The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-02
CALLS STEPFATHER
 A "KID" IN COURT
Edwin A. Treat Seeks to Save His Mothers Money from Her Youthful Husband.

Hartford. Nov. 2-'T don't want this kid to get the upper hand of my moth CT and take her property" said Edwin A. Treat in the Probate Court yester- day. testifying in his application for a conservator for Mrs Lucinda M. Cush- man Treat-Goddard. who is seventy four years old. Mrs. Goddard laugh ed She was seated beside the youth she married last September. Charles Goddard, recently a messenger boy here. but now a student at the Yale Law School. who first met her while peddling in East Hartford. He is just twenty-one. and previous testimony was that he had boasted how he would marry, get money and then be free to do as he chose.
 My father died three years ago last March" said the son. who is an insur- ance agent in Hartford. He was eighty-four years old and left my mother considerable property. about sS5.000. She had property of her own. She has two brothers in the town house. One has been there thirty three years He is a cripple"
 Did your mother show idiosyncrasies while your father was alive?" was asked.
 Nothing special" was the reply. until she bought a house in Hartford and moved here Then she began to paint her face. dye her hair and wear girlish dresses She did not dye her hair evenly and persons talked about it. But she kept saying she was going to marry some nice young man. One time she boasted that she had cut out Marion Welch when Mir. Chamberlain walked home with her. Again she told me how she and Will Smith had kissed so hard that their teeth touch ed"
 At this juncture Judge Marvin had to threaten to clear the court room N-OnrtnnnnR TFanr fa6 mother went to Savin Rock with him and f1irted desperately, with a trolley conductor from whom she begged a part of his chewing gum.
 What did she do with it?" was asked.
 ''Chewed it." was the reply.
 At Savtn Rock. as everywhere. she indulged in silly remarks I never saw Goddard till last August. when he was sitting on the piazza with her | in the evening and mother was very spoony with him I don't want her money. but I want her to save it for herself"
 MT. Treats wife. who had been ac- | lively coaching the lawyers. testified to the same effect.
 T came from Alabama" she said. And she was crazy to have me mar " Edwin who then was going with Sally Prebbles. eight years older than he;-'old Sal Prebbles.' his mother call ed her" Mrs Treat gave elaborate details of the costumes Mrs. Goddard wore Merry Widow hats. jumpers and the like. The aged woman made love to the hired man. calling him sweet heart before everybody. and tried to fasciEate painters. bakers and trolley conductors.
 Henry c. Roberts. a prominent citizen of East Hartford. who had known Mrs Goddard for forty years. said she ap- pe1red well enough until after her | first husband died. and then she seem- ed to be bewitched- After she came to Hartford she acted and dressed ridiculously.
 | Last summer she went around made up like a girl" he said. "and she told | me recently that she refused six offers | of marriage and finally had married the man she loved"
 | Mrs. Goddard. seemed to enjoy the | testimony hugely. but the bridegroom looked a trifie worn and uneasy.