New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-22
BROkAW QUARRELS
DIR. POU TESTIFIES.
Wife Coliapses and Has to
Le0Te Courtroom.

Mineols. Long Island. Dec. q CspecisD.-
Testimony was given to day AZ the trial
Of the suit OF Mrs. W. Gould Brokaw for
separation from her husband and $50. Oo0
year slimony that she also used hard
names occasionally. despite the efforts 81
Arthur Baldwin. her counsel. 20 keep il
from the record.
sidney +. Woods, the Brokaw butler.
was on the stand during the morning.
giving testimony regarding cocktails he
had made which he supposed were for
Mrs Rrokaw. when the plaintiff broke
down and wept. finally leaving the court
room and going into The corridor where
her brother. J. l. Blair. triad TO comfort
her. IL developed that Mrs Blair. the
mother Of Mrs. Brokaw. was very IN at
Westbury with pneumonia and that IL was
worry over her condition that caused Mrs.
Brokaw's collapse and not the buffers tes-
timony. as generally had been supposed
At the opening this morning Mr.. Bald
win asked for an additional allowance Of
5000. Mr.. Mcintyre. counsel for Mr.. Bro
ksw. opposed this on the ground that his
client could not afford IL. Justice Putnam,
however. said he would allow $4,000. and
will confirm the application tomorrow.
On cross-examination Woods. the butler.
admitted that he had never seen Mrs. Bro
ksw drink any kind Of alcoholic beverage.
The next witness was Dr. Robert Pou.
who had been with the Brokaws on one of
their Southern trips. and also through
France when much Of the trouble occurred.
He testified that ne had heard Mrs. Bro
ksw call her husband several names He
irritable and he considered his condition
n
picious treatment Of him.
III. Pou testified that he had often seen
Mrs. Brokaw lock her room at Great Neck
when he broke I'm the door he heard Mrs.
Brckaw tell him to 60 away and let her
sleep.
Speaking Of the ride from Tours to Paris.
when Mrs. Brokaw would not go in the car
With BrokaW. alleging that he was intoxi-
Gated and wanted TO drive, Or. Pou said
that he was with Mr.. Brokaw a all times
and never saw any signs OF intOxication
and never saw him take a drink on the
trip.
on cross-eXamination Dr. Pou said that
Brokav had. 20 his knowledge. threatened
many times 20 leave Mrs. Brokaw. and i'm
fact at one time had left her and gone half
way 10 New York. when he decided TO re
turn. He stated that he had seen Mr..
Brokaw drinking many times. and that
liquor excited him so much that at one
time he ordered the butler TO lock il up
and keep il away from him.
Olga Olender. a chanIbermaid in the Bro
kaw homes for some years. testified that
She had often heard Mr.. and Mrs Broksw
quarrelling
The last witness Of the day was Margaret
Murray. chambermaid at the Great Neck
place during December. 1905. when the ia
nous luncheon and "Bunnie" Wells Incl
dent occurred. She stated that she mad
not been ordered AT that time 10 prepare
a room in the bachelors quarters for any
one; that the rooms there had no blankets
nor electric light globes. but that she
could have procured them and made n
room ready in less than a half hour.
Mr.. Mcintyre stated tonight after ad-
journment that he would put Mr. Brokaw
on the stand tomorrow morning.