The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-18
from taking the step ?"

Wnat olo you say persisted
81 said, Wife, do you think this has
to be The minister's lips quivered
and the tears sprang into his eyes as
what did she say?"
'She said, don't see any other
way
He said they talked over the agree
ment they had decided upon calmly,
and that there was no hard feeling.
After dinner they went to the office of
the attorney.
81 held back because was very re-
luctant to make our errand known"
he said in answer to a question.
Did you want to go ahead with the
agreement, or did you want to take
your wife back home?'' was asked.
Wanted to Take Her Back Home.
The tears again sprung into the
preachers eyes and he answered with
difficulty, 81 wanted to take her back
home"
The witness said he suggested that
they go to an attorney he knew. Cal
vim d. Splitter, but his wife said she
wanted to go to Harry Black, and they
went to Blacks Office. He said he
knew then that Black was Catholic.
What did Black Say?" asked
Schenck.
He said, why don't you give her
the privilege of her church and per-
NIT her to raise your children?
SdlQ 160l ike QO1nS Lndl.
I called attention to bottles of water
that had been around our home, call
ed holy water and said 1 couldn't
believe it was any more than ordin-
ary water:
and opened the folding doors and
pushed me out of his office to the
door of the outer room. He said. Get
out of my office, I don't want you
here 1 said, Let me get my coat and
and I walked out. My wife followed.
heard him say to her. He's your hus-
band, you'd better follow him.
Did you quarrel with your wife in
Blacks presence -
It did not
Did you say the pope was the anti
Christ and that the priests were mas
ters of the nuns?"
81 did not
Did you say anything that could
be tortured into such thing?"
ct did not
'Then that part of Mr.. Blacks testi-
mony is false?'
''It is absolutely false"
The minister said he then went to
the office of Attorney Splitter and there
the agreement was drawn and signed
by both.
ibid you use any sort of force or
your wife to the agreement?' Schenck
asked.
'I did not"
Were you even then anxious to
abandon your planned separation and
go back and live together?"
Yes"
"Did Black advise you to go home and
care for your children?''
He did not"
did you use any profanity in Blacks
Officer
II did not.''
n -oid +I,o., ro+,,rna5 boron ,,d ra
manned at Republic until the following
week when he took her to Tiffin and
placed her on the through train for
Nebraska, where she went to visit her
people.
''I wanted her to come back home,
be my wife and live with me- he said,
in answer to questions.
The Reconciliation at Tifin.
He says he next found her, through
a letter written to him by friend of
her, scrubbing the floor of a restau-
rant at Tiffin on July 16, the same
year; He said when he found her she
fell into his arms and they wept to-
gether. He says he learned that his
wife had told her friend Mrs. Brown,
that she could not go back to him be-
cause i've left him and disgraced
him" Upon his finding her he gave
up his ministry and moved to his
farm, taking her with him. At the
same time a suit for divorce institut-
ed against him had been dismissed by
agreement.
els there any truth in statements
that your wife promised to go back
and hive with you if you promised not
to abuse herr"
"There is not
'Is there any truth in the statements
that your wife said at any time that
somewhere, sometime, somehow it
would be found that you had killed
her?"
"It is absolutely false"
After they went to the farm, he
said, two more children were born,
Charles, who is now four and one-half
years old, and Alice, who is now three
years old. The first child was Paul,
now eight years old.
He gave up his ministry, he said, in
the fall of 1908 and did not enter it
ago He denied that he had ever
made any objection to his wife attend
ing her own church whenever she
liked, and declared that sometimes he
went with her to such services.
Went to Catholic Church With Her.
In the spring and winter of 1912, he
said she became very nervous and
nearly broken down, and they decided
to make q change for the sake of her
health. They finally decided upon Kan
sas. and left for Kansas City March
20, 1912 At Kansas City she went to
the Catholic church Sunday morning
while they were there and ne attend
ed the Methodist conference, he said,
and then, because she said, This is
my day. 1 am going out with you on
your work and may not have another
of attending church. I'd
like to have you go with me tonight
he went to the Catholic church with
her.
At Wakarusa she became president
of the Ladies' Aid society, led the Ep-
worth League couple of times, led in
prayer and helped him conduct the
PRAYER meetings, he said, and entered
heartily into his work. He was preach
ing at Berry Creek, Linn Creek near
Berryton, and at Wakarusa.
I1rred Her Not to Leave. Home