Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-27
PREFERS SERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST HER HUSBAND.
SUIT BEGUN LAST OCTOBER
Deposition Taken in Buffalo Reveals
Almost Unbelievable Conduct bv
observation-disclosures of Sensational
Case as Sequel to Fight for Mil
lions.

Milwaukee, Dec 22-Detailing an
almost incredible story of cruelty and
bestiality, Mrs Clara S. Heyl. daugh-
ter of the late Mrs. Lisette Schandein
and chief beneficiary under her will,
has brought suit for divorce against
Jacob heyl, the central figure in Mil
Yankees most sensational will con-
test. The suit was instituted Octo-
Der 10, but the papers have been kept
from the knowledge of the public
until yesterday.
Heyl Does Not Deny.
In his answer, which is on file, as
well as in a lengthy deposition taken
at Buffalo on November 81, by Thorn
as M. Kearney of Racine, Mrs. Heyps
attorney, Heyl admits practically all
OF the allegations, with the exception
of one, which accuses him of having
confessed to his wife that he had
maintained improper relations with
his own sister. This charge Heyl at
tempts to explain in lengthy state
ment, which covers several typewrit-
ten pages, declaring that the matter
is a question of veracity between
himself and his sister and that his
wife has been unable to decide whom
to believe.
Left Him After Will Contest.
Mrs. Heyl, in her complaint, de-
clares that she has never lived with
Heyl since October, 1905, immediate
ly after the will contest, in the
course of which the stories of his
forcible entry into her sisters room
and into the rooms of other guests at
their home became known to her for
the first time,
Married in Milwaukee.
The complaint recites that Mrs.
Heyl and her husband were married
in Milwaukee May rs, 1889, and have
two children, Reinhardt, aged 15,
and Helmuth, aged IS.
Mrs Heyl then relates that Heyl
had been the husband of her sister
Louise, who died in January 1888,
leaving one son, Eric, to whom she
and her mother were greatly at
tached. At the time Heyl proposed
marriage to her first, he and his son
were living in the house with her and
her mother. She says that she re-
peatedly refused to marry him, but
that he declared unless he did SO he
would remove from the city, taking
his son with him. She told him
frankly that she had no love or af-
lection for him, but he persisted and,
finally, from a sense of duty to her
mother. who, she believed would suf-
fer greatly if her grandson were
taken away from her, she consented.
OF Brutal Nature.
Of Heyl, his wife says: "The de-
PENDANT is and at all times herein
mentioned, has been, a man of gross
and brutal appetites and passions;
domineering and tyrannical towards
those weaker than himself who were
unfortunate enough to be placed
within his power; Unfortunately selfish
and consumed with vanity and self
conceit, showing no consideration or
regard for the sensibilities of the
plaintiff or for her comfort or happi-
ness
The allegations of cruelty are par
ticularized in detail. The first allega-
ton recites that on their wedding
trip Heyl reproached her in 2 cruel
and heartless manner for being cold
and unresponsive She declares that
she again told him that she did not
love him, but that she would do all in
her power to be loyal wife to him.
Notwithstanding this, she claims, he
repeatedly threatened to humiliate
her by sending her back to her fam
lily, thereby exposing her to shame
and disgrace. She also charges that
he threatened to kill her.