The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-02
SHE SAW
MRS. BROWNE
DRINKING
Mrs. Salter, NeighbOr Of
Principals in Sensational
Case, T~estifies Today.


That there will be an acrimonious
and iercely contested battle for tn.
custody of 10-year-old Henry Russell
browne, jr., was made manifest earl,
this morning, when the father Of tlt
child, a prosperous wooden merchant
at 81 Leonard street, New York city
who lives in and owns the handsome
residence, 147 West Thirty-sixth street
that city, was subjected to the cross
examination of Frank P. McDermott
counsel representing Louisa r. browne
formerly the wife of the New York
merchant, and Mrs. Virginia Webh
Forsythe, her mother.
The interests of the parties were rep
resented today by a numerous array
of counsel. Charles l.. Corbin, of Jer-
sey City, and Hamilton & Beckett, of
New York, appeared for Mr.. browne,
and Frank P. McDermott and Peter Fl.
James, of Jersey City. and Hays &
Hershfeld, of New York, for Mrs.
browne. her son and the grandmother.
Mrs. browne ran away from her hus-
band April 20. 1906. to Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, and obtained a divorce
which gave her custody of her boy.
Then the mother and grandmother
brought the child back to Jersey City,
but after a lively scene in a hotel in
that town, they moved to the Latou-
rette House, Bayonne, where they still
reside.
Mrs. browne, the former wife, is a
very handsome matron, hardly 80 years
old. In the direct testimony given by
Mr. nrnuno 1ofo x-oefardau ba do
clared that the beauty of his wife had
drawn about her a coterie of young
men addicted to leading what he de-
scribed as a fast life. He averred that
his wife played poker with these young
men, INDUCED In ten or twelve Scotch
~highballss and made game of him be-
cause he refused to drink and remained
at home. All of these charges the wife
yehemently denies, and the cross-ex-
animation this morning furnished evil
dence that the husband intends to
stick to his story in the hope thai Vice.
Chancellor Stevens. before whom the
husband has brought habeas corpus
proceedings, will find her an improper
person to bring up the child.
All the parties to the suit are
wealthy. Mrs. browne says that her
HQopdio 10 WITH ltOI 1893 lHdH pOuOfuUu,
and hat he enjoys an income from his
business of $500 a year. In the bill
which Mrs. Forsythe, the grandmother,
has brought for an allowance for the
child, Mrs. browne alleges that she
was forced to leave him Because of his
cruelty and parsimony." She says
that her life has been endangered at
critical periods because he would not
aa1 NI.y1toto.. - hat g. kLtu
reason, she AYERS, she has lost one
child. She further declares that he
has never showed the natural affec-
ton of a father for the boy whose GUS
tody he seeks. At the time of the
final separation, when they were living
In the Windsor apartments, 100 Broad
way, and had thirteen rooms, she AYERS
her husband forced her to live and pay
household expenses on $40 a week, a
sum-, she says, utterly inadequate and
out of keeping with their environment
and of his means for their support.
The boy has an estate of $4,000, of
which his father has charge as guar
dian, the court making such appoint
ment May 4, 1906, a month after Mrs.
browne, her mother and the child had
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