The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-14
SUED FOR S5O,OOO
 BY FORMER WIFE
|Is. Cranston Brenton Defer-
 dant- in Federal Court.
DR. WATERMAN AND
 DIR. SMITH NAMED
I'm Long Recital She Charges 9llrhem With Conspiracy.

ErovTn hereabouts as ElizaDeth Cur sfs Rrenton- who. a few months7;lso, arured prominently in the superior rnrIr4 here where her husband Rev. <.ranston Brenton. professor of Eng .s<1, literature at Trinity College, ob- fatned d divorce from her on the Er61nd of adultery, is in court sgaln- Yesterday she began an action m tns United States court here against ner former husband. and against Dr. Paul Waterman and Dr. Oliver C. Smlln anr she asks for damages or $5O,OSO- Wrs Holman is now the wife or Fred fersek Ernest Holman of Watervilte, <ho was the one with whom she was s4hnrred with being guilty in the d1- ] %rrEa action ana she was married to akr Holman few days 5after ter , ,, ao a1e. se court announced that Mrs Holman, Then Mrs Breuton, was guilty or adul- fery and that her husband was entl- lied to a divorce from her
 v The complaint in the st1it,- which Nras. prepared by sDavid E. Fitzgerald Ef New Harens contains long reelfal rsil5E-one of the preliminarfes to the AcsIon yesterday was the attaching CT 1he real eztM1e of Dr. Smith on -fS I'm gfreef After recfting that she IS al citizen resident and inhabitant4 or eF1a1erssI7e and that ethe defeHdalats .hare n like relation to this city, she recf1es that on. or about Septenbsr n 1912. she was thei wife of, the de .r.-dsnt Rrenton and that she lived .zeIfh him in this city On this cay and for some time prior thereto, she Ezvs- she UHs tn III health. which All1 ness she declares was caused by the the Eitruasiderafes sand a. in lslzlla11s trea tn1ellt of her hnsbandz. Professor BrenfoE) and Of his conduct and actions while in her presence and her comp pany- Al the date mentioned. she says that Dr. for m long time had beens practfctag' uhgsfcians in this city x For long lime before Septe eun1er a 1e11. she declares that. her then hnsbnnd had endeAvored to persuade her to permit him to secure a divorce, Erozn her and, for that pgrpose, she SnFs that he had solicited her to com Razt adultery all of which she had re issiaed to- do- Dx. Waterman and Dr. Smith she says, had full knowledge 6l her husbands intention and. in an 'armrorinE t0 aid and assfst him. con 4mr7rea and confederated with him t9 deprive her of her liberty and in con, summation Of the alleged conspiracy, khnr 10 go tn m health resort or ss:ni-. r tnriuu1. for a short period of time and. she says it was falsely represented to Der and to her mother, Mrs ,. 5 located at Bratt1eborn.s Vt, was g Eea1th resort and was sfIqilaf to the slnitarium at DanvilIe. which was health resort and which she and her. mother were familiar with
 Sne declares that she refused to go No BraftIeboro. and, in refusing to do $b. she says that the defendants, in carrydns out the alleged conspiracy. coerced her with threats and violence <1Id so fntiznidated and pat her in such Tear that she yielded to their de1nanis believing that the representations as Tc the character Of the BrattIeboro Retreat were true and. that tiie retreat W5z in truth. a health resort She Alleges that the Battleb0ro Retreat was not q health resort, or sanitari url, but a state 1unatic asylum all of which the defendant Is knew and she says That they concealed the knowledge of the characten of Inc place from eherself and her nnokher- -ss t,s.ss=5 F
 1ifsl Holman further alleges that the defendants falsely informed the mmperzntendent of the retreat, prior ztitutton-- that she was insane and re- Qulred treatment and.ssne declares they knew these statements were falze and untrue and were made Tor the purpose Of having her confined in the f1stitutfon In consequence of the alleged Conspiracy and because of df- rectfons Of the defendants, she says that she was put in small cell in the l,lpatfc asylum and confined there be- lind locked doors and the cell was p-lth0ut1igf1t. She says that she was held as a prisoner for q long time. Tn the adjoining cells and rooms she QCCEATG6 EnGrG were a. large number Of funafics. Ands by their action ana con- duct and shriekss during the day and sfEtts- lbreagl1t great discomfort and mental. distress to hersand she became $reatIy Frightened She declares that De was compelled to eat with the #hysicaI violence upon her and she &ays that she was compelled to eat Rom dishes used by 1unatfcs, some cr whom were suffering from tubercr- 
 C After she had been sonhnedi for Npme time. she declared, the superin- Rndent of the retreat who was a
 pmDetent alfenist, .haring examined
 er as fo her mental coxdffion, found
 er to be without a trace of insanity 4nd she says that tine superinten dent advised her former hustazad that sine vas not insane and n1trszefed him to
 emcve her rom the iunatic asylum. -pDn the receipt of the sfnEDrnfzti ti on she says her former husband and the other sdefendants. in furtherance of 4fe alleged conspiracy, withheld from Der mother the opinion expressed by Inc superintendent and. in the sftl-.- herzncs of the. conspiracy, caused her R remain in the institution for inc .NurpGse of punishing and disciplinine &er and for the purpose of frfgFtenins Yer and con1Delzfng her to confess fr Rapr0per relations with a man so tllas Ter husband could procure a divorce tnuE enabling him to marry, under tbe rules Of the church with which he pas identified. Tie recital continues that her hus- band kept. her in the retreat and cor
 nuedsfo pracffcel the deception on her rrother and refused to give her frienos -1rS information as to her where 1boufs- As result of the confine- WEmt @T tne ihstifuti0r she became
 rk. nervous and overwrought: be- rNrue Frightened and eEnaciated and Usaksa and her will was broken all o5 Which the defendants knew, or ou1zF hi
 e have known. would result by req
 en of the confinement and as a means Thereby they could compel her to #'En written confession for the pur-