The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-27
CHILD'S CARE NEGL GLECTED
 BY FATHER WHO DRINKS
Probate Court Inquiry Indi- oates Unfitness of Peter man to Bring Up
 Child
Story of Missing .Win Comes Out of the Rearing g-Investigators Tell
 Court Fathers Promises Are
 Not To Be Relied Upon

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 Neglect of his pretty little daugh- ter Mary, brought Charles Peterman before Judge Edward F. Hallen in the Probate Court today to show cause why she should not be committed to ceedings it developed that the child lis now without the Jurisdiction of the Bridgeport probate court and also that the child's mother who died about two months ago left $550 in a will that has never been probated. The husband, although his wife has been dead but two months, is pre- pairing to marry again according to the story he told the court.
 Mrs. Petern1an died Of tuberculosis Tn court today Marguerite T. Boylan, assistant secretary of the Charity Or eantzation society testified that for several months before the death of the mother PeterInan had not work ed. He insisted on staying home on the pretext that his wife needed, his 5care but Miss Boylan said that Peter man spent most of his time in saloons instead of with his wife, that she had told her that she had to take in washing to support herself and her husband and that he came home late nights and made her get out of bed to let him into their rooms
 Spencer R. Gordon, superint dent of the Charities department and Rev. Andrew Komara. pastor of St. Jchn's Neponfc Slovak R. c. church testf- lied that the father drank and neg 1ected his wife anad child
 At the death of his wife, Peterman received a considerable sum of insur- ance money and since then he has been living in Trunbuu where he has bought some land. Fsf. Komara said Peterman had been to him frequent " to take pledges to abstain from drinking but that he never kept his pledges He said PeterTnan had mother died he would place the child in an institution where it would hav4 a sanitary home and where 1t would be brought up under proper condi- tions.
 After tfle~ mother was buried Frs Komara said Reterman disappeared with the child and he had not located him until lately when he found he was living in Trumb11lI Mary has been living in Shelton. It developed that there is s550 insurance money now held by a Slovenian society been left to the child This will has never been probated- The law re- quIres that the custodian of a will must probate it within 30 days after tho death of the person making the Instrument and 1t is A serious offense to withheld such a do@ument. sPeter- man promised to get the will and bring it to the Probate Court and Judge Hallen directed Attorney A. s. GeIdudig, who is counsel for Peter man to see to it that he kept his promise
 c1ared that he had changed his habits and is not drinking now. when Err. Komara declared that he could name a haIf dozen East Side saloons where Peterman has been visit ting and drinking during the last two weeks in Trumbu11 and is preparing to make a home there in anticipation of his marriage to 8. young woman who now resides in New York. He said he was satisfied to have his little daugh- ter committed to, some institution, her care to be paid for out of the legacy. her mother left unti such time as he has a home prepared for her.
 Fr. Komara. Miss BoyIan and Mfr Gordon said that they had little faith in any promise Peterman might make. Peterrnan pronafsed Judge fIalIen he would take his daughter to St. Fran cis' home in New Haven today and arrange to have her cared for there until his new home is ready. Both Judge Hallen and County Conauis- sioner Denis AEulvihill thought Che court had no 5urisdtction because the
 
 E. O. Hull who appeared for the EKu- Inane society said he would follow the matter upand if Peterrnan failed to keep his word about placing his daughter in an institution he would bring proceedings in a New Haven court
 Mary did not like the idea Of be- ing separated from her father and when Judge Hallen spoke of the New Haven home she ahrieked NO, no, I don't want to go there, want to stay with papa" She burst into a fit Of hysterical crying and it was necessary for the father to carry her from the court room before she could be quiet ed. Fr. Korhana said he had the names of two persons whom members of the Slovenian society had proposed as guardian for the child and to look after the legacy left by the mother. When the will iB produced for probate an application will be made to have a guardian other than the father ap- pointed