The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-04
SAYS HUBBY GOT
SWEDISH LEGACY
IDivorceAction Claims Hus-
band Forced Wife to
Share Inheritance.
BITTER DIVORCE FIGHT
Claude Tobiasson Denies the
Allegations of Wife Anna
and Tells His Story.

Claiming that her husband schemed
to get an equal share Of her inherit
ance from Sweden and an equal share
of the property which she owned as a
widow, Anna C. Tobiasson has COM
menced suit for divorce from Claude
Tobiasson. Papers in the divorce ac-
tion have been filed in circuit court by
Attorney A. L. Drury, representing the
plaintiff. The case promises to be a
bitterly contested one, for an answer
has likewise been filed by R. V. Baker,
attorney for Tobiasson, Kenosha car
penter, denying all the allegations of
the wife and setting up a counter
claim in which number of episodes
in their turbulant domestic career are
described and ending with petition
that the estate be" divided equally be-
tween them.
The couple were married in Chicago
June 16, 1917. They have no children,
but Mrs. Tobiasson has two girls by a
former union, one Of whom lis grown
up and occupied as stenographer in
Chicago and the other is still minor.
Says He Had Scheme.
The building of home, more often
bond of interest between couple,
appears to have played its part to
sever the Tobiassons, for the wife tells
of their removal from Chicago and
efforts towards building and establish
ing home in Kenosha, ending, as She
charges, with Tobiasson's desertion on
January ID, 1928.
At the time of the marriage she
owned a two-fat brick building in Chi
cago. Mr.. and Mrs. Tobiasson occu-
pied one fiat and rented the other.
Tobiasson, she says, paid no rent for
the fiat which they occupied.
Soon after her marriage she received
an inheritance from Sweden upon the
death of her father, consisting of
$3,235 in two installments. The first
payment of the money was in March,
1918, in the sum of $1,96O.
Before the receipt of the money"
alleges Mrs. Tobiasson in her COM
plant, she (Tobiasson) devised the
scheme or plan of securing from her
without consideration and for his own
use, all of her money and property"
Says He Threatened Her.
The wife claims that her husband
|, threatened repeatedly that unless she
placed the money in the bank in the
name of both, he would leave cher and
no longer provide for her support. She
said he used similar threats also in
inducing her to leave Chicago, sell her
property and build home in Kenosha
She yielded, sold out, deposited $1,960
| in their common names, and they
bought a lot in Fairview Park, Keno
sha, Harry D. Goldberg's subdivision)-
/ Tobiasson built the home and she drew
upon the bank for the money for their
support. The house was mortgaged in
the sum of $500 and Tobiasson, she
claims, did not pay the taxes or the
sought her to sell and divide the pro-
ceeds with him and when she refused,
he deserted her, she claims.
He Says She's a Shrew.
Tobiasson in his answer and coun-
ter claim gives quite another color to
their married relationship and finan-
cial affairs. He said that he went to
live at Mrs. Tobiasson'S home a year
previous to their marriage as a board
er, found her in destitute circumstan-
ces and helped her get upon another
footing. Through his work as a car
penter ne claims her property in
creased in value. He said that he only
knew of one installment of money COM
ing from Sweden, the one in the sum
Of S1,960. This, he said, was due him
for the time and money he had ex-
pended on the property, but Mrs. To-
biasson, to whom he was then married,
responded that what was hers was his,
ETC., and the money was placed in the
bank in their common names. He in
sisted that he had played an equal part
in the acquiring of their home in
Kenosha.
There was no desertion, he says, but
instead his wife drove him out of the
house Tobiasson claims that she has
an uncomfortable temper and shrewish
disposition, that she called him dread
full names and threatened to do him
great bodily harm.
Carbolic Acid Episode.
On one occasion in 1919 when he was
lying i'll with influenza during the cpl
demic in Chicago, Tobiasson asked his
wife to go to the drug store and get
some medicine. He claims that she
responded furiously, Selling a earbolic
acid bottle the contents of which had
been used for a disinfectant, "This is
what you need more than medicine.
| I'd like to fix you with this"
Tobiasson claims that she frequent
| " used improper language, even in the
presence of her two girls, and when he
demonstrated with her that they
should not hear such things, she flew
| into a passion.