The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-01
". GOULD BR0KAW
SUED BY HIS WIFE
FOR SEPARATION
Charges Cruelty and Failure
toProvide In Papers Sub
mitted to Court.
HE DODGES SERVICE,
Put On False WhiskerS tC
Elude Process erver,
She Alleges.
He DODGES SERVICE.

Mary Blair Rrokaw, through her
lawyers, Griggs, Baldwin & Pierce. Of
No. = Pine street, obtained all order TO.
day from Justice Maddox. Of the Su.
preme Court. a, AIineola. permitting her
to serve her husband, W. Gould Bro
kaw, with notice Of a suit for separa-
ton and maintenance, Mrs. Brokaw
SAYS In her complaint that she believes
her husband 10 avoiding service and that
he has treated her with cruelty and
contempt and has failed to provide FOR
her
According to the complaint submitted
Mrs Brokaw and her lawyers prepare
papers 10 be served on her husband
early last October. When the process
server arrived at the Hotel Netherlands
Mr. Brpkaw, who seemed TO have sensed
the coming sOuall went out, he said,
ITO see a man" He put on false whis.
kes and boarded an automobile around
once since. That vaE a few days later
when he telephoned her TO meet him
az the Laurel House at Lakewood. She
went there and took the process server
with her Mr.. Brokaw, she swears
came out on the porch, saw her with
the process.server, ran back into the
hotel and climbed out OF a back win.
dow and down fre-escape, He made
his way 10 a country club and thence
to his estate in North rolina-H!gh
Point.
Jealous, She Says.
The Brokaws were married IN Septeui.
her, 1901, at Chittenango, \. Y. Ever
since their marriage. says Mrs.
Brokaw, her husband has been unduly
Jealous OF her and has allowed her no
pleasures or freedom OF action. Among
other charges. she says, he forbade her
to go on the street, even with her maid,
unless he accompanied her. He accused
her OF flirting with his friends and with
hers who were among the guests at
the guests were gone to give voice to
these accusations: he broke into her
room at all hours Of the day or night
with the avowed object OF catching her
In compromising relations with persons
with whom she actually had only
formal acquaintance; he intercepted
her letters and read them.
In November, 1907, he brought her
some flowers at the Hotel Seville. he.
cause she was not sufficiently en-.
thusiastic over the offering MIS-
Brockaw says he took the flowers away
and under pretence OF going to he
shaved went out and made himself
conspicuously drunk and returned to
abuse her vocalIy and physically
MIR Brokaw underwent an operation
In Baltimore in November. 1907. She
lived at the sanitarium during his III.
ness there. When she went out for air
she charges, he accused her Of having
AZ intrigue with the surgeon who had
operated on him. Atterward he issued
orders that she must never leave his
presence or his house She asked him
Does tina; mean cannot 60 out or re.
ce,ve visits eScep; with yoI;r family or
mine?" He said: That means | don't
want you to be meeting Jimmy Martin"
She explains In her complaint that MIR
Martin is Mr.. Rrokaw's nephew.
Humllated at Dinner.
Last winter ther. was dinner at
which he revlled and Inundated her In
the presence OF Senator and Mrs. Hor-
ace White. Of Syracuse. Justice Glider.
sleeve, Thomas StuTsis, Mrs. Potter OF
Boston; Samuel Willett, former Master
Of the Meadowbrook Hounds, and Mr..
and Mrs Jules Bache, he spoke inds.
Gently to her, she says. in the presence
OF the seamstress and her maid OF the
way In which she paid undue at,en.
tton to her guests" On that occasion,
she says. ne said to her: Take Your
clothes and &c; the hell out or here or
| will"
III l'ttclNN'l va ldsN NfdIf sUF sNNs,
she entertained Miss jenkins. OF Ralu.
more. Miss Taylor and Mrs Frank
Gould with a Mr.. Holmes. a Mr.. Thomas
and another man whose name Is no,
mentioned. at her home In Great Neck.
Miss Jenkins and one OF the men STAYED
at the place over night. Within a week
she received notice to ge, OF the prem.