Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-07-19
MENTIONS Ex.MAYOR'S NAME
Did Mrs. Deyette Know Massa.
chusetts Official?
Couldn't Forget Wallace Stanbridge-
His 100 Letters First Thing She
Thought of during Fire Next
DOOr-AttOrneys Tilt.

The relations Of Mrs Eugene Deyette
to Wallace Stanbridge of New Bedford,
Mass, and the letters she wrote to his
mother occupied most of Tuesdays ses-
sion at the trial Of the double suits for
divorce in county court. Mrs. Deyette is
suing on the ground of intolerable severity,
John E. Deyette on that of inf1delity and
cruelty. A. l.. Sherman is representing
her and V. A. Billiard and ]. J. Enright
the husband. She is seeking almony. and
each wants an absolute divorce with the
custody of the child. Eugene, which the
court has put into the possession of the
mother
Tits between the opposing attorneys on
the one hand and between Messrs. Billiard
and Enright and Judge Fred NJ. Butler,
who is presiding, enlivened things
throughout most of the hearing of the
testimony OF the first and only witness.
Mrs. Deyette. Later on. letters which Mrs.
Deyette wrote to Stanbridge's mother pro-
vided further interest if not sensation.
Messrs. Billiard and Enright tried to show
that Mrs. Deyette's relations had not been
proper with various individuals. besides
Stanbridge, chiefly in New Bedford. They
declared they would endeavor to prove
that Rose Willette went from Mrs.
Deyette with the pistol with which the
former killed herself and tried to slay
Deyette and that Mrs. Deyette had even
threatened her husband.
MRS. DEYETTE MARRIED BEFORE.
The attorneys of Deyette sprang a sur
prise to their audience when they show
ed not only that Mrs. Deyette had been
married before. to one Myron Borst in
New York, but that she had obtained an
annulment Of that marriage by alleging.
hrr hot 40
or more younger than she really was.
She was born on August 81, 1856, not 1887.
Mrs. Deyettes mind did not seem ready
regarding the exact date and year of her
birth
Her former marriage may figure strong
ly later on, and it provided the first oc-
casion for argument between Messrs.
Enright and Billiard and Judge Butler.
SOME OF THE LETTERS.
In letter to Mrs. H. c. Stanbridge.
addressed at 1853 Whitman street. New
Bedford. Conn.,. and postmarked Jan. 49,
1918. Mrs. Deyette wrote:
my Dear Friend:
Suppose you will be very much sur
prised to learn that was married to Mr..
John Deyette the day before Xmas" LAS
matter of fact she married Deyette early
in 1910.
II had nothing new to wear. as I decided
too quickly to be married.
II am continuing with my music and
am taking French lessons also There was
an ironclad agreement that / should con-
tinue with my music, and II can develop
sufficiently to command good salery on
the stage. I am to go. II I wish. Mr.. d.
will travel with me- The letter Is writ
ten from SO Monroe street.
I~AA- =
been married nearly seven months, she
says: II haven't worked since saw you.
don't take any interest in work" While
heing questioned about this letter. Mrs.
peyette said she was i'll at the time
with her first child. In the course Of her
testimony she made 1t evident, in spite
of skilful parrying or avoiding of ques-
tons put to her by Attorney Enright,
who conducted most of the cross-exam-
ination. that the unkindness of her hus-
band was what led her to think of her
old relations with stanbridge. In the
letter she ascribes her apathy to the
death of Stanbridge
II she ever forgot Stanbridge, It was
not after this period In a long letter OF
July II, 1910. she tells how she had kept
100 Of his letters. and they were the first
thing she thought Of when a house next
door to the Deyette home on Monroe
street took fire. She writes that all hel
plans were based upon "a future with
Wallace" and she testified that she die
not know of his previous marriage unit
just before his death. "Our intentions
were that as soon as he could straighter
out that distressing affair (his previous
marriage) and az soon as we coult
arrange matters we would be married.
So she wrote to Stanbridge's mother. II
was only question Of time" she said
She promised to go to Stanbridge's grav'
and decorate it, She wrote of dream
In which Stanbridge. she said. told he
and his mother not to mourn for him.
Mrs. Deyette consulted a blind medium
at Queen City Park and went to Platts
burgh with her mother and sister pur
posely to consult with mediums who sh
heard were there. apparently, regardinI
Stanbridge's life in the other world.
PICTURES OF sTANSRIDGE.
Mrs. Deyette admit.z&. that there wa
one large picture of Stanbridge. and re
ferred In letters to several pictures. on
of which she wore in a locket. anothe
OF which hung on the walls Of tn
Deyette home. Deyette's attorneys trie
to show that she had many such picture
about the house.
III ever see her l will trim her up.
she wrote. regarding a woman who nurse
Stanbridge during his last illness
MR.. sHERMAN's EXAMINATION.
her attorney. Mrs. Deyette says she kne'
Deyette three years before their marriag,
Mr. Sherman practically confined himse
TO the relations between the couple Will
they lived together. and did not touch
trip Mrs. Deyette made to Gloversvill'