Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-07
ANDERSON DENIES CRUEL
 ACTS TOWARDS HIS WIFE

IS eontestins the divorce suit that his | wife, Matilda Garceau Anderson. has brought against him on the grounds of | lntolerable cruelty, was called to the l stand iH the superior court here Tuesday | afternoon. He was about the Hast wit l mss brought forward bY Attorney l Charles L. Stewart. who is counsel for l the husband, The testimony on both sides was con | ciuded just before time for court to ad- | Journ and Judge James H. Webb told the attorneys that the arguments would be made next Tuesday morning. MT. Anderson denied practically all the acts of cruelty which his wife had testified he had committed asainet her, such as jumping on her, skipping her face, and pulling her hair. Regarding a dispute over a checker game at the Anderson house in Mohegan park, Mir. Anderson said three games were played and his wife cheated in the last game by moving man backwards so that she could jump his man and win the game. He told her about dt, knocked the board up in the air, scattering the checkers over the floor. When he stopped to pick up the checkers he said she scratched his face and he picked up a bottle of vinegar but put it down without doing anything with it. She demanded the baby and called him names and when he started to go out of the house, she hit him in the back, grabbed him by the shirt and struck him five or six times with her fist in the face.I The witness said his wife also attacked and pulled out a handful of Margaret Sabfos hair when this woman came in and teld his wife not to fight. He denied that he struck his wife at any time during this trouble.
 i. He denied that at the Berry block he struck his wife on the head and his brother said Give her another" He also denied that on May 30, 1918, at the Berry block he chased her upstairs, forced his way into her room with a stick of wood and struck her with the wood across the ankle. He admitted which stick of wood figured, but he said this occurred at Fitchville and he did not strike her.
 In regard to his wifes testimony that
 he had strrcle her in the face with a lhat-iron, MT. Anderson said this hap pened because she grabbed the flat iron off the back of the stove and when he
 grabbed her by the wrist, the hat iron
 came off the handle and struck her ir
 the nose. He denied that he struck hls wife on the side of the head at time he took the child away from her, but
 said he merely Tipped her on the ear with the back of his hand.
 fl MT. Anderson testified that when his
 wife left him, she took all her clothes
 the silver ware and the china.
 He admitted that he struck his wife across the nose with a bank bill wheT | she accused him of stealing and he al l so admitted that he held dead chickeT
 up in front of her, about four feet iron
 her face, at one time.
 Mrs. Eva Hilderbrand of 2s5 Boswell
 avenue testified that she had seen thu
 boy, Woodrow Anderson, before his mo ther took him to Hartford and his con
 dition was good then but when he wa,
 brought back from Hartford by his ia
 ther he did not look as we'll. Mrs. Hil derbrand said that Levi Miner had mad
 the statement in her kitchen that Mrs
 Anderson had told him if he would stal
 away from the Anderson farm and tes tify for her. she would give him SEQ.
 The defense rested and Attorne,
 Douglass recalled Mrs. Anderson to thi 7 stand. She denied she ever pulled hal out of Miss sabro's head and denie, = that she called her husband foul names s except that when he called her suel = names, she replied that he was all h }. called her She contradicted her hus : bands testimony that she had ever ask 5 ed him to kiss her in the neck 50 as t. . draw blood.
 Regarding the trouble over the check CT game, Mrs. Anderson said that afte 3 the board had been put away and sh s lay on the lounge. her husband stool
 over her with the vinegar bottle an,
 she jumped up and told him he woui,
 never disigure her. Then he yanked he . hair several times and slapped her fac ,hAp Sh VH1eh htra nails made a scratch on his face al , eighth of an inch long. She denied ths she threw a glass of water at him a this time, and in regard to the fiat irol incident said that the iron had no han dle on 1t at the time and that he hal the bare iron in his hand and struck he in the face with it before she could sto him.
 Mrs. Anderson eorroborsted Mrs Learyis testimony regarding a birthda party at which she planned a surpris for her husband, but he was krouehy al \ the time, and at the end of the party
 he slapped her, grabbed her by tn
 throat and pushed her down on the foo
 behind the stove.
 MT. Anderson was recalled to tn
 stand by his attorney and he denied h
 struck his wife at the birthday party.
 Then both sides rested their cases
 When court opened in the mornini
 Attorney Stewart called Judge Gardire
 Greene as the first witness for the hus
 band. Judge Greene :es.iAed that fo
 20 years he had employed the grandts ther Anderson, who has chatge of tb child in the case and found hm coi
 ret in every way. He knew of him { care for children at his own expei
 anl he is very fond O. the Kran6ch'lt
 The jpdge had visited the Andersc
 home ami found it to be nicely kept an
 the family has means to take care of th
 grandchild.
 Erasmus Hansan, aged 4s, of Jewei ICity, said he worked on farm in low
 for eight weeks and Mir and Mrs. Al
 derson visited the farm but the accuse : never saw anything wrong with tn y couple during the eight weeks the !, were there.
 T Then Mrs. Frances E. LAary of Fitci ]. vile was allowed to be called out of ol 2 der by Lawyer Douglass, counsel fc n Mrs. Anderson, and she told of attend z ing a birthday party where she saw M Anderson slap his wife and strike he i. The last witness was Martin Andel :. . ison, the father of the defendant an '. . he told his story of the family trouble of his son and to the way the witnel i. feared for the child in the case. He testified about seven weeks az . Mrs. Anderson sent for him and the ' talked about the trouble near the Brii y COG place on Rockwell street and he sal Q there was a proposition that by the paJ <. ment of $500 the Andersons could kee
 the child. There was also talk of fuf z niture. The couple had not met in tw yeafs.
 Other witnesses called by Attorne i. Stewart before he put the defendant 0