Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11

! 1-< ea -i4H a4E Ee&aaE e4aHs H+slE44 4s this city, presided at 9 shert calendar session of tle e5urt aese. Monday The session lasted all day.
 Six uneoatested d4y0rces were heard and the petitions granted. Tn stories Of the pe4itione.s covered peri ods of raarTiei Hfe ranging fE1m a few weeks to number sf pears. One title woman, about fo-tF-ta9 yearz 9ld, told the court that saa had been he mother of fourteen chI5rea, nine q whom are living.
 The first case was that af AdeIbe~r L. Wilson of Putnam II izhts. wh1 told the court that no sooner had he ] married Lottie D. Jackson of East Xii lingly than she told him she could new eE b. a real wife to him. They were married n Worcester. but had only lived together for a day.
 Dr. Perry testified that the woman had been patient at the Day Kimbal. Hospital and that he E4I examine her with view to testifyiaz at the di- r ree hearing He said that the wo- mans condition was such that she would never be any better.
 Margaret k. Fulton Of DaaielsoE was given a decree from Robert ". Fulton on the ground of dessrtion. ! The desertion took place ia 1913. Ars i Fulton said that there had been nc trouble between them. She went to Hartford hospital where her last chill was born, and when she returned he. husband had disappeared and she hal never seen him since Mrs. Fulto was gwen the custody Of her three children
 Mary Helen Hopkins Harrington en- 'oyed about nine weeks If marie ife with Everett Harringt5B whom she married in Daniefsoa Nov B. 1915. They lived two weeks at East Killing E. then went to Pomfret for seveHas weeks and then her husband took her 10 Perth Amboy. V. J. h 8 few days her husband went out e look for iob. Possibly he has not foaa5 it. f5f he has not since been seen ot heard of by his wife.
 Nrs Harrington.s mother. haf sls- ter Susie, employed at the DaE Kim ball Hospital, and brother Chaflez cor I r6berated her testimony.
 Vernon ]. Sloan of Wilhmantic mar red Flora Duquette July l6. l9ii They moved to South Cogeatry ia #i9i4 and one morning his wife told him she was going to visit her Hela- ayes in Hampton. Several dags later ! she called her husband on the tele. phone and asked hia L. come t Hampton to work He refused to dc this and his wife never returned tc him. The record Of q marriage at Dan ielson in June, 1917. was introduced into the record This purported C show that Mrs Sloan had married 3 man named Perreault She gave hei residence as Bristol and stated that ii was her first marriage Sloan heard of this marriage and went 10 Moosul where his wife was living with Per. reault, first procuring a warrant for her arrest on the charge of bigamy The wife saw him coming with an off cer and disappeared and he had not seen her since.
 Emma [. Baker and Wilson <. Ba- ker were married by justice of the peace in Hampton in October, 1900 After they had lived together for two months her husband told her he was coming to Putnam to a watch meet ing and that was the last she had seer of him. When Baker left the house Mrs Bakers father askei him if he was eoBing back and he said he was n't and he didn't.
 4 little frail woman, ! took the stand and surprised the eourt by stat ing that she had had fourteen ehll- dren. nine of them being alive. Her name was May F Saunders and she said she lived n Putnam Her hus- band. Chas Saunders. was last heard from in Springfield, Vt They were married the fifth of October, 1897 Trouble started when she had her frs baby baptized in the Catholic faith Her husband was Protestant and ob- iectet to this. The little woman tol how her husband beat her. choked he and threw her on the floor and pound ed her head against the boards. Sh told how her husband went to live with woman named Della Morse al & line house between Thompson ana Webster She had seen them riding out together and they had ridiculed her
 At a later time. after the birth of her last child. she needed money and sought her husband She found him hyius in a shack near WatertowF with a woman named Lizzie Donovan and two of her children. both boys The tgo lads supported their mother story and told of living in the shack With their father and the woman. The divorce was granted ou statutory grounds and the woman was given the custody of six children. Two are mar riei and one has always lived with his father and no claim WAS made for the custody Of these three.
 In the case of Stella Devhn vs. Felix Devlin for annulment of theil marriage, which occurred Feb. l7th, 1917, t was ordered that 1t be eontin- ued for ninety days. the statutory period for uncontested divorees. The