Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-25
COUSINS MARRIED, NOW
ARE sEEkINe DIVORCE

Two first cousins the man 4F and the woman 57, appeared in the superior court in Norwich Tuesday as plaintiff and de- fendant in the contested divorce sui of Adam J. Cronesberry ys Elizabeth H. Cronesberry, both of New London Tner fathers were brothers Judge Allyn l. Brown, who heard the case, reserved de- cision.
 This is the second appearance of this suit fer a court trial as 1t was partly tried | in the superior court last June before Judge Gardiner Greene Before the evi- | dence was all in, there was reconcili- ation arranged between the contestants I and they agreed to live together again. But | this has not been done and the case came
 up for trial again Tuesday as the first case in the January additional session of ! the superior court. Attorneys Clayton
 Smith and Frank L. McGuire appeared for the man and Attorney D. NJ Cronin l for the woman.
 The divorce was sought by Cronesberry
 on the grounds of assertion in 1914. The couple were married in 1911 in the Epis- copal church and lived together till a time in January, 1914 when according to his testimony. he was locked out of the house by Mrs. Cronesbsrry. He has been em- ployed for years as janitor at the Will hams Memorial Institute. He claimed that his wife was addicted to the use of liquor
 and that he found bottles around the
 house in different places while she was
 not neat housekeeper and did not keep
 the place clean.
 After the time in January, when he
 was locked out of the house on Shapley
 street, where they lived, he said he lived
 for year alone and then went to live
 with his haif-sister.
 Mary Mcdonald and Margaret Graney,
 half-sisters of Mir. Cronesberry, testified
 in his behalf and then the plaintiff rested. : Mrs Cronesberry, the defendant who was a widow with three grown children when she married Cronesberry. testified that she loved him and was still willing 5 to live with him She denied that she used , liquor except when she was sick, which , was seldom, or that she was a poor house
 keeper The climax that broke up the r home, she said, came after two flalf-sis- ters of her husband had come to live there . after relatives of her own had been oblig ed to leave because of the objections O = MT Cronesberry. On the certain Sunday 8 morning in January. 1914, she said sh' f saw her husband going into the bedroom
 occupied by the half-sisters. She followe' l him in and remonstrated with him and h. s struck her, leaving marks on her arms an' e throat that remained for weeks. The tw' lloAL AcAL NiAc AANAl hfsH boN 1AA 8 Cronesberry got his meals at the house fo : two days more but did not speak to he 6 in that time He got a talking machin r. and some records out of the house th e next day and she had the door of tn d house locked that night. She saw no nor d of him until he came at some later tim n with deputy sheriff an da writ of re
 plevn to get his things out of the ehou' 1t Henry Samuel Hick a New London DC il liceman and son of Mrs. Cronesherr! E. testified that he heard his mother yell c e the Sunday morning in 1914, but didn d see what happened. Later he saw mari
 on his mathers face and arms Hic le said affairs in the family went well mt l. this trouble. meals were always on tin d and he never saw his mother drink liquC l. except when she was sick There ws 1t trouble one time over an aunt of the wi n ness whom Mir. Cronesoerry wanted se put out of the house.
 The defense rested at this point ar ,u the plaintiffs attorneys recalled Nj
 Cronesberry to the stand He denied tn
 he had seen and talked to his wife sin,
 1914, or that he struck his wife. or tn
 he stayed one night in his sisters TO
 from II to 12 o'clock as Mrs. CronesberI
 had testified. He also denied that
 gave Mrs. Cronesberry any money at n
 home as she had testified.
 d. Arguments by the attorneys conclud in the case about o'clock in the afternoc