The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Chaplin Suit Over
 Until Next Tuesday
Joan Barry SObbing When Comedians Attorney Fine ished His Bitter Examination of Her Yesterday

Joan Barry, who couldn't remem- Der whether the light was on dur ing @ passionate interlude on fire front rug and who wept because ambitious young girls sometimes grow up to be women more con- cerned with money than morals.
 Miss Barry, broken and sobbing when Chaplin's attorney, Charles E. (Pat) Millikan finished his bit- ter croSS-examination of her yeS- terday, will return to the witness stand the way after Christmas for more direct testimony under the guidance of her own attorney in her effort to prove the multi-mil- lionaire comedian is the father of her 14-month-old daughter, Carol Ann.
 Millikan kept her on the stand all day yesterday, and toward the end of his cross-eXamination of her intimacies with Chaplin was slowed almost to 8 Standstill by hysterical sobbing.
 The red-haired witness admitted she swallowed iodine and sleeping tablets in & suicide attempt on New Years Eve of 1943, the night after Chaplin dropped her of at the Beverly Hills police station when she told him she was broke and homeless.
 She said she went to the apart ment of Hans ReuSch, @ writer, where she undressed and donned pair of his pajamas.
 Did you telephone the news papers that a girl was about to commit suicide in his apartment?" Millikan asked.
 "Yes," wept Miss Barry.
 Did you phone the same in- formation to the receiving hos pital?"
 "Yes. A man came and took me to the hospital"
 Judge Willis leaned down from the bench.
 Were you ill?" he asked.
 "You see, your honor," Miss Barry said, twisting her sodden handkerchief and whirling around in her chair, I'm not allowed to tell my part of the story. Yes, was ill. I had taken some sleep ing tablets"
 Also some iodine?" asked Milli- kan.
 "Yes," she said, and lost all her composure.
 When she was calm again Milli- kan handed her two letters she wrote to Chaplin from Tulsa, Okla.
 Did you write these?" he ask ed.
 T can't go on with this" she cried. T can't. I can't!"
 In mysteries. she fled from the stand back into the arms of her attorney, 77-year-old Joseph Scott, who clasped her in his arms and glared at Millikan.
 How much longer will this have to go on?" he demanded.
 Millikan read the letters aloud and offered to agree to an ad- journment. Then Scott changed his mind.
 T apologize for Miss Barry's outburst," he said, but we prefer to continue testimony and get it over with today"
 Miss Barry wept as Millikan read the letters, which said in part
 My Dear Charles: You're right, I'm crazy. I'm so sick of life as 1t stands today. Why am I here having to go through with a cheap intrigue for a few stinking dol lars? When I was in school I felt things stirring within me that were fine. Why do we have to grow up into cheap, little gold-digging bitches? Goodnight, dear. Joan
 Earlier, Miss Barry described a firelit interlude on the comedians living room rug around midnight. Dec. 30, 1942.
 We sat on the couch," she said T touched his hair, he kissed me a few times and he asked me if I still loved him. I said I did Then we were together again."
 You mean you had relations, , Millikan asked.
 "YeS."
 Miss Barry said she couldn't re- member if the lights were on. but there was a glow from the fire place.
 Did you have relations on the rug or the hearthstone?"
 "On the rug"
 She dissolved into tears when Millikan asked her about her as- sociations with other men.
 All that means nothing here, , she walled.
 Judge Willis ruled "the entire life of the party in relations re- sulting in pregnancy is open to question" A lady juror handed Miss Barry handkerchief.
 She admitted she spent a week in Tulsa, Okla, and that million aire oil man J. Paul Getty paid her bills, but she denied she spent any time in a hotel with him.