The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
HYATT'S ANSWER
He Comes Back Strong to His
Wife's Divorce Plea.
Gives Many Reasons Why He
Should Have the Divorce.

That life has not been one sweet
song during the past few years in the
apparent from the answer he filed
| today with the clerk of the district
court to the petition filed by Mrs.
Hyatt in February. and in which she
asked for divorce and alimony. In
cidentaliy, Mr.. Hyatt thinks that he is
/ the one who is entitled to the divorce
and he sets forth Voluminous and
divers reasons for this belief.
The Hyatts are among the best
known people in Topeka. Their home
is at the corner of Harrison and
Twelfth streets. For nearly twenty one
years Mr.. Hyatt was a bookkeeper in
the treaSurer'S office of the Santa Fe.
He retired from this service to study
medicine, but has never practiced at
that profession. In 1907 Mr.. Hyatt
and his three children received an
died in Cincinnati. That estate seems
to be the hub around which most of
the trouble in the Hyatt family has
reVolved. The children, who share
this estate with their father, are
Edourd N, 81 years Old Azure Yyette,
Is years old, and Hedouine, Is years
old. And the indications are that they
VIII be important factors as witnesses
in the divorce suit when it comes to
trial, and it promises to be one of the
most sensational in the history of the
district court.
Mr.. Hyatt, in his answer. filed to-
day, declares that he has always con-
Quoted himself as kind and faithful
husband, and a loving father to his
children, but notwithstanding all this
his wife has been guilty of extreme
cruelty and gross neglect OF duty. he
says that during all of his married life
he has been sober. steady and indus
trious and fond of his family. For
long number of years he has been
in poor health, a great sufferer from
asthma. Bright's disease and other all
ments, which condition has had ten
dency to make him respondent and
irritable. But at all times he has
loved his family and endeavored to
treat them with great kindness.
He describes his wife as a woman of
high temper who frequently became
enra ged without any just provocation
or excuse: that she is of a nagging and
fault-finding disposition, and that con-
had a habit of finding fault with his
actions when he was trying to do his
best. He says that from the time of
his marriage and until he and his chill
dren received the estate from his sister
Mrs. Hyatt had treated him with some
consideration. But upon receiving the
bequest. she became greatly elated
and possessed of many extravagant
ideas concerning his wealth and the
manner of life that the family should
thereafter live. She insisted that the
old home life be changed. that the fam
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and move to Cincinnati and there live
in the Hotel Sterling. He believed his
health would not permit such a change
in his method of living and that his
income would not be sufficient to main
tain it. Thereupon, he declares. Mrs.
Hyatt became completely estranged
from him and made up her mind to
leave him, and determined to be di-
vorced eventually, to the end that she
could obtain a large portion of his
property, so that she could live apart
from him and enjoy life in her own
way.
For the purpose of injuring his feel
ings, destroying his peace of mind
and humiliating him in the eyes of his
children, and also to provoke him to
some act of violence upon which she
could base an action for divorce and
alimony, Mr.. Hyatt declares that his
wife repeatedly cast aspersions on the |
legality of his mothers marriage, that
she charged him with robbing her
mother of a large sum of money, and
Furthermore hat he had never made
enough money to support his family
properly. She also charged that his
ia Their was a drunkard and a profit |
gate, and made these charges when she |
knew them to be untrue. But he says !
t h a notwithstanding all these
charges. Mr.. Hyatt solemnly declares
that he was never unkind to his wife. |
ne Say - IlidI she even went SO lar as /
to threaten in the presence of their !
to have him declared insane |
and placed in an asylum.
Mr.: Hyatt AYERS that his two elder |
children believe. or pretend to believe /
the charges made against him by their |
mother, and he says that they treat |
him in a sneering and insolent manner, |
and continuously charge him with be- |
ing insane. Not only that but they |
also frequently call him bugs" bug I
house, crazy liar and '-old fool" /
He says that the younger daughter is /,
trail in health and that because she |
has been the object of his tender care |
ner mother has taken a violent dislike !
to her. and has tried to poison the |
child's mind against him by telling her |
that he was giving her medicine for |
the purpose of making her an idiot
Other acouSa tionS made against Mrs |