The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-04
PERCY LEFT HIS PRETTY WIFE FOR
 $lO,OOO BEAUTY
Steeple Jack Habitually Beat Spouse and so Di-
 vorce Was Granted Her
George w. Main, a Clerk. Left Wife Because She Was Unfit to Care for His Children - Decision in Hudson Suit Again With held.

When pretty Martha Werwein mar ried Percy Sturges, a. well known young man about town, Oct. 20. 1902. she took him for better or worse, and she got the worst. Percy was a steep1e jack when he worked, which was very sell dom. They lived together in Stratford for a while and moved to Central ave- nue. Funds gave out and it was back to mother for Mrs. Werwein. Percy followed. While they had a home of their own Sturges used to visit it about three times a, week. Beatipgs were not an uncommon occurrence in the Sur ges household. Once. she said, he knocked her down, and she was rend- cred unconscious They have a boy who is now five years of age. One day the father tookSthe hot litter off the stove and burned the little fellow s back One day Mrs. Sturges had an argument with her husband on Main street. He left her and she followed but he did not know it. She saw him go down Fairfield avenue, stop at No. 562, next to the Miller garage. take a building. She testified that he said that he had chance to go to Cali fornia with a Mrs. Sterling, whom he referred to as "the $1OO00 beauty
 Anna Werweie, a sister of the plain tiff. and Mrs. Mary Werwein. her mother. corroborated much of the wife's testimony.
 The court granted the decree on the ground of cruelty and gave the mother a change of name, and custody of her child.
 George w. Main, a clerk in Stoehr's s market on Main street was granted a decree from Lizzie Main, of Wood bury. on the statutory ground. The couple were married in Shelton, in August 1894, and have five children living, two of whom are with the fath- CT, two in home in NOrwalk and one with the mother. Main told the court that his wife was unable to take care of his children properly and that the Town of Shelton sent the three young est to the home in Norwalk, one of which he had since taken out. He left mother Mrs Orlando Lewis of Woodbury. a sistero Mrs. Main. told the court that her zeister had come to Woodbury and wal enployed sats the home of a MT. Jackson, as hofsekeep- CT. She came there in May, 1907, and in April of the following year a child was born to her. She told Mrs. Lewis that Jackson was the father The Town Clerks records were also pro- duced showing the registration of the child under the name of Jackson. The court granted the decree.
 More evidence was produced to-day in the suit of Sidney Hudson, of this city against his wife, Emma Hudson, fore Judge Curtis and held for more evidence. In the former testimony it was brought out that Fred w. Kin der, the Myrtle Avenue plumber, had become too we'll acquainted with Mrs. Hudson, and had been named as CO., respondent. This morning Fred Nich- ols, janitor of Trinity church, told the court that Mrs Hudson came to board at his home, Fairfield avenue, and that MT. Kinder came to visit there about every other night. Early one Sunday morning in February 1908, he got up to go to his work. On passing through the hall he noticed that the door of Mrs. Hudson's room was ajar. He opened the door and saw Kinder and Mrs. Hudson. He ordered them out of the house.
 Judge Curtis took the papers.