The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-13


 Cambridge Court. She contested the divorce action brought by her hus- band, Francis F. Harrington, a Bos- ton attorney, on the grounds of cruel and abusive treatment, before Judge Sanderson.
 On the witness stand yesterday Mrs. Harrington told the story of her married life. She said that she was married on Jan. s, 1906, and lived with her husband in East Cambridge. She stated that she had four chil- dren.
 The night after we were married" she told the judge, my husband came home so drunk that he had to be assisted up the stairs. I asked him for an explanation of his actions, and he replied that he was so happy over our marriage that he got drunk.
 eve were married three weeks when he left me, and was gone for several weeks. He then wrote a let ter to me asking if he might return, and I told him he could after he promised to get an office and start a new life.
 After that he left home again and again. Each time I allowed him to come back, when he promised to re- form. At one time he sent a woman named Louise Mcclure out to our house in Cambridge to try to in fluence me to let him come back. I refused but he came just the same for q short while.
 We moved from Gore street, to Cambridge street, and were forced to move a second time because the rent was not paid. The telephone was taken out of the house, and at times there was not a thing to eat. My SOD even sold the bed to get half a dol lar to buy cough medicine for me.
 My husband was always in trouble He was arrested in Boston and fined $50, and one night came home with his face and head cut, after a fight with another lawyer in Boston. He boasted to me that he could get al! the chickens he wanted, and repeat edly told me that he had married his mother when he referred to me- He seemed to take pride in his re- iations to other women.
 Tn the summer of 1915 we took a cottage at Nantasket Beach on the condition that my husband would not get drunk every night He re- mained sober, for about a week, but after that his friends began to bring him home in automobiles and lay him on the veranda. He gave a birth day party at a hotel at Nantasket, which cost s75. Once when drunk he went to bed with a lighted cigarette and burned the bed clothes and his hand. All his trouble was due to drinking, and his relations with wo- men.''
 On Aug. 20, she said, her hus- band called her up and asked her tC come into Boston to help him ce1e- l brate his birthday. She stated that i they attended a cabaret and had sup per at a hotel, and then returned to 1 Cambridge at a late hour. She testi- 1 fled that her husband was without l funds at that time, and asked her to ] take a second mortgage on the fur 1 nfture in the house. This, she said, she refused to do, because the first mortgage had not been paid. In June, 1914, she testified, her | husband came home, bringing with him a box of women's clothes and asked her to sell them to her friends 1 She said her husband admitted that they were stolen goods, which he ob- | tained from his clients and wanted to give the landlady a coat to pay for the rent.
 Her husband took the stand and | stolen property home. His wife then 1 cross examined him. Did you ever bring any dope to i the Charles street jail or to the Toombs for your clients?' she asked 1 him.
 'No."
 Isn't it true that you used dope yourself y
 1 "No.'
 Did I stop you from burning 8 handful of bank notes that you pu up to a gas jet?'
 ''No."
 Were you arrested for non-sup. port?"
 "Yes"
 "Did you plead to get back?"
 "No."
 Testifying in his own behalf, MT Harrington stated that his wife wa always finding fault with him. He tolc of an incident that happened in 1912 when she struck him while he wa
 shaving, causing him to cut deel , gash in his face He told the cour
 that at Nantasket Beach his wife hi ! him across the face with a mackere
 she was about to fry for supper. A i the same place. he said, she hit hin
 over the head with an umbrella, an
 on another occasion locked him in
 trunk in the room of the hotel the
 were staying at.
 Speaking of his wife's extravaganza
 he said, "Jonn D. Rockefeller woul
 be Kept busy buying all the thing
 that woman wanted. My life wa hell when I lived with her.
 John w. Green of East Bosto testified that he was having dinner i
 the Quincy House one night and over
 heard Mrs. Harrington tbav-ling out
 her husband in the next booth. ''l sounded as though she was throwin ! dishes at him and I heard her ca l him liar
 John F. Harrington, a brother ( i the l:bellant and a foreman and 1T n i spector for the city of Boston, test r fled concerning the home life of tn Il couple at Nantasket. He said that T. r stayed at their home one night an 5, a quarrel took place before the fami1 . retired. 'I kept my mouth shut" | e testified, "because I didn't want { r get into a family jam Later ths e night, he said, he heard Mrs. Hal o rington tell her son to take the hur $ dred and put back ten, he won 't know the difference" = J1dpe Sa1derSoD took the case TIT