Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-12
nlvoRoEs WERE GRANTED
 IN SUPERIOR COURT.

plvoRoEs WERE GRANTED
 IN SUPERIOR COURT ,One Wffe and Two Husbanda Were elsp Petitioners--Intemperanec and pessreian.
 ! In the superior coure here on ET4- bday morning Judge IT. A. Shumway lmran4ed three divorces in the cases fhat were brought before him at the abort calendar session
 Kept His Promise Four Years.
 Mrs. Ernna g. Clark of colchestsr ozark of the same towE on the grounds rf habitual intemperance. The peti- fsoner was given the right to resume her maiden name of Bigelow. The couple was married on Jan zS, lsVt.
 Mrs. Clark said that she had not S,royTn her husband much before she rT1srried him, but that he promised moi to drink if she married him and fine wedding took place in Middletown. He kept his promise for four years h1it after that she could not live with him because he was intoxicated so rauch and they separated in 1908. Each was the owner of farm when 4l1ey were married and she lived 5n her own farm after their separation ana made her husband so to the farm Edwin F. Brown of Colchester and Willie Fl. Bigelow of Colchester q nephew of the petitioner. were also witnesses whom Attorney Wallace $. aAllis called upon for testimony as to the drinking habits of MT. Clark
 Wife Stayed Two Hours.
 Absence for seven years unheard of was the grounds upon which William Fl. Armstrong of Norwich was given rfsvorce from Annie M. (Arnold) Arm strong, whom he married on June z, i1S79, at Sterling. Conn.
 Z aThe writ in the case represented that the real maiden name of the de- ,fendant was Martha. Knowls. but she was married to MT. Armstrong under the name of Acnie M. Arnold by Jus t4ce of the Peace Andrew J. Bitgood, and that her residence at the time of marriage was Warwick, R. In June, IS79. the defendant deserted the peti- tioner, it is claimed. going from Plain field to Providence, or some other place to the plaintiff unknown, and had never been seen by the plaintiff since and not heard from for more than 20 years by himself or anyone else to his knowledge.
 Attorney TeIley E. Babcock waa counsel for MT. Armstrong who testi- fled that after his marriage he tooE his wife to his boarding house in Preston but she stayed only two hours and he has never seen her since He was told that his wife married 2 man named George Huntington
 Mrs, Loretta B. Greene, aged 72. 0! Plain1eld, testified that girl named Martha Knowles had worked for hel as a maid in Plainffeld and she ha< heard that this girl married mar named Armstrong in the 70's.
 This witness had heard about tn marriage of the Knowles girl to stable keeper named Huntington.
 Harry Greene, a son of Mrs Green was also a witness in the case. TI had heard of the Knowles girl whel he was boy.
 Had Another Husband.
 For desertion, Amos A Phillips O Griswold was given a divorce iron Lorraine Haviland Phillips, now o parts unknown. They were married on the first of May. 1911, and h claimed that she deserted him on tn 10th of the same month and year.
 To the questioning of Attorney ( W. Comstoelz, MT. Phillips testifie that he met his wife in Schenectad, N r., where she was employed as domestic, about six months befor their marriage, and they were marie in Springfield.
 A few days after he had broush her to JeWett City to live, his wifi got a letter and she began to pie 1lp her things and went away. Tn postmaster told him that he had learned that the maiden name of tn woman MT. Phillips had married wa Helen Tracherberg and that she Ina another husband.
 Mrs. Ora Brown, sister of Mir. Phil lips, testified to the desertfon and t Ghe way her brother tried to loea. his wife in New York Jesse $. Phi lips, cousin of the petitioner, test fled that the couple have not lived tc gether since the desertion-