The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-03
CLEARS COURT
 IN SACAL CASE
Judge Orders Public Barred During Afternoon Session
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RESUME TELEPHONE TALKS
Conversations Caught by Tapped Wire Allowed in on Plea of
 Counsel.

New Haven, Nov. 3-The proceeo- fngs in the long drawn out contested divorce case of Louis M. Sagal Vs. Rachel Sagal took another new tack yesterday afternoon. Counsel in the ease suggested to Judge Burpee that it was found necessary, in order to preserve the continuity Of the story that the tapped wire stenographic testimony which was interrupted on Wednesday and ordered submitted in fypewritten form, be continued ana presented in full before the court.
 Judge Burpee decided to allow the request of counsel in this matter and ordered the reading to De resamsu, u. h,, and eorrecteds SudirlE the version of the notes, as read by Judge Henry Stoddard. of counsel for the prosecu- tion. She had previously declined to read the notes herself.
 Court Room Cleared.
 Before this, at the suggestion or counsel the court directed Deputy Sheriff John w. Hut to clear tne who were not witnesses or who were not interested in the case. This re- suited in the Alttg put of about oOo people who had scf0woed the court room ali day.
 Tnen the telephone report was al- dasd. It was . long series of conver- sations on the tapped wire.
 May 1. 1911. the testimony went, Mfs. Sagal called MT. Sagal-Hello Loais-you've got to drink a glass of milk. To which Louis responded, l think I'll have to go away, ana sne
 sAfky 1, 1911, D. m-Leo Mann called Mrs. Sagal and told her to send his things over. The answer was that she could not.
 A number of other conversations for the day were recorded wnh Mann. Mra Gibbons and one with sssal him.
 The telephone wire was started a. humming again the next day, accord- ing to the '1oop." Thus runs the tran1cript:
 sEarly on May 2, 1911. Mrs, Vii liarr Sagal calls Mrs. Sagal and tells her there is no reason why she should De tied up in the house all the time by the sickness of old people.
 Conversations including large pro- portion of profanity were being reel ed off freely by the reader in the court room when the case was tin- ally adjourned to next Tuesoay morn- ing at 10 o'clock.
 Wtat sasaI SaysS
 Pr1vious to the detail of this tele- rI1onic espionage, Louis M. Sagal, the husband, had been on the stand much of the day. In part he told of an all legged confession of his wife of her attitude toward Leo Mann, the Sagai chauffeur He said she gave Mann money, clothes,t and jewelry. He told of the many sccnferences she had had with her husband seeking recon cilia7ion, how she went heavily into debt for the chauffeur. He declared that Mrs. Saga1 told him that he could get his divorce quietly, that she would not contest its and for this reason he left his daughter in her custody. Mann and his mother, MT Sagal said. wanted her to get a di- vorce from Mfr. Sagal and marry Leo Mann. She pleaded to be taken back many times and on one occasion came to MT. Shades house .i1 an attempt at reconciliation. He was warned by an anonymous letter, he said, and declared that his wife told him Mann threatened to kill her.
 That Mrs. Sagal bought jewelry for Mann, which was promptly pawned, and itook him to Hot Springs and Att lautic City under assumed names was also declared by MT. Sagal.
 Continuing his testimony Sagal said: sFor about five or six years I've been under the doctors care. and I went to Mountain Valley on July Il, lSlO, ana after a week Mrs. Sagal said she had rheumatism. took her to Hot Springs I didn't know till 1911 she had Leo Mann there under the name of Jack Raymond
 He said he left his wife on May 2.
 On May he claimed she came to see him. ''She asked to be forgiven. I threw a pillow at her and she said she had no attention from me, my bus iness took too much time. Her rela- tions with Mann started in Wood bridge, she said, and she asked to be taken back. I don't want any more automobiles. Come and live with me for the sake of the child. Do take me back Create no scandal. If you don't I might kill myself and the baby. I finally, said I'd consider it and slad3 bels tsf home, It was there he told f1eF et6 marry Mann. Marry him, to show there is no hard feeling. I'll be the best man atsyour wedding I told her.
 "She said, Go ahead and get your, divorce as quickly as possible. I won't contest gave her no money and because she promised not to contest, left the child in her custody
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