Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-29
SAYS Ds. LEE sPcKE HARD
 WORDS AGAINST WIFE

day in the superior coort, teStlLleo that Dr. Harry M. Lee had made al- ! wife, Adalene Palmer Lee, and against 1 the members of her family.
 Mrs van Lynschoten, who is neighbor of the Lee family in Water ford, testified before Judge James H. Webb that Dr. Lee had said to her
 that Mrs. Lees brother, Courtland,
 was disreputable, that her sister was an imbecile, that her mother was l fiend and that Mrs. Lee was not re- l spectable and that he would mot be | I seen on the street with her; that the 1 Palmers were respected but that he 1 would show the people of New London | | what they really were; that if Mrs.
 Lee stepped on his place he would | l shoot her.
 Mrs. van Lynschoten also testified | l to an occasion when Mrs. Lee came to | I her home and told her that Dr. Lee | | had threatened to kill her and that l she had seen Mrs. Perkins out riding | in the automobile with Dr. Lee. She said that she had seen Mrs. Perkins
 come to the Lee home to get her chil- l dren. Il Under cross examination by Attor- ney H. A. Hull for the defendant Mrs. van Lynschoten declared that she did
 not tell Mrs. Lee what Mir. Lee had l said to her about her and her family
 but she did tell Mrs. Harry H. Walker !, an intimate friend of Mrs. Lee, ex- pecting that the former would tell the
 latter. The witness did admit telling . Mrs. Lee that she had seen Mrs. Per kins riding with DrN Lee and that the Perkins children had been with Baby i Lee. Mrs van Lynschoten admitted . that she did not think there was any thing wrong with Mrs. Perkins and , her children being there and she de- } nied that she told Mrs. Lee to stir her
 up but she thought that Mrs. Lee e ought to know.
 sI The witness denied that Dr. Lee I told her that the reason that Mrs. Per kins and the Perkins children were s at the Lee home was because, he was t afraid that some one would steal his . child again. She denied that this had : been the subject of her conversation n with Dr. Lee when he Is alleged to r have made the statements to which
 she testified.
 t Mrs. Lee, who had previously been : on the stand, was recalled and gave e brief testimony as to what part of the | running expenses of the Lee household e Dr. Lee paid and she said that he D paid for the telephone, the coal and s paid the interest on the loan and that l. she paid the servants and paid for l. the food. and her clothing and her k childs clothing.
 n Says Her Life Was Threatened d She also related the incident to ,e which Mrs. van Lynschoten had re-
 ferred about the threat to shoot her
 She said that on the day in question
 Dr. Lee had been in great passion and m had said that some one had been in- "a terfering with his checks, that some -s one had either been raising them or to had forged his name. Mrs. Lee declar. er ed that she understood that he meani ie her and that he had told her that sh' s was liar and a thief and that h, a- was going to prove 1t.
 ts Mrs. Lee said that she went up. a- stairs and when she came down agaiI ne Dr. Lee was still in a rage and wa. ke slamming dishes around. He did no D. speak to her but he did speak sharp ut ly to their child. Soon after she wen
 to Mrs. Lynschoten's home. ht In her cross examination Mrs. Le t. said that she recalled the incident o ct the check very well. She said tha " she had been in New London all da, r. and that she had returned home abou p- 4 or 4:30 in the afternoon. She declar sn ed that she could not remember hay CT Ing gone to Mrs. van Lyns a1ten'
 home before supper time, which wa m the time of the check incident an
 
 ot threatened to shoot her.
 or Mrs Lee was unable 10 explain
 why she did not remember havin,
 gone to Mrs. van Lynscoten's hous 1g before the check incident but did re n- call the details of the latter inciden k so well. except that it must be be ay cause she was so terrified at Dr. Le th during the latter episode She deniet CT however that she had taken any drug ad or had smoked any large number o toI cigarettes.
 nl Has Resumed Smoking lls Mrs. Lee admitted that she hai E. smoked since Judge Allyn l.. Brow
 ',ad passed the order giving her tn UT astody of tlgs child although sh
 mad promised to stop smoking Th e) witness said that she had not how
 ever, smoked in the presence of he
 child. Mrs. Lee said that she did no
 smoke from the time Judge Brow, yH passed the order last fall until som m time in April when the court gay I Ira pr. Lee permission to have the charg n- of his daughter for an operation an =, she thought that this permission re ha voked the court order
 nd Mrs. Lee denied that either she 0 n- her counsel had told the court at tn
 hearing on the custody of the chfl
 :. that if she was given its custody sh Wo W would get place near New London -ee She did admit saying that the plac ng in New London was not suitable plac ieI for her child to live in.
 = Dr. Lee was then put on the stan .s ne by the plaintiff and questioned aboI Ns .u his property and income. He said ths su he paid $27 GOO for the house an .,s farm in Waterford and he paid an ir ow come tax on between $1000o and SIP ,ns Or eco a year.
 
 lly Performed Expert Operations 'se The plaintiff rested it's casa he, T. ,n. and Dr. Lee retained the stand , @as @ the first witness for the defense F
 was questioned as to his history ;
 a Spanish war and World war ve
 eran and testified that he was a mai
 in the World war and later lieutena om colonel He said that while he was ca this country he gave Mrs. Lee all h in- pay or $zo0 month as major al ply that after he went to France he ga ase her $2VO a month, retaining for hir Ind self $50 month and his allowance f al his keep. which brought the anon md up to about $10e a month. He "a on that while in France he performed
 many operations, mostly in brain su ate gery' as most expert surgeons in N hat York perform in lifetime. if Or. Lees testimony continu in through the afternoon.
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