Putnam patriot., 1922-06-16
ROW OVER PICTURE
 GETS INTO COURT
Indra Dudley Found Not Guilty of Assault on Mrs. Myra
 Tetreault
Judge Says If Anyone Made an As-
 sault. Mrs. Tetreault Did

4 row between Indra Dudley of Lawrence. Mass. representative of the Boston Portrait Company which makes enlargements. and Mrs Myra Tetreault of 5 Smith street. Putnam. was aired in the city court Monday morning before Judge NJ. H Geissler. Mir. Dudley was charged with assault i ing Mrs. Tetreault When the evi- denee was all in, Judge Geissler found Mir. Dudley not guilty of the charge. affirming at the same time that fl any assault was committed, it was Mrs Tetreault who was guilty of such. The decision was apparently not to the l liking of Mrs. Tetreault, who left the court room addressing a stream of telling words for the benefit of the ears of Mr. Dudley.
 Mrs. Tetreault, in her testimony. declared that Mr. Dudley appeared at her home last Saturday forenoon and demanded of her S5.96 in exchange i for an enlargement of a photo she had given to a salesman several weeks ago. ] She said the man refused to show the picture to her. and so she refused to pay without seeing what she was to get. She demanded the small photo from which the enlargement was made and this. she affirmed. the man refused to hand over.
 T then grabbed him by the collar. said Mrs Tetreauit. "and while l had him thus cornered, he pulled away from me. As he did he made 8 swipe at me. 1 ducked my head and he missed hitting my face, but he struck my shoulder. The blow made me lose my balance and 1t was then that l did this" Here Mrs. Tetreault pulled up her right sleeve to above the elbow and exhibited laceration on her arm. She said she fell against a post on the piazza and caused the hurt 10 her arm
 During the scufhe, she said. Mir Dudley dropped the original photo. graph and he kicked it of the piazza when it was picked up by a young man, a stranger to her, Later it de veloped that this young man was the son of Mr. Dudley.
 Mrs Ernestine Dupont of Smith street testified that she saw some of the seufae. but didn't say she saw Mr. Dudley hit Mrs. Tetreaalt
 Attorney Arthur $. Macdonald rep resented Mr. Dudley in court. and at this point the attorney called his client 10 the stand He testified that he went to the home of Mrs Tetreault and when she came to the door in response to his knock he told who he was and hat company he represented. He held before her gaze. he said. the ca- larrement asked her if she was ready to taA it and pay what was due
 Nr Dudley said that without any !: warning or words at all, Mrs. let reault seized hold of the enlargement and tried to pull t from him. He however, held onto 1t good and fast Then she grabbed him by the back oi the collar. he said. and in trying tC free himself from her grip, she may have fallen against the piazza post he testified. When he dropped th, original photograph, he said, he eallee on his son, Indra J. Dudley. Jr.. whC
 was sitting in their car at the curb, tC
 pick it up, which he did.
 The son took the stand and corrob
 erated his father's statements.
 Judge Geisslef, ID reviewing tn, evidence and facts, said Mr. Dude, was perfectly within his rights in go
 ing to the Tctreault home to transact
 the business he had in hand He de ? c1ared Mir Dudley not guilty of th.
 assault and discharged him