Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
STOLE HIS SONS WIFE
F. A. WahIig Accused in Suit
for Separation.
YOUTH 10 WHEN welded
Father infatuated With Woman Be-
fore Son Married Her.
MOTHER NOW BRINGS SUIT
Declares She Was Threatened With
Pistol When She Demanded Money
From Him on Street.

NEW YORK. August 22.-The charge
that her husband. Frank A. Wahig.
we'll known and wealthy builder and real
estate operator of the Bronx. had eloped
to Europe with his own sons wife is
made among a number of other unusual
allegations by Mrs. Rose Wahlg in her
suit for separation.
The matter came before Justice Bischon
in special term of the supreme court yes
terday on an application for stay or
an appeal taken by Wahlig from an order
of Justice Greenbaum, directing him to
pay his wife $50 a week alimony and
500 counsel fees.
BY consent of counsel, argument on the
application was adjourned until Thurs
day, but the papers in the case were
filed with the court and reveal the SEN
sational charges of Mrs. Wahlig in which
a strange story is told Of her husbands
infatuation for woman whom his nine
teen-year-old son subsequently, married,
only to have his wife leave him and elope
with his father.
Trouble Years Ago.
Mrs. Wahlig first accuses her husband
of misconduct with a servant In their
home in 1889. At that, time. to avoid
scandal they separated and the husband
settled property worth $685. on his wife
upon which there was mortgage of
$4,000.
Up to July Is. 1905. Mrs. Wahlig
charges, her husband lived with Minnie
Sternkopf. occupying apartments in the
Bronx, among them house at 2ohh
street. Bedford Park. Then, she says.
he came to her and pleaded for forgive
ness, promising to give up his relations
with Mrs. Sternkopf, and that she for
gave him and used all the money she
had remaining to furnish home for her
husband and herself and their two sons
at No. 1884 Washington avenue, In the
Bronx. where she now resides.
The affidavit of Mrs. Wahlig states that
her husband then sent his son, Charles r.
Wahlg, to the goth street house for his
belongings, and the Sternkopf woman
the young man, and that August 20,
1905, She a woman of thirty-f1ve. and he.
a boy of nineteen. were married and lived
together at the Goth street house for six
months.
In the early part of February the affli
davit alleges that the sons wife paid a
visit to her husbands father at his busi-
ness address, No. 1853 Boston avenue. and
visited him on several occasions there
after, and that some time in March she
of liquor, packed up her belongins. gave
her husband his clothing, and told him
she was going back to his father.
Flee to Europe.
Mrs Wahlig declares that her husband
established his sons wife at No. 345
Pleasant avenue, maintaining the house
hold, and that they later went to Europe.
where she believes they are at the present
time.
In her affidavit Mrs. Wahlig tells of
hor Shop
tinues:
Owing to the excessive insults. the
plaintiff then took a pistol loaded with
blank cartridges, went up to the de-
money for her supper. Defendant spat
on her and she fired two shots at him.
was arrested, and as result the de-
PENDANT was put under bonds to pay her
$12 a week"
The charges of this affidavit are sup
ported by an affidavit Of Charles F. Wah-
lig, the son, in which he states that his
wife told him that she was sick and
tired of him and was going back to his
father.
Mr.. Wahlig. who is the head of the
Frank A. Wahlig Company, denies in
every detail his wife's charges. He claims
that his son married Mrs. Sternkopf. a
woman of wealth, in an attempt to gain
possession of her mony. and that when
he failed to do SO, he Abandoned his
wife
The defendant also denies that he owns
property worth large sum of money
and is in the receipt of large income.
His lawyer. George Robinson, of No. -
Nassau street, said yesterday that Mr..
Wahlg was in straitened circum-
stances and unable to pay his wife the
alimony ordered by the courts.
Mr.. Robinson also asserted that both
Mr.. Wahlig and Mrs. Sternkopf. as his
sons wife is named in the papers. are in
New York. and denies they eloped as
alleged by Mrs. Wahlig and her son.
Young Wahlig last night corroborated
every statement of his mother about his
wife and his father, and stated that he
would bring suit for divorce, naming his
father. as soon as he can get money
enough to pay the cost.