Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-19
PUTNAM

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 mrs. Lucy F, Johnson, now of New Ha- ven, was graTAed a divorce by JuaeF James H. Webb in the superior court heae' Friday from Samusls F. Johnson, 9heatrf- cal man, minstrel and manager of ear- nivals: The grounds were hahitual in- temperance anl in intolerable cruelty.
 The JohHsons are well known in Wiili- mantle, where Mir. Johnson was mansg- CT of theatre and where they lived aft CT their mari lage at GuilfaFd. August Is, 1917. Priol- to that time Mrs Johnson had lived in WilliRantic and made the acquaintance of Joh. sen, with whom she had been on friendly terms about 8 year prior to the marriage. Prior to this mar riage Mrs. Johnssn was widow-Mrs, Lucy Ellison--her first husband having died in 1909. She came to WillimaRllc in September, 1915, and for more than a year lived at the home of Attorney William A. King, who was her counsel at Fridays proceedings.
 At the time she became acquainted with Johnson he was manager of. 8 theatre in Wfllimantic, Mrs. Johnson tes- tified. She acknowledged that she knew Johnson was addicted to drinking, but believed that she could sufficiently in fiuence him to cease the habit
 Johnson, who had been. married twice previously, these unions being dissoIveu by divorce actions, within. three; months after his marriage to the plaintiffs be- gan to abuse her. After quarrel with someone at the theatre one day he came home, Mrs. Johnson said, and started , in to wreck the furniture of their home. When she remonstrated with him he struck her and diseolored her eye. Prior to their marriage she had been able to keep him away from liquor and had been | successful. After their marriage she 1 had assisted him in managing the thea | ire and did about everything around the tlace at different times aside from epeP- Eating the picture machine. Eventually they removed to a larger house iI Wiflimantic. Johnson became | intoxicated several times and there were l occasions when he pushed her about ths room, threatened her and cursed her i Eventually, she charged, he gave wide spread circulation to a fabrica tiop tha she was insane and this had the effee 1 of so worrying her that her health Be | came impaired
 r NThe final break came on May i o | last year in Putnam, where Johnson va,
 managing carnival tor the Moose. Sh l was taken i'll while here and was forced
 to remain in her room at local hotel After day of drinking and notwith
 standing her efE'rt of leaving a sick be- ana gong 10 the carnival hall in af
 endeavor to keep him straight he cam
 to their room between midnight and on l o'clock in tile morning and ordered he
 to get out immediately He warned he l not to stop off in Willimantic or he weul
 knock her block off," but te go diree
 to her brothers in Guilford. Mrs. Jehnso
 left on the. State of Maine express an
 went to her home in WFillimantic.
 Her illness was aggravated by ,thi 1 experience and she was under the car
 of physician for some time Mrs. John
 son became extremely nervous an
 emaciated and finally recovered suf
 ficiently to go to Colorado where she re
 mained during the summer. She is ne7
 making her home, she said, with tn
 widow of Professor Goodell, at New Ha
 ven.
 William T. Delaney of TaftyiHe, ad