Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-10
NORWICH BULLETIN
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 Har-ey RicuFa, oi sfsia street was befEs Depaty Judge Curtis Dean, in po- hce court Saturday morning, charged with non-suuport. When asked fl he was. wiling to live with and care for his wife. Elizabeth Ricard who charged fhat Der husband had failed to support 1l during the past three weeks, he uaidr nc left me and will not live with 1sr or support her" Mrs. Ricard said th4f she loved her husband and would lTa with him. but not at the home of his parents. Mir. and Mrs. Fred Ricard. due to the fact that Mrs. Ricard had ordered her to leave the house. Harvey A1card. who is a vegetable and fruit peddler. was represented by Attorney Fe-kic< 2. DanaheT, who argued that the c11e was beyond the jurisdiction of the locai court in that there was no evidence ot non-EupDort in this town. that the woman had left her husband. going to live with her mother In the town of Co., .cr1ia, and that up to that time there had been no evidence introduced that 4he woman had not bee supported by her husband Attorney Danahey quoted a daci1iou handed down in a similar cate by the supreme court.
 Eho complainant testified that she uas married December s. 1921; they nrst kept house on Meadow street. then rnoued Co Manchester. where her husband was in business for a time. Last March they returned to Wfllimantic and from tt1t time until three weeks ago they Hved with her husbands parents. She sald that she worked at one time at the Mary Ann tea room and for tho Ameri- can Thread Company. She got some sup port from her husband and in addition did Some housework at the cider Ricards' home on Main street. Her husband earned. she said. from s35 to s45 a week at peddtrE. Three weeks ago he bfcarht her to her mothers home in Co., lu-dlhia and never called on her after hat or gave her any money. Mrs. Ri- sard said she believed she could get aionE on sio a week
 Ricard fsstihed that they were mar risd in Brooklyn. Conn. December g. 1891. and lived first on Meadow street then Manchester at i, the suggestion of lie vie Co enter business with her un- cie- He said that her uncle tried tc make most cf the money in the business uo tney came back to Willimantic. Wit ne1s said that business was poor lately and he took his wife to her mothers and Es1red whrn he would call for her. Ill; wife said that she would come hack thu nea day with her mother. Ricard startec out the next morning to find work. H. a1curea loo m New beQioru Tn wholesale fruit house at salary of 8; a week He worked a few days ant came back after his wife. On his return he learned that his wife had come anC moved ali the furniture from lis par ehts house. He furtl5er said that h, earned ho such money as his wife sat
 Fred Ricard the f-.her said that hi was not at home when his daughter-in law came for the furniture. He wouif hot have her live in his house.
 Mrs. Fred Ricard testified through sr nterprster that her daughter-in-lav t1me after the furniture two days afte the had gone to Columbia. She as, ranfed to take the auto truck She ssit hat thsv always treated their daughter ln-iav isks a millionaire"
 Nrt Harvey Ricard said that sh s1pid not work and was under the treat neuf hy local physician.
 Judge Dean. when an the testimon. rzs in. asked Ricard what he intende .o do. advising him to live with hi rife but was told that Ricard woul' tot tive' with or support his wife becaus lhe waE thh one that left.
 Judge Dean said "Ricard. it is you auty to support your wife. Your atti tlide is bad. ! find you guilty of tn rharre and sentence you 10 six month in jan unless you furnish bond of $50 io pay your wife the sum of Si0 weel Tor her support Through his counse Attorney Dauahey. Ricard gave notic rf appeal to the next term of the super nF court
 The continued case of Herman Col lsrado. charged with assault on Leopol Aucfair July was next heard. Bot ben are employed by the America fhread company. Colderado pleaded no fulity and the testimony showed tha he alleged fraczs was the resut of nick