Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-19
THE SEAMAN CASE.
Hrs Seaman Allowed $5 a Week By
 the Court.

husband, Benjamin. This matter was partially heard some weeks ago, bur | since then there were rumors that Mrs 1 Seaman had money galore and that l her motion for alimony was merely to annoy her husband. These rumors came to the attention of her counsel, Bronson and Minor, and they had the
 matter reopened i'll order, as MT Bron- son said, to show just how the woman has been living and what money she has. Both Mir and Mrs Seaman have
 suits for divorce pending and this is
 the second time Mrs Seaman has sued I for separation
 l The first suit was withdrawn on the correspondent agreeing to leave town. In New York witness pawned some diamonds worth $4OO for $23O.
 l P. H. Sears, better known as keep CT of restaurants than broker, said
 he had been in the latter business a l few years. MT Seaman was his part
 her for time, but he became dis gruntled and the partnership was dis 1 solved Seaman owed him about $102
 at that time. Witness owns the bllsi-
 ness known as the Danbury Hat Co
 on Center street and of which MT Sea- l man Is manager. He opened hat store on Eighth avenue, New York,
 With Mir Seaman as manager. It last. 1 ed two weeks. then the one on Center 1 street was opened.
 l Mrs Seaman took the stand after Mr
 Sears left it. Her story was she was
 married in 1884, and has not lived with 1 her husband since September, 1903.
 Since last June he has failed to sup
 port her. In September. 1903. he left
 her with the understanding that he
 would pay her SIP week. He paid l it for five months. She now supports herself by trimming hats She had a
 habit of buying diamonds about five years ago, and her husband was in- 1 cined that way also. SheGnow earns
 $2.50 week. Her husband is skilled l natter.
 l The diamonds which were pawned l by her husband were bought mostly by money saved by her. She gave ! him present of one that cost $50. l Two of the pieces of those that were pawned cost $500. Her husband paid her $52O for the business after the !. first suit was withdrawn. Her jewelry now consists of five diamond rings and
 one pair of diamond earrings, and their value, she said, was $500. Some
 of these she bought herself and the others her husband gave her. Last l May she smashed her husbands busi- ness by an attachment in her suit for 1 divorce. The diamonds she now has
 are worth about $500. The $520 her
 husband paid her is almost all gone
 and one of the rings, ,.lsTorth $22O, her l attorney took for his-fee. For seal
 skin coat she paid fSf85se. With great
 reluctance she made this admission. l She denied ever having "a very ex- pensive dress,p and an evening dress
 which Attorney Pierce, her interroga- tor, seemed very anxious to know about, cost, she said, only $11. During l the past year witness has had in value and money, including her own earn l ings, $1,57O, and in that time she in- stituted four suits against her hus-
 band. Only one of these is on the 1 docket, the others having been with l drawn. She denied ever saying to 10. H. Sears that she did not care so much about divorce, but she did wish to break up her husbands business, or I that she told him she had money
 enough to go on with the hat business. l but she did not wish to draw 1t from 1 the bank, Tn 1903 she took $35 out Of sum given her by her husband to
 bank. but she replaced this amount I later. MT Pierce claimed it was $0O l she took and that she did not replace dt. Occasionally she would sell a hat
 and keep the proceeds, but she claimed
 she was entitled to do that,
 I For some time the store was entire I ly in her charge, and the sales were en- tered oil list She denied ever keep
 ing two lists.
 l It was Mrs Margaret Fulton told
 Mir Seaman the price of the seal coat One of her diamond rings was re- l leased from pawn by her counsel. Mr l Bronson. Another ring she pawned l for $35. though 1t cost about $lOO. l This closed Mrs Seaman's side of the 1 case Her husband then took the l stand.
 He testified that he has to support l his father, which leaves him about $7 1 week for himself out of his SIP sal ary as manager of the hat store. Re- garding Mrs Seaman's taking $35 ont of the sum he left with her one day to bank he said she did not go to the bank at all. She never kept list or 1 her sales, but she had system by which she WV enabled to cover her visits to the sill One evening he caught her at this.
 Mrs Nellie Blackman, 156 Maple street. said Mrs Seaman used to ask her if her diamonds were not pretty. I Charles +. White, natter in business on Grand street and employer of Mrs 1 Seaman said her wages is about S2.5O l a week.
 l Mir Sears was recalled and testified 1 that last July Mrs Seaman told him l her main purpose in bringing suit was l to put her husband out of business. l She showed him her diamonds. saying. You see. I've got money, but he hasn't" Witness got into the hat business through endorsing Seaman's notes. This closed the case. Tn his | argument Attorney Bronson said A.n
 Seaman ought to be ordered to pay from ST to $1O a week, and that he is partner, if not the owner, of the hat store of which he claims to be only | manager.
 MT Pierce in reply said it would be
 the height of injustice to issue any such order. The idea of woman comipU into on11rt laden with dio-