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Newton Truant Officer’s Son Witness in CaseIn a courtroom crowded with New- j t n women, the divorce case of Wesley J. Furbush, Newton truant officer and proprietor of a garage and grocery store, against Harriet D. Furbush opened yesterday at East Cambridge before Judge Hardy.Mr. Furbush charges his wife with cruel and abusive treatment and unfaithfulness. There are several corespondents named, and yesterday witnesses for the libelee brought the names of three of Newton’s well-known school teachers into the case in connection with Furbush in an effort to have him identify several letters and postal cards sent to him at the Madison Square Garden in New\ork and to his brother’s address inWfest Newton.BEATEN WITH A POKERDouglas Dinsmore Furbush, the IS-year-«ld son of Mr. and Mrs. Furbush, testified that In November, 1900. when his father was confined to his room by sickness, lie took some oatmeal and hot water to his father’s room at breakfast time the first day he was sick, and as a result was given a whipping by his mother, who told him to stay away from his father. Furbush then went to ins brother Alfred’s house until lie had recovered.Douglas said that he was beaten with a stove poker five or six times for getting up at night to let his father in after his mother had bolted the doors.Furbush was often busy at the store until 10:30 or later at night. When lie reached home, If Douglas did not come to his aid, he was obliged to force a kitchen window and climb into the house over the sink.Took the PhonographSince the middle of the summer Douglas has been living with his father at the honie of his brother, Alfred 'J'. Furbush. Up to that time lie had lived with his mother. On the day when he left he testified he told his mother that she was wanted on the telephone at a ! house across the street When she left the house lie made his escape with his I clothes and the family phonograph, and went with his father to bis uncle's cottage at tile beach.In the morning session Christina Chisholm, a former maid at the Fur-bus home, testified that Mrs. Furbush bad frequently remarked when her husband departed on business trips that she hated him and wished he wouldnever come back, iThe case will be continued this morning at 9:30.
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Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Feb 17, 1914
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