Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-15
SUPERIOR COURT
khing But Divorce Cases Taken
 Up This Week.

ulS lS QlNOrce Wtek III tut SupClioh
 court, for nothing but divorce cases
 have been tried. After the Henderson Henderson suit was over this forenoon the case of Orson Light against Kate Light was taken up Intemperance Is the basis of this action, and Attorney Kelley was counsel for the petition and Kennedy and J. K. Lawlor for the de- fense. There is another suit pending between the parties in which the GUS tody of their two children, Orson, [, and Kate, 4, is the issue. X few months ago Judge Lowe awarded the custody of them to the father and they are now living with his mother in Sl- monsville.
 Light testified that he was married by the Ref Dr Davenport in Novem- Der, 1897. A year after marriage he discovered his wife, had developed fondness for strong drink. When he remonstrated with her she became angry and told him that if he did not like it he could get out. One night he went to bed supperless because she was unable to prepare meal She also demanded that he bring home his pay envelope unopened. If he opened it there would be trouble. On one 0c- casion he found it necessary to take shelter in his sisters house. His sis ter persuaded him to return home, but the reconciliation was merely tempo rary. His wife fouted him and said he had not ''sand enough to stay away Finally, however, he found 1t beyond his power of endurance 10 live with her any longer and he quit. Since fhn,, boc He was employed for time on the trolley cars and wherever she hap pened to meet him she insulted and threatened him. When the trolley strike began he Was put out of q Job and he went to Utica, N. !. He wrote several times to get the children, but she always refused, telling him that all she wanted was to have him keep out of town. There are number of witnesses for and against the petitlon- CT.
 In the Henderson divorce suit Super intendent William J. Larkin of the Waterbury Clock Co was the most lm- portant witness yesterday afternoon for the defense. He came primed with all the information required of him. As superintendent of the clock shop. he was, of course. in way to observe the behavior of Henderson. MT Lar
 kin stated that Henderson was q good
 workman and as. foreman he was
 better than the average. Only once or twice during Henderson's twenty-one
 years of service in the concern did MT
 Larkin get the Odor of drink from him.
 but he never saw him under the intiu-
 ence of it either ill the factory or else
 where Mrs Henderson had testihed
 that her husband had once been out
 of the shop for two weeks on spree.
 and that frequentlyshe stayed out
 day or two at time. On that score
 Mir Larkin testified from memoranda he had taken from the payroll that in 1903 the shop worked 2.730 hours and
 Henderson lost sixteen hours. In l9Oi
 the shop worked 2.665 hours. out Of
 which Henderson lost twenty-seyen,
 and in 1905 out of 2,664 hours he
 worked 2.644A. So that according to
 these figures in ten years Henderson
 lost less than per cent of time. MT
 Larkin reckoned overtime against time
 lost, and he said that it was. Impossible, that Henderson or any other foreman
 could remain from the factory for any
 length of time unknown to him.
 Attorney Carmody tried to show that
 Henderson had refused to work nights.
 but Mir Larkin denied this.
 Mrs Lillian Squires. neighbor Of
 the Hendersons. testified that she
 often took the Henderson children into
 her house when she saw them shiver-
 ing on the street. On these occasions
 Mrs Henderson had gone to the show
 or visiting and had locked the children
 out. Quite frequently the little ones had neither gloves nor rubbers on, and
 Mrs Squires would keep them in her
 house until their mothers return.
 The case was closed at 4 o'clock,
 and in his argument Attorney Kennedy
 told the court that to give Mrs Hen.
 derson alimony would mean the talk
 ing away of so much money from the
 support and education of the chil-
 lren. who were subpoenaed by their
 mother to come to court. and instead
 of being her strongest witnesses turned
 out to be the strongest against her.
 Miss Martha Ross must certainly have
 been ill bad way for evidence against
 Henderson. said Mir Kennedy. when
 she questioned Jeanette. her niece. one day in Trinity church about her. father.
 after her mother had abandoned her,
 hoping 10 get some inkling from the
 child about how things were at home.
 sIr Kennedy intimated that the cause of the trouble was the great difference
 fin the ages of the couple. Mrs Hcnder-
 son being 3:i according to her own
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