The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-21

! divorce proceedings viii set German So
/ ciety agOg. Mr.. Kohl has been in the
! of years. and in 1894 Mrs. Kohl came to
/ this city after their marriage in St.
/ Louis.
There is one child. a daughter, Adela,
/ four years old. A baby boy died in
/ May of this year at the age of six
months, and in her petition Mrs Kohl
says that her husband, after having
| been told that the child was dangerous
/ ly i'll, went on a fishing trip and had to
be telegraphed for after he died.
The Kohls have been living in
pretty and comfortably furnished cot
tage at the corner of Third and Polk
streets The divorce petition filed by
Mrs. Kohl was accompanied by a plea
for a temporary injunction, restraining
her husband from visiting the home or
in any way interfering with herSelE or
child. In addition, it asked that he be
prevented from dispOsing of any of the
property ne owns and the receipts OF the
drug store as well. This temporary IN
junction has been allowed by Judge
Mrs. Kohl was seen at her home,
where she is now living with her par
ents, this morning. Her parents arriv-
ed from St. Louis the first Of the week
in response to a telegram from their
daughter. She says that her husband
became informed of the fact that she
had sent word to her parents to come to
TOpeka and that he Immediately wired
them in her name not to come. The sec
Ond telegram, however, was disregard
7 have taken all the abuse I mean
to stand, and 1 intend to get divorce
and return to St. Louis" said Mrs
Kohl today. THE whole trouble is the
fact that Charlie is madly jealous OF
me He doesn't want a divorce be-
cause he doesn't want any other man
to have me, but I am afraid to live
with him any longer He can't pear
to have me look or speak to another
man, and very often at gatherings at
the Arion hall and other places ne
has taken me home just because he
thought 1 was enjoying myseH among
other people.
a month ago he commenced to fail
to provide for me and refused me any
money. From last Friday up to the
time my parents came here this week
I had no meat because Charlie told the
butcher not to leave the meat unless
paid for it, and I had no money to pay
for anything. 1 have been sick some
time, and when 1 gave Charlie a
prescription DR.. Lewis left with me,
he said he wouldn't fill it. He kept his
word, and DR.. Lewis had to go down
and get the medicine himself.
II think his brother Ferdinand, who
has been here with him, has put him
up to much Of his meanness,' continued
Mrs. Kohl. His brother doesn't like
me, and he has been telling him things
about me that are not so. Charlie has
been drinking good deal and when
he would come home drunk he would
been going on for two or three years.
and I don't propose to stand it any
longer"
In particularizing her husbands 5
abuse in her petition, Mrs. Kohl says
that short time before the baby was
born he struck her several times in
the face, discoloring her eyes and caus-
ing nasal hemOrrhage.
Besides owning the drug store at 226
Kansas avenue Mr.. Kohl owns three
lots on Buchanan street between Fifth
and Sixth streets, and according to his
wife's petition, has considerable money
on deposit in the Bank of Topeka. He
also has money loaned to the firm of
Tulein & Nelson. The temporary in
junction covers the disposition of all
moneys and property, real estate and
otherwise.
Mrs. Kohl asks that she be given the
custody of the 4-year-Old daughter. She
also asks that temporary aIinony be
allowed her during the time the case is
pending, and permanent alimony after
the divorce is granted.
When seen today Mr. Kohl said he
had not read his wife's petition, and
had nothing to say. He would not say
whether or not he intended to fight