New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-09
Cookers Wife
Declares All
Charges False
Was Never on Stage and Is
Not Educating Her Sis
tiers Nor Giving Her
Family Money, She Says
No "Broadway Favorite''
Brother-in-Law Arrives at
Palm Beach Home With
Photographs and Records
Fvona q Special Correspondent.


PALM BEACH. Fla. April s.-R. B.
in-law, arrived from his home in
Pryor, Okla, to-day, with afidavits
from Mrs. Croker's girlhood friends
and photographs Of records which will
be used at the trial OF the suit against
her husband. Character affidavits were
also received from Ex-Governor Has
kell, Of Oklahoma, from Mrs. Croker's
uncle, Representative W. W. Hastings,
Of the I'd Congressional District, and
from Houston B. Teenee. Register Of
the Treasury.
These three told Of having known
Mrs. Croker and her family for many
years. Mrs. Croker, who, since court
proceedings started, has remained ST.
lent on the subject, made this state
mert to-day:
"Mr. Croker has tried for two years
to keep quiet about the quarrels his
children were picking with him, and
have tried TO help him because l
appreciated how he felt toward his
own children and because | thought |
ought to. Now that they nave started
the proceedings it is a blessing to have
everything come out, because all that
va have to do is to tell the truth and
we certainly cannot be blamed for that
when we are forced to defend our
selves.
Wants to End "Whisperings"
For the first time | see how at last
we may have Justice ions and put a
stop to this whispering propaganda.
1 know what they are trying to have
understood about me; that ] have used
my. husbands money for my family
and other things that are not very nice.
The only way to meet these i%nsinua-
tons, now that the papers have pub
ilshed them broadcast, is TO go on the
witness stand and invite them to ask
me everything they may wish to and
II VIII be a great satisfaction to talk
this matter out and get done with it.
| can honesty say that there is not a
signle act in my life that | am not
willing to have them ask me about.
Mr.. Croker is to NE a remarkable
man and | have a great love for him.
| have not used HRS money for my fam
lily and he and | have been very happy
in cur companlonshlp. 1t has beer
fascinating. working things out to-
gether aud living in perfect accord
and perfect understanding.
All the startling things which | nave
seen printed about my career are false.
~ ms btcil SdlO lIldt / WAS Il BROAD
way favorite,' and that | made my stage
debut at some restaurant, and that |
was known as Little Bula, an actress
at the HippodrOme. One article says
| have two little sisters I am educat.
Ing, and that l built a mansion for my.
father and mother, and that / have
hidden away securities in Oklahoma.
l have read about myself all these
things | am telling 20 and a lot more.
"The truth Is, | hardly know anything
about Broadway, | am not an actress,
have never been or the stage at the
Hippodrome, I have never been on any
stage, except that when I was going to
a school Of expression I very frequently
appeared at lectures and little enter
tainments, where I told Indian stories.
] am not educating my two little sisters.
an the baby of the family and my
sisters are married, and | AVE never
had anything to do with their oduca-
ton. My father and mother live in
the same modest little house that has
been their homo for the last zen years.
beginning four years before | wa mar
ried.
II have read that I bought them Il
farm. They have owned the farm for
forty years. J never bought q foot or
land for any Of my family in my life.
have no securities in Oklahoma and
never did since | was married, but
Mr.. Croker had $50, 900 there in a bank
once for Ave months at S per cent in
terest and then he drew 1t out, because
he wanted to use it in some land down
here.
There is about that much truth In
most Of the things that are said. |
lectured at boys and girls schools and,
therefore,, | am an actress at a res
raurant. I studied voice culture in con-
%nection with completing my education
in New York and that, no doubt, helped
t. make me more of an actress. NV
husband made Il short term loan in my
native state and therefore,, I nave large
sums of money secreted there, and SO
on ad infnitum.
ITO me one Of the cruelest things in
this persecution is the hypocrisy prac-
tced. Until my husband took away his
power Of attorney from his son 7
thought his children were fond of me.
hey were always writing me. 1t was
Dear Bula.' and How are you getting
along and How we do all enjoy your
letters, and we are so anxious to hear
from YOU and they always wanted to
know If there wasn't anything they
could do for me, and we're always wind
ing up their letters with Much love"
Eeferrlng to his examination by Dr..
RALPH N. Green, an alicnist, Mr..
Croker said to-day he had read a claim
that DR.. Green had been asked to ex-
anime him because he was an old
friend Of his. He said:
II never saw DR.. Green until he was
introduced to me in my lawyers Office
just before the examination started.
Nor heard of him an hour before. He
was here testifying at the Howell muir
der trial and was told that he was
the leading ~alienist in the sto+o Tf 7
was crazy | wanted to know it without
further waiting, so | had him sent for
and took him home. He not only said
after two days of various tests and
observations that ] vas perfectly sane.
but told me ! was organically sound
and ought to live TO be Il hundred. He
said | had the blood pressure of a man
Of fifty and that my blood analysis
showed up AL. He said my liver, which
was a little afraid of. is in perfect
One Dead. 9 Hurt in Blast