The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-27
Alleges Husband Was Making
Love i'm His Nightie.
TWO SUITS Then WERE FILED
Wife of Another and Her Hus-
band Would Be Wed.
Secret Meeting in Country
Town Bus Has Been Cited.

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understanding between Mrs. Ida Will
kerson and Glenn Earl Wagner un-
der which each is to obtain a divorce
and then marry the other. Mrs, Wag-
oner today filed an answer and cross
petition in the district court of Shaw
! nee county. She asks for the decree
for which Wagner put in first bid
and she also asks for s2,500 alimony
paya BILE in monthly installments-
/ The court records show that Ida
! Wilkerson obtained a divorce in the
district court from Daniel Wilkerson
November s. They also show that
three days later. November II. Wag-
! oner filed petition in the district
court asking for a divorce from VIM
/ ona Wagner, his wife. 1t is in an
swer to this petition that Mrs. Wag-
oner, thru her attorney Douglas Mote,
! placed on record the more intimate
facts concerning her husbands do
meStic life.
The Wagoners are well known in
certain circles in Topeka. They are
actors and have travelled out of To-
peka with several stock companies
Wagner is a song writer and is said
| to be drawing royalties on a number
of published songs. Mrs. Wagner
formerly lived in Topeka and has sew
era1 relatives here.
Mrs. Wagner does not charge Mrs
! Wilkerson with all her domestic trou-
/ bie- She states that there was am
other who preceded Mrs Wilkerson in
her husbands affections. In his petit
ton Wagner stated that the principal
trouble between himself and wife was
due to the fact that he wanted a fam
lily of children and she refused to con-
slider 1t. In her answer and cross pc
Mrs Wagner alleges she is
the one who wanted home and fam
> lily and that. he would not consider it:
: that he fused and fumed every time
child came around him. She states
that the dream of her life has been a
little home and children and that she
has been denied both by Wagner. ~.
Affection Grew Cold.
Mrs. Wagner says she. and her
husband were happy 80 TO speak,
until about two years ago. when for
some unaccountable reason his affec-
tions suffered frost. She began to
hear things and says that one night
while they were on the road with a
show she staged a surprise party for
! Wagner. She says she walked into
room occupied by girl in the conn
pany and found Wagner dressed only
in his "nightie" making love to the
I girl.
Wagner must have done some real
acting right then. According to his
wife's own story he experienced an
/ instant change of heart. He dropped
! plain; that while he had fooled her he
| wanted her to forgive and forget; that
| if she would she would never again
have cause to doubt him-never-"so
! long as life shall last
For two days. she says, he followed
her around with tears in his eyes and
| a huskiness in his throat, frequently
on his knees, asking her to forget. She
adds that his acting was so good that
she agreed to try to forget and that
she did again have cnnfidonPo N i'm
But in 1915, she says. they came to
| Topeka where he had obtained can
cession in the music department OF
! one of the big stores. There he met
/ a saleslady and Mrs. Wagone- says he
forgot Immediately the promises he
had made to her on bended knee: that
his conduct with the saleslady became
a matter of gossip and she demanded
an explanation.
Made Up Again.
''He again confessed and explained"
says Mrs. Wagner, "and agreed to
quit. We left town and went into
stock. But correspondence started
between him and the woman. Mrs Ida
Wilkerson, which terminated in a visit
by her to him while we were at King
man, Kan
Then Mrs. Wagner tells of the visit.
She says Wagner received telegram
in her presence from Mrs Wilkerson,
but that he denied it belonged to him
he SAID tnere was some mistake and
that he would have to go down to the
office and see about it. Apparently
the wife was suspicious of the ex-
PLANTATION, for she says she also went
down TO see about it, and an hour
later saw her husband helping Mrs.
Wilkerson off of the rear platform Of
train and into the hotel bus Their
conduct in Kingman became such. she
says, that the manager of the show
notified Wagner he would have to
quit either the company or the lady
Mrs. Wagner says she has in her pos
session letters written by Mrs WiIker-
son to Wagner after the Kingn1an in
cident- Then she refers to the alleged
agreement involving two divorces and
a wedding.
Mrs Wagner is now in Galveston.
She started on motor trip from To-
peka to California, but became sick I,
Texas and stopped at Galveston.