Putnam patriot., 1914-12-11
SUPERIOR COURT
Quidnick Windham Manufacturing Com.
 pany May Be ReOrganized
Lies QuasI-Tragedies Revealed in 0i.
 y0rce Proceedings

There was short calendar session of the Superior court held in this city last Friday morning, Judge Reed pre- siding.
 In the matter of the Quidniek Man. ufaeturing company now in the hands of temporary receiver Lawyer Chas. F. Perkins of Hartford asked that the motion to have receiver made perma- dar and that an order be granted to mo- tify all creditors of the company to ap. pear at that time, December 18th. The attorney stated that reorganization ofIeompany was in progress andi as. sured. Out of the creditors represent ing a total of S5S0,000 only a number representing S7,000 were unfavorable to the reorganization and these would be paid in cash. Both motions were granted.
 There were eight uncontested di. voree cases on the list, the petitioners all being women. Three went off the list, two were continued until the next short calendar and three were heard and granted.
 In the case of Annie c. White of Plain field vS Alfred E. White of Put nam, the decree was granted on the ground of habitual intemperance. The petition was heard at Willimantic when desertion was alleged. It was continued and plaintiff was allowed to amend the complaint by putting in the habitual intemperance count. Mrs. White testified that her husband was did but little for the support of the family. He also abused her. She had three boys living with her and asked for their custody. A daughter was living with the defendants mother at Putnam. Deputy Sheriff George F, Holbrook, w. H. Longden, A. H. Ad- Aams, and Alice Adams, the two lat ter of Central Village, testified that in their opinion the defendant was hab- itually incorporate.
 Cleora A. Parrott of Willimantic was granted a decree from her hus- band Henry of Schnectady, N. Y, on the ground of intolerable cruelty. They were married in 1914 and re- moved to Worcester. He stayed out late nights and when she remonstrated with him he called her names and hit her. When her baby was six weeks old he came home at one o'clock in the morning and when she spoke to him about 1t he struck her and threw her down and told her to get out of the house. She took her baby and fled to her sisters. She when back with him again, in fact several times after he had thrown her out. Twice he sold all of the furniture and left her and the last time he stayed away. Their child died in a Worcester hospital and while it was sick her husband hit it and when she remonstrated hit her.s
 Grace l.. Doane of Willimantic was granted decree from Charles $. Doane of New York on the ground of deser- tion. They were married in Septem- Der 1904 and lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. Her husband was stenographer In 1910 trouble began and when he had allowed the rent to get in arrears for three months she spoke to him about it. He told her he was tired Of sup porting her. lie came home at three o'clock one morning and beat her and threw her out of the house She went home to her mother and had not seen her husband to speak to him since Her mother testified that the husband came to the Willimantic home and de- manded the furniture and told her that he didn't want to live with her dau' ghter any more.
 Deputy Sheriff l.. H. Healey was allowed a reward of $50 by the court for capturing Clement Menard, hen thief, who was recently sentenced to States prison for the crime.