The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-26
.SIEIN HATES WOMEN
Thinks Every One of Them Is
Part Devil
HIS WIFE IN PARTICULAR
Queer Ideas of a COncienCiOuS
School Master.
HIS WIFE IN PARTICULAR

Columbus, O., July 25.-Walter E Stein.
an educator Of some prominence and
who has taught in this city. Dallas. Tex,
Johannesburg, Penn, and elsewhere.
says, in letter alleged to have been
written by him. that he hates a woman
worse than the devil.
STEMS sentiments were made public to-
day when his wife, Clara G. Stein, nee
Hanks, formerly a belle in Emrnaville,
Penn. filed an answer and cross petition
in suit for divorce instituted by him.
The legal document contained copies of
letters said to have been written by Stein
and on which Mrs Stein now bases her
defense. one letter is dated Dallas. Tex,
April, g. 1902. and reads:
Miss Clara Ct. Hanks, Emmaville,
Penn: address you thus, for you are
no more than that to me, only by the law
are you a friend to me- not in mind, only
in word. 1t has been more than a year
since left you. I have passed through
man incidents since then. but I have
nothing to regret. When I left, you
thought I was leavir TO marry Ella
Mellott; such was not the case. It was
because to live with you was worse than
to leave my home, success, my friends
and a heart-broken mother.
I have no affections. You have crush
ed and stunted every feeling of my mind
until I hate a woman worse than the
devil himself. of which she is but part.
Il have but little to say, for to say
much TO you is wasted time. Now, I am
ready to do what the law requires of
me, but no more. 1 will keep you and
furnish you with such things as you
need for life. You can stay in the same
house do; people viii call it living to-
gether. but it won't be. 1t will be only
staying with a statue as FAR as L am con-
cerned. You will not do anything; the
servant viii do that which is to be done
I will tell you exactly how it will be.
Then if you are disappointed, don't blame
me
when you come to take a last look,
for I viii never come back to Pennsyl-
vania, and of course you won't either.
unless you go alone. I cannot furnish
anything magnificent or grand, only the
of life. Now. if you want to
live that way, I am. you can come.
You don't need to talk to me; 1 don't
want you to. All You need to write is
you will come or not, and if you
are will send you a ticket to ST Louis
and a pass from there here. Now, this
clears my conscience before God, and it
is all the law asks me to do, 50 you can
DO as you please.
I left YOU because you lied to me. in
of which I hate you worse
than the devil. But it is my duty before
God and the state to keep you, which
vii do, not in abuse, but in the manner
l have described. Therefore, consider it
and let me know right away. If you come
it is for all time; if you don't I enlist for
the Philippines as soon as my school is |
out, and if I go down it is only the end
Of a friendless life. I don't want any
friends, and especially would I abhor hav-
ing you for friend. You have misjudged /
me- I am not what you think I am by |
any means.
This separation was not made after |
it was all made before. 1 had |
planned to run away sooner than did. |
1t is a question now of come or stay. |
This must be final Answer right away. |
''W. L. STEIN"