Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-12

the home for five years. but witness
 did not pay for her support The girl went to the Thorpe family with
 her consent and it was agreed that
 " hen the girl was educated she should return to her mother. - She saw her daughter sonnet ines in Westerly and
 in 1913 she spent four weeks at home ot witness in Brooklyn and again in
 1914. but not in 1915, or 1e17- The
 Taorpes always talked with her in re-
 gard to Mary's education, and when
 the time was nearing for graduation
 Mrs. Thorpe said she would miss Mary
 after graduation, the witness said that
 then she would send younger da-ugh-
 ter to Mrs Thorpe. She received many
 letters from Mary, but witness could
 not read, and they were read to her by her son Michael
 On cross examination. Mrs. Da7eod said she last saw Mary before, today was, the last of Septen Der. Saw her in the school at :Tomagans Valley. She mentioned Gus Heber, iitney man. who drove her, to the school, out had no not lay hands on the girl. nor did she lay hands on the girl or break up the session of school She did not know she had been arrested. Sheriff Nit cheif took her from the school to court, where she was convicted and fined for assaultine the teacher and breaking up the school session. She said she knew this. On the tenth day
 
 court at Providence and made sppli- cation for possession of her daughter, and was denied. Then with her son. witness went to New York;. and next day letters were received signed Had ! Ia Dahood. The letters were always written by her son Michael She gave him authority to sign her name and what he wrote was with her consent She disciaimed that the letters sent to Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe aud Miss Da- ! hood, in reference to secret birth Of Mary. written by her son Michael. She said she knew nothing of these letters i-until told of tiieir existence by her attorney in Westerly. Sire said that she came to. Westerly with Mary and delivered the girl to the Thorpe fam :ly. and without the assistance of Mrs john I. AveriH. Of the Rock Nook Home, in 1910. After that she made frequent visits to WesterI, in her business of peddI!ng and always cali ed on Mary In 1910 she slept many times in the Thorpe house, iu the bed with her daugb{er.. She never paid the Thorpe family anyti1ing for the support of Mary. Never paid a cent for her support at the Rock Nook home. On Labor Day she went to the Thorps and claimed her daughter, bat
 never said she would have her, dead or alive. ti'' Tn response to query from t:.e judge the witness said she never au- thorized Michael Dahood to write the
 
 Michael Dai1ood, son Of previous witness ana brother of Mary, testified that after leaving Rock Nook home
 he was in the enapioysof Dr.. Brown in Baltic. He then moved with his moth CT to Brooklyn where Mary visited in 1913 and 1914 STl?iie. in Rock Nook home his mother visiteu him frequent weeks in Westerly. He knew his mother sent presents to his. sister quite frequeatiS. Never received let : ters from Mary yni she wanted something He wrote letters for his mother; and she knew nothing of the letters referred to in court. and he signed his mothers name Without her consent He told her he had written the letters and fixed up the 'Thorpes- His notf7er knew nothing of the con tents of these letters. He wrote the letters just as if his n1other had writ ten them and signed her name be- cause "I believed they had more force as I'm a minor Witness identified showing that friendly relations exist :. ' ed between mother and daughter up ito June IT. 1917. Had .letters >frem Mary every two or three weeks.
 l, On cross examination by Mr. RatI
 bun, the witness acknowledged the writing of the threatening letters which bore the name of his mother.
 He wrote the letters from the Y. M. C.. A, because he is a member. There is stationary at the .Y.e NJ. c. A. but did not use it. Bought; four mourn. ing. envelopes and sheets of paper and paid sixteen cents for them. He could, not recall whether. he had ever been in the stationary store before or Since. There were no truths in what he had written in the letters. He gave his expression to- his feelings and did not consider ! that Mary was worth two cents. He said he wrote the let ters under impulse. He said he lied in the letters in the hope of accom- pfisiiing' some result
 tified she had lived Six Eears with her mother in Brooklyn and Mary had spent four vacation periods there dur iEg that time. Witness visited her sister at Thorpes for two weeks in from Mary. In 1916r her, mother vis- tied Mary - . Mrs. Hattie C, Averiil, wife of John C. ,Averill of Norwich, testified that she is a member of the committee of the iDahood. never paid any money for the aid of Mary pahood at the home The three pahood children were taken to the home and Mary was there for five years, As chairn1an of the reception committee. witness was uniformed by the ma atron that Mr. and Mrs. Thc,pe wanted to- take Mary. Witness wis tied the Thorpe, home and consented. Mrs. Dahood. vas. notified that Mary was. in the Thorpe home, but Mrs Dahood did not take Mary to West erly. Witness believed that. Mrs. Thorpe was a proper, guardian and it was ,foc the best interests of the: girI to remain with the Thorpe family.c She based the statement from sher know ledge of Mrs. Daheod during the, five years that Mary was at the home, . Mrs. Fiorenee ar. Thorpe testified she was the wife. of Job Thorpe. Mary Dahood has been member of tfes household for seven. years. Mrs. Da- hood did not bring Mary to the fam fly. The mother called two or three times when on business .tr1psato Vest