Putnam patriot., 1927-05-13
EMILY M. CHAPMAN
 STATES WITNESS WITNESS
Trail of Evidence In Perjury Case Leads to This
 City
Representative Arthur Chester Bro,r
 Paid Visits

A the trial of Representative Arthur Chester Brown ef Salem. la New London county. which was bee gun iu the New England county sup ,rior court at New London. Tuesday. one af the chief witnesses for the state Wa- former West Thompson and Putnam woman, Mrs. Emily N. Chapman who presided in Oakland R l.
 Representative Brown is eharE' with perjury committed in divorce uTuCcgdiug In which he wHs petition er and in which he was successful Attention coming to Judge Allyn Brown. whopresided at the dieorce trial. that testimony of the petition CT. that he had never been guilty of misconduct. seemed of doubtful vera city. Judge Brown called t to the attention ef States Attorney Arthur M Brown
 bsequently Mrs Isabel Yeomans Brown. wife of the representative brought an action to have the ol= verce annulled and was successful Her husbands arrest followed. Mrs Brown in her cross complaint m the original divorce action alleged un= faithfnlness on the part of her huss band and named as correspondent a Miss Florence Thompson, claiming that her husband was the father of Miss Thompson's three year old child Tn reply to questions concerning this allegation Brown denied that he h7d ever been guilty of misconduct.
 Mrs. Chapman Called
 All of Tuesday morning was spent in getting former court proceed ings into the record of the trial. In the afternoon Mrs. Chapman was called to the stand and testified that she had lived in Oakland for two years and previously lived in Putnam. having gone there from West Thompson in July 1925. She first saw the accused in West Thomp- son in the latter part of April 1e24, when he called at her home with woman who was not Mrs. Brown. There was q baby about three months old with them. The witness said NIT. Brown told the witness the parents f the child were theatrical people who didn't want Co keep Che child and had turned the child over to him to loa@ out for telling the witness that tte chiid's last name was Chester. and tha VamaH said the ehild's name was Mar lafet Elizabeth.
 Tha zlales attorpev had Mss Eloi Oure Thompson stand up m the eeAi .aam and fhc witness saId this MI. tho woman with Brown on the oeea- -lea af lHI#i first call
 4bc witness sHid Miss Thompson came back week later and stayed as Huf=e fee tHs ghild and went @lt4 Mz Chapman when she moved = Putnam Brown visited there seVet5a umls. IateE Nr Chapman moyed te Oakland. taking the child with hers md Brown and Miss Thompson came there sfx aH eight times teRcther n u automobile Ms ThamHou the wit ness said. tald her Brown had adopt ed the baby
 The witness said she was warned hv Brown not to let hls wife in 1T she came there. She did come, the Wit ness said. but she did not follow Browns directions.
 Baby Baptized Here
 Iasf September Brown and Miss Thompson. who was known then as Nrs 1 awrence to the witness, took the baby away. Mir Brown paid her several times for the expense of the child and n. other times the wonan rnve money. which she said came from Brown.
 The witness told of the baptism of the baby gt Putnam ny request f Mrs Lawrence The child was bap- tized as Margaret Elizabeth Brown. born at Fitchburg. Mass. Feb. L. 1924 daughter of Arthur Chestrr Brown and Mrs--Brown. nccord- ing to thc certificate which was pro duced in court