Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
He Related How He Had Served
The Wife With Cocktails in
All Sorts of Shapes.
ALSO DECLARED SHE SMOKED
Justice GiIderslcevc Testified as to
Happy Relations Between Hus-
band and Wife.

New York Dec. 20.-Cocktails and
cigarettes, which have figured promi-
nently In the suit of separation
brought by Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw
against her husband, W. Gould Bro
kaw. again assumed Importance to-
day In tho trial at Mineola. L. l.
Sidney Woods. the Brokaw butler.
testified for the defense that he had
served cocktails to Mrs Brokaw in a
teacup. in tumblers. In shaker. when
she was up and dressed, and when she
was in bed. He was positive that he
had seen Mrs. Brokaw putting
cigarettes and that he had served her
with them in her room. During her
buffers testimony. Mrs. Brokaw, who
in her own testimony would only own
to an experience OF four cocktails and
an occasional cigarette. sat open
mouthed
i carried a cocktail to Mrs, Brokaw
in the sun parlor," continued the
butler land she mentioned to me that
she had discharged her nurse. Miss
See. 1 told her that Miss See had
asked me for liniment to apply to
bruises which she said had been caus-
ed by kicks and lashIngs from a
whip"
WAS the name of the person mention
ed.' asked counsel, "who applied the
whip? Or did the kicking?"
Mrs. Brokaw knew who did it," re-
piled the butler
WAS anything said to indicate that
she had knowledge of the cuts on
Miss Secs limbs?"
Mrs. Brokaw was very cross and
nobody asked her"
Justice Henry H. Gildersleeve, a
friend OF Mr. Brokaw. testified that he
had spent some time at High Point,
\. c., the Brokaw winter country
home. and had always found the hus-
band kind and affectionate toward his
wife.
Quarrels with her husband. which
Mrs. Brokaw said were brought about
by Mr. Brokaw's unreasonable
jealousy and i'll temper, have been as
serted by guests OF the Brokaws at
High point, N c., and elsewhere, to
have been trivial for the most part.
and as much the fault of Mrs. Bro
kaw as of her husband
Mrs. Brokaw's constantly reiterated
tales of trouble so annoyed Mrs. II.
B. Gilbert. Mrs. Brokaw's sister. that
Mr.. Gilgert forbade her COM
ing to their home. Mr.. Gill
bert testified. These tales, in
their inception. at least. were imagin-
airy, largely, Mr.. Gilbert thought,
So far as actual barring of Mrs Bro
kaw from his home was concerned.
Mr.. Gilbert said on cross-eXamination
he could not recall an instance when
she was refused admission.
Asked II Mrs. I3rokaw had not asked
his protection. the witness did not re-
member the incident, nor did he re-
call Mrs. Brokaw's sending her maid
home for her personal belongings.
Mr Brokaw was excited, "very ex-
cited" that night Mr.. Gilbert remem-
bered Mr. Brokaw might have been
drinking and certainly was very much
He thought Mr.. Brokaw
might have been laboring under
what the cross-examiner finally de-
fined for him, after close analysis OF
his views, as trivial exhilaration."
He did not think it strange that Mrs.
Brokaw should have come to his
home that night when she had home
of her own. She did not know her hus-
band was at the Gilbert house when
Sc came tere. te witness said.
Atty Baldwin wanted to know IT
Mr Brokaw had not made Mr. Gilbert
and his wife the medium thorough
which to obtain information about
Mrs Brokaw.
Mr.. Brokaw was highly solicitous
man." Mr. Gilbert admitted. and would
not state positively that Mr.. Brokaw
had never wired the witness to find II
Mrs. Brokaw had gone ito town.