The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-01
Montpelier Bank Sued Wild
ow of Harry Bertoli, a
Granite Manufacturer
FIELD DIVORCE
CASE ALSO HEARD
Petitioner and Her Father,
j. A. DeBoer, Were
Witnesses

The suit of the First National Bank
of Montpelier VS.. Maria Bertoli and 10
trustees was concluded in Washington
county court at Montpelier to-day and
arguments were presented. The suit
arose over the signing of note for S5,-
900 by Mrs. Bertoli, her husband, the
late Harry Bertoli, and man named
Gentili back in 1908. Mrs. Bertoli said
she collected $1,000 on an insurance pol
icy and turned So, 800 of it on the note,
supposing that her homestead rights
would be preserved.
On the stand, Mrs. Bertoli said she at
first refused to sign the note but when
told if she did not she would lose her
home and il she did that the first money
received would be used to reduce the
note she complied. Mrs. Bertoli's daugh-
ter. Mrs. Susie Berganti, testified she
was working in her fathers Office at
the Pioneer the year Mr.. Bertoli died
and that A. G.. Eaton came TO the Office
shortly after Mr.. Bertoli died and asked
her to go to her home, where he asked
her mother to take up the $4,000 note
or he would take the home.
When called to the stand A. G. Eaton
said none of the 5000 notes was signed
! in his presence, that he never asked Mrs.
| Bertoli to sign the first $1,000 note and
he never told her that the notes were
held by the First National bank as Sc
curity.
james H. kelleher, who is now ma
tional bank examiner, but who then was
assistant cashier in the First National
bank, testified that he never made out
any note for Mr.. Eaton TO take to Mrs.
| Bertoli.
The case went to the jury shortly be-
| fore noon.
The list of state cases has been filed,
showing As actions, of which 32 are con-
neeted with the liquor law. There are
2i cases for alleged selling, four for fur
nishing, four against intoxicating liquor, |
two for transporting liquor, three for
breach of the peace, seven for intoxica-
tion, two for sentence. one for false pre- |
tense and one for short trout.
The Field Divorce Case.
The divorce suit of Ethel DeBoer Field
| VS.. IuWaFu bs Eitiu vi 4hOhtIttltt bC- |
eupied considerable time in Washington |
county court yesterday afternoon. The |
grounds on which divorce is sought are |
| intolerable severity. After two wit |
nesses had been heard, the case was con-
tinued for further hearing. The petit |
tioner and her father, Joseph A, DeBoer, |
were the witnesses heard.
In response to questions from her at |
torney. Fred L. Laird, Mrs. Field testi
fed that she and Mr.. Field were married |
by Rev A. i. Lewis in Montpelier in
1906 and that they lived on Richardson
street in that city for year and since
lived on Liberty street. When asked,
she said the first trouble between them
did not come until after their first
daughter, Katherine, was born, which
was on July 4, 1907. She said she went
with her sister to Amherst college, con-
trary to the wishes of Mr.. Field. When
she returned he was very angry, she
said, and told her that she wanted TO
get away to see another man. Follow 1
ing that incident, her husband criticized
her, she testified, one of the times being /
when she and some others went to ride
in an automobile with Charles Davidson,
who then was employed by the Consoli-
dated Lighting Co. She said that au
tomobile riding was more of a novelty
then and she often talked about it after
wards.
AT Governor Prouty's ball she wore
gown that Mr.. Field objected to, saying 1
it was immodest, according to her fur
ther testimony; and he kept the hack
waiting at the door while he remonstrat-
ed with her about wearing the gown.
She said that she never went to dance
but her husband criticized the way she
danced and her manners and found fault
if she danced more than once with each II
man. Her conduct at bridge parties
came in for criticism, she told the court,
in that her husband told her she couldn't !
conduct herself properly, that she talked
too loudly. that she laughed too bolster
ouslv and that she paid too much atten-
ton to some man or other. She said he
was accustomed to talk to her until 2
or in the morning sometimes, making
her so nervous that she couldn't sleep
and became troubled with Indigestion.
Mrs. Field testified that her husband :
objected to her going about with the s
Senters-Clarence H. Senter and wife In
and that one time he told her not to go 9
to a ball with them or he would lock I
the door on her. She said that she went 5
to the ball and got home at IL o'clock 4
and found the door locked, so that she t
sat down on the piazza and waited for h
two hours until Mr.. Field came and let ?
her in, expressing surprise that she was t
there, although, as the witness testified, a
she knew he was aware she was on the
piazza Other times, she testified, he
kept her by force from going to the SEN
ters' house.
On another occasion when she and her
sister and Mrs. Clarence Senter went to
New York City in the fall of 1911, it t
happened that Mr.. Senter and Mr.. a
Cobb came down Unexpectedly and the hi
party went to the theatre. She said v
Mr. Field heard of this and talked to d
her about it for six months, claiming (
she had it all planned and went down t
there to meet Mr.. Cobb. Quite frequent v
ly, she testified, she had remained on her {
porch until ? o'clock so her husband o