The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-25
WOULD OPEN
ARMS TO HER
Brokaw Willing to Take His
Wife Back if She Will
Be Good and Cease Making
Accusations Against Him.

New York, Dec. 24-One week Of hap
piness in two years Of married life was
the best W. Could Brokaw could get out
Of his bargain, he testified in court today.
And yet he is willing to take his wife
back. She, however, seems to prefer sep
araton and $4,000 a year aIimony.
Il bear absolutely no rancor toward my
wife" he volunteered in his testimony to-
day. And if she will promise to be good
1 will take her back in my arms. All 1
want her to promise is that she will not
accuse me Of going with other women
and that she will stop calling me names.
If she makes that promise, 1 will wish
her a merry Christmas and a happy New
Year"
Mrs. Brokaw was not present to hear
her husbands offer Of reconciliation. a
severe cold kept her away today.
Lawyer Doubts Sincerity.
But her counsel was disincIined to credit
BrOkaw's sincerity.
If Mr.. BrokaW means what he said %
commented Mr.. Baldwin to the court.
there is no reason why they should not
be reconciled, but / believe it is nothing
more than a Well-planned scheme to Gre
ate favor for the defendant"
At the resumption Of hearings today
Brokaw was asked to describe the single
week Of welded bliss he would allow. He
was sick at the time, and quarrels and
worry were not good for him, he said.
His physicians advised him not to see
Mrs Brokaw, but he insisted and won.
Loving for a Week.
Il could not seem to get Mrs. Brokaw
off my mind he said. And finally the
doctors said she could visit me. 1 drove
halfway TO meet her and for a week she
was loving and affectiOnate."
BrOkaW's lawyer did not press him for
the quarrel that terminated his one
bright week. Instead, Mr.. Mcintyre
brought out denials that BTokaW ever
set his servants Co spying on his wife, or
that he was jealous of her physicians He
never suspected, he said that Mrs.
BrOkaW would elOpe with one Of the doc
tors, whose name has figured In the suit,
because, said Brokaw, the doctor was too
effeminate.
He never heard his wife mention the
name of "Bunnie' Wells, whose presence
in house party at Great Neck, L. L.,
precipitated the final arrangement He
only knew that a man had slept in his
private room-what man he could not
find out
Man Slept in His Bed.
4 was deeply grieved." testified Bro
kaW, ITO learn that "a man occupied my
room when there were bachelor quarters
upstairs. Nobody except myself had ever
slept in my bed before. 1 had given or
vate room and Mrs Brokaw knew of it %
Brollaw described how close his room
was to his Wife's and how he demanded
the name of the man who occupied it,
BrOkaw then explained why ne twice
broke down the door of his wife's private
room. Every time he tried TO talk con-
fidentially with her. he said, either he
found the door locked or there was a
maid in the room. Once, he admitted,
these tactics drove him to evaporation,
and the other time he feared his wife
had attempted suicide.
He denied that ne ever spent $50 goo in
one year on his wife. A better estimate,
he said, would be $500 curing their
separation he directed his lawyers to pay
her $50 a week.
He denied that he ever spent $4,000 on
jewels for her.
1.-THE most I ever paid, he testified
was LOCO for her engagement ring"
Ibid you ever buy her any other jew
elry?"
eyes. a necklace Of pearls and emeralds
to replace one OF my mothers that she
had been wearing. When ] gave II to her
she said it was paste and threw it in my
face"
As proof that Mrs BTOkaW was mis-
taken about the gems being paste, her
husband said. Mrs. Jimmy Martin aft
erwards offered to buy the necklace.
Mrs. Martin" he said, with an air of
finality, docs not wear paste"
Court adjourned until Monday.