The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-26
SagaI Fight Opens Many Dispositions Brought From Hot Springs in
 Divorce Suit
HOTEL PEOPLE TESTIFY
Testimony Centers About Man Said to Have Been Seen With Mrs.
 Sagal.

New Haven, Oct. 26-TaO first scene in the legal battle of Louis M. Sagal, the well known local advertising man, to secure a divorce from his wife, Rachel, on statutory grounds, was en- acted before Judge Lucien F. Burpee, in the civil side of the superior court yesterday afternoon at which time the testimony of numerous witnesses in Hot Springs, Ark, taken in the form Of dispositions, was presented to the court as the beginning of the estab- lishment of the case for the plaintiff. At the conclusion of the reading of the depositions, all of which were pre- sented, the case went over until next Tuesday when the testimony of wit nesses in person win be taken.
 The allegations in the case were positively denied last night by Attor- ney Howard c. Webb, who is act ing as counsel for Mrs. Sagal and a hot battle is expected over the case. The dispositions yesterday. were pre- scented in connections with g. visit of the Sagals to Hot Springs, in the sum- mer of 1910 at which time, 1t is al legged, occurred certain actions which are a basis for the suit which has been brought
 Some of the Dispositions.
 In the depositions read-there were over 100 pages of typewriter matter. O. s. F. Van Patten of Hot Springs. Ark, who was examined by Attor- ney Webb and Slade representative on August 10, testified that he had made plans of the second floor of the Arlington hotel at Hot Springs (where 1t is alleged the defendant met a man in room 202).
 John T. OBrien of Hot Springs de- posed that he was a hotel keeper and ran the Princess Hotel during July September 1910: He had a guest there named Jack Raymon," of New York. He identified a lady and a baby in a photograph shown him as Mrs. Sa- gal and her daughter Dorothy The lady stopped at his hotel in passing. Raymon was there T saw them,' g he deposed, "in Jacks room. I thought she was his sister"
 They rode out together and went fishing together. He saw nothing int proper in their conduct They met on three different occasions, he testified. Joseph Milo, Hot Springs photo- grapher, deposed that he took pictures of Mrs Sagal and of Raymon (subse- quently called "X' in the testimony, which pictures are now being used in has not yet been brought out. K Richard Kirby of Hot Springs de- posed that he stopped at the Princess hotel, and saw Jack and the woman and child there.
 Bell Boys Story.
 Joe Hicks, the captain of the bell boys at the Arlington hotel. where Mrs. sagal was stopping. deposed that in August 1910, Mrs. Sagal was an inmate of room POP in the Arlington and he saw man go to her room three times during her stay there. On some of these visits he was there for some time He heard voices in the room. He took ice water there. The man wore a white slouch hat. customers generally use the front en- trance.T He said that he had seen Saga1 at the hotel. The child Dorothy was in the room when the other, man was there. This man, he declared, was not Sagal. The witness did¬ person named Slade from New Haven told him about Raymon, he said, and told him the location of her room. Slade showed the witness a picture of the man marked s.X" on the photo- graph which the witness Identified as Raymon.
 Thomas o. Blair of Hot Springs de- posed that Mrs Sagal 4ntroduced him to Raymon at a picture show as "a friend from home"
 Didn't he say he was her chauf- feur?, the witness was asked
 No,"sw was the reply; but she said that she had a nice car.''
 Clara McWiAiams, a washwoman of Hot Springs, deposed that she washed for Mrs. Sagal at the Arlington from July to September. She saw the man described as .tx'' in the photograph, knocking at Mrs. SagaEs door on one occasion. He got no reply. On sec- ond occasion she saw him come and get some stationery from Mrs. Sagal A third time when she visited the Arl- ington with her wash for Mrs. Sagal she saw through the crack of the door tray on the trunk by the door. There was gentleman sitting over in the corner with his pajamas on.i He was a clean faced fellOw-the same one that she had before seen in the hall.
 The witness could not describe Mrs. Sagal's attire at this time. She thought at the moment that the man with her was her husband
 J. A. Lambeth, the clerk of the Arl- ington deposed that Mrs. Sagal ar- rived there July 27, 1910, and left on Aug. 5.
 Mary E. Torrance, a. clerk, Willie E. Fowler, a stable boy; Lew Russell a horse trainer and T. J. Ledgewidge deposed as to the fact that the woman and Raymon were riding together of- ten. ~ A
 This ended the days hearing. rrNTU,E.D nIcpARTNsENn