New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-16
LAW CANNOT SAVE MAN
FROM BEATING BY WIFE
Court Admits Inability to Pro-
teCt Meek Husband by
Injunction.
SPOUSE IGNORES JUDGES
Worm, Otherwise A. Brown,
Turns at Last and Seeks Aid
of Bench, Only to Have
Appeal Rejected.

Alleging he was in deadly fear that his
wife would shoot him or would beat him
10 a fragile as he said she had threat
eDed Adolph Brown, Of No. Sc Attorney
street made application yesterday in the
supreme Court for an injunction that
would prevent her from assaulting him.
Adolph is a tailor
The court, i'm the person of Justice
Amend. refused Adolph the injunction on
the ground of lack of authority to grant
il I'm such a case. but no one can take
AWAY from the needleworker the distinc-
ton Of being the first man ever to apply
i'm this state for such protection from his
wife.
brown also asked for an order restrain
ing his wife from bringing vexatious
litigation against him. In his petition he
recited that not only did Mrs. Brown
leave him i'm 1907. taking away all the
furniture and selling it, but that she sued
him for a separation, and applied 10
former Justice O'Gorman for alimony.
The justice, however. refused this appli-
cation. holding that the chance she would
win her suit was too doubtful.
After that. Brown said. she began to
have him arrested at regular intervals.
lie wanted her to stop it. and so did the
courts but she kept on. She had him
hailed before the Domestic Relation
Court on the charge of abandonment
The second time ne was there, in Janu-
airy. 1912, Magistrate Cornell discharged
him on the ground that there was no
proof Of his desertion. Mrs. Brown, how
ever. had him arrested again in March
Again he was discharged, and the magis-
trate said he did not want the case to
come before him any more.
In spite Of this. the tailor's wife had
him taken before Magistrate Cornell in
Nav. That time the court set its foot
fiat II ordered that no more papers be
issued in the case. But Mrs Brown had
Adolph taken to court again last month
lie was discharged.
His many discharges, he says. did not
discourage his wife, at least in her efforts
10 get money out of him. The papers he
submitted yesterday said that since she
failed in the courts, "she has taken the
law into her own hands, has visited the
plaintiff where he is employed, has
threatened to shoot him and has
threatened to commit a violent assault on
him on the public highway" In support
OF this Brown offered affidavits that his
wife appeared al his boarding house, and
said that she would lift her voice so high
M. would be forced TO move. She did IT
once too Brown says. for he asserts that
she caused so much trouble, on November
q. that the reserves had to be called out
from the Delaney street station.
The tailor says his wife wants 500 or
$500 and has agreed TO sue him for d.
vorce if she gets the money. He says
he refuses TO be a party to such pro-
ceeding. on her side. she says her hus-
band. becoming "Americanized, has cast
of the wife who was good enough for him
on the other side of the water. Brown
saws this allegation by mis- wife and her
attorney is a gross libel.
In asking for the injunction yesterday
Browns attorney made the point that the
mere fact that the application was novel
should not defeat it. He said the law
was no respecter of persons; therefore
there was no reason why man should
not have an injunction against his wife.