The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-30

said he first became acquainted with Mrs.
Browne two or three years before the
marriage. having first met her in New
York where he had been praetioi ing
dentistry about three years. Witness said
Mrs. Browne treated him politely before
marriage. The doctor said that in SO me
of her tits of anger his wife called his
lister vile Names and about two years
Il or marriage he thought that his sister
might have caused the trouble. He
thought Mrs. Browne dislike1 his sister.
General MattockS pursued a very
sharp examination of DR., Browne and
when adjournment came at IL 30 he was
pressing the witness to pariicularize times
in which he charged his wife with apply
ing vile epithets to him.
Lawyers Davis and Mattocks got in a
wordy Wrangle during the direct exami-
nation Wednesday forenoon Davis be-
came somewhat veXed at frequent inter-
ruptions of the opposing counsel and said
that Mattocks was pursuing the same
course of pettlfoggers in New York. This
brought Mattocks to his feet and in q
somewhat ruifled temper he told Davis
that Re was no pettifogger and that he
would settle with him out of court
At 2.30 p. M, the examination of
DR. Browne was resumed.
Gen. Mattocks was very searching in
his questions and probed into the family
6 airs of the Browns, as the doctor de-
soribed them with great diligence. The
counsel tried to get the witness to specify
some particular time when Mrs. Browne
applied these epithets. The witness
could not remember the exact place and
dates. The witness said that at one
time he returned at night and found that
Mrs. Browne had placed her wedding
d-ess in the CRATE. She was in fearful
ye. He found her in that unfortunate
condition. He said that she called him
cai6 cit,c 4
never wear the dress again. He said she
used violence on him number of times.
He desert bed the scratches on his hands
by saying that they looked as though a
cat made them. The counsel asked him
If the scratches had in his opinion injured
his health any. The doctor cautiously
replied that he did not know as they had
he sold his yacht in 30 he never pur-
chased or owned another. The General
asked why he put the letter Z e. on his
name, which was formerly plain Brown.
He said that on looking back on the
family records be. found that his ancestors
had used the letter and he affixed it once
moro as mere fancy. The General asked
with a sarcastic note in voice il he did
not put the letter on his name because
it was more English.
Tax Collector Allen of Bowdoinhan
testified that MIR. Browne paid poll taxes
IN that town in "a, 20, '96 and "
Mrs. ID. e. Robinson of New York, q
sister of DR.. Browne, testified as to the
scene at the residence of the Deak family
on the wedding day when the bride called
her new husband such naughty names
Then r. e. burlington Of Bowdoinham
said that the doctor voted there in the
spring OF '96 and again in the state cleo
ton of the same year.
Next the counsel commenced to read an
aff ire 6f.l~a of
New York City. She deposed that she
had known Mrs. Browne since childhood,
the couple. She had heard Mrs. Browne
call her husband beast, q fool, id
fool, liar, a fend. The families visited
back and forth and she had never known
an occasion when they had sat down to
meal but that she began TRADE of
abuse and without any apparent cause
Witness deposed that she had stood by
Mrs. Browne as long as she could, but
finally sympathized with the Doctor She
attempted to influence Mrs. Browne to
change her course of conduct, and all the
satisfaction she got was this Interrogation
from Mrs Browne. "Don;t all married
couples fight" About the most trivial
matters Mrs. Browne would fly into o
rage and pour torrent of vituperation
on the devoted head of her husband On
one occasion she berated him in violent
manner because he did not think that
cocoa butter would make eye brows
crow And then right at the most in
Dc ,esting part where the audience was
IL tening with straining ears the gas
Il Ehts went out and court adjourned till
morning.