The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-08-04
MRS.F. Il. SNYDER
WOULD CUT KNOT
FORMER KATo WOMAN rs
SEEKING DIVORCE
BRINGING IN OTHERS
Once Proprietor of The Saul
paugh Now Defendant In
An Action.

Mrs. Clecta Annette Snyder, for
merly OF Mankato, manager OF the
grand opera season in st. Paul for
many years, leader in musical mat
tiers, herself an accomplished mu-
stefan, Thursday filed suit N dis
trict court asking a limited divorce
from Fred Handy Snyder, The St
Paul dispatch tells the story.
Sensational disclosures involving
a prominent st. Paul married wo-
man, escapades with the woman at
the spacious country home OF the
Snyders at Smelling and Larpenteur
her and other woman at Los An
geles, Santa Barbara, San Diego
and Hollywood, Calif., are promis-
ed when the suit comes to trial IN
the fall.
Names Are Under Cover.
The complaint filed by Carl w.
Cummins, counsel for Mrs. Snyder,
does not name the st. Paul woman
alleged to have carried on illicit re
lations with Mr.. Snyder, but 1t is
recited in the bill that she Will be
named when the trial of the action
is had Neither is any OF the other
women whom the wife alleges were
on intimate relations with Mr.. Sny-
der named, but these also arc ex-
pected 10 be identified when the
action is heard in court. >.
The bill contains recitals OF many
parties staged by the husband in
California, as well as at the Snydet
home here, while Mr.. Snyder still
Frederic hotel, and Mrs. Snyder was
in the role of impresario OF the
grand opera season. Many of these
were staged in Hollywood, the no
toriety OF which mas been heraldeu
broadcast the past two years be-
cause OF the escapades of members
of the motion picture colony and
others.
While Mrs. Snyder was temper
arily absent from home, when the
Snyder pair lived in st. Paul per
manentiy. she alleges, her husband
took the other married woman to
their home at Smelling and Larpen-
teur avenues and there entertained
her, serving intoxicating liquors and
sustaining relation improper and
inconsistent with the duties and
obligations of the husband to the
plaintiff
Scene Shifts to Pacific Coast
The scene then shifts to Califor-
mia, where the husband has spent
the past three years, especially the
winter season, and without the com
pany of his wife, she alleges. The
Complaint relates that for the past
three years he has not treated her
as his wife, but has ignored her.
This certain married woman
abe relates was in California last
winter and while there Mr.. Snyder,
she alleges, was in the habit OF tah-
ing her on automobile trips to vari-
Gus beach resorts in and about the
vicinity of Los Angeles, particularly
TO Santa Barbara, San Diego, and
"he has become a familiar figure
and a frequenter of Hollywood in
the company of this woman and
other women"
In these trips, she alleges, he has
spent large sums Of money, drank
large quantities of intoxicating IL
ouors and entertained lavishly at
dinner parties and other functions.
During all of these times, she al,
leges, he has refused to recognize or
treat with his wife and most OF that
time has lived separate and apart
from her. devoting most OF his time
and attentions to other women;
During this time she has been
compelled in large part to support
herself, she declares.
She specifies dates on which the
husband and the other married st.
Paul woman held high carnival at
the St. Paul home of the Snyders,
naming August Is, 1921, October 8,
1921, October %, 1921, November II,
1921 and between December l, 1871,
and May 26. 1922, while the nus
band resided at a Los Angeles no,
tel. and the same married st. Paul
woman was in Los Angeles. they
were together on many occasions in
that city, Santa Barbara and San
AT the trial the name of this
woman will be disclosed" the com
plant states.
Mrs. Snyder alleges that her hus:,
band owns the homc'at Smelling ana
I.arenteur avenues, which is Value1
at $50 600 and in addition other lots
adjoining valued at $4,000. He has
other property in stocks, bonds and
other securities which she values in
the aggregate at 100000.
She alleges that she has earned
large sums of money, which she
turned over to her husband, ana 4?
part of which was invested in the
Smelling avenue home, one OF the
finest country homes in the north.
west She asks a limited divorce
$4,000 fees for her attorney and
Sl.O00 for expenses of the suit, to.
Either with separate support and
maintenances.
He choked Her, Is Charge.
In addition to the allegations II
volving other women, the wife also
charges that her husband has cursed
and sWore at her, and struck anu
beat her, and on one occasion chok-
ed her. This took place both When
they were alone and in the pres
. ance 0f others she alleges.
The bill alleges that they were
married in St Paul, April %, 1889,
and that she is fifty nine years old
and he is sixty one. There are no
children.
Mrs. Snyder is said to be In st.
Paul at present, but for the past
two years has operated musical
studio in New York. A talented and
accomplished musician, Mrs. Snyder
earned renown years ago in st.
Paul and Mankato, where they for
merly lived, as a vocalist.
Largely through her efforts st,
Paul became one of the musical
centers of the northwest many
wears ago, when she became the
manager of the grand opera season
here annually. Virtually every star
g of the operate realm was brought
here through her efforts. 3 J
She Brought Stars To st. Paul
She numbers among her personal
friends many of the starts OF grand
opera, both American and foreign