The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
Mrs. BrOkaw Excused From
Stand After Five Days.
Her Husband Will Be Heard in
His Own Defense.
He WAS PARTICULAR.
Objected to Her Association
With Mrs. Frank Gould.
Plaintiff Is clustered by Ques-
lions Regarding Bunnie Wells.

!. New York. Dec. 15.-Although Mls.
Blair Brokaw's ordeal on the witness
stand ended when court adjourned yes
terday there was little dininution Of
interest in today's session Of the trial
of her suit for a separation from her
husband, w. Gould Brokaw, with ST.
500 month alimony. =.
Principals and attorneys were on
hand early in the Mineola court room
and there were protracted consultations
as to the days course OF procedure.
1t was said. however that much of
the day would be taken up by the tes-
timony of other witnesses for Mrs.
Brohaw in confederation of her asser-
ton that she was subjected to unjust
espionage by servants. had her liberty
restricted anG. was. otherwise made mis-
cradle by her husbands jealousy and
fits of temper.
1t was indicated that the testimony
of servants on the Brokaw estate at
Great Neck night play a considerable
part in the DEVELOPMENT of the case
for the plaintiff.
Possibility that presentation of evil
.dence for Mrs. Brokaw might be COM
pleted and Mr.. Brokaw take the stand
in his own defense stimulated inter-
est.
Love messages by telegraph instead
play. near the close of her testimony,
when Mrs. Brokaw was at Great Neck
and her husband was in the south. In
these messages Mrs. Brokaw said she
vas keeping her promises" and was
very good" and not infrequently the
kilograms concluded with love or
much love-
House Party at Great Neck.
Mrs. Brokaw was int --rogated about
house party at Great Neck at which
Mrs. Frank Gould was a guest. She
said her husband ordered her not to
associate with Mrs. Gould. The witness
vas agitated when questioned about
"Bunnie'' Wells. who attended the house
party. She said she did not know Mr..
Wells very we'll
In the further ventilation of the diff
ficulties Of Mr.. and Mrs. Brokaw it
was testified that it was Mr.. Brokaw
who first threatened to sue. A telegram
from him 70 Mrs. Blair, his mother-in-
law, was the medium of this informa-
ton, and it also contained his version
of the incident that assumed the great
est Importance. The telegram ran as
follows:
81 have closed my house and am
sorry to say 1 must sue Mary for a
separation. Her act eliminating in a
house party last Sunday night forced
me to this step. She entertained three
ladies and three men that day. Two
of the ladies 1 do not approve of and
the third I don't know at all. ] do not
know the men. She allowed one man
to occupy my bedroom over night
after putting my nurse and one lady
in bachelors quarters. She refused to
give me the names of the men in
spite of my request /.
]. F. Mcintyre, Mr.. Brokaw's law
yer, began drilling into all the attend
ant circumstances of this continuation
house party with great circumstan-
TALLY Mrs. Brokaw parted his ques-
lions as skilfuliy as ever, but showed
some agitation over the insistance laid
on the personality of "Bunnie'' Wells,
one of the guests. 2
Had Known Him Five Years.
Mrs. Broxaw testified she had first