New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-12

Through some mysterious lnh"e
firm that employed Brown gave INN :
two months vacation with salary W e'
back to the United States WITH MI :,
Johnson, his wife's mother, VINO "ah.e'
10 visit Kentucky and New YORK y"
arriving here Brown went to kehtu'"''
Wore Clothes Hs Didn't Buy.
When he got back to this city AFTER
visiting his native state he met MS WIZ
In New York. He had no intiiiia.'o''
that she had left London. He said 'i'"'
he had given her no money for the uip'
and she wore fine clothes that he hao i'o'
bought for her. She tried to persuaDo
him not to go back to London, saying
that his job there was not secure iie
believed from what his wife tolu MN
that Mr.. Hoe was buying her clothihs.
Brown went back to London to set MS
effects together. In chffonler ne iou""
a box full of letters addressed to MIS-
Brown in the handwriting OF Mr. noe
He locked these in a trunk and brous"'
them back to New York with him. lhiee
DAYS after he arrived here he consume"
q LAWYER about suing Mr.. Hoe for ailena-
ton of affections. He turned the poNiuii
If letters over TO the lawyer, VINO Hau
asked that he furnish papers In suppoi'
Of his case.
With his mind firmly fixed on the sun
Brown met his wife in Broadway NY
went TO the Hotel Darlington ON
seemed nervous, he said. and toid mn
that Mr. Hoe would give him S-o'"'o ~
go into business in Kentucky she So
that with the money he could go u ~,
homo and establish a home for her anu
h1r dauohter She wanted to begin all
over again. he said.
When he told her what he mao uo''s
with the letters she broke down a"N
went She told him that she had SUI"
bright future and so did her daush'e''
When Brown left his wife the next
morning he went straight to his lawyer
office. gave him SO. got back the ie''ei'
and called off the suit. Then ne saNe
the letters 10 his wife. Brown tesuned
tina, he never even read the letters. But
in 1907 Brown sued his wife for divorce
In Kentucky and obtained a decree. ne
permitted her 10 have the CUSTODY oi
their daughter.
Then he decided again to sue MI hoe
and he engaged John Sattery' OF Mays
Vile. as his attorney. There was con-
ference in Washington, John 9. Cariisie
representing Mr.. Hoe. Mrs. Brown ca'ieu
on her husband at his hotel ana tearluiiS
told him that Mr.. Hoe would NOT pay
more than $4,000 to settle the case. he
said he wanted $4,000
she worked on my feelings to such an
extent" said Brown. that ! consented 10
accent the $4,000, and l received
check for the money the next day
Brown said in the course OF his testl-
rnony that he was on friendly terms with
Mr.. Hoe he was never intimate with
him. On the cross-examination he said
that Mr. Hoe was strict. firm and very
emphatic in his ways with some people
He said that he was always able 10
earn his living and that as ticket agent
for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad he
received $50 a month and commissions
which brought his income UP to 500
month. He said that he received rs. or
$50 a week from Hoe in London, OF
which he gave his wife IS.
Brown went on 10 say that he had
complained because his wife went out at
: O'Clock al night with Mr.. Hoe. and said
that she used to have poker parties
Asked whether he had said that he
thought it wrong that his wife should
receive everything and he nothing,
Brown said Il did. certainly"
He said IL was true that he had called
his wife on the telephone and she said
that she would do nothing for him
Brown. who is also married again, is
now in the whiskey business in Chicago.
He said that Mr.. Prnge one of the Hoe
executors. had paid him $500 since he be-
came connected with the case for his ex-
perses.