Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-30
.DR. LEE TELLS COURT HOW HIS
 WIFE TREATED HIM BEFORE LEAVING

, it didn't mean anything to her. She was, going to get some clothes and go back to New York.
 Threats to Leave Him.
 Dr. Lee asserted that this was not the first time that she had threatened to cave him; that she had threatened to leave him every year since .tleys were l married, that in fact she had left Linn once or twice. On one occasion. sne rent led rooms at the Mohican, and sail she 1 was going to leave him. He asked her | if her mother knew it if not she had bet ter tell her the following day, Mrs. Lee l told him that she had told her mother, who had advised her against it. In November, 1920; Dr. Lee said that he had talk with Mrs. Lee about Ter
 health, which was bad. and that he also 1 talked with Mrs. Palmer about it and suggested that they seek the advice Of an expert Both coincided with him. He wrote to Dr. Diendorf, a noted physica
 trist, in New Haven, giving him a history of Mrs. Lee, without mentioning her name. The history was given as that l of Mrs. A.
 Later he told Mrs Lee that he had ar ranged with Dr. Diendorf to see.sher. Hrld that he would give her. a searching eS- animation, not only physical but mental
 and he (Dr. Leey told Mrs. Lee that he
 ls y (which would save both the doctor and
 herself a lot of trouble. Mrs Lee be-
 come angry and said "I suppose you have told him. the history of my rotten l family" and she refused togo.
 Dr. Lee told.of a talk he had with Mrs. ] Lee in the early part of January, 1891,
 about what to do with Mrs Lees brother .Courtland. Prior to this Mrs. Lee had Etold him that people had told her that l her brother, Court, was crazy Dr. Lee said that he told Mrs. Lee that her broth
 CT was not crazy and that he did not need | institutional care and he explained the | process of law which would be necessary to have him committed in assstate insti- tuition.
 Later that month Mrs T7ee--ver,I back
 to New York and remained there most of the month.
 Mrs Lee Became Jealous
 "In February, -Dr Lee said, there
 were occurrences which I am bound to mention" Mrs. Lee found large cli- | velope containing cancelled checks from a local bank and through a clerical error, the envelope was addressed to him at
 a number in Montauk avenue Mrs. Lee
 found the envelope and asked him. w hat
 does this mean? Are you keeping another
 establishment? Dr. Lee said that ht
 informed her that he was not, that il must have been a clerical error and that she could easily find out by :akfng tht envelope to the bank. Dr. Lee did no'
 remember that Mrs. Lee made 5tny reply ! and he tried to find out from the bank . He declared. that he does not know thu location of the house to Which the enve l lope was addressed. Dr. Lee mentioned , this incident because twas the inciden hich had been referred to ic tesrimon! for the plaintiff as happening Tn Ma.
 when he was characterized IS bsing yer! 1 angry.
 . Later that, month Mrs. Lae told hi1 t that she thought she would go and iiv !. with her brother Courtlanl because h needed her to take care of him and Dr g Lee said that she had mentioned thi r time and time again He tried to shoy l her that her duty was. in, her own ho,n
 but that if she did persist in leaving hi
 home, he would give his fullest conseIt but. that there was one thing he woui { insist upon and that was that the bak ! 1 should remain home and go D school an that. when she was ready to return he home. would be waiting for her.
 Took oH wedding Ring. 2 pr. Lee recited an instance when Mir. t | Lee took off her wedding ring an, D threw 1t at him and the next day he sa, 2 her wearing the wedding ring given he by her first husband. He also told of giy : ing her a tag bracelet worn by officer d overseas for identification purposes on hi
 return and. asking her to wear itl "sh n wore it and then she didn't wear T and when I asked her about 1t once, sh s threw it at me andIsaid that it didn s mean anything to her.''
 t In March, Mrs Lee was in miserabl g health, testified pr. Lee. "She was smok d ing necessarily and I suggested to he n that she go to Atlantic City and on tn
 way back stop of. in New York and wis