Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
COURT GRANTS
 SIX DIVORCES
Marital Troubles of Eastern Windham County Couples
 Get An Airing
All Petitions Uneontested and All
 Are Successful

| IubudHs fCHlJEtJs IlJIHpeDft, Woodstock and KiIlingly couples had their marital troubles aired in the Su- perior court at Putnam at a short | calendar session that lasted all day Friday None of the petitions were contested and all were granted. Celina BurgeauIt of Putnam was granted decree from her husband Alfred. lagt heard of in Philadelphia. on the ground of desertion.
 They were married in New York June i4. 1916. and vent to the Quak CT City. where the husband was em- pl0yed as a brick mason The domes- tic life did not run smoothly and af ter the husband had i'll treated her the wife testified, he sent her to her home in Putnam She returned but was again sent home and remained three and half years before her hus- band decided he would like to see her again and sent for her. She went to him. Mrs. Burgeault said that within few days her husband again i'll treated her and after he had beaten her and half starved her, told her for the third time to get out. The de- cree was awarded for desertion and the woman was allowed the custody of her minor daughter.
 The next was husband claiming desertion and was granted a divorce on that ground. This was Lewis F. Mayo, night watchman at the mill of the Grosvenor-D Dale Company, who said he married his wife, Lucy Moves, at Nevada City, Calf, April 15, l9l I. Mrs. Mayo was widow with two grown sons, the youngest 33 years of age, and the oldest married man with two children. Soon MT. Mayo said he was not only furnishing edl- bles for his own home but the wife in sisted on his providing eats for the married sons family When Mayo protested against furnishing food for the family of man strong enough to work in the mines, the trouble began which culminated in his wife's leaving him. He made attempts to have her return home. but she refused. He came to this section four years ago and has since worked in Pomfret and Thompson.
 Desertion and adultery were alleg- ed by Henry M. Baker of Pomfret, who was next to be granted de- cree. Witness testified to being mar ried in Eastford May 8, 1908. His wife. Florence w Baker, was a divor- cee when he married her and after they had been married few weeks she went away and did not return for ten years. This was in 1918 and, wit ness testified, she had been friendly with other men, and he related how he had trailed her to the Elliott school house last summer when she was in the company of man. His desr1p- tion of what he witnessed caused such a commotion in the court room !! that the judge threatened to clear the room unless there was order.
 This same man, soldier friend, later came to his home to visit his wife. "He went into the house hug ged and kissed Mrs. Baker and told her love stories" testified Baker.
 When counsel asked Baker what he did in remonstrance Baker said
 "Wen. I'd learned it didn't do me much good to say anytl ing. When told him to keep out of the house ht told me to go to h-l.'
 Albert C. Newton, Ernest J. Row ley and First Selectman George II Hicks all testified in Bakers behalf
 Mrs. Bertha E. Shippee Gay of Dan ielson was given divorce from Thom as F. Gay. who, in the superior court in this city, March 4, 1916, was sen teneed to serve from three to si> years. after he had pleaded guilty te attempting to commit rape on the person of a Danileson young woman The divorce was granted on the ground that Gay had been convicted of crime involving moral turpitude Mrs. Gay was given the right to re sume her maiden name.
 The fifth case was that of Mrs. Ida Sirrene Pierey of Pomfret, who was given decree from Richard Sirrene, whom she married in Pomfret, July 30, 1912. piercy came to Pomfret to do some electrical work and became the star boarder in the Sirrene home. He left her October 9. 1914, and nev- CT returned Children by former husband eorroborated the plaintiff.
 The scene of the last case was the | village of West Woodstock Charles G. Place of that village married his wife Amelia October l5, 1895. The husband charged that his wife ire auently went away on visits" and that on these visits she committed acts of infdelity.
 The son George told of becoming