Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-07-01
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ton Savings bank. Arthur F. Cove and
Cora B. Cove, trustees, W. w. Rider and
p. NJ. Meldon were counsel for the
bank and Cushman and Russell re-
presented Scarborough. In this case the
bank sought to recover on joint and
several note for 500 which the defendant
signed with one Henry G.. Mullings of
Bristol on September 2 last and which
was to run six months. This was a
renewal note and was used to take up
another note at the bank for a similar
sum and signed by the same parties,
which in its turn was a renewal of
another note for a like amount and hear
ing the same signatures, which note the
bank in the first place had discounted for
NIullings. Mullings had the cash on the
original note and Scarborough never had
a dollar of it, as he testified. The de-
Tense was no consideration, and it was
claimed by Scarborough that his sig
nature on the first and second of the
three notes were forgeries. This Null
lings was a brisk Young life insurance
man of Bristol, a light and airy high
flyer who turned up wanting and
wanted in Bristol within a day or two
after the last transaction with the bank
and left behind him in Bristol and other
towns numerous creditors to mourn his
loss.
His present headquarters are in parts
unknown. The last note having be-
come due in March last and Mullings
being ungetatable, the bank called upon
/ Scarborough for the amount due. He
: claimed that Cashier +. r. Dickerman
had assured him at the time he signed
the note that he never would be called
upon to pay it, and he refused to pay
when asked to do so. Hence this suit.
The case was on all of Saturday fore
noon and was not completed, but the
further hearing was put over to later
date.
Saturday afternoon the old divorce
mill began TO grind and it continued in
vigorous operation all the afternoon up
to 4;l5 o'clock, four cases being disposed
Of The first one was Clara f. King VS..
Frank c. King, and the causes alleged
were in,olerable severity and adultery.
This couple We're married in RiptOn in
1896 and subsequently lived some time
in that town. The woman has had to
work out to support herself and child a
little girl now four years of age. 1t was
shown by the testimony of various wit
nesses that King was a hard drinker
and that he was in the habit of pinch
ing choking and pounding his wife;
and it was further shown that he was
unduly intimate with a young woman
who lived near by his own home. King
is now supposed TO he living in or near
Bristol. The divorce was granted on
the ground of intolerable severity and
the petitioner was given the custody Of
the minor child. Ira II. LaF'leur APP
peared for Mrs. King and the husband
made no contest.
George Downey VS.. Nellie Downey
came next. These parties were married
in Lincoln in 1888 and lived in that town
until July of last year, when the woman
left home and went to Bristol to live,
setting up housekeeping there with a
son by former husband. The ground
alleged in the petition was adultery, and
it was developed in the testimony, which
was furnished by about a dozen wit
nesses, that for some time prior to her
leaving her home in Lincoln and estab-
fishing herself in Bristol, Mrs. Downey
and married man named Julius Jen-
nings, a Bristol man, were somewhat
more intimate than ordinary friendship
would seem to call for. After the lady
had made her abode in Bristol this init
macy continued and numerous witnesses
testified to having seen Jennings at the
woman's house at all hours OF the day
and night, and times almost without
number, including the very night pre-
ceding this hearing. The case took up
about half of the afternoon session and
the decision was not rendered. w. w.
Ryder appeared for the petitioner and
there was no contest by the wife.
Case No. 3 was Eta NJ. Grant VS..
Walter F, Grant, another Lincoln case,
! the grounds set up being intolerable
severity and refusal to support. This
, pair were joined together in the holy
bonds in 1896 and lived together at
South Lincoln until September, 1902, at
; which time the husband loaded his wife
into team and carted her away from
) home, in accordance with determine
ton to that effect of which he had
: notified her month previously, telling
her that he was never going to live with
: her any more. And he didn't. There
was strong testimony that during the
| time they lived together Mr.. Grant took
pleasure in occasionally beating and
! choking his wife and assaults of this
| character became quite too numerous to
mention. There was another woman in
} this case also, and the man informed the
wife that as soon as he could get rid of
her he was going to have the other
) woman. Last year Grant went to North
Dakota and was gone for about three
months. Upon his return he told his