Putnam patriot., 1912-12-06
Superior Court

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Gently tried in the superior court here,
a decision has been handed down
+ whereby the plaintiff is To be allowed
/ TO recover 81 ,24s'5S from the defendant.
/ The suit grew out of n division of
4 opinion rs to how payment was TO be
made for work done by Mr.. Rooney on
house owned by the defendant, the
/ question being as To whether the
work was done by contract or by day
labor, MIR. Rooney claiming the latter
to be the case. Torrey and Geissler re-
presented the plaintiff, Searls and Rus
sell the defendant.
As the result of 6S letters being intro
duced in divorce suit in Whitman
TIC several weeks ago in which di-
vorce was granted upon statutory
grounds bench warrants We're issued
! Monday and Mrs. May :. Rawson and
1 Fred NJ. Watrous, both of Whitman
tic, were taken into custody charged
with adultry.
! The two defendants were brought
before Judge Bennett. They were not
put To plea but were ordered 10 furnish
bonds of 5000 each for appearance nj
! The March term of the court. The wo-
mans father furnished her bond and
the man was brought to this city TO
where court adjourned. He sat read
ing a newspaper in the court room ap.
parently uneoncerned rs to his mine.
! ment until his sister arrived from Nor
witch about three O'Clock and salts.
factory bond was furnished.
AT the time of the divorce proceed
ings attorney for the plaintiff sub.
United 10 the court the letters that
Watrous had turned over TO his client
on condition that he would not prose.
cute Watrous.
! When Judge Bennett heard this tes-
timony he sent out for States Attorney
Searles and asked him TO remain in
the court room and listen To the evil
dence. IL sufficient evidence was
| found to warrant action being taken,
be arrested The suggestion was acted
upon by the states attorney and the
arrests resulted Monday. Attorney
Kelley told the court that the letters
| were unfit 10 be read and they were
| taken under advisement and Judge
! Bennett later granted the divorce. W n
trons was named as correspondent in
the action.
| When court came in in this city
| Monday afternoon arguments were
heard in the cases of William Ham
mond and Helen s. Hammond vs.. the
| n. Y. n IL. II III. railroad company.
The railroads attorney had Iiledd two
| motions: First he asked that the
| court find for the defendant non OBJ
stante veridicto, and second that new
trial be granted. Decision was reser-
we'd.
The contested divorce case Of Cathe-
rine Bennett VS.. Frederick Bennett,
both of Brooklyn, was then taken up.
The case was not finished when court
adjourned and Judge Bennett stated
that he would return To Putnam Sat
urday 10 finish IL.
The divorce Is asked for on the
ground OF intolerable cruelty and spec
ilications alleging 10 different acts Of
cruelty were filed. The plaintiff was
the first witness and told of the various
acts of cruelty alleged among which
were that the defendant several times
drove her from the house, had used
profane and vulgar language towards
her and had caused her TO do hard
manual labor in the fields, also had
pulled her from a buck board by the
heels and drawn her through the mud,
had dragged her face downward over
the barn floor, had tried To back a
horse upon her, had Intentionally
caused her TO be thrown from load of
hay that caused the dislocation of both
Of her wrists, had thrown frying pan
full of fried potatoes across the kitch-
en-, had struck her and numerous other
things.
Her cross examination was in pro-
gress when court adjourned. She said
that she worked in the fields because
she wanted to please her husband, that
she was thirteen years older than he,
that she was the one that procured the
marriage license as he was sick at the
time, that the trouble began five weeks
after they were married. She asks for
alimony.