Putnam patriot., 1926-03-26
LAWYER FOR PLAINTIFF CHARGES SON COMMITTED. PERJURY IN FATHERS DIVORCE ACTION NOW
 SOUGHT TO BE SET ASIDE IN COURT
Wife of TwentySeven Years Says She Had No NotceWfc
 of Two Years Witness Against Her.

had written to her son in Danielson and had received two letters from aim
 In 1924. Mrs Thiheault said. her youngest daughter Jeff home. Late. she discovered that she was in Hart ford living with her husband. She went to Hartford and 1t was then she said. that she hrss learned that her husband had divorced her and re- married. She made an attempt 70 get her husband arrested for non-snpport but was unsuccessful.
 Mrs. Thibeault stuck tu her story ofl cross examination and denied that an account of her husbands mothers death, containing mention of her hus- band and his address in Hartford. had been read 10 her. She stated emphatieally that as soon as she learn ed that her husband was in Hartford which knowledge she got from the parish priest. that she went there and then discovered that he had divorced her and remarried.
 Ernest Parads, truck driver of Granville. said that he saw Thibeault in Granville early in September ia22
 Didn't Want Trouble
 The defendant took the stand in his own behalf and said that he left his wife when she was threatening to have him arrested and the police were looking for him. "I didn't want any more trouble" he said. when asked why he ran away. He denied that he stole $500 of his wfe's money when be left. He said that when he brought divorce proeeediuFa he Ia ahauts anal War told that she might have gone to Pawtueket He wrote Iu q friend in Rawtucket and askei the friend t8 try and locate his wife. The friend replied to the letter sav- ing that he could not find her He denied that he was in Granville aa Labor Day, 1929, and. when askea why be did mol try to ind out fl hia wife had returned to her former old home, said that he had no idea she would go there for she had not been back there in seventeen years. He told Of going to his fathers funeral in Wtnchendon, Mass, twenty-fouf miles from Granville. Labor Day 1922, but said he returned immedie ntely to Hartford
 Mr. Thlheai4lt said that six months dAhtE ht WAS EfAnttu A IiNNfet ftf married Mrs pansy Lord of Hart ford and that they were keeping hosa~a in Hartford.
 Nilfred Grenier of Pawtueket said that he received letter from Thi- hcault asking him to try to locate his wife and he replied to 1t telling Thibeault he could not find her.
 Napoleon Thibeault, son of the defendant. testified that he was in Granville in 1922 and stopped at his mothers house. He told of making another visit Go the house at ten e'- clock at night and getting no response to his knock He stated that a boy he met said the family had moved away. He said that he did not tell his father that he had seen his mother in Granville.
 Don't Remember
 During his cross examination Int beault, IT,. many times resorted t0 the answer, "i don't remember" He said he didn't know why he did not tell his father he had seen his mother. He did not remember whether CT not he had written letters to his mother. He could not explain why. when asked during the divorce prpre iinps lt he had seen his mother he died, Once in Goodyear" and said nothing about seeing her in Granville.
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