Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-23
TOLD SHAMEFUL STORY WITH TEARS
Mrs. Myrtle Blake Bailey Tesfies Against Attorney G. Curtiss Morgan of New London-On the Stand All Day Monday in Superior Court-EIder Brown of New Lon don Who Married Raymond Bailey and Myrtle Blake Was Also Called to the Stand

1 in quart bottle. The witness thought they came home on the last car about l F o'clock.
 When they were coming away from the cottage, they saw two policemen near the end of the car. Ar. Morgan later told her that he sent them back | to the fire in the cottage. She and Morgan drank half the bottle of cock head.
 On their return from the beach they l had lunch at OLeary,s restaurant and ! she got home about 2 o'clock In the restaurant the waiter pointed out to Morgan that something was sticking out of Morgan's pocket fIt was one or 9lrs. Balley's garments that Morgan ] hsd put into his pocket when | they were leaving the cottage. From ] the restaurant Mir. Morgan telephoned path and also to George BindIoss at the City club Mir Eindloss came to
 the restaurant and loaned MT Nor gan s3- Mir. Bfndloss was in the court room and she identified him when he stood up.
 Husband Seemed to Know.
 When her husband came home the 1 next morning at o'clock, he told Mrs Bailey she testified, that she had been seen getting on the S.S0 car and he l seemed to know what had been going
 This was the first time she had ever been 10 the cottage and she had not been there since. At this point in | the case States Attorney Hull brought Tn as exhibits several articles from fhe cottage including the cocktail bottle. | a blanket and 9 quilt. She also iCfeori- lied q, belt which was found in tbe Morgan cottage by the police the morning after she and Morgan had been there.
 About the last question that State's l attorney Hull asked the witness be- Tore her examination yrss besZ11n was whether the unnatural acts al i legged to have taken place at the fear oh i cottage had ever taken place before 1 then while she was in Mir Morgan $ employ. A number of times" an l SWered Mrs. Bailey.
 ! Cross Examination.
 ,17,rl. Gn cross examination by Attorney lAlyn l.. Brown ne inquired about Q disagreement with her family on | account of which she left home for | Whlte- The attorney asked Mrs.
 6alley II she had not been connected T with . vaudeville act. He asked what
 sine did in connection with this onf the states attorney objected to this line of questioning. 'i-N At 12.45 Judge Greene allowed the
 Jury to retire from the court room
 "Hiie Attorney Brown cited authorities 10 the court for Q line of cross exan- nation which he wanted 70 co15TIc4 to in1Peach the credibility of the wit Afternoon Session.
 After the noon recess. Attorney HroWn continued his citation of an thorlues. but Judge Greene r71Js5 !, asalnst the admission of questions to snow any previous acts Of inrnora lifv
 on the part of Mrs. Bailey. In Vaudeville.
 
 6aIiey was resumed by Aitorney
 BroNn she said that she was a singer IT vaudeville for three weeks about L4Iee years ago with 2 partner named Eo"aEd Alexander. with whom she iIrst becarne acquainted in New Lon | ocn. She was working in the quilt mil New London at the time and vas Introduced by Q friend who y.ney Alexander. The witness said she Jeff School when she was i 4 and first work su aoout two months in the silk mill
 then Tn q laundry and then at differ ent times in the quilt mill. Alexander her vaudeville partner, she said, was an oil painter and they traveled as brother and sister. They went tc, N-t.vT ! bedrord CT some other Ma .cl,setre place and she left the act in this city subsequently, she vas employed in the , quit mill, as q waitress for a family . at Ocean Beach at tho Therr1Os hot l tle factory here. for 6 family ill Mont
 NlHe as q waitress, and then went back home. Then she went to %aT
 orh, having received q letter from
 Alexander. who was going to marry
 her. They trave!ed together but when
 she round he had no intention Of mar
 rEIng her, she left him and came home
 ~nen W! ei1 they got back to New York aft CT four months on the road
 ! JuGge Greene instructed the ifIyy that all this testimony was admitted
 merely to tell the history of the young WomanS life and not to prove any
 immoral immoral act that might affect Ter cred lblllty as witness.
 Mrs. Bailey vas asked what she kneW about Frank Jones' Inn where she admitted she had been once ,1r,- stairs with her husband before she was married, but Judge Greene decided i mat this line Of questioning had gone Tar enough.
 Denied Any Trouble with Husband. Attorney Brown inquired Of the wit ness about the way Mr. Morgan came } 10 buy the shtrtwaist for her. It was
 brought out also that there was tall aoout his buying her a vanity case fol , a wedding present. She denied tha1 l she ever told MT. Morgan that hel husband had beaten her and there xras never any serious trouble between he, , and her husband. There was q, posts cara that her husband got from Mabe , L1apeile, but her husband satisfied heI
 that IT was not his fault and thaj 1 ended it
 Attorney Brown asked on whcs, suggestion il was that the bottle ot ) cocktails was provided for the trip tc the cottage and the witness said i ? was MT. Morgan's. She was not 1T 5 the habit of drinking cocktails but Ilat drunk some before. On the afternoon ? that she met MT. Morgan in Morgan. ? once, he sent out for some cocktail: ana all three of those present. Mir
 Morgan, Mrs. Lottie Usher Wilson
 and the witness, drank. She neve,
 crank anything but beer until afte. she met Mir. Morgan. There was an, other occasion at the Morgan ofict | when there were drinks from q bottle or port wine, another tenant in tn, | building furnishing the corkscreH
 With which the bottle was opened
 In the latter part of his cross ex.
 eInlnation, Attorney Brown questioned
 Mrs. Bailey about the incidents at tn, cottage at Ocean Beach. She denied , mat she ever said anything to hin
 about getting q divorce from her bus } band
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