decree on depo-
sition like this is mOnstrous-
The Sonora mines are valuable. I have
a magnificent offer for them. and my wife
is weaIthfer today than she ever was
But she does not know; she is iIl-advised
and thinks 1 have failed
Il have sent her at least 81. 100 in a
year. Her new advisers have persuaded
her that placed the Sonora property in
my name for some terrible reason. but see
the receipts for money which have paid
for her in her namei No. her decree will
not endure. I shall win the case ap-
PEAL