New Britain herald., 1927-01-24
BROWNING CASE
 RESUMED TODAY
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were barred and one, who sneakcd in, was elected.
 Browning Applauded MT. Browning's entrance to the court room was the occasion for a prolonged -clapping on the part of the women. many of whom were elderly farm-women. roughly dressed.
 Mrs. Browning appeared without any public ovation. She cried pro- | fusely during the first few moments in court. Carmel In Spotlight Carmel, this isolated little dairy l ing community scattered around the shores of Lake Gleida, achieved it's place in the sun of present-day newspaper publicity today when court opened for the first separation suit.
 At early dawn, lights appeared in the farmhouses, half hidden In the tree clad hills, and as the civic chorus of roosters awoke to profes- sional life half hundred inn-hous- ed metropolitan reporters the days activities were begun. By seven o'clock. little groups of townsfolk, clad in goloshes and
 heavy coats. had already appeared
 in front of the old white colonial
 courthouse, where Browning and
 his bride were awaited.
 Among the first arrivals were
 many women Of outlying districts of
 the county, of about the same age
 as Browning, who is fifty-one. All
 were heavily bundled to withstand
 the crisp air which today followed
 yesterdays heavy snowfall. and
 heavy woolen socks Topped over
 their well-stuffed overshoes.
 100 Newspaper Writers It was estimated there were more
 than one hundred newspaper people of all types in the town, whose win
 ter population Is only 800. Pho tographers, barred from the court
 room by Supreme Court Justice Seeger clustered around the rail- road station awaiting the arrival Of either of the principals in this ac- tion or "shot" the crowds as they began to press about the doors of the building where the trial open ing was scheduled.
 Cars, large and small early be-
 gan to fill the parking space out side the building and by the time court opened both sides of the wide street were lined. Great sleighs slid , up to the court house, pouring out farmers and dairy people. enjoying |, the fresh air and the sunniest, dearest weather of the last week. |, Today's legal action was laid twenty miles from Cold Springs, N. Y, town no larger than Carmel, where in April, 1926, Browning and the then Miss Heenan, who gave her age as 15, were married. The next day Browning issued a state ment saying his marriage was "an F answer and rebuke to efforts of the childrens society to interfere" Principals Arrive
 - Today. accompanied each by sep
 arate legal champions, the two
 principals arrived by different
 roads to begin their legal battle.
 Browning in his suit charged deser- ' ton and in her answer and coun- l ter-charge, Mrs. Browning has com
 plained she was forced to leave her
 husbands home because of acts s constituting excessive cruelty.
 Browning Arrives First
 Browning. at 10:15, was the first
 Of the principals to arrive from
 New York. His limousine. purrins = up to the courthouse, created the f first furry of the day. Twenty-Five |, photographers surrounded him, and = what residents of Carmel were moi h at that moment seated in the court a room stood about in the snow
 watching Browning pose.
 q He answered questions about tria' r with the statement that he wanted ,, everything to be open to the pub. c lic," nothing In chambers and that T he hoped the trial would vindicate s him of his wifes charges.
 : The arrival of Mrs. Browning wa: Il less photographed but no less stage = set Accompanied by Henry Ep.
 stein and others of her counsel. sht : alighted from the motor which hat