The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-21
The BrOkaw Butler Testifies He
Served Cocktails
To His Mistress on Various and
Sundry Occasions.
LIKEWISE CIGARETTES
The Physical Chastisement of a
Nurse Maid
Is Laid at Plaintiff's Door i'm q
Yelled Way.

New York, Dec. Histories of physi-
cal violence have played little part In
the narration of events which led up
to the separation of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Gould Brokaw. but second hand evi-
dence regarding chastised nursemaid.
which was the sensation of the trial
yesterday, caused anticipation that the
defense today might have other sur
prises Of a similar nature to spring.
There was little indication of the
lawyers line of procedure when court
met Mr.. Brokaw appeared as usual
with his array OF counsel and with
them was in consultation with prospec-
tive witnesses. Several of these were
servants on the Brokaw estates and it
was ex. cted one or more Of them
would be called to tell of other alleged
actions of Mrs. Brokaw which the de-
fense claims justified Mr.. Brokaw in
his attitude toward his wife, which led
to their alienation and the starting OF
her present action for legal separa-
tion and alimony.
Sidney Woods, the Brokaw butler.
testified for the defense he had served
cocktails to Mrs. Brokaw in tea cup,
in tumblers. in shaker when she was
up and dressed and when she was in
bed. He was positive he had seen Mrs.
Brokaw putting cigarettes and he swore
he had served her with them in her
room. During her buffers testimony
would only own to an experience of
four cocktails and an occasional cigar
ette, sat open mouthed
IT carried a cocktail to Mrs. Brokaw
in the sun parlor,' continued the but
Ter, land she mentioned to me that
she had discharged her nurse. Miss
See. I told her that Miss See had ask
ed me for liniment to apply to bruises
which she said had been caused by
kicks and lashings from whip"
n
tioned?" 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
Sees limbs?"
Mrs. Brokaw was very cross and no.
body asked her"
Justice Henry n. Gildersleeve, friend
of Mr.. Brokaw, testified he had spent
some time at High Point, N G.. the
Brokaw winter country home and had
always found the husband kind and
affectionate toward his wife.
There vas more cocktail testimony
today from Sidney T. Woods, the but
| Ter. He said he made about 10 cock
tails a day at the direction of Miss
Marie Lee, the nurse. He was asked
if Miss Lee drank cocktails.
Not in my presence the witness
replied. "She usually took them in the
direction of Mrs. Brokaw's room.''
DR.. Robert Pou, at one time Mr..
Brokaw,s physician. testified to the ap-
parent happiness of the couple in 190s-
On a later occasion DR.. Pou testified
he met Mrs. Brokaw wandering about
the corridor of a New York hotel at
about 1 O'Clock in the morning. When
he asked her what she was doing there.
he testified that she said:
.'I am looking for my husband. I am
suspicious of him. You know 1 found
him once in bath room with a nurse
At another time when Mrs. Brokaw
was angry with her husband DR.. Pou
testified that he heard her call Mr.
Brokaw a liar.