Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
WOKE WIFE IN NIGHT ID HAVE HER LEAVE HIM Sidney A. Bean Ragged Wife This Way for Sev-
 eral Years. WOULDN'T LET HER
 HANDLE MONEY Mrs. Bean Denies Charges of Extravagance and
 Fast Living.
Tuesday, June il


 de of the night by her husband, Sid ney Bean, who wanted to know when she was going to get out and let him live his life as he wanted to, Mrs. Sally N. Bean testified in the Superior court this morning th2t e. ter a year or more of his nagging she finally consented to his importunities and signed an agreement of separa- ton. He even said that he would sell the farm in Greenwich where they lived if that was the only way he could get her out.
 The divorce action of Sidney A. Bean of Greenwich against Sally N. Bean for desertion came up before Judge Warner this morning after counsel were unable to agree on the motion to hear the proceedings in 1 chambers. Mrs. Bean brought a counter suit naming one Sybil Elwood of New York as correspondent.
 When the matter of a separation was first broached MT. Bean submit ted an agreement in which he agreed to support his wife for a period of one year and no longer. Mrs. Bean consulted an attorney who advised that she refuse. to sign. She did so and another agreement was drawn up whereby Mrs. Bean received an al- lowance and MT. Bean signed the lease for her apartment in New York. It was never her desire to leave her home and she tried to induce MT. | Bean to start their married life over again. He refused saying that it was better to let things rest as they were and not try to live together. She saw him a number of times between the time they seperated in 1914 and I in March of this year when he | brought the action for divorce.
 Mrs. Bean testified that her hus- band drank continually and many time too much. As for the charges against her as regards her extrava- gance she stated that she was never allowed to handle the money. She mentioned one bill to which MT. Bean took exception that of nearly $10O for groceries. When it was itemized it was found that about $50 was for groceries and necessities while more than $50 went for whiskey and beer Questioned as to the amount of | money that MT. Bean was supposed to have received from his fathers es- tate she stated that he told her it amounted to about $166,oo0. She said further that their living expenses were not nearly as high as stated by MT. Bean. Mrs. Bean testified to the fact that her relations with Miss Elwood had always been friendly until Miss 1 Elwood wanted to borrow $500 from MT. Bean. After a visit to Stamford she found Miss Elwood had been to her home in her absence. Asking MT. Bean if he had lent Miss Elwood the money he replied he had not but it. was his business if he had as ii was his money.
 Mrs. Bean told the story of her visit to a road house called the Pines
 with Miss Elwood while on their way to visit friend of Mrs Beans 1T Otega, N. Y. It was alleged by Mis-: Elwood and Mrs. Belden, the friend they were on their way to visit tha Mrs. Bean had been indiscreet with 8 man that they had found at this road house. Mrs Bean denied these ale gations and stated that it was Miss Elwood that was indiscreet, and sai6 that the relating of the story to Mrs Belden the next morning was by wa!
 of a joke. She also said that the mar who was Miss Elwoods friend haC written to her after that and tried tc get money from her but she had al lowed the letter to go unnoticed.
 When MT. Bean took the stand he said at first that he only brought mutual friends to his home in Green wich, but afterwards admitted that after he had separated from his wife | III of h ic ir ; Greenwich to stay, two or three day f at time. As to his wife he had neve refused to live with her but he didn l ask her to stay. He admitted tha she had left her home with his con . sent. The matter was discussed bu } he never refused to live with her ,~ ? her husband.
 7 MT. Bean admitted that he ha ? cheerfully aid an allowance of $10
 a month to his wife, and yet he con
 sidered that she had deserted him f according to his understanding O what is implied by the word desertion 7 He stated that he first learned thing
 which led him to doubt his wife's in
 fidelity from Miss Elwood, but h
 could not remember the occasion tha
 prompted her to tell him and said h
 had to coax her to get her to giv
 him the facts.
 MT. Bean was asked by Attorne
 Powell why in a letter to Mrs. Bea
 he told her it would not be wise t
 enter a counter suit against him an .. he replied because she wanted nor , money than he was able to pay an - for the reason that she would hay = a hard time proving her charge c VI habitual drunkenness. He state when and where he met Miss Elwoo = but stoutly maintained that they wer
 mere friends nothing more and ha
 never been anything else.
 | Questioned by Attorney Nicholso o MT. Bean stated that his father lei him an estate amounting to approx r imately $1O0,000. This he receive = in 1910 and between that time an 0 1914 when his wife left him, aboy 6 three-quarters of it was spent. Ac
 cording to his testimony it was sQuar
 dered in fast living. Attorney Row
 ell finally succeeded in getting hil
 to admit that the figures $65,OO
 spent and $35,000 remaining we1
 nearer the right ones and then
 stated that the s35,00O did not ir : cIude the value of the farm in Greer , which which was at a low figul : s18.OO0.
 ; Miss Elwood was put on the stan q and related the circumstance of tt
 nights stop at the Pines on the wa U to visit Mrs. Belden. She testifie n that she was so much under the il q fluence of liquor that her mind W; l. not clear on the matter. She denie if having any other but friendly rel'