The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
Mrs. SagaI May Be Arrested on
 Serious Charge
City Attorney Reviewing Evi- dence in Divorce After Judge Burpee's Specific Ruling

l New Haven, Nov. ,9-City Attorney John R. Booth admitted to a Journal
 Courier representative that he was go-
 ing over the testimony of the Sagal
 divorce case, with view to possible i criminal action for adultery against /, Mrs. Louis M. Sagal and Leo Mann.
 The action of MT. Booth follows the
 in the decree handed down by Judge
 Burpee yesterday in the divorce case. In this clause Judge Burpee says. ''The defendant, in divers days, be-
 tween January 1, 1909, and May 3, 1911, has committed adultery, at New Ha- 1 ven, in the State of Connecticut, and
 at Atlantic City, in the State of New Jersey, and at Hot Springs, in the 1 State of Arkansas"
 Booths Attention Called. Tn the course of the afternoon Mr. Booths attention was called to this finding of Judge Burpee, and in ac- cordance with the duties of his office, he immediately began an investigation of the case. The first step in the tn-
 vestigation was an obtaining of an official copy of the evidence in the
 divorce case. It will take some time
 to go over that, and take from it the evidence upon which he might issue warrants, if he decided that warrants
 must be issued.
 'Of course, you know he said last night, "a criminal prosecution is al together different from a civil case. We in the city court must be satis- fled that we have a strong enough
 case to send it up to the Supreme court. The testimony in the divorce
 proceedings we can use only as refer ence, that is, the case must be tried n n a court.
 ''What the result of my inquiry in- to the evidence at the divorce trial will be, I, of course, cannot tell. but if there is, in my opinion, sufficient
 grounds for a criminal prosecution, this office will, of course, act" Wording of Decree. The decree in the Sagal divorce case was filed with Clerk John c. Galla gher of the Superior court, yesterday afternoon. After reviewing the prelim- mary steps in the case the court finds
 as follows:
 ''1. The plaintiff was lawfully mar
 ried to the defendant on November "2. The parties have resided con- tinuously in this State more than three
 years next before the date of this complaint.
 '.s. The defendant, on divers days
 between January 1, 1909, and May 3, 1911, has committed adultery, at New
 Haven, in the State of Connecticut, and at Atlantic City, in the State of New Jersey, and at Hot Springs, in the State of Arkansas
 A. The plaintiff and defendant have one minor child, the issue of said l marriage, to wit: Dorothy sSagal, aged seven years.
 ''Whereupon 1t is adjudged that Louis M. Sagal be and he hereby is divorced from said Rachel Sagal and they are hereby declared to be single and unmarried and the care, custody and education of said minor child be and hereby is committed to the plain tiff. and the plaintiff may make suit ableA provision for maintaining said | minor child temporarily at plaintif7s s place of residence and with a reason- able time the plaintiff shall place said minor child in such school, or such person, as shall be approved by this court; and the defendant shall have opportunity to visit said child, at req sonable times, twice in each week for three months from the date hereof and twice in each month for the next three | months thereafter, and thereafter once l in each month, until the further order of this court.''
 Debate Over Child. At the hearing yesterday morning, | Judge Stoddard declared that Mrs. Sagal was not fit person to have charge of the child and Judge Burpee agreed with him, declaring that the stay of the girl with her mother | should be as short as possible. Attorney Howard c. Webb declared | it was inhuman to cut the child al- | most altogether from the mother The relatives of Leo Mann are deep | ly grieved over the unpleasant notor- | iety which they and he have received because of the Sagal divorce, and they | feel keen1y the position in which Judge Burpee's finding leaves him.