The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-10
CLAIMS HIS WIFE
MARRIED TOO SOON
Charles A. Pottgeiser Says She
Took a Second Husband
Three Days After Divorce.

The legal fight being waged between
the divorced parents Of pretty little
Frances Pottgeiser for possession Of
the child is said to have disclosed the
fact that the mother, Mrs. Jennie
Pottgeiser, was married within three
days after she was granted a divorce in
the Ramsey county district court.
Charges of this character are con-
tanned in an application to be made to
the court today by Charles A. Pott-
geiser, who seeks to regain possession
of the child, now in the custody of it's
mother slH
Out Of the charges in the application
by Mr.. Pottgeiser may also grow
charges of perjury against Leonard
Sandberg, who is said to have married
Mrs. Pottgeiser three days after her di-
vorce case had been disposed Of The
license for this marriage was taken out
in Minneapolis, although both parties
resided in st. Paul, and the name of
Helen Johnson was inserted in the
marriage license instead of the name of
Mrs. Jennie Pottgeiser, whose maiden
name of Johnson was not restored to
her by the court before which her d.
vorce case was tried.
Mr. and Mrs. Sandberg are now liv-
ing on Violet street, where Frances, the
little seven year-old daughter, over
whose possession the fight is being
Waged, makes her home.
Divorce Granted Last Fall.
The divorce case brought by Jennie
Pottgeiser against Charles Pottgeiser
came up in the district court last Octo-
wifi
cruelty. Mr.. Pottgeiser made no de-
tense, and the divorce was granted Oct
~. Judge Jaggard, who heard the case
holding that the mother was entitled
to the custody of the child.
Inc decree. in the case has never been
filed for record, and there was nothing
IN the findings of the court which gave
the plaintiff permission to resume her
maiden name of Johnson.
Even had the decree Of divorce been
granted at the time of the trial Of the
case, the Minnesota law requires that 4
divorced person must wait until the
expiration of six months before mar
rylng again, and another provision of
the law requires that a marriage license
must be taken out in the county in
which the woman resides.
Despite these facts, it is charged
that Mrs. Pottgeiser, under the name
cOAuSOLJ was married &c
Leonard Sandberg three days after her
divorce was tried
Married Oct. %.
The license for this marriage was
taken out in Hennepin county, but the
marriage ceremony was performed by
Kew. Christian Olson in st. Paul. The
records Of the Ramsey county courts
snow that the divorce case was tried
Oct. IS, A903. and the records Of the
Hennepin county court house show that
a license was taken out by Leonard
and Helen Johnson" Oct. %, on which
GATE they were married
In the application to be made to the
court today Mr.. Pottgeiser will ask for
the custody of the child, and his former
VIE viii be charged with having been
Illegally married to Sandberg,
The domestic troubles of Mr.. Petit
gelser and his wife were given consid-
cradle publicity at the time their d.
vorce case was pending in court. Mr.
Pottgelser is but twenty-five years old
ana Mrs Pottgeiser but one year older
Ihey were married at Hudson. wis. in
1893, when Mr.. Pottgeiser. was a mere
boy of seventeen