The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-08-09
MRS. v. GOULD BROKAW
ASKS A FULL DIVORCE
Got Il Separation From Him
With Allowance OF
$4,000 a Year.
NAMES 3 CORRESPONDENTS
Process Server Says That De-
fcndant Refused to Ac-
ccpt Papers.

Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw. who obtained
Il separation from her husband. W. Gould
brotaw. year and half ago, yesterday
filed papers in a suit for absolute divorce
against him at Mneola l.. l.. with the
County Clerk of Nassau county. With the
papers filed was also an order permitting
service by publication in two Nassau
county newspapers.
Mrs Brokaw brings thcsut upon a llega-
tions Of iniidelity. She charges that
Brokaw was unfa,hful TO her in July.
1908. in September. 1905, and in April,
1909 Brokaw is charged with improper
conduct with enc Estelle Terry aboard
the steam yacht Sybarita in New York
waters between July ~ and July IL. 1905:
with Mabel Weeks at the Hotel Carlton
at Stamford. Conn. in Sept ember. 1905
and with Nine Susan Tot,i aboard the
steamship Kaiser Wilhelm H. between
April and April 10. 1909
The order allowing service upon Broliaw
by publication was signed on Wednesday
in BROOKLYN by Justice James Van Siclen
The Justice granted the order on the
strength of an affidavit made by one How
ard 4 Fluckingpr Fuckinger swears
that on May l6 last he tried TO serve per-
sonally man whom Fmckinger believed
To be Brokaw. The nau refused 10 accept
the paper.
In his affidavit Fluckinger says he was
standing IN front of the house of Brokaw' >
sister. Mrs. n Bramhall Gilbert. at 20
West Fiftv-sevcnth street. when man
bearing a strong resemblance to thP photo
graphs OF Brokaw came out of the house
and started toward a taxicab AZ the curb
FiucliinGcr says he accosted the man. who
denied that he was Brokaw. When the
man had entered the taxicab and Fluck-
niger had thrust the papers toward him
the papers. says FluckinGer were thrown
out of the taxicab onto the sidewalk
Mrs. Brokaw brings her suit for divorce
through her counsel, Grggs, Baldwin 4
Baldwin. The filing Of the papers yes
;erday, coupled with Justice Van Sic
len = order. will be followed to-day or to-
morrow by the publication OF the notice
that the order elbows
The divorce suit il being brought in
Nassau county because the legal residence
of Brokaw is at Great Neck. In all proba-
hility the trial Of the new action will he
held in Nassau county in open court, it
was said Yesterday. although ii il possible
that the troubles Of the Bro'iaws may he
heard by referee. Since the courts
granted Mr. Brokaw a separation eigh-
teen months ago she has been living most
of the time with her father Joseph Blair
al Chittenango. y. y. When she won her
separation suit the court ordered Brokaw
to pay his wife an allowance Of SIS, 600 a
year.
Friends Of the Brokaws said yesterday
that the divorce action just filed is tho
beginning of the end OF married life
that has becn avery unhappy one almost
from the day they were married. In
her separation suit lasting several weeks
Mrs Brokaw alleged crueliy y and drunken
ness, Al the trial il was shown also that
after they returned from their honey
moon Brokaw had detectives Watching
his wife.
The engagement of the Brokaws was
announced in the summer Of 1907, and they
were married at the Blair home at Chi,te-
mango on September of that year. Bro
kaw. who testified in the separation hear
ings thai his entire estate is worth 81 1893. =
$50 and that his income is only $40 708 rs, "
was first married to Miss Leonie Couder,.
a niece of Frederic X. Coudert The first
Mrs Brokaw obtained a div orce from Bro
kaw in Rhode Island
-Four years before Brokaw and his
present wife were married he was the
defendant in breach OF promise suit
brought against him by the athletic
katherine Poillon. katherine Poillon al
legged that Brokaw had promised TO marry
her and then had cast her Off and she
asked for $3.50 900 damages. The suit
was Withdrawn just before coming 10 trial
and it is said that the Poillon woman
received altogether about $50. 900 before
the case was settled
The wedding of Brokaw and his present
wife at the Blair home was attended by
only few intimate friends aud relatives
of the family. Despite the arrange
mcnts for a quiet ceremony however,
attention was called to the wedding by
the refusal Of one clergyman to perform
the marriage. Brokaw wanted to be
married by an Episcopal clergyman and
sent Tor the Rev, DR.. H. T.. Coddington
rector of Grace Episcopal Church of
Syracuse. When DR.. Coddington learned
that Brokaw had been divorced in 1897
by Miss Coudert the minister refused to
marry Brokaw and Mary Blair. The Rev
George Spaulding. "A Presbyterian minister
of Syracuse. took his place.
The troubles that began shortly after
the marriage resulted in the first serious
break five months after the wedding day
Mrs. Brokaw's father WIS quoted as
saying then that tho troubles between
the couple were due to Broknw's intense
jealousy of his good looking young wife.
Mrs. BrOkaw maintained during the
separation hearings of year ago last
winter that Rrokaw i'll treated her not
on,y in the earlier days in North Carolina
but she testified To similar scenes which
she said occurred at Great Neck and in
Manhattan All authority that was hers
by right had been taken from her by her
husband. she said. and fshe and her
maid We're driven from the Great Neck
home by Brokaw's action in shutting on
her sources Of supplies.