The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-19
GREW VERY GAY IN HER OLD AGE
Wife of Yale Law Student Goddard Sub.
 ject of Court Inquiry at Hartford
SONS ACTION FOR CONSERYATOR

1 Hartford, Oct. 19.-Another chapter
 in the Charles R. Goddard-Mrs. Lu- | cinda M.- Chapman Treat Goddard ] case, was opened in the Probate court
 when the hearing began on the appli- i cation of Edwin A. Treat, son of Mrs.
 Goddard. to have a conservator ap-
 pointed over his mother. His applied
 tion alleged mental derangenent, phy- | sical infirmities and advanced age as | the grounds for bringing the action.
 Judge John A. Stoughton and Sidney E. Clarke represented MT. Treat, and l Benedict M. Holden and Judge John A. Touhey represented Mrs. Goddard. 1 Some sparring characterized the exam | lnat1On and croSS-examinatlOn of the witnesses but aside from the fact that Mrs. Treat had said in the presence l of several of the witnesses that she wanted a, young helpmate to share her | later days. little of direct bearing on her mental condition was evolved. Nearly a dozen witnesses were ex- amined, nearly all of whom testified to | Mrs Goddard's liking for the men and to her girlish dressing which was quite a change from some years ago. It
 was testified that she had dyed her hair and now powdered.
 John D. Wallender, a house painter with a. wife and family, said that Mrs. Treat threw her arms around him in the presence or others ana Sa1Q Sne
 was going to marry him. He prev
 iously had told her it was impossible.
 Charles W. Thrall, a conductor of the
 local trolley company, and another
 trolley man told how she had tried to
 engage herself to them. R. B. Davis
 of Bridgeport, said he introduced a MT.
 Morse to her, but she threw Morse
 down and insisted on marrying Davis,
 which Davis took as a joke. Neigh
 bors said Goddard told them he could
 marry the woman. get money enough
 to complete his education and, then
 marry a younger woman.
 Young Goddard and his wife sat close together and commented quietly on the testimony, sharing. in the laugh ter from time to time. The youthful young law clerk, which doubtless he hopes soon to be. when his studies in the Yale Law school are completed:
 Mrs. Treat wore black mushroom hat with a lavender rose. full bloom in front. She wore a black street suit trimmed with black lace. with a white lace facing about the collar.
 The applicants introduced first an attested copy of the marriage license issued to Edwin Treat and Lucinda M. l Treat, then Miss Cushman, was set down at 19 years old, which would make her present age 70 years. This | attest was objected to by MT. Holden, and the objection was sustained on the l ground that it was not competent evil dence. Then the marriage certificate under which Mrs. Treat and Goddard were married by the Rev. William De Loss Love, was offered in evidence, | and was admitted. This stated on 1 oath of young Goddard, that he was 21 years of age, and that Mrs. Treat was 36, a difference Of thirty-four years be- tween the qualifications of the two li- censes. It is on his oath to the truth of the statements in this second certi- ficate that Goddard, a student in the Yale Law school, is being charged with perjury, and his case is now pending before the Superior court, he having been bound over to this court, from police court in September.