The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-21
Mrs. Saxby's Story.

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Mrs. saxby was called at the afternoon session
Of the court, and for two hours and half told
the story of her life prior to their separation
on Oct Is, 1902. The whole trouble, she claimed,
was due to the intimacy Of her husband and
member of the choir of st. Adams church, Miss
Jennie Rheinstrand, who was pupil in the
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Mrs. saxby told Of numerous incidents show
ing the attentions Of her husband to the choir
| member. The first intimation that the atten-
tons were ANYTHING more than platonic came
in January, 1901, when her children, girl
now 16, boy IA and girl II, told her of the
attentions Of their father to Miss Rheinstrand
on sleighing party which followed an annual
choir party held at the home Of the rector. At
some length Mrs. Saxby detailed other actions
telling of meetings in the church, Of numerous
visits to the rector's study and OF lake excur-
sion. ...' =
| She demonstrated with him on numerous &C.
casions, she testified and he assured her that
| there was nothing wrong with his attentions to
the young woman, and that her visits to their
home and his to her home were for the purpose
Of assisting her In her studies. Instead of heed
| ing her remonstrances, and her assurances that
people were talking about his intimacy with
| the choir girl, Mrs. saxby testified that his
( attentions became more pronounced, and that he
finally suggested that unless her protests against
| his action were ended they had better separate.
| She said she still had hopes Of averting a
scandal, and did not agree with him as to the
desirability Of a separation. She also told Of
| the rector waving lis handkerchief and throw
| ing kisses from his study window as his young
| friend came up the street. and also Of his hur-
| riedly leaving the house after lamp had been
placed in the window Of the Rheinstrand house.
one window Of each house overlooking one win
dow of the other house three blocks away.
| Mrs. Saxby told of meeting the couple on the
street one occasion just before Christmas,
when the pastor and the pupil had been holiday
shopping for Christmas entertainment They
were engaged in a conversation, walking very
leisurely, and failed to see her as she walked
| by them to nearby store.
| Mrs. Saxby seems to have been more NOR tilted
| and shocked at the action Of her husband at a
funeral when NE officiated at two funerals IN
one afternoon The first at his own church,
4 him from there just at the end Of the service
! and before the congregation had dispersed, to a
| mission church over which he had charge. She
| says that the pastor walked down the aisle OF
1 the crowded church with Miss Rheinstrand and
| her sister. who entered the carriage with him
/ and drove away. Many of the members Of the
congregation, she said, commented on the slight
/ given her at that time. and upon his return
! she protested and urged that, as the funeral
/ at the mission was Of the husband Of a friend
| Of hers. she would have liked to attend.
| He explained that the young ladies rode with
/ him to the steel works, and that he did not see
anything wrong in this.
Agree to Separate.
The trouble between them eliminated IN an
j agreement for separation made on Oct. 15,
i 1902, Mrs. Saxby to have the house and furni-
4 ture, the custody Of their three children, Mr..
4 Saxby to pay her $50 month for the care OF
herself and children In her answer to the
complaint Of her husband asking for decree
of divorce on the: grounds Of desertion, Mrs.
saxby alleges that no part Of the sum stipulated