Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-14
bROKAW CASE
RESUMED At
M|NEOLA
FASHIONABLE THRONG
CROWDS COURT ROOM
Fair Plaintiff Holds Her Own in
Cross Examination Ordeal;
Lawyers Issue Contradictory
Statements of Case,

lBy Morning Journal Special LEASED Wire,
New York, Dec. t3.-The ready wit
and cool head of Mary Blair Drokaw.
who seeks decree of separation with
alimony OF $4,000 year from her
millionaire husband. w. Gould Brok-
aw, flashed again today through the
persistent plodding of her cross exam
ination.
AT the times you say your husband
threatened to blow out your brains,
did YOU believe him ?" asked John +.
Mcintyre, counsel for the defense.
Not when he wasn't drinking" re-
turned the witness.
Did he say he would or could do
it?" pursued AIR Mcintyre
In Paris he said he could and in
the south he said he would"
We'll he did not. did hc?" asked
Mr.. Mcintyre as a clincher.
Il think" said the witness swcetly,
you find I am still left
At another time there was uiics-
ton OF what Mrs. Brokaw meant by
'paralyzcd' an adjective she applied
to Mrs, Brokaw's condition on night
when she testified she tclcphoned for
his secretary to take care Of him.
Mrs. Erokaw nmplified her dcfini-
tion as - condition Of helpless in
toNicatlon' and Mr.. Mcintyre immc-
diatcly wished TO know how the wit
ness had qualified as iudge in the
symptoms of drunkenness.
MY varied experience after mar
riagc made me an expert, she re-
torted
The worst weather an Atlantic coast
can show did not dannt
the curious. Many women. richly
rohed motorcd over to Mineola, H. T..
through the slush and crowded the
little court room. The testimony did
not tlisappoint them. MIR Brokaw just
before court convened guvc ont
statement for the press as follows
II have been grossly misreprescnted
by Mrs Brokaw and by members of
her family. Proposition after propo-
sition has been made to me by the
plaintiffs side TO abandon this case if
! should submit to large settlement
Of money"
MIR. Baldwin. Mrs Brollaw's lawyer
issued a counter state
ment in part as follows:
"'rhc statement given out by the de-
fense that the plaintiffs side had I
made overturcs to him to abandon the
case upon payment of large sum Of
money is an unmitigated ana delibcr-
ate falsehood and consistent with the
policy adopted by the defense by try /.
ng the case by unsubstantiated state
ments made without the sanctity of an
Dath."
After these preliminarics both sides ,
got down to the serious business Of the
lay. Mrs. Brokaw was asked if she (
lid not once take poison by mistake .
with no intention of killing herself.
Now wasn't that only "A bluff?'
1ueried Mr. Mcintyre.
"No It was not. replied the witness
Indignantly
II wanted to die"
cigarettes had proved an ombar-
'assing subject for Mrs Brokaw In
previous testimony. Today she tri-
implied over cocktails, of which she
lad only tasted four in her life, she
aid and never before breakfast.
champagne. she thought tasted much
Ike ginger ale.
Mr. Mcintyre began to dclye into
,Irs. Brokaw's bills for dresses. Her
awyet cut him short with an admis-
ion that Mr.. Brekaw had spent 500
90 on his wife in their first year Of
married. life.
Mr. Mcintyre thought the items
poke for themselves.
"I will hardly agree" H.. tustuncod. .