Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-05
PARENTS CONTEND IN COURT FOR
 CUSTODY OF 6 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER

Two weeks ago Mrs. Adaltne Palmer i Lee, wife of Dr. Harry M. Lee of Water ford, took their six year old daughter from the convent school at Baltic, accord ing to her testimony In the superior court here Friday afternoon before Judge Allyn l.. Brown, and placed her in a school in Brooklyn, N. r., the same that Mrs. Lee herself had attended years ago. The question of the custody of the child came up for hearing in court as Mrs. Lees attorneys had obtained a court order giving her the custody, which is opposed by pr. Lee.
 The hearing was opened at about il o'clock, the court session being held in tine common pleas court Noom as the su- perior court room was occupied with the short calendar business of the November session About twenty persons were in court, including witnesses and others. among whom were two alienists, Dr. H. Pollock, of Boston, former superintendent | of the Norwich state hospital, and pr. Franklin s. Wilcox. the present superin- l tendent
 The attorneys for Mrs. Lee, who are Harrison T. Sheldon of New Haven and Philip z. Hankey of New London, and | the attorneys for Mrs. Lee, who are Major Hadlai A Hull and c. Hadlai Hull of ! New London, spent long time in con- | ferences in attempts to settle the matter without bringing it to a hearing. but these | efforts were fruitless and about 33O in | the afternoon, Judge Brown took his seat l on the bench and the hearing was opened
 Mrs. Lee was first called to the stand l by Attorney Sheldon who questioned her as to her care of the child. Mrs. Lee ss i'd
 the little girl would be seven in Jan l. ary and that she had taken entire care of her, except for the first year when she had trained nurse She had pur-
 chased and paid for the child's clothes. This spring, in May. Mrs Lee left the doctors home in Waterford In the sum- mer Mrs. Lee was living at Edgehill Inn,
 Spuyten Deuyvil, New York, and one day
 in August the child disappeared. It was playing around the back door at the
 time. Mrs. Lee said she next saw the
 baby at the convent at Baltic aftor the
 baby had been at Dr. Lees :n Water
 ford.
 Asked by her attorney if she were a
 Catholic, Mrs. Lee said she was not nor had Dr. Lee ever been a Catholic to her
 knowledge. She saw the child on Sun
 day in October at the convent. The
 childs nn--sNr- ---- t"7 e',o said and she
 vas in the regulation black costume, with white corar She had grown
 bit stout, was very pale and had dark
 circles uneer her eyes. Her hair was
 straggly and long. Mrs. Lee testified !, that she knows of no Protestant chil- children or any friends of her child wll. are at the convent school.
 Asked where the child now is, Mrs. Le, said she is at Brooklyn Heights sem:n. . ary, Brooklyn, N. Y., and that she her self lives at 104 Columbia Heights } Brooklyn, about five or six block ava, from the seminary Mrs. Lee lives witf her aunt, Mrs. Allen Capron, and hel cousin, Miss Watt She described the child's hours at the school and at the playground in connection with it and hel
 own apartment on Columbia Heights She said she had attended this schoo
 and members of her family had also.
 Under Cross-Examination.