Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-10

from the tracks. In view of all this, he maintained that Wood could not be con- sidered guilty of reckless driving and. ar gued that. the court should so find. Jus tice Tourtellotte found Wood not guilty and dismissed him.
 Rev. George stone, formerly pastor of the Putnam Advent church, now pastor in Wayland; N. Y, near Buffalo. was in Putnam calling on friends Monday. He is taking an automobile trip as a part of his vacation.
 MT. and Mrs. Bertram Andrews are taking ap automobile trip to Maine They left Putnam Monday and went first to Camp Devens to visit their son Jerome who is attending the citizens military training camp.
 Thirty-onc from Windham county made the trip Monday to Hardwick, Mass, to visit the Mixter farm and attend the quarterly meeting of the Windham Coun-
 ty Guernsey association. Members of the association said Tuesday that it was one of the finest trips ever arranged by them and unusually instructive. At the Mixter farm the visitors were shown the pure blood stock and had the chance to judge a class of Guernsey cows. The 1 farm also breeds horses, and these at tracted much attention. The young stock I ticular interest. The details of the trip were arranged by John Dorsey, secretary 1 of the association, ande Frank L. Davis, i agent of the county farmers association. Officer Eugene Gibney is covering the l business section in the absence of Ofti-
 car William Jarvis, who is having his vacation
 Max Levine of Putnam, before Judge Mahlon. H. Geissler in the Putnam city
 court Tuesday afternoon, charged with | breach of the peace, striking his wife and with non-support, pleaded not guilty.
 Mrs. Levine told the court that last Mon
 day night her husband came home late
 and after she asked him where he had | been he became aneered called her names ! that she would not repeat, and. finally
 snatched an iron, spoon from the table
 and struck her on the shoulder, causing l a bad bruise. This was only one of many times that he has assaulted her.
 Levine has done nothing to support hef
 and her two childrcn for nearly a year and she has been using her own money l to pay provision bills. Last winter, she
 said she was obliged to use her own
 money to buy coal to keep the family warm. Her husbands conduct has be- | come unAearable and in addition to this she alleges that he has been paying at- I tention to other women. In spite of the
 fact that he has done almost nothing for
 her, she told the court that not long ago
 he bought two waists and two skirts of a Putnam merchant. but that they were not
 for her.
 Levine denied much of his wife's tes-
 timony. He said she nagged him and
 made him tell everything that he did He
 admitted that this made him angry and
 that things came to climax Monday
 when he struck her. As for the clothes | h.. hot
 were purchased by him as a gift for his wife's sister-in-law. who lives in Boston and whom he visited when he was in Boston. He also tesZfed that he gave his wife 5 earlier this week, but admit. ted that this was the first time for sev. eral months that he had given her money Levine stated that he had paid grocery bills, but this was refuted by Mrs. Le 1 vine A coal bill that Levine testified paying in his first statement to. the cour l proved to be a bill two years old, Judge [ Geissler found Levine guilty on botl , counts When asked. if he could liv'
 with his wife, Levine said he could no but that he would support his children . Judge Geissier told him he would hav' f to, support his wife also and imposed , jail sentence of six months on each eoun and then suspended it.
 5 Automobiles owned and driven b, Armde Prudette of Wauregan and An ,. gelo Bracciale of Putnam were in col . iision Sunday afternoon between Putnam z and Attawaugan. Both machines wer headed for Putnam, with the Prudett 5 automobile, a Ford touring car, ahead l Bracciale tried to pass and in doing S
 the rnudguard of his Ford caught Pru t dettes car. The Prudette machine wen > down a banking, breaking the wind shield, damaging the top slightly an t denting the front mudguards. The tots damage amounted to about $55. Ridin h with Bracciale was Arthur Lapointe c Putnam.
 Capt. John Bulger was prepared Tues < day morning to take action in case 'buse s on the Danielson-Putn route, operate s by C. H. Pellett of Danielson. entere if this city bearing P. s. markers. Tn captain received notice from State Auto . mobile Commissioner Stoeckel to pick u q the obsolete markers" The last bus t il come into Putnam was on the $50 rul l. which was before the captain was pr, n pared to act. No other buses ran durin 4 | the day