Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-25
BR0KAW WOULD
TAKE WIFE BACK
Out of Two Years of Welded Life
He Managed to Extract One
Week of Happiness,
SHE PREFERS SEPARATION
And Sixty Thousand Dollars a Year
Alimony-Hc Bcnrs No Rancor
Towards Her.

New York, Dec. 24-One week OF
happiness In two years OF married life
was the best W. Gould 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 separation and 100000
a year alimony
i bear absolutely no rancor toward
my wife" he volunteered in his testi-
mony TODAY. And If she will prom
ise to be good, | will take her back in
my arms. All l want her to promise
is that she win not accuse me of
going with other women and that she
will stop calling me names. II she
makes that promise. l 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,
But her counsel was disinclined to
credit Brokaw's sincerity.
II Mr.. Brokaw means what he
said,' commented Mr.. Baldwin to the
court, "thore Is no reason why they
uhould not be reconcilcd, but l believe
IL Is nothing more than a well-planned
scneme TO create favor for the de-
fendant'
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
MN. he said. His physicians advised
him not to see Mr.. Brokaw. but he in
sisted and won.
Il could not seem TO get Mrs Brokaw
off my mind" he said. And finally
hn d.zN !
l drove half way to meet her. and for
a week she was loving and affection
ate"
Brokaw's lawyer did not press him
for the quarrel that terminated his one
bright week In stead. Mr.. Mcintyre
brought out denials that Brokaw ever.
set his servants to spying on his wife.
or that he was jealous of her physi-
clans. He never suspected. he said,
that Mrs Brokaw would elope with
one of the doctors, whose name has
figured in the suit, because, said
Brokaw, the doctor was too ef4ninate
BE never heard his wife mePtion the
rame of "Bunnie" Wells, whose pres
cnce in a house party at Great Neck,
l.. l., precipitated the final estrange-
ment. He only knew that a man had
slept in his private roonl-what man
he could not find out
II was deeply grleyed." testified
Brokaw. ito learn that man occupied
my room when there were bachelor
quarters upstairs. Nobody except my
self had ever slept in my bed before.
] had given orders that nobody should
sleep in my private room, and Mrs.
,Brokaay knew of it,
Brokaw described how close his room
was to his wlfe's and how he demanded
the name of tho man who occupied it.
Brokaw then explained why he twice
broke down the door of his wifes
private room. Every time he tried to
talk confidentially with her. he said.
either he found the door locked or there
was maid In the room Once. he ad-
nitted, these tactics drove him to exas-
perat.on, and the other time he feared
his wife had attempted suicide.
Iie denied that he over spent $4,000
in one year on his wife. better esti-
mate, he said. would be $4,000. During
their separation he directed his law
yers to pay her $50 a week.
THE most / ever paid" he testified.
was $1,000 for her engagement ring"
Did you ever buy her any other jew
elry?"
Yes: a necklace of pearls and emer-
aids to replace one Of my mothor'S that
she had been wearing Whom I gave
it TO her, she said it was paste and
threw it in my face
As proof that Mrs Brokaw was mis-
taken about the gems being paste. her
husband said. Mrs. Jimmy Martin
afterwards offered to buy the necklace.
Mrs. Martin" he said. with an air
of fnality, does not wear paste"
Court adjourned until Monday.