Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-18
BREACH OF PROMISE SUH

Brooklyn Lithuanians Furnish
 Business for District Court. Annie Maguka Asks for $2,ooO Dam
 ages The Case is One of the
 Funniest That the Local Bar
 Has Had to Deal With i'll
 a Long Time.
 The breach of promise suit of Annie Ndazul1a ys William Nalayls began Ill i the district court room yesterday after noon, quite late, before the jury and Judge CoWeli. The plaintiff was rep resented by Attorneys Bauby and Me Grath and the defendant by Judge Lowe. The suit is for 5000 damages. l From the conduct of it's opening 1t I promises to be the funniest case ever l heard in this court. 4 general denial l constituted the defense. The defend ant is now married to woman who was referred to in the hearing as Bar 1 bara, and the evidence had to be ob- l tained through an interpreter, while another interpreter was engaged by the defense to keep a watch on him. l Fun began at the outset. Judge Lowe, finding great difficulty in pronouncing the plaintiffs name, said the easiest way out of the difficulty was to call it Moses" adding, where was Moses when the candle went out?' Great Laughter. The plaintiff stated that her age is % and she has been in the coun- try about two years, coming here from Poland.
 Now she never said that" said Judge Lowe to the interpreter.
 l "How do you know?' asked Attor- ney McGrath. ''You don't know Pol ish'' ...
 How do you know he didn't prompt herW retOrted Judge Lowe. Do you know Polish?'' Great laughter.
 The next question was, ''Where do you Hve?" and the answer was inter- preted by Judge Lowe as Eur.
 ''She lives on fur" he exclaimed in surprise. ''No. mo-" said the inter- preter, and Judge Lowe understood him to say "Furze." "She lives on furze instead of fur; what's the difference?" The court room rocked with laughter.
 It was finally ascertained that she lived on River street and is employed by the Plume &c Atwood Go. Judge
 
 iuncture which caused Attorney Bauby to ask him to keep still so that the case could be finished by noon to-mor- row. Judge Lowe replied that he l would stay in court three years, if it l were necessary, to get at the truth. 1 Things went along very we'll then for some time. until the interpreter for the defense said to the other interpreter that he did not give the whole of the answer. Attorney Bauby said this was only natural, because Judge Lowe had scared both the interpreter and the plaintiff out of their wits. There upon everybody appeared to be both cred and the confusion between the counsel became so great that every body laughed.
 Resuming. plaintiff said she went to 1 work as a servant in defendants house a year ago last July. Defendant seemed to like her, she thought, and not long after her doubts on this point | were removed because he proposed marriage to her. She accepted him, re- marking, however, at the time, that she was a poor girl and may be he | would not like her. He replied that she pleased him, and their relations continued pleasant. The next question
 
 ney Bauby explained that the girl was reticent because Judge Lowe had scared her. The judge replied that he was too good looking to scare any woman, and the way he said this set everybody laughing. The, proposal took place early last July. Witnesses were present and the customary ar engagements were made for the mar rlage, which was to take place as soon as possible. Being members of the Lithuanian church. they were "called'' the Sunday following the enga agement. Both went to town and bought the wedding dress, or rather the materials for it. Defendant bought a gold we'd ding ring, but it proved too small for the plaintiffs finger and it was ex- changed. This ring she wore on the stand and it was produced in evidence and marked as exhibit A. He also gave her the key to 2 wardrobe. telling Ter to go and take possession of his dead wffe's things. Tn short, every ar fangement had been made for n we'd : ding. But change was imminent. A E few days after all the necessaries had been bought defendant informed plain. tiff that he had mo more use for her. J that he WAS going to mary another girl. So on the Sunday following de. fendant's and Barbara's names were called and plaintiff, cast ont from where she expected to preside. went tc live with cousin in the same house : having nowhere else to go. On piyina . her the ring defendant said to her, 3 Now, don't be afraid, little girl 2 yoH'fe mine and I'm yours''
 7 Plaintiff could not recall the exact date set for the marriage, but to the 2 question what they were doing be tween that time and the Sunday they r were called,'' she said they were Ioy i. ing each other for all they were worth 2 The defendant, who was present witt s his wife, seem to enjoy this admis l. si0n
 Judge Lowe objected to the evidence F about being called saying that fl 1, was not of any importance whether ol ' not they were "called'' It meant. ht , said, that they were willing merely ts :, kiss and hug and did not signify any I Y1% 1f q