Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-04
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
 Diyorces were granted here at session of the superior court Monday morning to number of men and Wo- men who had found the seas of mar riage stormy. "Other men," other women" and booze figured prominently in the testimony of those who would be legally freed from the ties that bind.
 George Gosselin, Plainfeld, charged his wife. Cordelia, with adultery. They were married in Danielson and lived there for several years until clouds began to appear upon the hori- zen of their welded life.
 The husband testified that he left his wife May 1, 1866. He never went back, he said. His leaving followed some angry words with his wife. this after a visit that she made away from the home where they were boarding. When she wanted to go away for a trip which covered a period of one week, she represented to him that it was to visit his uncle, who was said to be i'll at Manville, R. I. He after wards learned that she did not go there and that the uncle had not been ill
 Attorney Arthur c. Bill. represent i ing MT. Gosselin, read to the court some letters that had fallen into MT. 1 Gossein's possession. These letters | bore dates early in the summer of 1 1906, and were identified by the plain : tiff as in his Wife's writing. They were addressed to her cousin. one
 Mary Hoyle, formerly of Danielson. Another letter was to a travelling i man, who was supposed to be staying al the United States hotel in Boston 1 The contents of the letters made interesting reading for those in the 1 court room and one. Of them told of 1 what was supposed to be a "swelp' | time in New Ydfl1. where they pay no more attention when a man $ | killed by a trolley car than they would to a dog This letter told of how good George was-firing gowns 1 for her to wear 70 dinner, and a col
 cred maid to dress her, and of feeds i of nine courses with different kinds 1 of wine with each course.
 i Joseph Gendreau, of this city, tes- 1 tified that while he was a porter at a hotel in Danielson Mrs. G0sselin came there and hired rooms. She came four CT five different times, each time with strange men. Later he learned what her name was and thereafter refused to rent rooms to T married woman The letters represented Mrs. Gosselir IS writing under the name Of Della Brooks. Her maiden name was Cor della Rivers.
 Judge Reed took the papers, reserv. ! ing his decision.
 Mrs. Mary Sherry, of Moosup, was
 granted 2 divorce from William Sher.
 ry of Goodyear, on the ground O
 hahitual incompetence, The couple
 were married in this city Sept, 10 IdS93. Since then they have lived il
 various places in Windham county
 Joseph Tetreault, Dr. w. II. Judso1
 and Deputy Sheriff Charles r. Aye
 testified as to Sher:y'5 iatemperarce
 Mrs. Sherry was represented by At torney A. c. Bill.
 On fhe ground of desertion, Jame l Rowland, of Ponfret, formerly O
 Brooklyn and Danie1son. was givel
 a divorce from Mrs. Almirah Shippe
 Rowland. They were married in Aug
 ust, 1912. Mrs. Rowland was tn mother of two daughters by forme . marriage. MT. Rowland testified tha she deserted him while they were liS ing in Danielson, packing up the fur
 niture, with the exception of a fey articles, and going away to set u housekeeping for herself and tw . daughters Mir. Howland testified that he had tried on several occasion
 to induce Mrs. Rowland to return, bU : without success. He was represente , by Attorney A. c. Bill.
 Leon 4. Durham of WillimanEi was granted, on the ground of deseT ], | ton, a divorce from Mabel A Swee l Durham of Willimantic, where tn 2 couple, married Dec. 51, 1908. The | made their home by themselves unt
 1910, when they went to live with MT /. Dunhams mother.
 During the summer of 1912 MT 2 Dunhan's mother took q boartler int
 the home, Dunham testified, and sai
 that the newcomer was a fortune A teller. In August of that year Mir
 Durham ran away with the fortur
 teller. The couple left in the nigl 5 time, MT. Dunham said secretly nal
 ing their way out of the house.
 Mrs. Katherine Bedford, testifyir
 in Mir. Dunham's behalf, said that sl
 ran a boarding house in the san building where Mrs. Durham and MT = Dunhanl's mother lived. in 1912 Sl l. knew of Mrs Dunham's having disa] it peared at the same time that the fo IL tune teller, whose name was not mel n toned, went away. Some time aft i- her disappearance, Mrs. Dunham T l. turned. She lived just across the hs
 from Mrs. Bedford. Pressed by Jud l. Reed for details of her converse tio Id with Mrs Durham after the lattei of return, Mrs. Bedford testified that Nil III Dunham had told her that the fortu 8 teller had licked her" so she car IS back home. Andrew Ashton, Will to mantle, also was witness for \ B. Durham. who was represented by 4
 tcrney Samuel Harvey.
 se The next claimant for a divorce " SC Mrs. Julia E. Sweet Roberts, of N, ly York formerly of WDlimantic s D. charged that her husband had be se guilty of intolerable cruelty and of i is temperance Mrs. Roberts said tl Ill her husband was drunk much of { hs time and there were occasions wh or he would stagger and others wh a- he could barely stand on his feet nd He took the rents from her prore d. ty in Willimantic and pocketed { te income from the sale of some of & land. When she would renonstfs h. with him over his behavior he wol or become abusive, call her names a
 at one time slaDped her she said.