The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
She BORE UP WELL
Norma Cook Told Story Against
Father on Stand.
"Choke Lie Out of Him if He
Started Anything"

Chicago, March 5-The state closed
its evidence today in the case of j.
Norman Cook, charged with the muir
der of William 2. Bradway here last
summer. Mrs. Lucy Aurand Brad
ford, aged and infirm. from Erie.
Kan, who came here to volunteer evil
6ence was not allowed to testify. Mrs.
Bradford claims to have been injured
in a railroad accident and is said to
allege that Cook, handling the claim
for the road, treated her unfairly.
"Oh, oh, Cook she cried as she
saw the defendant. Cook did not look
at her She was so near collapse that
she had to be assisted into the witness
chair. There it developed that her
evidence was incompetent, as it had to
do with a remark made by Cook prior
to the acquaintance of Cooks daugh-
ter, Norma, with Broadway.
Cook is expected to testify this
afternoon. There were several women
in court who are to be called by the
defense to testify that Broadway and
Norma were constantly together.
Some of them, it was said, reported
the fact to Cook. Norma was not
present today.
Norma Cook, the 1s-year- old daugh-
ter of the accused man, would not be
recalled, the prosecutor stated, unless
to elucidate some principal points in
some later testimony. her cross ex-
| animation having been ended yester-
| Gay. MISS SOOh, d WIlIlCSS IOk tIiC
state, testified her father had warned
! her against Broadway and had threat
ened to "get him." A little later she
testified that Broadway told Of Cook S
hostility to the admirer Of his daugh-
| ter and had threatened to choke the
| tongue out of him (Cook) II he started
anything"
| The father. J. Norman Cook. for
mer private detective and theatrical
manager, was confident of acquittal
when he left the court room after yes
! terday's session.
The girl bore the strain of the trial
like an elderly woman. Wearing a
simple blue dress and a rough straw
| hat. she promptly answered questions
with her eyes set on the examining
| to refute Cooks statements that the
killing was an invocation of the I'M
! written law.
A Dinner Party.
The girl said Broadway had gone te
Columbus. Nan, last June, and and given
father h also , appeared in colSmbus, US. 81.
playhouse, at the Bliss home, which hat
been erected as a memorial to her grand
mother Asked by the prosecutor wha
.He said he would get him and tina
She said Bradway,s conducr toward he
always had been proper.
Miss Cock had told on direct examina
ton how her father found her in Brad
ways office last spring and that Cook ha'
said he did not want me there and h
told Mr.. Broadway he did not want hin
to see me-" At the Columbus meeting sh
testified her father said Broadway was no
a fit man to associate with.
Entertained by Broadway.
On eross-examination the girl testifie,
I sbN had met Broadway at a summer garden
| that he afterward had sent ner tneate
tickets and had taken her to "a Dime
Z party; that while she was in school sh
had met Broadway at lunch times and afte
| school hours had gone to hotel tea room
with him.
! Later, she testified, Broadway severa
times a week took her to hotel grill
; rooms and summer gardens.
. when did you study" she was asked
| 81 did not study very much,' sh
| answered.
She said her father did not know o
those excursions for a time, and added
when he went to Mr.. Bradway's office h
i learned of them. 1 guess. He found GU
: thru the florist that Mr.. Broadway sent m