The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-10
Telegraphic Admoni:-
ton That Beats All
Jealousy Records
BROKE DOWN DOOR
After Creating Scene He Follows Wife
to Room and Breaks Down Door
Insisted On AHtOmObiling When He
Was Intoxicated Cheerful Incidents
OF Honeymoon Through France.

kIEW YORK, Dec. 9.-W. Gould
lin Brokaw's telegraphic admonition
to wis wife to be careful whom
she kissed, crimsoned her cheek and
brought tears to her eyes today as it
was read in the supreme court at
Mineola, L. l. Yet this telegram was
! introduced by her counsel, to show
the yeung millionaire's jealousy and
unreasonableness as justifying the
separation for which Mrs. BrokaW is
suing, with 100000 year alimony.
Tne telegram referred to was In
troduced in an interruption of Mrs.
Brokaw's direct examination. 1t was
from Brokaw at High Point, N. c., to
his wife at their place at Great Neck,
L. l., and read as follows:
You know what | told you about
kissing the doctor. When he attempts
to kiss you again, tell him what you
have promised your husband. You
know if he kisses you / should not
want to kiss you again"
Mrs. Brokaw hung her head as the
| message was read and blushed fu-
riously. The name of. the doctor was
not read in court.
Previously in her testimony, Mrs.
Brokaw had told of luncheon at the
Hotel st. Regis, at which DR.. Chap
man was guest and which her hus-
band, she testified, had Interrupted
and made scene, accusing her of
wanting to elope with the doctor. The
doctor on that occasion, she said, had
threatened to have Brokaw arrested
for using tinbecoming language.
Incidents of the honeymoon trip
through France, as related by the
plaintiff, otherwise enlivened tOday's
proceedings. Smashing doors to get
into her room, excessive drinking and
cheerful invitation of his to s'come
and look at new gun and some car
tridges have for you,' were only a
few of the alleged occurrences she
testified had made her life miserable.
At Tours she was forced to leave him,
ishe said, because he insisted in driving
| her in an automobile when she in
sisted he was in no condition to do so.
Letters and kilograms between hus-
band and wife were introduced by
Mrs Brokaw's counsel. 1t is esti-
, mated that the entire bundle as exhi
bited represented about $4,000 in
| telegraph tolls The defendants law
sent some times as many as 20 to S0
messages day and that his wife re-
piled with 200 to 800 word messages,
which she marked collect
Some of the testimony concerning
the trip in France follows:
| "At Tours, after he had taken six
or possibly more drinks, and after
! had pleaded with him not to act so,
he abused me frightfully," testified
Mrs. Brokaw.
He called me worse names than
ever before, and told me to get out
of the car, as it belonged to him. !
went to my room. He came up and
forced me to go down into the dining
room. A physician sat nearby. Then
he leaned over and said in voice
| heard by several diners, I want you
| to stop looking at that man.
when l begged him not to make
scene over nothing and when he con-
! tinued Il went to my room. be-
came very i'll. locked my door and
| refused to let him into my room
Then he broke. in the door He said
| he was boss there; that | would re-
turn to Paris early in the morning
with him, regardless of illness"
Other narratives along this line were
told by the witness, eliminating, she
said. in his departing and leaving her
without funds, with the remark that
she could get back to America fany-
way she could" 1 s
They subsequently met in Paris.
however.
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