The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-05
Sensational Testimony Given
in $4,000 Conspiracy
Suit in Hartford
DAMAGING LETTERS
BY MRS. HOLMAN
Rings Assisted Husband in Divorc-
ing Former Wife-Improper Conduct
Admitted-No Insanity Apparent.


Admitted-No Insanity Apparent
Especial to The Reformer)
HARTFORD, Conn. June ;.
The sensational, yet romantic, relation
ship existing between the former Mrs.
Granston Brenton who has brought suit
for $4,000 against her former husband,
Rev Cranston Brenton, Dr.. O. c. Smith
and DR. Paul Waterman for alleged con-
>piracy, and Frederick Ernest Holman,
her present husband. was made public in
the third days proceedings yesterday be-
fore Judge Edwin s. Thomas and a jury
in the United States district court
| Mrs Holman her long, gruelhng cross
examination yet unfinished took the
stand with the same immobIe counte-
nance, and told OF mystic marriage"
| to Holman while she was yet the wife of
| tile clergyman Their cIandestine love af-
| fair was bound the tighter, according to
| the witness 10y a small ring, gwen her by
/ her lover on which was inscribed series
Of letters, the initial letters Of code
which they alone understood and which,
!deciphercd, read Il am yours and you
are minc. that's all that counts my mate,
that's all that counts
Remarkable Confession.
/ One Of the most remarkable confessions
lof the day was Mrs. Holman admission
that she had sent two letters to Mr. Hol-
man from which it might be inferred that
her relations with Holman had been inn
lproper with the belief that these letters
would fan INTO the hands OF the former
/. Mrs. Holman and aid her in securing her
divorce. The letters did reach the first
AIRS Holman and were BY her turned over
lat later date to Professor Brenton The
letters formed the basis of two estrange-
ments and therefore, for many of the in
sinuating questions asked by the counsel
Tor the defense
Mrs Holman admitted with compla-
cence having given s 0G0 to her lover
, while living with Professor Brenton. then
! her husband. In return he sent her a
ring, inscribed. From Ernest Husband
Boy to Bess Wife Girl
And she was driven to this according
To her testimony by ''unrequited coniugaI
relations with her husband with whom
she had eaten. yet never talked for a long
lpcriod. Her entrance TO the Brattleborc
!, asylum in which each minute was a
nightmare was the result Of her Hcens,
in the paths OF romance and in6delity, she
{ said
s The utter candor with which Mrs Hol
: man admitted her violations Of the law,
: OF society. the directness OF her speech
I and the absence Of shame on self-abase
lment are an factors which contribute t,
n the case a color that places it among tn,
most unusuaI legal battles of Connecticut
4 WILLING ~ 10 n Danvi1la
Z,
ei htS Holman was asked long Serle
y OF questions BY the opposing counsel as t
y whether when she was required to leav
for some Institution She made any objec
tloH. She sad she was wiling to 90 L
the >antarium at Danrile because peopl
therc We're not under physical restraint
bet when she started for the automobll
4 she feared she would be taken somewher
else
But YOU Went without the use Of fore
N ana . "llno9s maEihs any appear 70 you
Ne. .ir.
Mas force used."
Il nave explained it to YOU | was no
allowed ~ 90 TO the telephone. Nurse
came IN from the automobile and the do,
= fms ,tood II nv way wherever | trie
le - 80 aud told me that the odds wer
sr| ,g,insf mo
T; .\yas thttc any nhysicaI restraint"
r. II cannot answer Il any more fully
&C Sbo vas asked why. on learning Tia
c; l,be Rratrlc,,oro Retreat was place fc
.h ,bc ,,s.,ne sbe did not notify her mothe
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