Connecticut western news., 1919-03-06

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 divorce action stood on his wife's cross-complaint.
 Curtiss Disappears
 Matters went along with compara- tive smoothness until one day when Curtiss failed to return at nightfall with the child. Through Lawyer Herman, Mrs. Curtiss filed a motion in the superior court for custody of the child during the pendency of the divorce action. The case was heard before Judge Lucien Burpee, and Curtiss represented himself, ap- bearing in court without the child. After hearing the facts, Judge Bur pee ordered Curtiss forthwith to de- liver the child to Lawyer Herman, as counsel for the mother and gave him a certain number of days, less than a week, in which to comply, with the alternative of being irnpri- soned. That was the last seen of Curtiss in that vicinity, and the as- sumption is that he carried the child away with him.
 Slandered Judge
 The next that was heard from Curtiss was about the latter part of January, when printed pamphlets, libeling Judge Burpee, Lawyer Her man, Mrs. Curtiss and others ap- peared promiscuously in the county. Judge Burpee was alluded to in the pamphlets as ''Lawless Burpee", Her man was charged with having de- ceived the court, and lewd insinua- tions were made against Mrs. Cur tiss. The title of the pamphlets was : Corrupt Practices of s. A. Herman, Endorsed by Judge Burpee."
 Girl Not Found
 The first batch of pamphlets reached Litchfeld County simultan- eously and then, for a considerable period, nothing more was heard from Curtiss until another set came through the mails a few weeks ago. Probably for the purpose of evading pamphlets from different branches of the New York post office. The state police, working with the New York authorities, learned that Cur tiss went to a certain post office sta tion quite frequently. Curtiss was given to understand that there was mail awaiting him there, and in that manner, his arrest was accomplished. The little girl was not with him at the time he was apprehended, and he refused to disclose her whereabouts. Curtiss himself is in jail awaiting eXtradition proceedings.
 Attacked Officer With AK
 Curtiss gave the impression in Litchfield county that he was a gov ernment inspector assigned to facto- ries in New Jersey and New York. The authorities describe him as be- ing an intelligent fellow, but of a dangerous temperament. Once he attacked Deputy Sheriff Horace Kel- sey of Salisbury with an ax, when the latter was about to arrest him for breach of the peace, and the deputy sheriff shot him. At an other time he threatened to shoot Lawyer H. c. Joyner. On account of his having been detained in the Litchfield county jail, he on one oc- casion set out to sue the officials of Litchfield county.
 Among those who received the li- belous pamphlets sent out by Cur tiss from New York are J. Clinton Roraback and Judge Frank W. Sey- mour, and it is for that reason that Judge Seymour is to be present at the hearing.
 The technical charges upon which the state will attempt to obtain the extradition of Curtiss are contempt of court and that he is a fugitive ] from justice, the contempt of court being his failure to comply with Judge Burpee's order to deliver the child to Lawyer Herman.