Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-10
POLICE COURT DoINGs
WaterviIle Couple Occupied Good
 Part of the Courts Time.

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 Waterville Couple Occupied a Good
 Part of the Courts Time.
 The preliminaries to divorce case were heard by Judge Burpee in the city court to-day. The complainant was Mrs Ray, employed by the Welch Hosiery company in Wateryille, and the defendant was her husband, John D. Ray, who is employed by the Amer ican Pin company. He is also bar Der and his trade he plies evenings. He was charged with non-support and was defended by Attorney Noble D. Pierce of Bristol who ran on the dem ocratic ticket in the recent election for attorney general Mrs Ray said she had been married twelve years and has one child, girl of ten years. On November 19 last, she was obliged to leave her husband. She felt she could no longer live with him on ac- count of his cruelty. She said he used to use towards her the vilest lan- guage she ever heard. She did not think there were words in the Eng fish language to express such thoughts as his His expressions used to startle her and frequently he told her she could leave the house and hiin as soon as she liked. Also, he frequent,y struck her. A short time before 'cly- ing him, he threw her against | dress frame and she fell over q chair. She thought he was out of his mind he was so cruel He owns the property in which they lived. Since last April she has been employed by the Hosiery company and she managed 10 keep house by going home from the factory early to prepare the meals, do her washing, etc. Her husband often told her that if she left him he would not support her. but that he would SUD- port the child
 Under cross-exanination by Mir Pierce, Mrs Ray said she has a di- vorce case pending against her hus- band. She got a piano for the little girl and she managed to pay for mu- sic lessons But her husband in his fits of anger tore up the music sheets, her photographs and other things. 4 year ago last November she was oblig- ed to leave him. Mrs Ray denied that one of the photographs her husband de stroyed was that Of q friend of hers named Mason, delivery clerk in a grocery store. She denied that Ma son was the cause of their trouble and that her husband found her walking on Linden street one evening last fall. Explaining this she said she had told her sister Pauline that she would go to see friend living at IL Vine street. that she was going up Linden street when Mason overlook her and her husband came upon them soon after. She denied waiting in the shadows of Prospect street for Mason and in answer to Mir Pierce's question why she did not take a car direct to North Main street, she asked AIr Pierce if he did not think walk would do woman good who had been indoors all the week sewing.
 She denied meeting Mason in Oak vile the following Monday, his de livery day in that village and she further denied that she went with him to the opera house. She admitted telling her husband that if she did meet Mason thcre. or if they happened to be sitting near each other it was an accident.
 Didn't you meet Mason on Perkins street?" asked MT Pierce, and here the court thought the attorneys had taken the question far enough and it was time to pull them up. Judge Burpee said that he was not trying the di- voree case and that this was the turn all contested non-support suits take. If the complainant had left her hus- band it was doubtful if she would be entitled to support from him, but the child was, without question. This is practically a divorce hearing he said, and he did not want to hear a divorce suit. sthis was not the court for such q case.
 Thereupon Attorney Darant stated that the defendant was willing his wife should get divorce. Attorney Pierce replied that he had agreed with Mir Durant upon everything except the amount to be paid Mrs Ray for the support of the child, .'and told him. went on Mir Pierce. ''that we should ask for the custody of the child later. Until then we should pay for the child's support but not for the wife's." The court thought s a week would be sufficient but MT Pierce. thought it was too much To which MT Durant said that it was hardly enough; that the child was sickly. that she was receiving music lessons, and if she was accustomed to that way of living the lessons should continue. However, the court finally thought S4 a week would suffice and then continued the case thirty days to see if Ray shall pay that amount. ITn- less he does an order to that effect shall be issued
 In the case of Vincent Sivo who was bound over yesterday morning for bribery, a bond of $200 was imposed