Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-06
A FATAL STROLL
FIR nciS Gr0SWeiler Tells How
He Met Veronica.
SHE WAS PROSPECTING
In a Brooklyn Park--Six Months
Later He Was Sued For Breach
of Promise.

the proVe1bial bone, but occasionally one
crops out in which there is real merit
o1le OF this class was heard by Judge
Ian dsay this morning. it being the case
OF Francis H. Grosweiler vs.. Veronica
Gro sweiler. Joe Rice appeared for the
pla intIff and by close attention to bust
ness brought out some facts in come
tio11 with the marriage of the couple thai
pla My showed Veronica to be anything
but a tenderfoot.
Grosweiler said that on Decoration
day, 1882, at which time he was a boy
IS years old, a green German one at that
he was strolling through Prospect park
IN Brooklyn, y. y. In the course of his
walk he met a woman about 80 years old,
who was also out for a walk, and they
struck up an acquaintance. Abou I
o'clock in the evening Of November II,
six months after the meeting in Prospect
park, two men. claiming to be officers,
calle I'd on him in his room and showed
him a warrant for his arrest. They ex-
planned that he had been sued for breach
OF promise by the fair prospector whom
ne had met in Prospect park, and he
cou d take his choice Of going to Jail or
maj rying her right away.
Mp. Grosweiler consulted himself on
the proposition a few minutes and con-
cluld led to become a benedict. He accom-
panted the two men to the woman's room
and there the ceremony was performed,
by whom he knew not. At that time he
had a few undred dollars and she knew
1t. They went to housekeeping and she
began to spend the money with a rapid
ity that made him kick, and the result
was that after they had lived together
about two weeks she left him and never
ret armed.
How, much did she sue you for?'
asked the judge.
IT wo thousand five hundred dollars"
was the reply. Il was working as a cut
ter IN a wholesale tailoring establish
,1ent and she knew | had a few hum
bred"
D "a you ever meet her prior to the
Deco ration day YOU mentioned?
No : nor did | ever see her after that
until the Two strangers escorted me to
her room"
Who else was present at the cere-
mony?'
N one Of m friends Or relatives, but
there We're about six in all. l had to
pay 80 to the men who took me to he
ROOM
when did you come west?'
I'm June of 1888. | came direct to
Mon ana an have been here ever since.'
\ .oung man. who said he had worked
in the same house with C1rosWeiler in
Brod klyn. testified that ne had met Mrs.
Groa Weller a few years ago and she had
told him she was living with another
man.
I'll at settled it, and the court granted
GrosWeiler a decree of divorce.
In the suit of j.. r. Russell against
Charles j. Cutler, an action for damages
growing out Of an DUN etwee the
two, Attorney Bende asked Judge Lind
say to dismiss the matter as a settle
mani lad haar affa6fal art &c .,,-
An officer passed through the city yes
terday enroute to Great Falls With Zu-
pan vid, the MAJ accused of having killed
a felloW countryman by cutting his throat
With a piece of broken bottle in Cascade
county a few days ago. Zupanivid was
ARE sted in Missoula. During his So
jou1n here yesterday he stated that in
esca ping from Great Fails he had passed
through Butte and spent a day or two
ansong his friends. He was in the Cali
forllia brewery, the postofiice and loafed
along Broadway, Main and Park streets
lea Vlng Tor the west when he got ready
to 10 so. He said as soon as he got ou1
Of Butte. however, he was afraid Of be.
ing captured.
The order to show cause in the suit O.
Alice Olsen VS.. Samuel Olsen was dis,
missed by Judge Lindsay to-day at thu
request of the attorney for the plaintiff
@A1lfl II I'LL was lldut ana before
ii could be served on the defendant tn,
latte r left the county and state, thu
get ing beyond the jurisdiction of tn,
court.
The motion to quash the order to SHOW
cau se in the divorce suit of Victori:
Dlubela VS.. Louis Dlubeia was o~verrulet
in court to-day and the defendant order
ed to pay the plaintiff $25 per month tenn
porary alimony beginning the first o
this month.
Proofs in the suit of the First Eationa
bank of this city against the Twin Cit.
and Butte Mining ompan were heart
by Judge Lindsay to-day. Judsmen
for So, 236 was rendered in favor of thu
plaintiff.
County Attorney Connolly went over t
Helena last night in order to oppose thu
par don of Samuel Nixon to-day anc
therefore could not make his return il
court here on the smoke proposition .
I'm Judge Lindsay's court Saturday
afternoon Joseph A. Cornell was granted
a decree of divorce from Zoie Cornell ane
a few minutes later took out a license t
marry Ella A. Sanders of Pony. Mrs
Saf ders has also been through the di
vorce mill. She is 80 years old, Cornei
is q.
In telling the court his roubles Cornell
said that Zoie and himself had been unit,
ed in marriage in Pony OF May 90. 1884
and thirteen days later she had left hin
never to return; why he did not know.
Marie S%chrepfer has been granted a de
cree of divorce from Hugo Schrepfer OF
the alleged ground of cruelty. They wer
married on Nov. IS Of last year. Amon
other things Mrs. S%chrepfer told the cour
tina her husband was very quick tenn
pered.
Joseph Koenig has been given a de
cree of legal separation from his wife