Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-22

smoking a coup c or c1SaI6tleS the court session. Was this an indivdi- l ualewho would and could stop the cigar ] ette habit? Her ability to care for the child is very seriously impaired by thls habit Mir. Hull argued.
 Is 1t safe for this child to be placed in the custody of Mrs. Lee2 the attor- ney asked Dr. Lee had submitted her case to Dr. Diefendorf without disclos- ing who the patient was. She was to r)e examined as to her sanity but was not to be confined in a sanatorium. But within the next twelve hours after the doctor had told his wife this, she demon- strated. Attorney Hull claimed, that Dr Lees diagnosis had been a very mild one. Three or four hours after Dr. Lee had gone to bed that night, she stea into his room cefs his loaded revolver, puts it on the bureau in her own room, gets some opium tablets from the doe tors army belt takes one of them and dissoIves the others in a glass of water takes the revolver down stairs to the front door and fires 1t. Then going to her own room she sits knitting till day ,frht when she rides in with Q milIman to her mothers home in New London.
 When Dr. Lee wakes in the morning. discoverA the revolver and finds his wife gone ultimately locating her by tele- nhone at her m0ther's her explanation is that she wanted to give the doctor a io't That Is the testimony of her own lips the attorney declared, although pr. Nee says the gun was not fired as he was in the habit of leaving N with the ham, mer on an empty cartridge, and that ,s tho way it was found.
 Throughout it all, Attorney Hull ar gued Mrs. Lee had shown q disposition to get back. at Dr. Lee, to make his life a living hell, and she did not hesitate ito use the child for that purpose. Tn this connection the attorney referred to the way Mrs. Lee kept the whereabouts Of the child from Dr. ,TlPe's knowledge l for several months until it was located ry 2 detective, and was then in neg 1ected emaciated and undernourished condition. Again Mrs. Lee showed her tnftness to care for the child. said At. ronev Hull. when she told Dr. Ice Ishortly after the baby's birth, sTTere. take your brat and get out" It was her intention ito give the doctor another 1 iolt when shel took the child to Brook 1 lyn. The child is at an age to receive l Impressions, and those of a highly inn proper character, and she should not he 1 left in her mothers custody, argued MT FTuT
 Making the second argument for the l defendant Major Had.a A. Hull said 1 VICIOUS i the plainriff through her attorney u7,on n man i've thought wo knew in Kew | London. one whose advice counsel and skin are s0ur77+' The doctor did not trommit any overt a0t till all other means had failed That little girl has i left a good home where she ourht to hn. No one care for her life Dr. Lee. He has q passionate love for his child and every detail in this case has haen a knife thrust 10 him. You have not seen him | smre. said Major Hull but the same | cannot be said of the n1aintf's and the | cigarette club that came to her rescue.
 Rieht down throuah it all said Ma for Hull she has continued to huff cigar
 cite smoke and she admitted she snaolz- | et cigarettes with her child in her lap. If it's so that the average woman
 smokes today, it's time there was 9. 20th
 amendment. But T challenge the state
 ment Of cnposinc counsel said Major Hull What man. in this court room
 wants to have hfs\own child brought pt
 in an atm0enhere of cigarette smoke
 puffad from the 1fns of it., own mother
 Major Hull said that they were not
 calming 10 have the child returned tc
 inc Baltic academy. but to it's home, \tr
 those who have 2 Natural interest in jts i care Dr. Ila7 has done o07v wha+ ~
 common instincts of mankind would
 prompt any father 10 do.
 Final Argument For Mrs. Lee. Attorney Thomas NJ. Steele of New Haven made the final argument for Mrs Lee reading at first a legal opinion bear . ing on the obtaining or the court orde . under which Mrs. Lee is now keepin. ' i custody of the child.
 ' All but Dr. Lee, said the attorney agree that its home is the best place fo 9 the child. Dr. Lee said in his testimony 3 speaking of the convent school mo mat l. ter how good a home might be- there f no home comparable to @ school so man e aged.' Dr. Lees testimony is the onl r thing the court has as to Mrs. Lees be
 ing 9 drug addict and it is unsunOort e ed, Attorney Steele claimed. Dr. Diefen ,, dorf had testified in court that the ei q feet Of cigarette smoking was. aDparer
 in Mrs. Lee because her eyes were nc
 normal, her complexion was salIow. he r gait not normal, and she had an appear
 ance of languor. Dr. Mailhouse find a her eyes normal, says she is saIlow bJ
 this may be caused by numerous otht T things than cigarette smoking, and l o finds her gait normal, even graceful.
 As to the question of the morality l. cigarette smoking, Attorney Steele sat n that many nice women smoke cigarett.
 and Major Hulps reference to the lei! 2f arctic club" was a islander on many fiji n. people. The attorney declared that whe
 he had smoked in the presence of h Id own children or the children of other To and had possibly blown snoke-rings f
 their amusement, he had not felt that -v was doing anything terribly hurtful ,- a moral way. Mrs Lee had done Il Tr honest thing in keeping up her smOIlir ,g if she wanted to do so during the tri, " What position would she have been ' if she had stopped?
 10 Recalling the n..nes of the various W n- man witnesses who had appeared f
 Mrs. Palmer and had testified to the ca ,o that the child received while she " aI with. Mrs. Lee at Ocean beach. and r o5 mindhg the court of their appearance ,+ the stand, Attorney Steele argued fh ~ woman would not have kept sI '1 friends through 45 years if she we
 morally unfit. If Mrs. Lee were not = sane, what better course to drive a W
 man insane could have been taken tn
 the one Dr. Lee took, oueried the
 torney. He told her he was going
 q have her declared insane and then t
 her and went off to bed. He told her !
 whole family was rotten, that her frfen V, werA telling him they were sorry v him. Her answer was, "Then ther
 nothing left for me to do but die" q s- the doctor replied If I have to br
 you, I'm sorry I didn't do it five yes
 ago."
 Attorney Steele spoke of the s2o.C ,s wedding gift from Mrs Palmer wh le Mrs. Lee claimed as hers and which M ts Palmer said was given 10 her daupbt Y but which Dr. Lee said was "ours" P referred also to the frequent discussi( go 1 9bOUt Mrs DG1r,1pr'c will 1,-1,