Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-26
SUES FOR PART OF
FORTUNE She LOST
Mrs. Mary F. Gruber of Denver Tes.
titles She Paid $1,000 to Will
liam H. Brown and Wife.
BROWN DENIES THE CHARGES

Mrs. Mary F. Gruber aged so
years. of Denver. formerly of Omaha,
who in five years dissipated a SAL
900 estate inherited from her father,
with the result that she has been
making her living by scrubbing
floors, testified before District Judge
Sears of paying $4,000 in sums
varying from $40 to $4,000 to VIII
liam II. Brown of Omaha and Mrs.
Oily NJ. Brown, his wife.
She was the first witness in the trial
OF her equity suit in when she is seek
ing to gain title to Omaha real estate
purchased. 1t is alleged in Mrs. Brown =
name. with money received from Mrs.
Gruber. The plaintiff declared she paid
the money with the understanding that
il was to be used in the manufacture and
sale of an "Antiseptic Wonder pat
ent preparation of which she testified
Brown said he was the inventor.
Gives Itemizcd Account.
In June, 1912 Mrs. Gruber said, she
first met Brown, being introduced to him
by her son. Charles Gruber. at the office
OF the Onand llkHlllllb INou tllu i<''N
trical company on Twelfth street, in
Omaha Their business relations termi-
mated, she testified. January s. 1913, when
she fled from Ottawa, ILL.,, to Colorado.
following alleged advice by Brown that
she was in danger of prosecution by the
United States government. During the
interval she asserted. she paid Brown
about so, 600, as follows
| June, 1912-S4O for drugs.
June, 1gl2-SS65 for trip to Washington
! for analysis of drugs.
June, 1912-S42O paid to Mrs. Brown for
| patent rights.
July, 1912-$2, 900 for promotion purposes.
! September 1, 19l2-S2,O0O to get patent
( in Lincoln.
September 3, $500 for patent in Canada,
October l, 5000 paid at Princeton, Ill,
! for installing plant at Aberdeen. :. u.
October 8, $500 for building at Aber-
! deem.
November Is, $500 for incorpore ton
proceedings in Aberdeen.
December o. $1,000 for interior decora-
tons at Aberdeen.
/ Went to Aberdeen.
I'm January" said Mrs. Gruber, 81 sent
:
Brown had not built any plant there and
had nothing to show for the money had
| given him He had promised that
| should receive one-half the profits from
the business, and l relied on his Uyom-
! ises"
He wanted more" was the reply al
ways made by Mrs. Gruber to attorneys
! questions regarding her conversations
with Brown. He was always in a hurry,
she said. and we never had much con-
] versation."
| Mrs. Gruber has suit pending IN Den
yer in which she alleges she lost the re-
mainder of her $47 600 inheritance in an
other business transaction. she said sh'
had been earning a living in Denver by
scrubbing floors and doing other labor
She is plainly dressed. She has beer
twice married, her first husband havinl
secured divorce from her in Illinois
according to her testimony.
Browns defense is a denial that he re
ceived the amounts named by Mrs. Cru
Der. with the exception of $780, which
Brown asserts was paid to him for doini
work for her.
A deposition of Hert c. Wiley, an at
torney of ottawa, ILL.,. in which the at
torney testified that he knew that Mr.
Gruber had inherited $4,000 from the es
tate of her late father, Bowen Gill,
farmer of the vicinity OF Ottawa, VIII,
died in 1909, was read in court.