The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
SOME FACTS IN
 BRENTON CASE
PROFESSOR DENIES HE PLACED HIS WIFE IN AN INSANE
 RETREAT.
SHE DENIES WRONG-DOlNG
Her Confession Made In Terror of Continued Confinement In
 Asylum.

Hartford Dec. 27.-The sensati ons
 promised in the Brenton divorce case have been making their appearance
 in some degree ever since last Octo- | Der when Mrs. Elizabeth A. Curtis Brenton filed her suit against the Rev. Cranston Brenton, professor of English literature at Trinity college It was known in a select circle that the domestic relations of the Bren- tons had not been pleasant some time before the news came to the public suddenly early in September and the eorts of some of her friends even with writs of habeas corpus, to locate her, were unavailing for some weeks, until word came that her stepmother had visited her at Brattleboro. Vt, and that the. searched for lady had been there at sanator!um. Shortly afterward her friends found her at Brattle boro, but not at the sanatoriunn but at a boarding house, where she has remained. She then brought the suit against her husband on grounds of intolerable cruelty and assertion. The Brentons were married June 19, 19O1,' and have a 6-year-old son, of whom the mother asked the custody. She also asked a1imony.
 Professor sBrenton filed a denial Of the charges and brought cross complaint, naming Frederick Ernest Holman, of Rockland, Me, as CO., respondent. Professor Brenton sJc- ceeded in obtaining a temporary order for the custody of his son. who is with Professor Brenton's mother at Jamaica, Long Island.
 Among the specific charges Profes- sor Brenton filed regarding his wife's conduct with Mr. Holman. the pro- lessor refers to a letter from Mrs. Brenton to him under date of Sep tember 10, 1912, in which she wrote the clause. the act which you charge was committed later in the summer and again in Decem ber.' ''
 Mrs. Brenton's reply to this state- ment, now on file in the court, adds the words quoted. or words of similar purport, were written by her to the defendant, ~but says the same were untrue when written. and were writ ten by her when she was imprisoned in an insane retreat where she had been placed by her husband, were written under duress, when she was in terror and fear from the imprison- ment, and under the threat by her husband that she should not be re- leased from the insane retreat until quoted, or similar words and. under the belief on her part that in no other way could she secure her release. Mrs Brenton denies wrongdoing with
 Professor Brenton, in a rejoinder, denies that he had Mrs. Brenton con fined in a retreat and practiced threats and duresS upon her.
 Edward K Gould, notary public has been commissioned by the Hart ford county superior court to take dispositions in the case in Rockland. Me, on January 1913, at his offoee in Rockland. The attorneys in the case are B. w. Br0der and J. Gilbert Calhoun for Mrs. Brenton. and Per kins, Wells and Scott for Professor Brenton. The deposftions will be re- turned to court early in February and it is expected the case will come to trial in April.
 Freder Ernest Holman of Rock land, Me, Is 8 son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. O. Holman, of Ingraham Hill, Me. After his high school days he engaged in clerical work in mercan- tile establishments and for a short time was on the staff of the Taunton (Mass-) Hera1d-News, of which his brother, Dudley M. Holman, a proni- nent Massachusetts politician, was editor. Frederick Ernest Holman is now president, and his brother Dud- ley, treasurer of the Herald News company. He then became auditor of ethe Rock1and and Rockport Lime about the middle of this month He was also auditor of the Camden & Rockland Water company and the Lime Rock Railroad cornpany He was chairman of the South Thomas ton, Me-, Republican town committee and represented that town on the county committee. He engaged in literary pursuits as 8 diversion H. w. Huke, of Torrington, this state, is president of the Rockland and Rock port Lime company, with which Mr It is said that he has been married dfVnrcad