The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-12-02
WOODHOUSE CASE
HELD UP BY DEATH
or JUDGES FATHER
Trial Is Expected to Be Resumed on
Monday Morning With Continue
tion Of v. A. Billiards.
Argument.

MVhuny nAvAh&Ak VteAA 0sneAAsAs~
tion Of ". A. Billiards.
Argument.
Burlington, Dec. 2.Proceedings IN
the Woodhouse million dollar aliena-
tion suit we're held up this morning
when County Clerk g. J. Russell an
nounced that because Of the death at
Randolph last night of Clarence F.
Moulton, father Of Presiding Judge
Sherman X. Moulton, court would be
recessed until Monday morning. At
that time it is expected that VI A. Bull
lard, for the defense, and who began
his plea late yesterday afternoon, will
continue.
Not in many years has such a
scathing attack been launched against
a woman in county court as that which
was opened up by Attorney Bullard
yesterday afternoon. Declaring that
the marriage Of Dorrit Stevens and
Douglas Woodhouse had turned out
just as do nine -tenths OF marriages Of
the same kind, Attorney Bullard said:
@They fail, and sometimes | think they
ought to fail This has been called q
union of love" 1t was union Of
lust, and that's all there was to it.
Do you want to sanction that sort
of thing that she says took place about
the first Of June, 19l8s"
While Attorney Bullard was thunder
ing these attacks upon the plaintiffs
she was not in the cont
room, having been overcome with emo
tion during the argument of her own
attorney earlier in the afternoon and,
after being seen to wipe her eyes with
her handkerchief couple Of times, she
eft the court room and did not re-
arm Lorenzo E. Woodhouse, million-
lire defendant, during his attorneys
of the plaintiff, sat just
inside the railing, his hand shading his
ACE
Attorney w. r. Austin had complet-
ID his argument yesterday afternoon.
following through the l,ickless love If
AIR Of Dorrit Stevens and Douglas
the plaintiffs attorney
,ictured the plight in which his client
ound herself shortly after her we'd
ling, her husbands parents snubbing
Ter, taking her husband away from her
o Florida, following this up with re-
'eated attempts to separate them, the |
lttorney claimed, and refusing to rec
gnize the daughter of Frank Stevens, |
oap agent, as the wife of their son,
MT, instead, encouraging their sons |
after his marriage, TO the
Washington divorce, Lillian |
hendricks, whose brother was COM
missioner of the District Of Columbia,
nd whose mother was a leader in
Washington society.
And Lillian Hendricks wore the
ings of Douglas Woodhouse, wore bis |
eaver pelts and rode in his cars" said |
Ittorney Austin. who went on to show
hat all this was with the knowledge |
nd approval of the elder of Wood
ouses.
and all during this time, Douglas
Voodhouse continued to love his wife. |
ccording to his deposition, but he had
ONE to realize, through the action of
i parents, the attorney said, that lie
ould not live with her and stiIl re-
ain the advantages and the life of
ase which came through the money of /
is parents.
torn to slreds by this conflict of IN
srests that he had, love for his wife
n one hand and love for peace, idle.
ess and ease on the other, Douglas
Voodhouse chose ease and let his wife
That az Ia sf IL L. .
'ouglas throwing up the sponge and
Ding to Washington.
This poor. weak boy. in the control
his parents through their money,
Tine TO realize that he had to give up
IS wife and had to put himself in a
osition where she would sue him for
divorce. I,
There is an old Chinese proverb that
,plies TO Douglas Woodhouse: Rotten
God cannot be carved, nor walls of +,
ind be plsstered'" i,
In closing his argument, Attorney
ustin called attention to the fact that /,
orrit Stevens Woodhouse, had not
'ought this suit against her husbands : | ,
lrents until her husbands suit for a !
voree had been filed and she had I,
zen threatened with being "ploughed
70 the ground" by the divorce courts ,
Reno
With scorn, Attorney Austin referred
the attitude Of Mrs. Mary Kennedy
dollhouse on the stand, declaring
at this defendant smiled and was
sdainful of the rights of poor l
ighbor's daughter, that she smiled as
Q told of her conversation with Doug.
$ when she asked him if he were en-
ged to Dorrit Stevens and he an
fered that he was not, that he was =
srely enjoying himself. Its all
yht; let Douglas enjoy himself. his c
,alth protects him" That was her
titude, according to Attorney Aus e
l. "She smiled at this horrible trag- g