Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-20
Wants Supportfrom Husband s Estate
Mrs. Agnes Jennings Makes Statement Before Superior Court-Relatves Testify that She Shows Signs of Insanity-April Additional Term Adjourned without Date.

The last day of the April additional term of the civil superior court was occupied with the trial of the case of Agnes Jennings vs. w. H. Jennings. a suit in which the plaintiff asks that the defendant provide for her a ma in- tenance suitable to his means The plaintiffs testimony was not completed during the day, and at 40 o'clock court was adjourned without date. and the case will be taken up next Tues day at the May session of the court, Judge Shunway remaining here.
 on Thursday morning there was conference looking towards a settle ment of the case, but it was fruitless, and the taking of testimony was start ed In the complaint Mrs. Jennings alleges adultery on tlfe part of her hus band, and claims he is worth s60.000. She wants a trustee named for one- third of his estate and the proceeds therefrom to be used for her support. The allegations of the plaintiff are de- nied by the defendant.
 Married in 1906
 Mrs. Jennings was the first witness. and testified that she is living with her sister, at 65 Union street. Her maiden name was Agnes Collins and she mar ried the defendant March 20, 1906, and went to live in MT. Jennings home in Laurel Hill avenue. where his mother, now Mrs. w. F. Hill. Mir Hill and his three children lived This continued
 
 the night of April 24. 1909, the plaintiff found her husband whispering with the servant, Mary Brennan, in the kitchen, and she called them to account, but the servant claimed Mrs. Jennings was jealous. The plaintiff claimed that she had reason to be, as the defendant had told her of his actions with the ser want and of having sent her to Boston when in trouble. A lively time fol- lowed, and Mrs. Hill came in and said that Mrs. Jennings would have to get out The next morning Mrs. Jennings started to prepare her own breakfast, and her husband struck her and MT. Hill pushed her. while Mrs. HilI told Mir. Jennings not to talk to her. Dr. Stark was telephoned for. being told there was crazy woman in the house. He responded, and said that Mrs. Jen- nings was insane. and that sine was husband was a delusion. There was talk about sending her to the state hospital here.
 Mrs Jennings later called a cab and ed that Mrs. Hill told her son he had bettr part from his wife, as she didn't want Mrs. Jennings in the house. The witness saw her husband on the street the next day. and she went to her Laurel Hill home that night. When her husband came in he asked why she came back and told her she could n't be there.
 Appealed for Money.
 When Mrs Jennings asked Mrs. Hill for some money she was referred to Mir. Jennings, and upon appealing to him she was referred to his lawyer, c. F. Thayer. She said she always got money from Mrs. Hill, never from her husband. She called at Attorney office and it was proposed that she board with her sister, for which she would be allowed S6 a week She was to have a room at the Laurel Hill house, but could not enter other rooms, and had to leave notes for her Her husband told her the would last until he could get a divorce. On May 27 MT. Jen- nings advertised he would pay no bills in his name. He told her she could get plenty of men to give her money. She claimed she found etter and postal in his pocket from a woman named Minnie Brown, but Mrs. Hill didn't lay much stress upon it. The woman Ionged for the time when they could be always together
 Fora. two months after the trouble she lived at the Jennings house and then went to her sisters to sleep. Two summers were passed by her at a home NIT. Jennings has in Lebanon, where ne cared for the house and several horses. He often had several men friends to cook for. He at one time old her he was worth s6O,000. She declared she was willing to live with her husband and that when living with him worked at the Jennings nome. Clothes ordered had been held ID and she had been refused money Or doctor. She thought she ought 70 have S1oO a month for her support.
 Under cross examination she tesu- jed that she is 29 years of age and was married in WilIimantic by Rev. R. D. Hatch, an Episcopal minister. She