Putnam patriot., 1930-01-02
MRS. BOSWORTH FAILS
 IN DIVORCE ACTION
Plaintiff and Defendant Chief Witnesses.-Lack of Cor roboration Found by
 Court
Husband Undoubtedly Lying Says
 Judge Ieomans

AA utN uttiHt1f lHE the de-
 tendant n the superior court, Tues
 day afternoon, in the case of Mrs.
 Daisy G. Bosworth against her hus-
 band, Burton D. Bosworth of Pomfret
 and East Woodstock, Judge Yeomans
 said: There Is no doubt that the
 defendant was lying on the stand and
 perhaps ought to go to states prison. lt has always been my custom to re- fuse to grant a divorce on the uncor- roborated testimony of the plaintiff.
 The only eorroboration in this case is the demeanor of the defendant and I
 do not feel that is sufficient. Petition denied"
 ! Judge Yeoman's reference to the ! demeanor of Bosworth while on the ! witness stand was to his lack of mem ory and evasiveness while under cross examination Most of his an- . swers to questions of plaintiffs coun-
 sel were, T don't remember; I can't
 say; l don't recollect; 1 have no idea" He could not remember how much money he had deposited in banks or
 the names of the different banks. He could not remember how much he
 withdrew from banks after he had notice of the divorce proceeding. He
 at first could not remember whether he received receipt from Mrs. Morris
 when he paid her $500. Later he said
 he did receive such a receipt but that
 he destroyed it. He said he did
 not know where the cancelled check he
 gave Mrs. Morris was but on request
 of his own counsel he produced it after
 the noon recess. He said that he could
 n't find the receipt as he did not know
 where 10 look for it. the same receipt
 he had previously said he had des-
 troyed. Bosworth couldn't remens-
 Der whether he invited the Hackett girl Co come to the farm in Pomfret
 while his wife was away or whether she invited herself. He couldn't re-
 member whether he telephoned her
 or she him. He denied all of the mate
 rial allegation made by his wife and
 said he had never been intimate with
 the Hackett girl.
 In her writ for divorce. returned to the superior court last August. Mrs.
 Bosworth. a former nurses helper at 2 the Day kimball Hospital. alleged her
 marriage to Bosworth in East Wood stock, November %, 1925, charged him
 with being the father of child born to Catherine Haekett of Putnam last : July, asked for a divorce, alimony and custody of minor child The writ ordered attachment of the defendants estate to the amount of $lO0,000.
 Admitted Unfaithfulness i Mrs Bosworth was the first witness , and told of her marriage to the de
 fendant in East Woodstock, Novem-
 Der 2Gth, 1925. She emphasized that ; her husband had admitted to her that
 he was the father of the Hackett wo- r mans child. She said he told her that he couldn't deny it but he had been a in other serapes and had gotten out
 of them and would get out of this one. ? She told of a time when she went : with her husband to see the Haekett { girls mother, Mrs. Minnie Morris, in | Putnam. At that time Mrs. Morris : said Co her husband, You haven't any
 heart at all. Mrs. Morris told her - husband. Bosworth, that the baby had
 got to have clothes. He asked her n whether it would be S25 or so. On the v way home plaintiff told her husband V that she was going to divorce him and | he told her to go to--"using profan- t fly, said the witness.
 To Keep Away
 e Mrs. Bosworth said that she Hack s ett girl is her half cousin. That she l. came Co the house frequently. At first n at her request. When shc became
 suspicious she told the girl to keep
 away but her husband invited her tG
 come back. She said that while she , was visiting her mother, Bosworth had
 the Hackett girl at the farm in Pom z fret and that she was there the day E before and the day the house burned z On cross examination she told of h leaving Bosworth the first of August < When she accused him of being the
 father of the child he didn't deny it.
 He said, 'Yes l am the father and [ have got to see it through"
 Ask For Recess
 f Miss Hackett, the correspondent. 5 was the second witness called. As she p took the stand defendants counsel , asked for a short recess. When court
 reconvened Attorney William A. King 2 of Willimantic took a seat at the
 counsel table and announced that he
 was there as counsel for Mrs. Nor
 ris and to look out for the interests
 of Miss Hackett. When questions were put to Miss Haekett, leading up to
 her being questioned about the birth of a child, Mir. King interposed an objection on the ground that an ans- wer might tend to incriminete her. All questions that had q tendency to connect the witness with a child or with Bosworth were excluded by the court and exceptions noted. All that Miss Hackett testified Co was that she knew Rosworth about five years. visited the Bosworth home, was there the day before and the day following the fire while Mrs Bosworth was away and went home at night.
 Gave Her $500
 Mrs. Minnie Morris. mother of Miss l Hackett, was the second witness. She testified in reluctant manner. She
 said that she met Boswcrth in At torney Kings office. She could not re- member much of the conversation she
 had with him but said that Bosworth told her he wasn't guilty of being the father of her daughters child. She tcid him she was under a heavy ex. pense on account of the trouble and needed money. He said he wasn't guilty but did give her $500 ir Au" the only money he ever gave at .ae said she gave him a reccip an' tat was the only paper signed.