The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
MISS CUTLER
MAKES DENIAL
Says Guy DOolittle Did Not
Say He Loved Every
Inch of Her
MERTON DOOLITTLE'S
FINANCES SHOWN

to Marry PIaintif-Says He Never
Refused to Do So, but That She
Never Fixed Date
Further evidence was given yester-
day afternoon in county court in the
suit to recover damages of $12, 900 for
services and breach of promise brought
by Miss Ethel E. Cutler of Keene, n
H., against Merton A. Doolittle of
Brattleboro, as to the values Of prop
critics owned by Doolittle in Brattle-
bOrO. The defendant, himself, took the
stand late in the afternoon and his tes-
timOny was not completed until this
morning.
Warren &. DColittle of Brattleboro,
an uncle of the defendant, testified that
| he held four notes of Merton Doolit-
| tie 5 aggregating $500, the greater
| portion of which was for money fur
pished his nephew when he bought the
| interests Of his brother, Guy, in the
Brook road and Western avenue prop
critics that now stand in the name of
the defendant.
On cross examination he was asked
! by Attorney c. S. Chase if he had
| loaned as much money as that to any
|
promptly replied that he had to Frank
| A. Larrow.
J. B. RandoIl and Capt. II. c. Street
er, real estate dealers, gave their es-
Inmates of the values of the proper
ties owned by Merton Doolittle. Their
estimates were from $ll,50O to $13,-
500, depending upon circumstances.
Merton Doolittle was called to the
stand. He said that his farm on Or
chard street was willed TO him by his
father and that one-half interest in the
Brook road and Western avenue prop
critics came to him from the estate of
his sister, Minnie, with a small amount
of cash. He said there were encum-
brances on the real estate totahng
$4,000. The purpose of this testimony
was to show that Mr.. DooIittle was not
as well off financially as the sum named
in the papers in the suit would indI
cate.
He said that when Miss Cutler and
he went to Philadelphia in 1905 he
started with about S l,0o0 in cash anc
they returned a few weeks later witt
only about 5000. He swore that sht
had access to the money in the house
, and that there were no restrictions i'm
5 posed upon her use of it. After he haC
bank account she had a check b0oI
f and was privileged to draw check
, against the account. In recent years
as he had more money, they had livet
better than in the earlier days Of thei
relationship and he had given her
driving horse for her exclusive use.
$ He said that on one morning las
February when he left the house for ;
q trip to Whitingham they parted a
. usual kissing each other. They ha
had no trouble, but when he came bac'
she was gone. He said that he di
e not hear from her again until July
:, She called him on the telephone tha
f day and asked him if he wanted he
to come home and he replied that h
6 did.
He met her the next Sunday /
} Greenfield, Mass, and it was agree
: that she should return to Keene, n II
II where she had been living since leavin
= him, and pack up her belongings an
r. return to him in Brattleboro. The nez
he knew of her was when he wa
- served with q writ in the present SUI
- on July %. He went to Keene to Sc
, her the following day and she gay
II him letter to give to her attorney
a ordering them to discontinue the sui
re He denied that he took from her
Greenfield two diamond rings that We
his sister, 5, but swore she gave the
to him. He denied that he ever kne
of her crying nights. He said that q
ter she left him he kept house aloi
ID until the middle of June, when he e
gagged his present housekeeper. He h;
been always ready to marry Miss CT
" Ter, he said. 81 think everything
her, now - he concluded.
On cross examination he swore tn
he had never refused to marry her, b
that she never seemed to get ready f
a' the ceremony. He always was rea
IL IL and is ready now, he testified, to ha
10 the ceremony performed. He admit
70 that she was not in good health Il
~ February and that he had made no
III fort to find her after she left him.
The defendant was on the stand Il
ss' morning until II o clock under a
-or we're cross examination. He admit
"n that the plaintiff was we'll educat
: kept his books and accounts, collect
rents for him and other moneys at
ferent times. He knew that she v
faithful and honest in doing t
vns work He claimed that she could hi
up her driving horse whenever
wanted to do so, but admitted Il
A there might have been times when
ews animal was used in his business
ian He explained that he asked her
the the diamond rings in Greenfield
cause he thought at the time that
might need to raise some money