Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-11
WOULD SUPPORT CHILD BUT
 NOT WIFE SAYS EALAHAN

 lively on cross-examination ir the con- tinued trial of the contested divorce suit here Friday afternoon before Judge Gardiner Greene in the superior court.
 The evidence in the case was all finish ed Friday, the arguments were made by the attorneys. c. Hadlai Hull for Mrs Ealahan and Arthur T. Keefe for Mfr Ealahan, and Judge Greene reserved de- cision.
 Mrs. Mary J. CArk of this city, mother of Mrs. Annie Clark Ealahan, the pe- titioner. was called 10 the stand by At torney Hull in opening the case Friday. She testified that she has been keeping house for her daughter and taking care of her grandchild since MT. Ealahan left his wife. She told of going to her daughters home on visits and finding no food in the house and of hearing her daughter and her husband discussing money matters. On one occasion the witness said. Mir. Ealahan fell when he came into the house and appeared to be under the influence of liquor.
 Mrs. Clark said that her visits to her daughters and husbands home were seldom longer than a week, except on the occasion of the birth of their child, when she was sent for and she stayed three weeks. She said that she always did everything in ner -ower 70 make it pleasant for her daughter and husband.
 Frank T. Howard. New London po- nceman, told of having been called once to the Ealahan home on Bank streec and there was 2 loud discussion between the couple. The policeman said Ealahan had been drinking Matters became quiet and the officer left and before he went far there was more disturbance and he went back Mrs. Ealatan said she want ed her husband to leave but did not care for his arrest. The ofTice- told Ealahan { le had better go to bed shd keep quiet.
 Thomas F. Dorsey. a New London real estate agent. testified that in 1917 he placed the value of $2S.ooo on real es- tate in which it is claimed Mfr. Ealalsn heirs of his father. There is a S3.oo9 mortgage on one piece of property. but 1 it is claimed Mir. Ealahan does not own 1 anything now.
 Mrs. Catherine Newell. a neighbor of Mrs. Annie Clark Ealahan when she was living on Bank street testified that when Mrs. Ealahan had a nursing baby and { had no money, she CMrs.NewcD lsS | her have some money and some food In repayment later Mrs. Newell took the bed from Mrs. Ealahan and bough !
 Miss Katherine M. Ealahan. sister o' David Ealahan. testified briefly.
 The plaintiff rested and Attornel 1 Keefe called Mir. Ealahan. the defendant 1 to the stand
 After their marriage Mir. Ealahan sait
 he gave his wife between ss. ss. or sil
 a week. At the end of about . year aft
 CT his marriage he went out of the sa
 loon business, he said. and went int
 the plumbing business at which he 20
 SIS week and gave 1t to his wife Tn
 June, 1913. he went to Worcester ic
 work. He sent a postal card 10 his wifi
 asking her to come up with the bab,
 but he received no answer. sool aft. they were married. NIT. Eal1ha1 test
 fled. his mother-in-law came ta =isi
 them, staying two weeks at a tirl, an
 making increasingly longer stays unt ! she finally came and stayed yea.
 NIT. Ealahan said the trouble with n I wife was always about money as sh
 always wanted more than he couil giv |, Der. He told of a time when she didn want to go to St. Patricks iance ht
 cause she said sh~ wasn't dressed we
 enough. When they went to rhe dsnc :, she wouldn't dance with him but Iu ' wanted to sit and look on. She came I the saloon afterwards. he said and ma T left the place. When he left for W7rce '' ter he sent word to his wife by a me, :. senger boy that he was going 10 sta :. away until her mother got out IT whole trouble, he said, was because n ! wife would rather have her mother ths . him..
 On cross examination he said hc new e refused to buy anything for his wife. h.
 admitted he posted her in a New LoI
 don newspaper. This was because 1 |, didn't want his mother-in-law living 4 him. he said. He admitted he lad mo .a ey right along from which he cou;l ha' o paid his wife and denied that he ev ,e tried to keep out of the draft. Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Grimes. of Nf ,o London. who lived in the same rcu ~ where Mir. and Mrs. Ealanan when tn v were first married, testified that she W r in the Ealahan apartments once or .wi, - She said Mir. Ealahan seemed to ire 2 his wife all right. but the witress fl ,- quently heard Mrs. Ealaian scolding Io her husband. She seemed always t9 T scolding. At one time Mir Ealah Ii =, rushed into the witness kitchen and W - crying and rubbing his icg and ! a- throat. This was after the witness l.;
 seen him 20 upstairs and come do7 Il at once after she had heard Mrs. Eal c. han cross the floor quickly. r- John IT. Grimes. husband of the nj ,s vious witness. testified he heard M Q Ealahan seolding but nevtr &1w } {. Ealahan under the influence of liqu ,,j Once he said he heard Mrs. Ealahan 2 ,r to her husband, Say yodr prayers, y so hypocrite."
 John J. Lawless testified to rcari
 Mir. Ealahan ask his wife ir tho N
 London police court ante-roor1 If
 would come to Worcester witl the chi ee She refused, the witness sad. The z 1e lection seemed to be over the mother c- law. When the case reached the co IT mon pleas court later an agreement V is made for Mir. Ealahan to pav s7 th week to his wife and to be allowed T see the child every week.
 7I- D. NJ Cronin. prosecuting attorney se the New London police court also tes
 fed about the conference in that cou DO but could not remember whether N II, Eaiahan refused to 20 to Worcester.
 complaint against the man wns chans l.+ from non-sunport of his wife to n
 support of his child.
 n Deuty Sheriff J. H. Tubbs testified IT going to the Bank Street apar1nients an the Ealahan family with Mfr. Ealah D to see the child. Mrs. Falahaa u: ne abusive language towards hoy husba n the witness said. and they weSa not -o- lowed to see the child.
 nd Mrs. Ellen Sullivan, of New Lond n testified to calling at the Eaiahsn apa IT ments once or twice a week after t'
 were married. She saw nothing wrc
 in the Ealahan home. They se7rd'<
 have affection for each other. Tee V
 ness had meals there and tlere seen FIR to be enough to eat
 lia At this point the defense rested 7as Attorney Hull recalled MrS- Ealdn