The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-01
Wanted Cave Man But Didn't Like
 Him, After All

has gained considerable publicity for her broad-minded views about allow ing her husband, Isaac Mcbride, his freedom to marry the butchers S daughter of his love, and through later announcements from Greenwich Village that she herself was looking for "cave man. for her next. lost much of her spirit at her divorce trial this morning and trembled and wept much as an ordinary woman would when telling how her writer husband said that he did not love her any more and was going away with the woman he did love.
 Dishes. cats. quoIts, water buckets, books and whatever else was handy. came her way with the most unex- pected suddenneSS whenever she ar testimony of Mrs. McBride and her witnesses. If McBride did not like the steak he threw the plate at her; if she did not read a certain book which he wished her to read he threw the book "aS the only way in which he could get it into her head"
 Arguments as to whether or not the vibration of an egg continued after the smell was broken, a constant sub ject of breakfast table argument, by the way, brought a galvanized water bucket which struck her on the hip and left her lame for several days.
 The case was heard in the Superior court before Hon. Joel H. Reed, State Referee with Attorney Jacob B. Klein representing Mrs. Mcbride and Attor- ney J. Morse Ives of Danbury as counsel for her husband. Mrs. Me Bride is seeking the divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion.
 She and MT. McBride, she testified, were married in 1912 in New Orleans and in 1917 came to live in Bethel.
 In the spring of 1918, she said. in an argument over the planting of some shrubbery. he struck her with his hand across the mouth so as to cut her lip and cause it to bleed, and also kicked her.
 On another occasion in cleaning a china closet, they were arguing and he picked up an elephant tea pot and he threw it at her, striking her on the shoulder and leaving black and blue mark.
 Once they argued because the cat ran between her feet, almost throw ing her, and Mcbride picked up the cat and threw it at her, hitting her on the side of the face.
 At breakfast last September. in the presence of 8 guest, Miss Anna Rogers, who was one of the witnesses at the trial today, he threw a tea when it hit her on the shoulder
 In answer to questions of Judge Reed, Mrs. Mcbride said that her hus- band had gone away the later part of last October, after first telling her that he did not love her any more and that he was going with the woman he did love better.
 MT. McBride's counsel objected to che introduction of the woman's name when Attorney Klein asked if it might be introduced. He had been back once since, she said to arrange some business matters but that she still continued living at the house in Bethel, since.
 Bercham Pond and Lawrence E. Hull. both of Bethel and cousins. who 1requently worked about the Mcbride place, testified in Mrs. McBride,s be- haf- Both described McBride's un- usually fiery temper and his athletic build.
 Mss Anna Rogers of 56 Greenwich avenue, New York city, a friend of the McBrides for nine years, told of seeing Mcbride strike his wife with crockery on two occasions. She re- with him on the treatment of his wife on one occasion and he told her that she was so stupid. and that she didn't try to understand him.
 Miss Rogers described Mcbride as So absorbed in his mental interests that he couldn't give thought to any thing else.''
 Mrs. McBride's attitude toward her 1usband, she said, f'has always been maternal She looked after his wants as she would a child'
 Judge Reed will file his recom- later.