The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
MIR. BRIGGS GETS Thu CHILD
VORCE SOUGHT BY MRS.
BRIGGS AND HIMSELF
The Couple Were Married In MAN.
kato, but After Year or Two
Didn't Find Matrimony All They
Had Anticipated.

The matter of the action brought by
Amy Briggs for divorce from her
husband, Frank w. Briggs. came up
yesterday in district court before Judge
Jaggard on a motion of the plaintiff for
an allowance of temporary alimony
and of the defendant for the custody
of his child Both the parties were
represented by counsel, and after a.
warm argument the court filed an or
der awarding the custody of the child
to the father pending the trial of the
action, with the proViso that at the
cid of thirty days the mother can APP
ply for the custody. Both parties are
seeking divorce, and the case when
1t comes up for final hearing promises
TO be hotly contested, if the filings are
any criterion.
According to the complaint. the
Briggs were married at Mankato. in
Blue Earth county, on Oct II. 1885. and
have one son, born in September of
the following year. At the time of the
marriage the plaintiff was seventeen
and the defendant twenty-five Shortly
after the couple moved to St Paul,
and Briggs secured a position with the
Minnesota Transfer company, from
which his wife says he derives 500 per
month
All went well for time, but finally,
Mrs. Briggs alleges, her husband be-
came cross and cruel, ABUSED her con-
tlnuelly and subjected her to course
OF systematic persecution, unmerited
reproach and malicious faultfinding.1
in the language of the complaint Twice
during this time, Mrs Briggs says. she
has been compelled to leave her spouse.
She asks for a divorce, alimony. the
custody of the child and permission to
resume her maiden name of Amy Hal
lock-
But Mr.. Briggs is not disposed to
allow his wife to leave him and take
the child. Consequently, he comes back
at his spouse in an answer that adj
mits the marriage, but denies almost
everything else. The defendant SAYS
that he has maintained a nice and
| comfortable home for Mrs Briggs at
213 Vernon avenue, where he had cared
for happy family, comprising his
wife, his child and his parents Then
he asks that he be granted an abso-
lutte divorce and the custody of the
child. He alleges that on Nov %. 1897.
his wife left him and went to Chi
cago. where she remained until Jan.
Is. 1898, in the meanwhile 'Concealing
her wherea bouts" from the defendant.
In the spring of 1897, according to
the defendant, his wife commenced a
systematic course of scolding and
abuse in the presence of the child and
it's grandparents, who also came in for
share of the hard language. Further
more, he says, she chastised the child
with extra severity.
But the elimination from the stand
point Of Mr. Briggs came when. as he
says, his wife, with the intention Of
"outraging his feelings and destroying
his home" left for parts unknown on
Feb. 9. 1899, taking the child with her.
Mrs. Briggs, in reply to the an
swer, wherein she admits that she
went to Chicago, but says her depart
IRE was caused by the behavior of the
defendant himself She alleges that
she only came back on promises Of
reformation, and was finally forced to
take her departure with her child
All these things may come up to-
morrow when the court hears the ar
guments in the motion for a temporary
allowance Of alimony and for costs