New-York tribune., 1909-12-29
BROKAW ON RACK
QUIETED BY COUNSEL.
Considered Client Too Eager
to Make Explanations.

Mineola, Long Island, Dec % (Special).
w. Gould Brokaw to-day underwent an
| other gruelling cross oss-eXamnation by Ar
| thur Baldwin. who is counsel for his wife,
Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw, in her suit for
separation and maintenance. In many
cases he denied having said certain things.
only to be confronted by letters he had
written. which. according to counsel.
showed that he had made the remarks in
question.
One letter was produced Which Brokaw
had written to Mrs ]. A. Blair. mother of
Mrs. Brokaw, in which he said that his
wife did not love him at the time that
they were married; that she then loved
and still loved another man. and that
when she went to Manhattan without her
nurse, Miss Jeffries, she found means to
telephone talk and write to this other
man.
We'll. they can be married after Mary
and I are divorced, the letter went on to
say. Mary will be sorry when I am far
away and it is too late"
The letter also complained that Mrs.
Brokaw took too much port wine; that she
had taken three glasses day in Paris.
and that she smoked cigarettes
When he first took the stand this morn
ing Mr.. Brokaw told why Walter ByfOrd
MS secretary, na0 broken IN tne door or
the Great Neck house, declaring that he
did not want to do it because he had been
accused Of the same thing before, and that
Byfnrd any way was much stronger
than he.
Brokaw denied that he had ever accused
his wife of taking drugs.
Did you not take her to DIR. Peterson to
see if her nerves had been affected by
drugS?" Mr.. Baldwin persisted
Il don't remember was the answer.
Mr.. Baldwin then asked Brokaw if he
had ever accused his wife of meeting other
men, and was promptly answered in the
negative. 1t was then that Mr.. Baldwin
introduced the letter from Brokaw to Mrs
Blair. John F. Mcintyre. counsel for Mr.
Brckaw. tried to have the letter excluded
but in vain.
The letter to Mrs. Blair also accused his
wife of looking through his closet and
desk for anything she could find.
Il should have included my pockets in
that letter." said the witness. disregarding
the efforts of Mr.. Mcintyre, who was at
great pains throughout the day TO keep
the witness quiet Mr.. Brokaw often in
! sisting on voluntary statements and ex-
plantations when they were of no benefit TO
his case.
The letter to Mrs. Blair also accused
Mrs. Brokaw of meeting some one in the
Holland House only few days before it
was written said Mr.. Baldwin. Tell
the court what you meant by that and
whom your wife met in the Holland
House"
Il don't recollect," said the witness, II
guess 1 was mistaken"
Mr.. Brokaw said he could remember no
quarrel with his wife from the time they
r-ria ~.
year. a period of about four months
Mr.. Baldwin asked Brokaw if he had not
cabed to Byford on December IA from Gar
den City. Mr.. Brokaw said he could not
recolleCt.
rs it not fact, Mr.. Brokaw," continued
the lawyer, that Byford told you he had
written a number OF letters to Mrs Bro
kaw and that he would prefer not to testify
at the traI?'
Again Mr.. Brokaws reply was that he
had forgotten if such were the case.
Did you not cable him TO keep out of
New York State?' asked Mr.. Baldwin.
II did not" answered the witness, who
further denied that he had sent him money
with which to come home, but later ad-
mitted that he had made a remittance to
Byford which. however, he said, was be-
fore the time first mentioned.
denying lmputatonS of drinking habits.
Brokaw said he did not consider one who
took less than seven or eight drinks a day
a drinking man.
DO you recall asked Mr.. Baldwin that
when You went to Europe once Mrs
Brokaw insisted that you deposit 500 with
me SO that she could get home if you
abandoned her there you had done be
fore?'
Il do. replied the witLess amid chorus
of objections by all three of his counsel
You agreed to take care of her and pro-
vide funds for her return in case of a
quarrel while you were abroad Did you
live up 10 that agreement"
81 do not recall" was the reply.
"As matter of fact you stopped pay
ment a French banking house order
which you gave your wife and wired Mr.
Bush not to pay me the amount, did YOU
not?"
But here again. in the former in
stance, Mr.. Brokaw failed to remember.
and thereafter held himself in to the end
of the days session.