The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-14
Terrific Storm Failed to Keep
New York Women Away
From Sensational Divorce
Suit of Wealthy BrOkaws.
CROSS EXAMINATION
OF FAIR PLAINTIFF
Having Testified That Her HuS-
band Was "ParaIyzed,D She
Said Married Life Made Her
an Expert on Drunkenness,
TASTED FOUR COCKTAILS

New York. Dec. 13.-The ready wit and
cool head of Mary Blair Brokaw, who
seeks a decree Of separation. with ALI
mony of $4,000 a year, from her million
aire husband, w. Gould Brokaw. flashed
again and again today through the per
sistent Flooding Of her cross-examina-
ton.
AT the time you say your husband
threatened to blow out your brains did
you believe him2" asked John L. McIn-
tyre, counsel for the defense.
Not when he wasn't drinking" re-
turned the witness adTOitiy.
Did he say he would or could do it?'
pursued Mr. Mcintyre.
In Paris he said he could and in the
south he said he would.
well, he did not, did her" asked Mr.
Mcintyre, as a Cliucher.'
Il think, said the witness, sWeetly,
you find L am still left
Able to Define 1t.
At another time there was a question
Of what Mrs. BrOkaW meant by para
lyzed, an adjective she applied to Mr.
BrOkaW's condition on a night when she
testified she telephoned for his secretary
to take care of him.
Mrs. BrOkaW ampiified her definition
into "a condition of helpless intOXiCatiOn, ."
and MIR. Mcintyre Immediately wished to
know how the witness had qualified as
"a jug III tA-1 - tllEANAAAo VI vi +AtlfAEll-
ness.
MY varied experience after marriage
made me an expert she retOrted.
The worst weather an Atlantic coast
northeaster can show did not daunt the
curious. Many women richly rObed,
mOtOred over to MiueOla, L. T.. through
the slush and rain. and crowded the lit
tie court room. The testimony did not
disappOint them.
Two Statements Made.
Mr. Brokaw. just before court con-
Vened. gave out a statement for the press,
IN part as follows;
81 have been grossly ulisTepTeseuted by
Mrs. Brokaw and By members Of nef fam
lly Proposition after proposition has been
made to me by the plaintiffs side to
abandon this case If I should submit to
large settlement of money.
Nh Baldwin Mr.. BrokaW's lawyer. inn
mediately issued a counter statement, in
part as follows:
''The statement given out by the de-
Tense that the plaintiffs side had made
Overtures to him to abandon the case up
on payment of q large sum of money is
an Unmitigatad and deliberate falsehood.
and consistent with the policy adopted
by the defense of trying the case by un-
substantiated statements made without
the sanctity OF an OATH
After these prehminaries, both sides got
down to the serious business of the day.
Mrs BrOkaW was asked if she did not
once take poison by mistake with no
intention of killing herself.
Was Not Bluffing.
Now, wasn't that only a bluff" quer-
led Mr.. Mcintyre.
NO it was not" replied the witness,
Indignantly. OF wanted to die"
Cigarettes had proved an embarrassing
subject for Mrs. BrOkaW in previous tes-
timOny. Today she triumphed over cock
tails. of which she had only tasted four
i'm her life, she said, and never before
breakfast. Champagne, she thought, tast-
ed much like ginger ale
Mr.. Mcintyre began to delve into Mrs.
BEOkaw's liking for dresses. Her lawyer
cut him short with an admission that
Mr.. Brok8w had spent $4,000 on his wife
in their first year of married life.
Mr.. Mcintyre thought the items spoke
for themselves
Il will hardly agree" he tnstanced,
"that a couple of hundred dollars worth
Of cOrsets were used by Mr.. Brokaw."
Mr.. BrOkaw himself who is far from
Uuuv i0fue6 i'm the 1guuh that followed