The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-23
HUSBAND IS Chilly TOO
THING COLD ABOUT MRS.
Z IiLLIPS
WOULD NOT GO TO SEE HER
Yesterday, However, He Finally
COndescended to Call, After the
City Hospital Authorities
Identified Her.

After several days of apparent indif-
ference Robert Phillips yesterday went
out to the city hospital to see his wife,
who was found nearly dead from expo
sure at the end Of Marshall avenue Tues
day.
Phillips is chief clerk for the Pullman
Palace Car company and is employed at
the union depot. So far as can be learn
ed Phillips made no effort to learn
wheti or the woman was his wife or not
Until DR.. Rogers yesterday recognized the
woman. Then after several reporters
had interviewed him, Phillips manifested
enough interest in the matter to go out
10 the hospital. When the woman was
found she was in such state Of collapse
that she could not tell anything about
herself except that she had lived with
her husband on Robert street and that
her name was Mrs Robert Phillips. This
Information was conveyed to the husband
the day the woman was found, but ac-
cordng TO the hospital authorities neither
Phillips nor any one else made any in
quiry about the woman until yesterday.
Since the publication of the story Of the
finding of the woman, neighbors in the
vicinity of where the Phillips family for
merry lived have gossiped about the
case and-were positive that the woman
was Mrs. Phillips. They were indignant
as several days past and it appeared
that Phillips had made no effort to learn
for certain If the woman was his wife
and SO yesterday Mrs. Phieffen, living at
bS3 Robert street where Phillips and his
wife lived until last Tuesday, visited Re-
lief Agent Hutchins and informed him
that she felt certain the woman at the
hospital was Mrs Phillips Meantime
Dr. Rogers had recognized the woman
and Phillips was notified When told
that the woman was his wife he was
apparently unmOved.
He Ventured the statement that he
might go to the hospital last evening,
put 1t seems now that he changed his
mind and went to the institution yester-
day afternoon. He said the woman was
ms wife and left the hospital within
few minutes after telling DR.. Ancker
that he would try to take care of the
woman so that she would cause no more
trouble after she got we'll The onlv
explanation offered by Phillips was that
his wife had left home about a week ago
20 visit her hister in Minneapolis Since
mat time he had not seen her He Of
Tered no explanation as to why he had
made no inquiry when it was at first
suggested to him that the woman so
HCdiiy uedu might be his wife.
Mrs. Phillips was somewhat better yes-
terday and was able to talk nationally.
She said she remembered leaving home
some days ago TO go to Minneapolis,
but can recall nothing else until the no
lice found her nearly dead from expo
sure. She says she is certain she did
not set as far as Minneapolis Mrs.
Phillips says she has frequently had at
tacks of mental depression and thinks
70 yHyba che
in one of these fits. She expresses re-
gret for the trouble she has caused and
seems worried over what her husband
may think of the notoriety he has gain>
ed in the matter.
The improvement of Mrs Phillips at
Iected only her mental condition Physi-
eally she is still very weak. and the
physicians have very little hopes of saw
ing her feet. Both feet were so badly
frozen that it is feared amputation will
be necessary.
Mrs. Phleffen, at whose house the Phil
lips boarded, says Mrs. Phillips left
the house. saying she was 90
ing to Minneapolis. Nothing more
was heard of the woman until the
story or her being found in the woods
appeared. The day she was found
last Tuesday, Phillips left the boarding.
mouse and went to live with his parents
az zzS Thirteenth street At the office
where he works the other clerks were
Mortified when they learned that the
woman was Phillips wife. They say
ne Is unusually quiet and reserved. even
10 GOODNESS, about the office. but thinL
IT very strange that he should have left
ms wife to the care Of strangers when
she was believed to have been at deaths
4oor; Mrs. Pheiffen says that when
rhlllips Ieit her house he said his wife
was IN Minneapolis hospital.
pE hE the city hospital, 1t Is said, Mrs.
the institution to be treated for son ~
KIND OF mental trouble. June 20 1908
information of insanity was fled ataFn :;