Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23
Their First Clash Was
Over His Dis b eIief
That s h e w as in q
Trance D uring Her
Tour With An Aviator
But II Was His Turn
to Do til e Incredible
When He Owed Out Of
q Window. Leaving a
Frightened Brunette
to Greet Mrs. Croffs
Raiding Party

much I remember Mr. Stewart falling ID
cutting his head on the bathroom floor.
remember some officer of the hotel coming
I'D and staying with me because my side was
bothering me very badly.
Soon Mr. Stewart came in with Mr. Cold
berg, who said he was Mr.. Stewards attorney
Mr.. Goldberg Immediately started calling me
Beverley and he said. Beverley, am going
to take Bill (Mr. Stewart) back to Milwaukee.
l told him that was the best thing to do and
remember asking would somebody please take
me back to Milwaukee.
Mr.. Goldberg and Mr. Stewart then left
the room. That was the last I ever saw OF
Mr.. Stewart. Then Mr.. Goldberg came back
to the room with a telegram addressed to
him from my husband, stating that my
mother would arrive that night"
The foggy journey ended when Beveriey's
mother went to New Orleans and brought her
daughter back to New York
The days on the loose had left Beverley
with sore side.-When she complained of
this she says her husband had her taken to a
hospital and placed in the care of a doctor,
whom she believed to be bone specialist
something of the sort Actually the doctor
was q psychiatrist. So in the hospital Bev-
erley was examined both physically and men,
tally and finally presented with the papers
in her husbands divorce suit The doctors
service had been to pronounce her sane and
thus legally vulnerable.
New York Supreme Court Justice j. Sidney
Bernstein disposed of the dream tour in court
by proclaiming that young wife had no
business letting herself get into frances. Miss
Rock thereupon carried the case to the APP
pellate Division. which was more sympathetic,
assigning her the costs of investigation.
Seeking to have this sum raised from
z tn To n
week alimony for herself and the custody of
her two-year-old daughter, Beverley filed
another affidavit, just before the divorce
raid. In this she charged that on Christmas
Day, Mr.. Croft had taken her once more to
his heart condoning all her actions of the
past only, at the last minute to think
better Of it.
Beverley says she became so detected at
his callousness that she skipped into the bath
room, drank bromide. slit her wrist and began
to sink into still another coma.
IT don't know how long It was, but Mr..
Croft opened the door and found what had
done. He Immediately got handkerchief and
bound my wrist, then went to the phone and
asked the hotel operator to get doctor. Then
he came back to the bathroom and put a
pencil through the knot in the handkerchief
and twisted 1t to stop the flow of blood. All
the time he kept saying: Dear, why did you
do this to yourself? was unconscious when
the doctor arrived"
So far as Is known nightmares, comas
frances and the like have never been dag
nosed either as chronic or contagious. How
ever. once the medical profession gets to know
its way around in the Croft case, this dag
nosis may be changed. AS for the legal pro-
fession, 1t will probably consider the whole
thing less a nightmare than a headache.