The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-26
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Breach of Promise Case at
County Court Grows
i'm Interest
TESTIMONY INVOLVES
DEFENDANTS BROTHER
Guy Doolittle Left Merton Doouttle s
Home Shortly After Miss Cutler
Left-Both Lived in Keene-Guy
Pawned Diamond Ring.

Pawned Diamond Ring.
| The direct examination of Miss Ethel
Z. Cutler of keene, n H, who is suing
Merton A. Doolittle of Brattleboro in
county court for damages of $4,000 for
| work and alleged breach of promise. was
concluded yesterday afternoon and Attor-
ney 1. f. Barber of counsel for the defend
ant began the cross examination.
! Continuing the history of her relations
with the defendant, a story that was be-
gun Friday afternoon, the plaintiff told
OF leaving Doohttle in February and of 90
ing to keene. She met the defendant there
July and on July % he went again to
heene, and she said he cried because she
had started suit against him.
| She testified that arrangements were
made by winch she was to return to him
upon the condition that he would nav her
Ior her u years OF work in his home what
ever sum her counsel, Chase & Chase. de-
elded was fair amount: that he would
marry her, and that she should go to a
hospital for needed treatment.
She said she returned to Doolittle July
81 and remained about two weeks. Doo-
httle, she testified, went down street fre-
quently and claimed that he tried several
times and failed to see Mr. Chase.
Doohttle. IN the offset claims he has
hled against her, charged her with money
ne claimed to have given her to go to
California in 1905. In connection with
this she testified that an aunt gave her
S120, her grandmother gave her $50 and
a cousin gave her S15 and that she brought
home with her $50 she had earned while
IN the West and turned it in to the COM
mon fund of the house Soon after her re
turn Doolittle and she started on trip to
PENNSYLVANIA and were gone between two
and three months, she said.
, On cross examination she denied know
ing that Doohttle had 81 900 when they
started on their trip TO Pennsylvania She
admitted that she knew Doolttle's wife
before Doolittle was divorced from her.
and that the plaintiff used to see Doolittle
when she visited relatives on Orchard
street before she met him.
She admitted having kept his books and
that she had access to the cash for several
Years and could draw checks on the Peo-
pies bank which would be honored She
admitted that she had settled several
claims
She was then led on cross examination
to describe events in Keene She admitted
having left Doolittle's home here while
Doohttle was away, that few months be-
fore that time the defendants brother.
Guy Doolittle, came to the house to live
that soon after she went to Keene Guy
Doolittle came to that city and that she
hired a tenement there and that Guy had
a room there. She admitted that she had
been seen on the street in keene a num-
Der of times with Guy in the last few
months and that few days ago she went
to Hinsdale with him
She denied emphatically that she had
complained to the police of Keene that
| Guy Doolittle had assaulted her on Sept
l6, but admitted that he was arrested there
at that time for intoxication
| She told of having had in her possession
| three diamond rings that had been the
property of the defendant sister and had
| been in her care since the sisters death.
lShe said the defendant took two of them
I'm Greenfield, Mass, and that the other
| had been pawned in Boston by Guy Doc
| little for $50.
Miss Cutler was on the stand this
morning until after IL o'clock. On
cross examination, continued from yes
| terday, she admitted that the defend
ant had paid for her clothing for II
years and had taken her to numerous
entertainments as his equal as well as
taking her on automobile trips.
! She admitted that she had valua-
BILE sealskin coat that had been the
property of his sister, Minnie, and 9TH
er articles which had been hers. She
said that she had a driving horse to
use when she desired for several years
and that two or three years ago Doc.
little gave her piano.
She also said, in answer to a ques.
ton, that she had written a letter on
lJuly 20 to Chase & Chase, her at
ltorneys, requesting them to drop the
suit against the defendant This let
ter she had given Doolittle to give to
Chase & Chase, but later she telephoned
them and gave them other instructions
On redirect examination she ex
lplained that at the time she com
Iplained against Guy Doolittle for be
ling drunk in Keene she telephoned tC
IChase & Chase for advice and they ad
vised her to see Attorney Joseph Mad
den and that the complaint against
tGuy Doolittle was made through him
She also explained that a receipt
which she gave Merton Doolittle after
her suit was brought was dictated by
him and was, she supposed, to eove1
1910 on rent and did not effect th,
suit.
The defendant was then put on tn,
tstand by the plaintiff and examined
with reference to property left to hin
land his brother, Guy, after the deatl
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