Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-10-29
Mrs. Prime Wins ..a
| Divorce Suit
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BATHS, Melville BATHS and Mrs. Eva
Landy stopped at her home in Bartor
following the Sanbornville trip.
Mrs. Wilkic further testified tina:
she dislikcd DR.. Prime very much but
that she was a personal friend Of
Mrs. Prime. She admitted that she
did allow detective to come to hel
home to watch DR.. Prime
Mr.. and Mrs. Williamson testified
next. Both denied that thcv ever
saw BATHS and Mrs. Prime kiss one
another or that they were ever in
the room together alone. Mrs. Will
hanson testified that during the
years 1910, 1911 and 1912 Mrs.
Prime alone drove the doctors ma
chine.
Mrs. Williamson testified that Mrs.
Prime kept her clothes in BATHS
closet but only because there was no
other closet where she could keep
them. She testified that she purchas-
' the chamber set in question from
BATHS for the sum of $75 and that it
was in the Mountford Street house
1T the present time. Mrs. William
son said it was the truck of the ia
cobson Publishing Co. of Boston of
which BATHS was the manager which
moved their belongings and those of
Elrs. Prime from the Landy home to
the Mountford street house.
The witness testified that BATHS
lad come to the Mountford Street
house on only one occasion and that
was to see her husband. She stated
that her husband was still in the en-
ploy Of the Jacobson Publishing
Company Of which BATHS is still the
manager.
DR.. Lanphear of Orleans was the
next witness. He testified briefly that
he treated Mrs. Prime for the burn
Oh her neck in Barton July, 1918.
Rev. Enos Lapierre followed DR..
Lanphear on the stand. He testified
that he lived with his father in
""owr'""tcn Center in July of 1918.
He said he received a letter from his
slster, Mrs. Eva Landy. of Boston
on August 25 wherein Mrs. Landy
raid she was going to get some money
out of DIR. Prime and thereby get
revenge on her sister, Mrs. Prime.
tAr. LapieTe said he didn't keep the
letter but that he had made a men,
orandum of it in his dairy. He added
ho had never thought the letter I'M
rortant.
John Heffernan a detective en-
rloyed by McVey, Scharton and Nc
Vcy of Boston testified that he knew
Walter w. BATHS and that he had
met him at the prize fights in Bos-
ton aid also at the Armory Athletic
Club in that city. He said he took
care of the billiard parlors at the Ar
r'orv Athletic Club and also worked
at the New Mountford Hotel as
waiter and at the Charlestown Navy
yard as a clerk during the war.
Hcffernan said he saw BATHS go in
I" the Mountford Street house.
James Ray, Jr, a detective of
Boston was the next witness. He
said he was employed by Mrs. Prime
TO watch DR.. Prime and that he Wis
it'd the Summit in Barton and talked
with Mr.. Ballenger, husband of Mrs.
'cna Ballenger, who is named by
MIS- Prime as one of the three wom-
>" the doctor had improper relations
with.
Ray testified that when he went to
sec Ballcngcr, he represented him
self as a liquor dealer from Boston
y vacation dow, ut Barton.
The witness testified that he saw
Yrs. Ballenger go to the doctors Of
ice only July a and that she stayed
here until. Mrs. Prime came home
~ the 8 o'clock train and went to
he house. !;
Ray admitted that he knew Mrs.
Ferguson, the detective from Boston,
,ut not under any other name. He
lcnied he was ever at the homo of
Mrs. Leclaire in Barton to watch d..
Prime.
Ray said that everything Ballcnger
,ad told him about his relations with
': wife were told in one evening.
The whole story was told in about
,wo hours, Ray testified.