Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-23

DlSdtdONu, dIlu IlOSL or her QlIQCulCleS connection with her married life have transpired since then. The first of the specific allegations mentioned by the wit ness was May Is, 1921, on which date she testified that her husband after making what she termed excessive demands" upon her. drew revolver and fourished 1t. He also at this same time. she said on the stand, slapped her so that her nose bled.
 Mrs. Potter testified that during June July and August of the same year her husband on numerous occasions maltreat- ed her, and was cruel, beating her, striking her. and causing her bodily in- jury. On the 4th of October she testified that her husband threatened to choke her to death, and beat her. On another day he struck her in the eye, causing it to swell and become black. On Nov. 16, 1921, Mrs. Potter said her husband beat her and in striking at her by accident hit their oldest daughter, Lorraine, causing her nose to bleed.
 On Christmas day, 1921. Mrs Potter testified that early in the morning her husband came into her room and beat her because she would not aceede to certain of his wishes. He treated her so roughly,
 she said, that her garments were torn from her body.
 Two days later Potter, according to the witness, had another fit of anger when, coming home at night, he found that the chores on the farm had not been done
 Her father was present at the time. Mrs Potter told the court that when she saw her husband was angry she left the room, taking her youngest child with her The husband, she said. followed, and when in her room made a motion as though to draw revolver and said 'Tll clean the l bunch up" Alarmed, she declared she took the children and went down the road a mile to the home of an uncle, Cyrus Potter. Here she and the children spent
 the night She returned home in the
 morning.
 4 few days later witness said she was l in the cellar when her husband came down and attacked her. He attempted to pick up an axe on the floor but she pre- vented this by putting her foot on 1t, at which she said he exclaimed ''I'll get you l yet and knock your block off" Two days | later she declares Potter again attacked her, forced her into the pantry adjoining the kitchen VI re she was doing her | work, and tried to choke her. He threat | ened to tear her clothes off, and at this | point she testified that she dropped un- conscious. She testified that when she recovered her throat was sore and swol- ] len. Her husband was outside in a chair
 and she tried to talk with him. Mrs. Pot l ter stated on the stand that at this her husband declared that he owned her and would show her that he did. He then grabbed a butter paddle but did not strike her, she said. She immediately tried to i cun away from his grasp, but he dragged
 her back and locked the house door, put ting the key in his pocket. For two hours, ! witness testified, she and her husband ran about the lower floor of the house, she trying to elude him and he trying to catch her. She said that all of this time he was yelling and growing"
 During the following month her bus band on several occasions attacked her
 the witness said, but on Feb. 27 came one of the most serious ones, according to her story On this day she declares her hus- band struck her on the jaw, causing her to fall over a. morris chair. Hearing her
 scream, her son came to the room and the father, she testified. turned and kick
 ed him in the stomach. Her father, who
 was living with the family, came in and demonstrated with her husband, offering
 to do anything he could to make theil life pleasanter. He offered to make his
 home elsewhere, but according to Mrs Potter, her husband did not want hel
 father to leave.
 The following morning her husband
 was cross at breakfast and left for 2
 trip to Webster, Mass, in an angry mood He returned late that night and as 1t wa.
 cold she prepared and brought him hi.
 breakfast near a radiator. At this h' said, according to the witness, T didn'
 know you cared so much for me" A , this point in her testimony Mrs. Potte gave way to tears and 1t was some fev seconds before she could compose hersel
 sufficiently to continue with her testi mony. She then went on to declare tha within an hour her husband had N"anothe ugly fit"
 The direct examination closed wit certain testimony concerned with he husbands property. Witness said tha . last July her husband had given her deed for one-half of the farm on whic
 they lived. farm of nearly 1855 acres. s Attorney King then questioned Mir f Potter, beginning his examination wit T the Webster trip and MT. Potter's returl Il He got the witness to admit that at thi : time she cared for her husband. and sh realized, by what he said, that he als 3 cared for her She told MT King ths :. for the first 12 or 13 years her marie T life had been happy, and that she an y her husband got along well together.
 Attorney King asked Mrs. Potter se' !, eraI questions conn nected with a fami U with whom she and her husband were a : quainted and sought certain facts abo, E witness friendship with the oldest SC a of that family. She denied that the had been any infatuation or that she ar
 the boy, who was 20, had been drivi1 10 together on many occasions She also q l. nied receiving many letters from hll 'o and declared that her husband had se' stt all that had come. Witness said she VI B years old and her husband 39. .o Attorney King then questioned Mi ,h Potter about her interest in Christi; H. Science. She stoutly denied that h K K faith in this was in any way responsit u' for the friction between her and MT. Pc se ter.
 MT. King returned to the subject of t "a property owned by Mir Potter and M A Potter admitted that the deed giving h a = half of the farm had been given volu .i' .i' tarily and cheerfully. She testified he again that except for the incidents me 1Is tioned her husband had been good to h. i'll This led MT. King to ask the witness ca she were certain that the attacks she .. legged had really happened or wheth
 due to her nervous condition, she had T al merely fancied them or exaggerated the of She declared that they had all talk
 place as she originally testified. MT Ri ITS obtained from the witness an admissi IS that perhaps her distrust of her husbal lis arising from the incident with the ceus
 had ''raggled' MT Potter's nerves a W. that her lack of confidence in him hl ht him.
 At this point the climax came. Aski u- the witness what her present attitu u- toward her husband was, she broke do m- with tears and sobbed "I love him." Ter 4 recess was called, and the ent