Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-19

vance man for Jehn6onS carnival, told Of oocuhying a room next to the Johnsons at a hotel here and Of hearing Johnson order th5 plaintiff to leave the room on the night lwast May about which she had testified MT. Delaney said he heard Johnson swearing at Mrs. Johnson.
 { Dr., John Weldon, Wiilimantic, called as witness, said that during the spring
 of last year he had treated Mrs John son for nervous prostration. She was very nervous and baceme emsciated, the physician declared, and, in response to
 questions by Attorney King. said that he
 attributed her condition to i'll treat
 ment and mental strain resulting there
 from. In granting the decree of divorce Judge Webb ordered that Mrs. Johnson be allowed to resume the name of Lucy E. Ellison.
 Gettfred Svenson, of East Thompson, suing for divorce from Florence Sven son, wept on the witness stand Friday | morning as he declared that he did not know the present whereabouts of his wife, I but that he would dearly love to know. The Svensons were married at Eaat raatrimony came to an abrupt and un- | Happy ending last July, when Mrs. Syen- shn disappeared following family auar- l rels that were the result of her epenly
 
 also resident of East Thompson at the 1 time
 | q will not keep away from Everett ] r love him better than I do you" SveH- | son quoted his wife as saying on April t20 of last year. The plaintiff testified 1 that she cursed at him, called him vile
 names and otherwise abused him, featur- 1 ing one of her stormy sessions by tArew- ing g butcher knife. when he pleaded with her to desist from her constant at, tention to Talbot. Finally, on JuH g. | 1920. she left him. taking the best el | their furniture and all of the sivel waAe in their home.
 F. Sometime after her disaRpearan ,e hs
 located her at West Hartford.
 l The Svensons were married at Etst l Thompson, March 80. 1915, and one child | Muriel Myrtis Svenson, now four yeaFl 1 of age, was born to them. A
 Melvin Coelrane, who was manages | of a stock farm at West HartfeFdp durins the summer and fail of lapt year. tesu
 fled that in July young couple, with { child, a girl of four years, came ther, and inquired for work. This was pro I vided for them, the woman being giVel
 work in the boarding house on the farn } and the man as farm hand. They gav
 their names as Ernest White and FleF
 enee White, represented themselves q
 man and wife, and tkat the child va Mrs, Whites by a former marriage.
 No suspicion that they were not ma
 and wife, as they represented, was ere
 ated until one day Mrs. White" came t
 Coehrane, he testified, and expressed her
 self as believing that he WIS good speI and would like to be let in on g littl
 secret, She then told him, he said, 2
 the actual state of affairs, as to he
 self and alleged hushand.
 Asked as to what he did when h heard this, Cochrane tolC Judge Web , that he. immediately discharged theI and that they left the place forthwith.
 =. Paul Hanson of East Thompson, an Grover Talbot of Springfield, brother
 Ernest, were witnesses in Mir. Syenson !, behalf. Custody of the child was give
 to the father.
 l On the ground of deserti0n and erue ty, Mrs. Florence McNerney, of -Pladl 3 l deld, was given 8 divorce from Willial 7, .McNerney of Richmond Hill N. r. II 1 couple were married January 26, 1aA
 and assertion was shown to have oecu rid on March IT, 1917. The couple Wel married in New York and lived there f. several years after their marriage: Fl \. | husband. was lazy and given to drinl , ing and at times abused his wife, som T | tittl6S -StrlhLlS Ter, H. 1J10 me, was "a rested for intoxication and eventual 2 was sent to jail for six months JMr T MeNerRey had to. sell part. of their flu v niture to pay the rent. Upon being ja f ed she took her three children to Plai ' fold, where she has since resided, su : porting, herself and the little. ones, s While he was conversing with 8. vi. tor iQ a. perfectly rational manner at | n home in Pomfret Friday morning, Pet r Murphy, well known, in this city, seiz $ a razor and slashed his own wrist al t only blow, temporarily stunning hi ii from the fist of the visitor saved N k Murphy from infiicting fatal injuries T [; on himself. The wound. severed an arte ,<I and the cords of the wrist, but a phy:
 I elan was hurriedly summoned and { $ 1 necessary measures taken to stop t e flow of blood. Later Mr.. Murphy " d removed to the Day KimbaH hospital a r- given further attention and still lat e ill the day was removed to the state he @ l pital at Norwich. Captain J. H. Bule n and State Pelicenian' Howard E. Ellio
 who happened to be in the city, we r. called to help restrain MT. Murphy, " r. had become violent.
 k ] The affair shocked the people of Pol l. fret, where MT. Murphy has been a rt ident and highly respected citizen i