Putnam patriot., 1921-03-25
DiUOrces Minstrel Husband
 Final Break in Putnam
Sam Johnson Told His Wife To
 Get Out and Keep Going
East Thompson Mans Wife Loved
 Another and Disappeared

After Lucy E. Johnson, third wife of Sam Johnson, ex-minstrel and snowman and theatre manager of Will hmantic, had related to Judge Webb in the superior court last Friday how her husband had drank and abused her, she was given a decree of divorce and allowed to resume her maiden name of Ellison.
 The scene of the final wreck of the Johnson matrimonial venture came while the couple was in Putnam where Johnson was managing carnival for the Moose lodge. Mrs. Johnson tes- tified that she was taken i'll while here and in the middle of the night her husband came to their room and told her to get out and get out at once, and not to stop in Willimantic but to keep going until she reached the home of her brother in Guilford. The penalty for not doing so, according to her in toxicated husband, was that he would "knock her block off" Although ill. she got out of bed, dressed, and took the State of Maine express out of this city. This experience aggravated her illness and she became a nervous wreck. She became emaciated but finally was able to go to Colorado for the summer, and recovered. She is now living in New Haven.
 Mrs. Johnson became acquainted with the snowman while living in Willimantic. She removed to Gull ford, and it was there that she was married, Aug. 15, 1917. She had been married, but her husband was dead.
 Witness said that Johnson had been married twice before and divorced. She knew he was addicted to drink. but she thought she would have sulh- cient influence over him to contros this habit. She did before marriage. but not long after she became Mrs- Johnson the old habit returned and her husband came home one day and started to break up the furniture. She tried to reason with him, and he struck her, giving her black eye. They removed to new home and here his intoxication and abuse cen tinued. She said that he circulated . report that she was insane. She stooe his abuse until May 1st of last year, when he put her out of the hotel m Putnam.
 Farmers Wife Loved Another
 q will not keep away from Everett. I love him better than l do you,' Is what Gottfred Svenson told the court his wife Florence said to him before she left him.
 Syenson lives in East Thompson. and while relating his marital trou- bles broke down and sobbed, telling the court that he did not know where his wife was but that he would dearly love to know.
 It was last July that the wife dis appeared following quarrel over her infatuation for one Ernest Talbot Syenson said his wife cursed him, called him vile names and ended Dy throwing butcher knife at him. The end came when she took the best of the furniture, all of the silverware, and disappeared.
 The next heard of Mrs. Svenson was through witness from West Hartford who testified that young couple came to his place and asked to be employed. They posed as MT. and Mrs. White and had child with them He had no reason to think there was anything wrong. One day the woman said to him, "You are a good sport and will let you in on little secret" She then told him that she was not married to the man. As result or this he discharged them.
 The petitioner was granted a oe- cree and the custody of the child.