The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-27
MRS. STOCKINGS SORROWS
SET FORTH IN HER ANSWER IN
THE DIVORCE SUIT

Ambrose Tighe, Attorney. Files
IA Lengthy RejOindcr Abounding
in Specifications III Crurity---She
Alleges 'Fhnt MIR. Stocking on Sew
er,d Occasions In Public Treated
Her in an Emhumam Way.
Blanche Clare Stocking Cborn Bar
nilzl. by her attorney. Ambrose Tighe,
filed yesterday in the district court her
answer to the complaint of her nus
band Hohort NJ. Stocking, in his suit
for divorce. The rejoinder of the wife
Is lengthy. aboundS in specifications OF
cruelty and in-treatment. and will
make q profound sensation in those
circles of society whereof wealth and
culture are supposedly the features.
Mrs. Stocking is the daughter of a re-
tired colonel Of the regular army, Col
Albert Barnitz: her sister is the wife
of Capt. &. \. Byrne. &. S. A, now sta
toned at Fort Thomas Ky, where
Mrs. Stocking is at present visiting.
Mr.. Stocking owns large timber linn
its in Northern Wisconsin, and is re-
garded in business circles as a man
OF Very considerable wealth. The your g
wife alleges that Mr.. Stocking is worth
upwards al SEQ coo; he himself made
affidavit yesterday morning that he was
NOT MOl III. al q ScllllS price, more lldn
100000.
The first motion in the case, for all
muuy and lawyers fees. came UP in
special term yesterday morning before
Judge Bum. The contention as to the
supposed wealth of the plaintiff was
submitted. and Judge Bum made an
order lis pendens lite, and allowing
Mrs. Stocking $3.50 for maintenance and
the same amount for attorneys fees.
The answer of the defendant, which
carries with il cross bill for divorce
details at length the causes which led
up TO the desertion alleged by Mr.
Stocking. 1t first states a specific
cause of action against the plaintiff,
upon which the defendant will ask for
a divorce. then goes on to say:
That when the defendant first met the
plantiH she was 20 years of age, recently
graduated from an institution OF learning,
where she had acquired her education, and
ignorant OF the world and of the sin and
sorrow in II. That the plaintiff appeared
TO be man OF honorable personal record
and Of a high, kind. generous, cheerful and
anectionate nature That she ricprocated
the affection ne evidenced for her, conceived
a sincere affection for him and married
him after 4 few months acquaintance.
That up TO that time she had lived in
harmony and happiness with her father,
mother and sister in their home in the
East. was then in perfect health of body
and mind and looked forward to domestic
life with the plaintiff in which each should
help the other, and from which there should
never be absent ambition TO attain to
the highest ideals
Very shortly after the marriage. he began
and continued 10 treat her tnhumanly and
cruelty. That instead of having high,
kind. generous. cheerful and affectonate
nature. as. in advance of their becoming
husband and wife she believed. he s9on
disclosed 10 her that his character was low
and brutal. his disposition mOrose, violent.
iucOnsiderate. malignant. sensitive, resent
ful dommeering and that he found salts
I1pr ID q
full personal intercourse, but in strife con-
tention. tauit-tinding, petty jealousies, child
ing and in subjecting the defendant to dis
tress and humiliation.
That the plaintiff always refused to admit
that the defendant was in i'll health. al
though he well knew that she was and the
reason for 1t, and in complete disregard
Tor her enfeebed condition. imperiously de-
manded of her and compelled her to per-
form tasks and submit to burdensome eX-
periences far beyond her strength and pow
eTS OF endurance.
That the plaitih had no regular occupa-
ton to take up his time and devoted his
energy. for the most part to setting tasks
and duties for her. He compelled her to
take Of his twelve-year-old daughter
b. another marriage and to pack up the
furniture Of his house at Eau Claire and
remove TO 81. Paul. That when the de-
PENDANT protested that her strength was not
sufficient Tor an uninterrupted succession or
such unhappy ordeals and tasks, and
prayed that she might be permitted TO fore
80 some of them. he Oyerruled her objec-
lions abruptly and finally insisted that she
go through them without protest or reluct-
aucc.
That she submitted to all these demands.
in spite OF her broken state of health, and
had the p.aintifi otherwise treated har with
gCntlencss. kindness and affection she might
have successfully survived this experience.
Further on il is alleged that his temper
was most violent and easily aroused against
this defendant provQcatiOns too slight to
BE- called provocation at all. That at first
his anger was directed towards the person
who excited his jealousy. That Of this he
afforded an instance in the dining room of
the Victoria hotel, Chicago, in May. 1896,
when he threatened, in defendants pres
ence TO throw a dish at some stranger
seated adjoining table, whom he ac-
cused of looking too much at this defendant,
although this defendant had not observed
that the person had looked at her at ali.
THAT in October 1896. when the Presbyte-
riau synod met in st. Paul, the defendant
proposed 70 entertain at the plaintiffs resi-
deHce several OF the clergymen VINO might
attend the session from the remote points
of Minnesota. That when he learned of her
intention to do so he again became morOse
ard angry. and kept the defendant awake
tn greater part OF the night with angry
criticism Of the plan.
That he offered TO pay the expenses of
such cergymen at some hotel but said he
would Tot have them in his house, be-
cause ministers were q bad lot of men, and
thar wives could be trusted with any one
bu- ministers and travelling men.
That on another occasion, also in the fall
OF 1895, while the defendant riding
q Grand avenue street the coldad
with wagon. That this defendant inquire ed
OF the conductor what had happened and
Wien the conductor did not hear her an
elderly man. known by reputation to the
de- rdant, and living with his family in the
immediate neiEhbOrhood, explained to the
defendant the nature of the accident. That
by the time he had done so the car had
reached the street crossing nearest to his