Putnam patriot., 1915-02-05
SUPERIOR COURT
Short Calendar Monday, Judge Greene
 Presiding
Five Divorces Granted During Hour s
 Session

perior court held in Putnam Monday
 morning, Judge Gardiner Greene pre-
 siding, William F. Rafferty was grant
 ed a judgment for S145.12 against LOT
 en G. Williams of Putnam for work done and materials furnished for
 plumbing in defendants house on Oak hill.
 Five uncontested divorce eases were
 heard and in each ease decrte was
 granted.
 Alonzo D. Ireson of Willimantic,
 represented by Attorney Harvey, was granted decree from his wife, Jo-
 sephine, of Lynn, on the ground of de- l sertion. The couple were married in
 Maiden, Mass, July F, 1904 They
 have two minor children, boy and a
 girl A stipulation was filed in the ] case whereby it was agreed that if the decree was granted the wife should be | allowed the custody of the children in July and August each year and for a week in December.
 Alter living three years in Saugus the couple removed to PhoeniXvilie, this state. Feb. 22nd, 1910, while the husband was away at work, the wife
 took the two children and started for Lynn, Mass. He got her On the phone at Pomfret station before the train left but she would give no reason for her leaving but said she was sick of staying around Phoenixville. He fol | children back with him. In 1911 she
 came back to see the children and stayed about week and that is the
 last he saw of her. He said he thought she liked another man better than she did hjm and a letter was introduced from a man in Lynn full of endearing terms and asking her to come to him. Plaintiff was awarded the custody of
 the children and the court said il would make no order about the wife being allowed to see them but assumed that she would be allowed to do so as it was proper in accordance with the agreement.
 Ruth M Enos Of Danielson was
 granted decree from Frank Enos of
 Providence on the ground of adultery. They were married in Fall River in 1909 and have a child of four years They were for a number of years con
 nected with theatrical company but
 left and stayed at home while. 4 year ago she went to Philadelphia to
 join the company and when helearned
 that she had lheard of his relations with couple of chorus girls he sent
 her home. She has been working in Providence the past six months al though she makes her home Tn Dan-
 ielson. She had accused her husband of unfaithfulness and he had admitted a girl named Martha Sylvia at his brothers house. MT. and Mrs. Joseph Rose of Providence both testified that they knew Enos and that he had lived
 at various places with Martha Sylvia and they once saw them register in
 Providence hotel as man and wife. Also knew of his living with other
 women.
 Bernice M. Emlott of East Thomp.
 son lived quietly with her husband Marcus for three years and then he be-
 gan to drink and grew steadily worse until he became habitually intemper-
 ate. He had the delirium tremons
 once and she had him taken from the
 house and cared for and later she had
 him arrested and sent to jail. The day
 he got out he came home drunk. He drank many bottles of raw Jamaica
 ginger and once laid down on the rail-
 road track and rolled down the em.
 bankment. Deputy Sheriff w. N,
 Bates and others corroborated her tes-
 timeny. Decree granted for intemper-
 ance
 Desertion was the ground on which
 Amelia R. Cutler was granted decree
 from George $. Cutler. Plaintiff lives
 in .Dayville. They were married in
 1881 but her husband had lived with
 her but short time and had only giV- en her Sl00 towards her support in all
 their married life. He is a machinist
 and musician and had lived in various
 places but most of the time in Hart
 ford where he played in the Foot
 Guard band. He was sick in 1909 and
 she went to Hartford and brought him home and nursed him and paid the
 doctors bills herself. She had not
 seen him since except on the street Annie l.. Clark was granted decree
 from Frank l.. Clark on the ground of 1 desertion. The court, after hearing the evidence, said that intolerable
 cruelty had been supported also. Plaintiff lives in Woodstock and de-
 fendant in Bar Harbor, Me. Mrs. Clark was a widow when she married,
 her former husband being Dr. A. H. Myer of New York city with whom she lived for thirteen years, up 10 the time of his death. They spent their
 summers at Bar Hsrbor and after the i doctors death she became lady's
 maid and nurse. While working in this capacity she met Clark in Bar | Harbor. He drove carriages carrying passengers. They went 10 live in his house and for three weeks all went