The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-05-03

part of the time since. She said
they had been living apart entirely
since year ago last January. She
claimed that her husband became
| intoxicated and had threatened her
life. The children of the couple are
s and IL years old respectively. Mrs,
Turoctte, the sixteen year old daugh-
ter of Mrs. Harmon by former mar
riage stated that she had seen Mr.
Harmon strike her mother. that he
had threatened her and had used
liquor frequently. Mr.. Harmon. took
the stand and told of his inability to
earn big wages because of his phys-
cal condition.
CROSS LIBEL DIVORCE
PROCEEDINGS
The cross libel divorce proceedings
of John Gumbleton VS. Della b. Gum
bleton and vice versa occupied large
part of Fridays session. Mr.. Gum
bleton IS employed by the Madison
Wooden Co. of Madison and Mrs. Gum
bfeton now lives at MOSCOW. The
couple were married January /, 1921,
and he is abont flfty-seyen years old
They were married at Scion. He
said his wife wouldn't live at Madison
| or Arson for time and that they
moved to Bingham. His bank book
| exhibited In the course of his hearing
indicated according to his testimony
that he had spent nearly $4,000 for
| his wife since their marriage, some
| $1,000 OF this having been spent on a
| house In Arson to which the family
had finally moved. He claimed also
that he had given her from $1,000 to
$500 weekly with the exception of
! two weeks when he was ill. He
limited in his testimony infiddity on
the part of his wife with young man
boarded who was practically deaf and
dumb, also unusual interest in his
son, after the latter was liberated
from States Prison. He claimed that
when sick his wife had left him and
had moved the bed from under him,
finally taking him down stairs
into another room. Mr.. GumbletOn
said his son had gone with his wife
when she had left him. He admit
ted having been arrested for int0xica-
ton and said he had never laid violent
hands on Mrs. Gumbleton. He also
denied having called her names, but
said he believed his wife was unfaith-
full.
DIR. Milliken of Madison stated that
he had been called to see GumbletOn
when sick and stated that the room
to which he had been removed down
stairs was comfortably warm, that
Mrs. Gumbleton had spoken about her
husband going to local hotel, that
he had found milk and eggs there for
his patient and that the wife went to
get cold water for him at a neighbors
while he was there. This was after
she had left him and moved her fur
nishings out.
Fred Withee, Madison truckman
was there when Gumbleton was NOV
ed down stairs and said the man was
brought down on mattress and
feather bed. He said that Mrs. Gum
bleton helped straighten out the bed
and thought she got some quilts and
laid over him. Daniel Adams found
Gumbleton lying in the bed wheH he
went to the house without, in his
opinion, sufficient clothing over him
Mr.. Rogers went to the house when
Mrs. Gumbleton left and stated that
he found him very feeble with very
thin bed clothing and that he had
taken him to his home to be @red for
while sick. Herbert Ladd of Madi-
4 son, master mechanic of the Madison
Wooden Co.. stated that he had never
known Gumbleton to be intoxicated
and that he had found him sick at
his home.
Mrs. Della B. Gumb1eton Of Mos
cow stated that she had met her
husband while working in the Madi-
son mill, that he had proposed
marriage to her and had offered to
give her $1,000 on the day she mar
ried him, and that later she accepted
him. While working at Wesley
Chase's at Moscow she said her hus-
band, to whom she was not then mar
ried, had NOT thought It the right
place for her to work in. had told her
that IL she would 90 home he would
give her $1,000 per week and that he
did so up until the time they were
married. She said that he had asked
her father, now deceased, IL he were
willing for his daughter to marry him
and had also told him that he would
give her $1,000 when she married him.
Witness said that Mr. Gumbleton
wanted her to move to Bingham and
wanted her to repair the house where
they were to live. When questions
were asked relative to the deaf and
dumb hoy Jones who boarded there,
Mrs. Gumbleton showed much emo
ton and could control herself with
difficulty. when telling how he was
thrown out in the world and she had
taken him in. Witness claimed her
husband had told her he was going to