The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-12-05
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e. LIFE PAR llER
Bear River Man Fails in Appica-
iii. ton for Divorce Made to
IN District Court. a..
MARRIED THROUGH A.
81 s. MATRIMONIAL AGENCY
Love Letters of Pair Part Of Court
i Records and Show the Easy Stages
by Which . Man Was Led to What
Appears to Have Been a Mesalliance

has been denied an application for di-
vorce from his: wife Minnie England
Winter, when he wooed, won and
welded through the medium of a
matrimonial agency. He brought ~ac-
ton on the grounds of desertion. The
woman filed a cross-bill in which he
was charged with drunkenness and
cruel and inhuman treatment and in
the findings of the court filed in Vir-
ginia the decree which Winter sought
is denied.
Mrs. Winter is living in Michigan,
while Winter still lives in the Bear
River country. The papers in the di-
vorce action describe him as con-
tractor.
The records of the case which was
filed Feb. 13 are complete and include
the love letters of the pair written
during their courtship, after their.
introduction by mail through the
medium of a newspaper conducted by a
matrimonial agency in large eastern
city.
The letters are highly interesting.
The negotiations were opened by
Winter. He described his home, pros
poets and state of prosperity, besides
telling his height, weight and the
color of his hair and eyes. Minnie
England came back in kind. The early
letters of each were delightfully."-
guiless and naive, but after several
were exchanged it became apparent
that Winter was gradually slipping.
Finally an greene elIt i was made
whereby Minnie England, who was a
widow 40 years old, was to come on
to Minnesota and meet William VIM
ter, lonely, So and anxious to enter
the married state. From Winter was
|exacted a promise that if either was
to be disappointed after the meeting
Winter was to treat Minnie England
as a sister. Part of the stipulation
md agreement was that he was to
bear her expenses on the trip to and
from her home.
However, their meeting, served but
to confirm the good opinion each had
previously held of the other and they
sent for a parson person and had the
nuptial knot securely tied. Right
away things began to 60 wrong. Mrs.
Winter alleges her husband borrowed
$50 from her to pay for team Of
mules and soon it was evident that
Winter was stronger for the mules
than he was for his wife. His wife
alleges he used to go to town and
take on jags of strong red liquor and
when he returned home he was in a
st mood for upbraidings and occa-
sionaly said things to her that were
bad. She alleges also that he finally
told her to leave and hitching up his
we'll beloved mules conveyed her to
:he railroad station at Cook and put
her on the train. She was compelled
70 throw herself upon the charity of
relatives in Michigan. Winter started
suit for divorce on the grounds of de-
sertion, but found himself stung for
alimony.
The woman put up vigorous fight
and has won it in the courts. It is
understood she in turn will bring an
action for divorce. Since their first
separation the pair have attempted a
reconciliation. The negotiations look
ing to this end were also conducted by
mail and complete files Of the letters
are part of the records. The recon-
ciliation was not successful, however,
The various documents, letters af-
fdavits, depositions and processes at
law make a bulky record, one of the
largest which has been filed at the
Virginia Office of the clerk of the
court in many a day.