The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
Daddy BrolDning Died Late This Morning
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legally adopted. the advertisement said.
 From the avalanche of appli- cants, Browning after weeks of ro- mantle speculation, selected Mary Louise Spas, q pretty girl of Czechoslovakian extraction. She was duly adopted as Q Browning, and Installed in a suite at exclu- sive Kew Gardens Inn. Her proud parent soon learned that she had a sweetheart, and was not 16 years of age, but approaching 21.
 "Cihdefella" Mary Louise soon returned to her kitchen. She filed suit for $500.000 damages against Browning, and lost it. Subsequent- ly sine signed papers releasing Browning from all claims.
 That affair, unfortunate for all parties concerned, aroused the mis- givings of the clergy, the Children's society, as we'll as numerous pro- fessional and amateur reformers. The real estate mans conduct was openly censured; psychologists shook their heads. A rumble of comment was heard when Brown ing attended a high school party on March 5, 1928. and spent the evening dancing with Frances Heenan. then 15 years of age.
 Browning, 62, fell in love with the plump blonde girl. Headlines promised second wedding, and the couple did not disappoint. The cere- n1ony took place in garage at Cold Springs, N. Y.
 It was Browning's chance to eclipse all former escapadeS and he met the situation bravely. Pho- tographers accompanied the couple on numerous shopping expeditions. The newly weds posed on the bed. they posed on the street, in face, anywhere or time that newsman could spot them.
 Peaches rode in ''daddy's'' robin blue RollsRoyce from April to Oc- tober of 1928. She looked after his raw food diet; smiled at his ab- sorption in mechanical toys; then lied from his opulenee and eccen- tricities.
 But Browning was not yet through with fame, notoriety, or whatever was his due. Suits and countersuits kept him in the lime- light. Daddy" sued his Peaches for separation. She retaliated with a suit for divorce. Then Mary Louise, from her modest Astoria, Long Island home, demanded half a million dollars for 'illegal i'm prisonment and assault" An ac, tress named Renee Shapiro sought 100000 on allegations of assault.
 Browning, friends said, was torn between conflicting emotions. The publicity he loved was coming to him in carload lots, but was kind destined to lose him popularity. He preferred to have the world know him as the man who planned million dollar swimming pool for poor children in Central park. and who gave away little presents to thousands at Christmas time.
 In the sensational trial at White Plains, Daddy" and "Peaehes'' strove to outdo each other in revel. atiois. Honeymoon secrets Daddy threw telephone books through the transome and made funny noises, growing or something like that") were barred. Hundreds damned the courtroom. more hundreds were turned away.
 Peaches lost the suit and with it $500 a month aiimony, although she did receive her dover rights.
 From that time on, the Browning star waned. He was reduced to re. galing friends with rubber knives and forks which folded up when tried. Then he tried his Santa Claus philanthropy. Thousands of toys were piled up in his real estate of. Ice. Police estimated that 36,O00 children jaInmed the streets sur. rounding his building. A dozen chjl. dfen were injured in the crush. 100 were lost. and Browning smiled al his own benevcience.
 He was q lonely old man when the cerebral heInorrhago sent him Q the hospital for joint dlseases in June 1ee4. Dorothy Sunshine. now Mrs Clarence D. Hood, hurried from t'ie south with her husbaild. but Browning was too ill to hc seen. There was, attaches said. no ssns,,o slsn Of c., "reeehes" or the "cIn.
 The exact sxssnt of Brswnlns.s fortune was unknown. aa hs wns always rot|ceni in dInouaslns bls fpAneiei aHnifa. it Was kno@6. however, fhtt he ihhtflled HlI-