The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-14
WIFE SAYS BROkAW
WAS ''PARALYzED"
Young Plaintiff in Sensational
Divorce Furnishes Sensa-
tiOnS for Hearers.
BOTH COOL AND WITTY
UNDER CR0SS-EXAMINATI0N
Tells of When Husband Threat
ened TO Shoot Her; She
Wanted to Die

NEW YORK. Dec l3.-The ready
wit and cool head of Mary BLAIR Bro
kaw, who seeks decree of separation
with alimony of 100000 Il year, from
her millionaire husband, W. Gould Bro
kaw, flashed again and again today
through the persistent proddlng OF hcr
cross examination.
cat the times YOU say your husband
threatened to blow out your brains
did Won believe him7' asked John i,
Mcintyre, counsel for tho defense;
mot when he wasn't drinking, rc'
turned the witness adroitly.
Did he say he would OF could do
it?n pursued Mr. Mcintyre.
''In Paris he said he could. and in
the South he said he would
''Well, he did not, did hcf' asked
Mr.; Mclntyre, as a clincher
81 think said the witness sweet
", "you find l am still left. -
Question Of Definition,
All another time there was ques-
tiun Of what Mrs Brokaw meant by
tparaly2ed,' an adjective she applied
10 Mr.. Brokaw IS condition on n night
when she testified she telephoned for
his secretary to take care of him.
Mrs. Brokaw amplifcd her definition
into ga condition of helpless intoXlca-
ton. and Mr.. Mcintyre Immediately
wished TO know how the witness had
qualified rs n judge in the symptoms of
drunkenness.
"My varied experience after mar
riagc made nc an expert she re-
Iorted.
The worst weather an Atlantic coast
northeastcr can show did not daunt the
curious. Many women. richly robcd,
motored over To Miueola, L. l., through
the slush and rain and crowded tho lit
tie courtroom. The testimony did not
disappoint them. Mr.. Brokaw lust be-
fore court convened gave out a state.
ment for the press, in part as fol.
lows:
Defendants Statement.
81 have been grossly misrepresented
by Mrs Brokaw and by members of
her family. Proposition after propo-
sltion has been made TO me by the
plaintiffs side TO abandon this case If
L should submit TO n large settlement
of money!
Mr.. Baldwin, Mrs. Brokaw's lawyer,
immediately issued a counter state
ment. in part as follows:
1.-The statement given out by the de-
fense that the plaintiff IS side had made
overtures 10 HIM to abandon the case
upon payment of a large sum OF money
hood. and consistent with the policy
adopted by the defense by trying the
case by unsubstantiated statements
made without the sanctity of an oath -
After these preliminaries both sides
got down TO the serious business of the
day. Mrs. Brokaw was asked if she
did not once take poison by mistake
with no intention of killing herself.
She Wanted to Die.
Now, WASH t that only bluff9n
queried Mr.. Mcintyre.
"No, it was mott replied the wit
ness, Indignantly; 81 wanted TO die. :"
Cigarettes had proved an embar-
RAISING subject for Mrs Brollaw in
previous testimony. Today she
iriumphed over cocktails, Of which she
had only tasted four in her life, she
said. and never before breakfast.
Champagne, she thought, tasted much
like oingeralc.
Mr. Mcintyre began 10 delve into
Mrs Brokaw's liking for dresses. Her
lawyer cut him short with an admis.
sion that Mr.. Brokaw had spent
$780, 900 on his wife in their first year
al married life.
Mr.. Mcintyre thought the items
spoke for themselves.
81 viii 'ardlv agree he instancnd
ithat couple Of hundred dollars
worth OF cogsets were used by Mr.
Brokaw.
Mr.. Brokaw himself. who is far from
puny. Joined IN the laugh that fol.
lowed.