The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-13
SAYS BROWNE
NAGGED BOY
He WANTS
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another glass of n gave the
boy five cents for the two glasses. Mrs.
browne also said hat at the table the
father always nagged the boy, who was
delicate and could eat only certain food,
that he ought to be made to eat every
thing.
Mrs. browne was shown a picture
postal card sent to the boy by browne,
and she identified 1t. Her lawyer told
the vie~e-chancellor that on the card
was a picture of men playing cards, a
game of poker, and he said that was
not & proper picture for a father to
send to his young son.
On cross-examlnation Brownies law
Yer had to request Mrs browne to an
swer questions n not ak so fast.
She admitted that browne did not
charge her mother for board for seven
years, but she said he made her father
pay board Brownies lawyer then tried
TO show that Mrs. Brownies parents
were not well-to-do. and that she had
never lived SO we'll as after she be-
came Brownies wife.
Mrs. Brownies lawyer made the point
that whether her parents were rich
or not before her marriage had nothing
to do with the matter before the court
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the custody of her boy.
Questioned about her trip to. Europe with
her mother IN 1905. and IL browne did not
pay $500 for the expenses, she said she and
her mother lived economically In Europe,
stopping at boarding houses, except In
Paris. where they boarded at a hotel. She
said browne allowed her 800 a month. and
with this money she bought her clothing,
and she said she did not think 500 a month
a large allowance from a man as rich as
her husband.
81 expect his father to pay for the sup
port OF the boy and his education. ! could
support my boy If | wanted 10, and |
fatter myself I could make a good salary"
said the witness.
She admitted that she had never worked
at a trade or earned money by working,
but she again expressed confidence that If
forced to 1t she could make a good living
for herself and the boy.
Mrs. browne was asked by the lawyer
II she had not received letters from DIR.
Stewart Reed in London, and she re-
piled that she had and showed them to
her husband. She was shown a letter
dated 1906. and she identified 1t. She said
his full name was Robert Stewart Reed.
The letter and a postal card from the
doctor were offered In evidence.
you grew to know the doctor very
well?" the lawyer remarked.
She tried TO explain, but the lawyer
would not let her, and she said the doctor
was very kind to her and did go to an ole
English castle with her, but her mother
was with her. She said the doctor was
appointed surgeon on an English steamer
and left London before she and hei
mother sailed for New York. She said he
called her, the boy and young people and
a - sfTyia1ta - IL 80 tn fhe
theatre with him In London and Paris, She
said, but she denied that she ever wen
with him to and from london and Paris.
A letter from DR.. Reed WAS shown Il
her. She said she had never received 1t
She asked for the envelope. She wa
shown the letters purporting TO have bee
written by DIR Reed. She says she coul'
/ not swear to the handwriting of the let
tiers. She denied emphatically that sh
over received a steamer letter from d.
Reed.
Where is the e%nvelope?" Mrs. Drown
asked.
IT don't know said Brownies lawyer
IF you do not"
'T do not" she answered. FOR l neve
saw the letter before She added: Z"
showed all the DOCTORS letters to MI
browne. and I did not put them In
bureau, but laid them on a table, any
WntItt III thtiG was HO1AAhb III thtAi 1
hide"
The lawyer tried to show by Mrs
browne that she was too intimate witt
one Laid, because he stayed over nigh
al her home, where she and her mother
were, and that she went to an Old GuarC
ball with Ladd. She denied that SHE
went with Ladd to the ball, but said SHE
saw him there. She said Ladd was sicf
the night he asked to stay at her house
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In his staying. She and her mother made
mp the bed for him. She said both of them
wore klmonos. She did not walker heI
husband.
"Dr. browne never objected TO Mr.. Ladd
being at the house. Mrs. browne testified.
Il hreakfasted with my husband the mex
morning, for l slept with my mother, who
got up early, and l arose with her. / gen
orally had breakfast in bed"
Brownies lawyer failed to entrap or ever
confuse Mrs. browne, whose answers were
ready and clear to his questions. Her case
reminded an old newspaper man of tbs
case of Harriet E. Ridgeway, whose hus
band sued her for divorce in Newark II
1879, for browne. like R%idgeway, Is {
slender man, and his wife. like Mrs. Ridge
way, is a beautiful and clever woman, am
Ridgeway, who lost his suit, was madly
jealous OF his fascinating wife.
AiCe-1ldllctlioF OlestHH QUESTIONED AIH
browne as to what caused her to make vi
her mind to leave her husband. she said
1t was because of his constant fault finding
and talking. and that she waited for tive
years to save enough money to supper
herself and boy. She said she told browne
before she went to Europe early in 1885,
that she had lost all respect for him. She
said he gave her $10,0O0 In 1904, but he
Inundated her when she asked for money,
che did not like to ask again.
She said in reply to her lawyer that she
often asked browne to let her go once
She could not remember that he ever said
to her that he thought the $4,000 he gave
her would satisfy her. She said Jhe left
her home April 20, 1906.
Mrs. browne was succeeded on the wit.
ness stand by one of the men who played
cards with Mr.. and Mrs. browne in their
New York apartments In the Windsor
Hotel. He swore that he never saw Mrs
browne or any other person under the in
huence of liquor at the card parties.
A. N. Purdy. connected with the Mer'
chants and Traders Bank, New York,
for twenty-five years, swore he knew Mrs
browne for twenty years, never saw her
under the influence Of liquor. He said he
first wife, yet living, was intimate with
the Brownies, but his present wife never
visited their home.
Mrs. Purdy said Mrs. browne often called
at her house, was never anything but re-
spectacle. She had seen Mrs. browne drink
q "hlgh balF' at a Bergen Point hotel,