The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-21
MRS. cRossMAN ON PROBATION
Miller of Brandon seeks to Have
Order Vacated or Reduced.

Miller OF Brandon seeks to Have
Order Vacated or Reduced.
Rutland, May 2O.-The March term
of Rutland County court continued
all day Tuesday. In the morning
Mrs. Addie Crossman of Shrewsbury
was brought before the court and sem
fenced to pay fine of $25 or take the
alternative sentence in the county
Jail. Sentence was suspended and the
respondent placed in the hands of the
probation officer for period OF rs
days.
Mrs. Crossman was found guilty
during the present term of charge
of breach of the peace by way of an
assault upon p. G. Lord of Shrews-
bury, the poormaster of the town,
while he was attempting to ascertain
the needs of the family. Mrs. Cross
man claimed that he had come to
take her husband to Rutland
where he would tell him
some lies which would ;, pre-
iudice him against his wife and fami-
| ly NJ. j. Hapgood became interested
in the case and furnished bail for
Mrs. Crossman and in other ways
making the case conspicuous, all be-
cause Mrs. Crossman had given birth
| to 10 children.
! A motion to have the temporary ali
mony reduced was heard in the case
of Jennie e. Miller against Edgar NJ
! Miller, both of Brandon, was heard
/ during the latter part of the morning
and the first part of the afternoon.
Mr.. Miller is a prominent business
man of Brandon, operating a furni-
| ture store and undertaking rooms. In
February of last year he applied for
| a divorce on the grounds of intolera
! able severity. Mrs. Miller filed a
| cross suit charging statutory of
| tense of non-support, also filing a
case against Emma O. Pierce charg-
| ing alienation of affections. Emma
0. Pierce is tne correspondent named
in the cross divorce suit At the May
term of 1908 Mrs. Miller was granted
| an order of temporary alimony of Sl2
a week and although the case was
supposed to have come to trial this
term, Mrs. Miller's counsel claimed
their principal witnes was unable
to testify on account of sickness Mr.
Miller now seeks to have the order
for alimony either vacated or re
duced
Mr.. Miller testified as to his finan
eial condition. He said that on ae
count of the publicity of the pro
ceedings ais business had been
harmed to great extent. He testi
fed that an inventory showed him
to be worth about $4,000 besides q
part ownership in a house and a
small tenement of small value He
testified that his business was only
| about one-third of what IL was the
preceding year caused by business
depression and the publicity of tae
suit. He said he was obliged to get
rid of some securities to pay his al
imony and that he was giving notes
for bills which he owed
| The testimony showed Mrs. Mile.
to be owner OF house valued at he
tween $4,000 and $4,000. She claimed
that when Mr. Miller started in bust
ness she loaned aim about $4,000 He
| testified that she loaned him $500
and that he had paid her back $1,000.
During their married life he said he
had purchased the furniture i'm the
| house and otherwise repaired 1t. He
said he had bought but one suit OF
clothes during the last year and that
he was forced to care for his own
horses.