The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-20
PRETTY WIFE
 MAKES HUSBAND
 CHAMPION BRUTE Bridgeport Girl Tells Pitiful Story
 to Court and Gets Divorce DR. KRAUSE WITNESS FOR HER Once, When Husband Beat Her, Told Court She Was to Blame

OllCc, WHICH 1luSDd HUI DCdl I1cI ,
 Told Court She Was to Blame
 It was a. lucky day for divorce ap- plicants in the Superior Court today, Judge Ralph Wheeler hearing four applications for separation, granting all four. As it so happened the quar- tet were all residents of this city.
 Laurriena R. Walsh, pretty young woman of the brunette type, was granted a decree from her husband, Thomas J. Walsh, now a resident of Worcester, on the ground of intolerable cruelty. The cruelties Which Mrs. Walsh related would fill a book, and make her husband appear a brute of brutes. Their marriage was in Port Chester. N. Y., Nov. 26, 1904, after which they came to live in this city, residing at 74S Maple street. Her hus- band was a restaurant worker Mrs. Walsh stated that the first time her husband was cruel to her was in Oct. 1905, about a month after the birth of her child. They had discharged the nurse, because the husband said that he would attend to the child's care, evenings. On this evening, the child began to cry, and the mother asked the father to attend to the little ones wants. After refusing several times, he told his sick wife to get up and care for. the child herself.
 When he said that" said Mrs. Walsh, 'I told him what I thought of him. He then punched me in the face.''
 'It was in the fore part of May 1906 when we lived at 544 Central avenue, the child was sick and needed atten- tion. Tom used to go out nights and gamble all his money. When he lost he would come home and abuse me. On this evening, he was standing be- fore the bureau. putting on his tie ready to go out. I went up to him asking him to stay at home for one night. He struck me hard with his elbow, knocking out three of my front teeth. He ran away from the house and did not show up till 8 o'clock the next afternoon"
 tOn July. 4, 1907. we were living at 6S Chapel street. There was a girl boarding at the house with us, but Tom did not want to have her around. He had on one of his cranky spells, and started to abuse the baby, who was asleep in it's crib Knowing that he would come at me, rushed into the girls room, and told her that Tom was angry. She would not do anything for me, as she said she did not want to interfere in our troubles. When I heard the roaming, it was an unnatural cry--Iknew he was abus- ing the child. rushed into the room, and saw him striking the baby. Pick ing up the child I ran into the hall. As ran, towel roller, which was on the floor, flew by my head, and hit the wall He had thrown it at me. remained on the hall stairs for over an hour with the baby in my arms, until the girl told me that it was all right that he was reading.
 s.I went. back into the kitchen to complete my ironing. I don't know how he got into the kitchen, for did not hear him, but he came up be- hind me, and struck me a blow in the neck. I fell under the table, and was senseless for awhile.
 That night he s asked my, my forgive tinuing, concerning other incidents, Mrs. Walsh said: After the baby died, it was July 10, 1907, I was left alone in the house. as Tom would go out nights. One evening I asked if I might accompany him, but he would not allow me. When I pleaded, he locked all the doors and windows, and took the keys, so could not get out. I did finally get out through a back window, and went to the home of his brother, on South Main street. Tom saw me near Smiths theatre
 
 to his brothers, where everything was fixed up between us, or I supposed it was, but that evening when we came home, he punched and kicked me so much that I had to go to bed. I was sick enough for bed, but could not stay there as I had work to do.''
 Mrs. Walsh also told of an incident on Sept. II, 1907, when her husband struck her in back of the ear. That same evening she went to the emer- gency hospital for treatment, Dr.. Krause dressing the wounds. Dr.. and testified that he found four separate swellings on the back of her right ear. After the treatment Mrs. Walsh then had her husband arrested for assault.
 That evening his sister and broth CT came to me and wanted me to drop the case against him. The next morning, I went on the witness stand and pleaded before the court that it was not his fault, and that I was to blame. They nolled the case"
 Tn May, 190s," continued Mrs. noon telling me to take a-look at our furniture. I did not know what he meant but when three men came later in the afternoon, I knew that he had disposed of the furniture. He went away and left me in the vacant 
 That evening I went to the home of friends in the; East Side, where 1 stayed for khree weeks. He came after me, wanting me to live with him in a furnished room, in Catherine street.
 After we were there a short while, he asked me to go out and look for a furnished room nearer his work. I found a place on Fairfield avenue, and deposited $1 for the room. When Itold him of the new room, he said that he did not want tc live with me any more and then began to again beat me.
 'I feil to the floor, where he kick cd me. Then he took the alarm clock off the bureau and threw it at me, striking me on the side of the head. Putting on my clothes I went to the furnished room house on Fairfield avenue telling the woman there that I could not take the room, as my husband had left me"
 Mrs. Helen Mills, who resides on Fairfield avenue and who let the fur nlshed room, said that Mrs. Walsh came to her one afternoon. Her dress was all torn, the sleeve of her white waist was missing, her face was all cut and her lip was split. pr. I.aF'ield was called and sewed Mrs. Walsh's lip. Mrs. Walsh remained