The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-02
100 POUND COOK ON HER TRAIN
RAINING BLOWS on HER WITH A
POKER, SAYS MRS. BRADY.

Miss Nettie wright Did the sister Ann Act
on the Front stoOp While the Butler
Kent Observation-Disclosures Pool bars
All queries About \ Divorce Suit.
Mrs. Sadie V. Brady. who 80 far has not
succeeded in getting a divorce from her
husband, Daniel NJ. Brady. president OF
the Brady Brass Company, was complain
ant in the West Side court yesterday against
Mary Walton, her negro cook. Mrs. Brady
svore that Mary, who is a native OF Vir-
einia and speaks with a decidedly Southern
accent, had beaten her, pulled her hair
knocked her down and in the language
of the complaint "kicked complainant
with her booted foot"
While all Of this was going ON. it was
alleged, John O'Neill. the butler, was stand
ing around doing nothing in particular,
and Miss Nettie Wright, a trained nurse.
was out on the front stoop Of the Brady
house at SO West Seventy sixth street await
ing the arrival OF cop for whom she had
telephoned.
Mrs. Brady between thumps, was calling
to Miss Wright, do you see them coming
Nettie?" very much after the fashion Of
Bluebeard's last wife, while Miss Wright
replied NO for fully five minutes, and
Mary Walton stood on the train Of Mrs.
Brady's long morning gown so that Mrs.
Brady could not escape.
Mrs. Brady testified that the grass in the
back yard was getting long and she went
down to the kitchen to get the sickle for
John to out It.. She was looking for the
sickle. she said, when Mary attacked her.
Why Mary attacked she did not know, for
certainly she had not accused the cook Of
stealing.
But Mary attacked. and the attack was
vicious and unexpected. While blows from
poker rained upon her head and shoulders
Mrs. Brady stood helpless, for cook weighed
$50 pounds, and that weight on her train
was more than she could overcome. Also.
cook had large knife, but she did not use
it.
When Edmund Brown, counsel for tho
cook, cross e IA mined Mrs. Brady the first
question he asked her was Have you not
importuned the defendant to appear az a
witness In a suit OF yours?'
-Objection sustained" cried Magistrate
Pool.
But, your Honor, there has been no
objection, saio Brown.
Don't care: there should have been
the question Is improper. You can't
ask it.
Didn't the policeman tell you that he
| could make no arrest for disorderly con-
duct and WASH t. but the rest of Brown 3
question was cut short by the rapping Of
the Magistrates gavel.
Then Mary Walton had her say. She
declared that she had not struck Mrs,
Brady-simply pushed her hands away
when Mrs. Brady insisted en- examinin
| locker.
Deere was lot of soiled cloes dere !
! didn't want her to see dat's why | pushed
her hands, cause was ashamed Of havin
the cloess aroun',' said Mary.
Den Mis- Brady certainly gives me a
push an falls on her train.
Did you excuse yourself for that?'
asked the lawyer.
Il certainly 'scused myself-Mis' Brady
| knows Use got good manners. But amt
never hit her. She amt paid me my 1925
| what was due me an she didn't like me
| cause I wouldn' testify for her In divorce
suit"
John, the butler said that he had seen
| Mary push Mrs. Brady, but he had not seen
| the cook beat his mistress, though he did
hear screams from the kitchen after he
| had gone up stairs
Miss Wright testified that Mrs. Brady
had called to her for help and told her to
telephone for policeman, and she had
seen Mrs. Brady lying on the floor
| Magist rate Pool held the cook in 500.