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Show T alley Child Custody Trial Bars Public From Session had been having the Sltterhs investigated in-vestigated or met aha had had a representative call on Bitterly' father in California Si turly la managar of the apartment build- lug In wtiluh Btutui Uee, Miss Talley, who testified that her husband insisted on having the child placed In a hospital under un-der another name after Its birth in St. Paul, Minn, denied repeatedly re-peatedly that she had wished to keep the birth "secret" . The baby was born April 23, 3935, and 12 days later, Miss Talley left for Hollywood to fulfill a movie contract becauea, aha said, Eckstrom insisted that she do so. Miss Talley added to the list of "irrenconoilable differences" which she said existed between her and her husband. Yesterday she said ona of them was his refusal re-fusal to tell her where he was keeping Susan. Today aha said another was his demands on her "for 3150.000.'" She was able to find him, and the child, only by following him to his apartment, Miss Talley aaid. Delaney asked her, shortly before be-fore summoning Bitterly, where Scotto wss: "I don't know," Miss Talley said. She also denied that she had been In communication with blm re-" cently. NEW YORK, May 11 (UP) Supreme Court Refer Richard P. Lydon cleared tha courtroom at Marion Talley'a child custody UkU tuuay when the singer at torney said he feared that th testimony of a defense witness might "result In unpleasant notoriety." no-toriety." Mis Talley, former operatla movie songstress, I suing her husband, hus-band, Adolph Eckatrom. for custody cus-tody of their four-year-old daughter, daugh-ter, Susan. The wMneea was Fred Bitterly, an acquaintance of Aubrey Scotto, . Hollywood motion picture director whose associations with Mis Talley Tal-ley have been brought into the case. ' At ths conclusion of his testimony testi-mony and that of another wltneee or two. the hearing was adjourned to May 25 when Eckatrom will tell his aid of trie story. Bitterly came here from California Califor-nia with his wife and was called to the atand by Frank Delaney, Eckstrom's attorney, out of turn because of his desire to testify and return home. Request Mad When Bitterly was called. John & Keith. Ml Talley'a attorney, arose and asked that Mr. Sitter-.ly. Sitter-.ly. be . excluded from the room while her husband testified. Then he added: "Your honor, I think it would be in th best interests of this trial for everybody sis to leave. This witness' testimony may result re-sult in unpleasant notoriety." Lydon acquiesced and said, "Everybody "Ev-erybody out except Mr. and Mrs. Eckatrom." Miss Talley'a mother and sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Helen Talley and Florence Flor-ence Talley. several witnesses, reporters and a throng of spectators spec-tators were ushered out. Played Phonograph Earlisr in th trial Delaney had aaked Mis Talley, who charged that har husband concealed con-cealed Susan's whereabout from her, whether ah had been In th habit of visiting Scotto's apartment apart-ment in Hollywood. She aaid sha had but only to play hi phonograph, phono-graph, often In the presence of Mrs. Scotto. The director accompanied Mlea Talley to Mamaroneck, N. Y, last February 2 when they visited the home of Mm. Ruth Nelson, Eckstrom's sister, who was caring for ths child. Mm. Nelson called police with the result that Scotto faces trial June 1 on an assault charge. After questioning Miss Talley further about her association with Scotto, Delaney asked her if ah knew Mr. and Mrs. Bitterly. "I do not know who they are and never beard of them," shs replied. , She also denied, in response to questions from Delaney, that she |