New-York tribune., 1912-06-12
CALLS WIFE A JUDAS
LAWYER Sued for Separation
Makes Bitter Reply.
FAMILY W0RSHIPS MAMM0N'
Plaintiff Says Husband Tried to
Wiring Money from
Her Father.

Mrs sadie Klein. wife of Emanuel Klein,
LAWYER with Offices in the Pulitzer Build
Ing Is suing her husband for a separation.
and her complaint has given Klein the op-
,or|IJnity 10 express not only his views
.bopt Mrs Klein, but also about the in
aiv,dual members of her family and the
family collectively.
Mrs. Klein Is the reincarnation Of Judas
Iscsriot, according to her husband; her
mother is the complication of all that
bas ever been said about mothers-in-law
and her father drinks
ca having disposed of the family indi-
,idually. Klein says of them collectively
that they worship only Mammon. The law
ver.defendant had some other things to say
about his wife that Justice Gerard struck
ou. of KIeins answer TO his wife's COM
nIaint as the court regarded them as scan
dalous.
Klein was arrested few days ago in the
action brought by his wife and was re-
leased in $1,000 bail as guarantee that
re would not leave the jurisdiction Of the
court. as it Is alleged that he threatened
10 abandon his wife unless her father.
julius Miller, retired real estate oper-
ator. gave him $4,000.
Klein had an idea that he could set the
nomination for Judge of one of the courts.
His father-in-law told him that if he OBJ
tanned II he would supply him with neces-
sary money. To this Klein indignantly
replied that II he was nominated he would
not accept the money from Miller as Il
present. but would consider II loan and
would give his father-in-law an assign
ment Of his salary on the bench. But
Klein did not get a nomination.
4 few days after the marriage in 1908 Il
Is alleged Klein telcphoned his father-in-
lev that he was i'll. Miller went to see
bin. and then Klein demanded 81, 900 which
Miller gave him. This was to be for his
wedding trip. few days later Miller
honored another demand for 5000. Then
Klein and his wife went on their honey
moon. While they we're away, says Mrs.
Klein. her husband asked her To write TO
her father for $1,000. and upon her re-
fusal he did so himself. saying that that
was the least Miller could give him.
Mrs. Klein says that after the honey
moon she and her husband went 70 live
temporarily at the Park Avenue Hotel
There Klein renewed his demand FOR the
10000 which had not been forthcoming
and made good his threat TO leave his wife
unless the money was given TO him. The
wife declares that she met Or. Herman
Appel, Il friend of her husband, who said
that he was authorized to make the propo-
sition that Klein would return to his wife
II Mrs. kleins father would give him
tc5oo
Finally Miller made the proposition to
his son-in-law that IL he would behave
himself he would pay him t25 week for
year and then transfer to him and his
wife property valued at $4,000. But Klein
wanted cash
Klein comes back in his answer with the
allegation that all these things said by his
wife are deliberate perjury" He adds
that Mrs. Klein has the soul. features
and action OF Judas Iscariot and is an ar
gument most convincing OF the truth of
the doctrine of reincarnation."
AS TO Mrs Miller. the mother-in-aw in
the case, Klein says: She was indeed the
reincarnation Of ell that was ever said
Of mothers-in-law.' and the deponent
challenges the world 20 produce her equal.
III she had lived in the time OF the French
Revolution in Paris she would have been
one of those knitting women attending the
executions at the guillotine."
The lawyer says OF the Miller family:
They only worship Mammon Surely this
family inherited a fragment of the golden
calf But Nemesis follows them. With
all their money they are not happy"
The defendant declares that when lie
married he was a member of fourteen go
cieties and honored by ali who knew him.
hut now IAN DrOepects are gone" and no
hopes that his wife and family are salts
fed with the result Of their work.
Mrs Klein asks $40 a week alimony pend
ing the suit. Justice Gerard awarded her
I2 week.