Show CRIME EIN IN ITALY IT At Y CRIME IN TALY TAt Y Such Is Contention of Duke Answering Answer Answer- Answering Answering ing Wife's Charges BRIDGEPORT Conn Nov Nev 17 By B The Associated Press Charges Charge of Infidelity brought t by y the Duchess Mary Mry Elsie EWe Moore against her husband Duke Marino of Rome nom were countered In superior court here today by testimony de designed de- de designed signed to show that under Italian It Uan law the acts alleged do not assume the legal le legal le- le legal gal significance they have under American law The case casc of Duchess who Is 1 suing for divorce orce on the grounds of Infidelity was rested and taking of testimony for the defense was con con- concluded concluded concluded late today The only task re remaining re- re remainIng aside from the preparation of briefs Is some deferred cross exam exam- examination of Countess by coun coun- counsel counsel counsel sel for her husband In the event that certain Income tax returns and pass pass- passports passports passports ports now apparently lost are located or replaced by copses copies Duchess formerly Elsie Moore of Greenwich took the stand In her own behalf today and told of her discovery that her husband was maintaining improper relationships with Maria Marla of Rome how she Miss Lorenzino to learn of actual conditions attempted to trail her husband and of how he knocked her down with the back of a heavy mahogany chair after an an altercation SEPARATION She left the duke she said after alter this episode which resulted from her husbands husband's knowledge that she had been following him in June 1925 The next month she came to the United States In October she returned to toRome toRome toRome Rome and instituted separation pro- pro proceeding there against her husband which culminated in a a. separation agreement ratified by the Roman civil tribunal In December 1925 accompanied by byh byh hv h a three children she returned to this country resumed her residence In Greenwich and soon afterward caused to be instituted both naturalization and divorce proceedings in her behalf Her naturalization became effective effe the theIn In July JuI 1927 Duchess was followed on the stand by her brother Charles A. A A Moore of Greenwich who offered cor- cor c corroborative r- r e testimony as to his talks with Duke about the relations of the latter utter with Marla Maria RELATIONS FLAUNTED The duke who was described by his Ills wife as proud of his relations with Miss Lorenzino and as flaunting them in his wife's s 's face lace was quoted by Moore as calling Miss a common cC woman hed he'd throw over o very cry quickly under the tiie right condi condI- conditions Both In examination cross-examination and through the testimony of Its one wit wit- witness ness neS the defense carried through two main maln contentions That the duchess is absent from her husband and is u In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States Illegally and that such are the differences In the t. t e status of husband and wife 1 fe under Italian law lav that for Duke the of offenses of- of offenses offenses complained of do not assume the seriousness they would under American law |