New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 5

"PEACHES' RELATES ALLEGED CRUELTY OF RICH HUSBAND (Continued from First Page) Marlan Dockerill was introduced. Mrs. Browning described her as a “very weird woman” with a “snake | around her neck.” i “Mr. Browning asked me to get| well acquainted with her and have her to dinner. He said she was head | of a cult and was over 50, but really very young looking. I didn't think | 50, said the witness. The Goose Episode. | Mr. Browning at the Fairfield ho- | tel brought home a goose which was | described as “an African honking gander.” The goose left the apart- ment in very bad shape, she sald,| but Mr. Browning did not mind, and | the chauffeur, Dan Tolerro, was told | to attend to it. | Once, she said, they all went to Long Beach with the goose honk- | ing in the rear of the automobile all | the way. Her picture was taken with | the gander, too, she said, at her hus- | band’'s request. | The “goose episode” took place in | July, she said, three months after the marriage. Her mother had a room at the hotel with them, where she dressed the acld burns. Her presence was at Mr. Browning's re- quest, the witness said. At Albany, Mrs. Browning said, | she was asked to pose in all her dresses for newspaper photographs. | “Were you annoyed by newspaper | men at the next stop, Lake George?” asked her questioncr and Attorney, Mr. Epstein. Took Many Pictures. “We were not annoyed by news paper men,” she answered. “But Mr. Browning had a camera of his own along and he took pictures all the time. He had them enlarged when | we returned to New York and he gave them to the press then.” t The court adjourned at 12:30 un- til 1:45 p. m., with Mrs. Browning still on the stand. Stage Set Early The second day of the separation suit opened within commuting dis- tance of Broadway today, for the convenience of the many witnesses who are expected to support M Browning in her charges that her husband was so cruel to her she was forced to leave his home six month after their marriage. The White Dlains stage was carly for a record crowd in a city thirty times the size of tiny Carmel. Because of the larger background of White Plains, much of the small town color that marked yesterday's | short matinee in Putnam county was lacking today. Police officers aug- mented the courthouse attendants to keep in check a crowd which swelled to a couple of hundred just before 10 o'clock. Mrs. Browning who came here in a parlor car from New York was the first of the principals to arrive. Few on the train recognized her despite the fact that she wore the same mink coat and blue cloch hat that figured in so many photographs ap- | pearing in today's papers. At the courthouse, her attempt to | enter the door assigned to witnesses | made a curious lack of recognition. | Identified at Door | “Here, lady,” shouted a guard, | | | “you can't go in there.” As the young woman stood bewil- dered in the court outside she was ) the first cause of action, the defend- | la girls® !and Ethel Bass introduced {and | but her pearance of the increasingly famo turquoise blue limousine used, if nof owned, by the dapper New York | “Cinderella man.” | Although 200 persons tried to | press their way into the court room the justice's order against the young had no effect upon the seated spec- tators. It was found the door guards had not admitted any persons under age and the trial quickly proceeded. . Requests Modification Attorney Epstein asked Justice Seeger if he would modify his order on the admission of evidence if it were shown that such a modification was necessary. Justice Seeger an- | swered that he would consider any | such request. Attorney Epstein in opening im- | medlately declared that as the | “plaintiff has offered no proof on ant also rests on the first cause of | action.” “We will now proceed to offer proof on the second cause,” the at- torney continued. | The first witness called was Dr. Edward S Cockle, 20 East 76th streét, family physiclan who had, he sald, attended “Peaches” at various times since April 1924, when he performed an operation for the re- moval of tonslls. Her Age is 18 10.30 Mrs. Browning was sworn, and seated herself, as the center of 300 pairs of eyes. ' She drank a glass of water and to the third question of her attorney, gave her age at 16, June 23rd, 1926, She said she first met Browning at a Hotel McAlpin dance March 5, 1926, when escorted there by a young man friend, named Morrls, the dance, she understood, was given by sorority, and 200 persons were present. At 11 o'clock she sald Mr. Brown- ing arrived. He was pointed out to At | her as he stood in the middle of the | ball room, she said. All the girls greeted him, she said, her to Browning when he passed by her later. He asked it she was a member of the sorority, and, if not he would like her to join and wear a pin, she testified. The sorority, she sald, was called by Greek letters meaning “Pretty Little Things." * Went to a Dance She said that the next occasion she saw him was when she accom- panied him, a few nights later to the Everglades club. Then followed a recital of many dances, parties, sup- pers and theater visits. Mr. Browning, she sald, had a fondness for green handkerchiefs, used to carry “hunaveds of them” and to bestow them one by one on any young woman who ad- mired them. He took her, she sald, to “A Night in Paris’ 'and bought her a book containing lewd pictures. | Browning wanted to see her every day after St. Patrick's day, she said, mother objected. If he couldn’t sce her in the evening, he asked if he could not see her in the afternoon, she testified. She said she then began to see him in the afternoons. She said he proposed to her on the aturday before March 27, the night on which she received mysterious acid burns. She declined to marry him because of her youth, ! blue, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927. ut said if she married him , he would have to wait till fter her sixteenth birthday. To this, he sald, he agreed. As the court crowds left the building, Browning was spied en- tering his blue limousine. A near riot occurred in the street as hun- dreds pressed around him, shouting “Hurray, hurray for Browning.” Crowds continued following in a | foot-race after the car as it sped| west with the Browning footman hanging on the running board ward- ing off the mob. The exit from the Mrs. Browning was made undetect- ed by those waiting. Browning in court, sat where he could watch his wife testify, and he followed every word with intense interest. He wore a highly colored necktie, set with a diamond scarf pin. His wife was dressed in Pekin and wore a blue coche hat with a pink bird wing. She toyed nervously during her testimony with her diamond wedding band. Postmen at Funeral Of Dead Associate —_— FRED J. STREIGLE Included in the large crowd that gathered at St. Mary's church this morning for the funeral services of I'red J. Streigle of 48 Albany avenue were several fellow employes at the post office, where he had been a letter carrier for the past eight years. A solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev. Walter J. Lyddy assisted by Rev. Walter J. Mc- Crann, deacon, and Rev. Thomas Lawlor, sub-deacon. As the body was being borne into the church, Organist John J. Crean played “Lead Kindly Light,” on the chimes. At the offertory, Mrs. Mary T. Crean sang “Ave Marla,” and at the conclusion of services, she ren- dered “The Vacant Chalr. The pall bearers were Paul Heller, John Burns and Bernard F. Lynch of the Letter Carriers’ association, Willlam Strolls, John Schuster, and Bernard I"allert. Father Lawlor conducted tha com- mittal services. Interment was in St. Mary's cemetery. '+ Pancakes building of | 'HARTFORD GIRL 13 . ELOPEMENT BRIDE Miss Gabb and Kenneth H. Sim- mons of Bristol Married | (Special to the Herald) Bristol, Jan. 25.—A marriage coming as a complete surprise to | parents of both the bride and bride- groom was celebrated yesterday aft- | ernoon in Port Chester, N. Y., when | Kenneth H. Simmons, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Simmons of 25 Broadview street, and Miss Kathryn | A. Gabb, 20, daughter of former Sherift and Mrs. George H. Gabb of | 139 Kenyon street, Hartford were united in marriage by Police Magls- trate John L. Coward of Port Ches- ter. Simmons is a student at Colum- | bila University, New York, and the son of the factory manager of the New Departure Mfg. Co. here. Miss Gabb left her home in Hart- ford yesterday afternoon, stating that she was to visit friends in New Haven. Upon her arrival there she was met by Slmmons, three friends who are students at the Sheftield | | Sclentific School at Yale, Richard S. ! Jones, Hal Howard and Albert J. y, and Jane Hemmings a New | Haven friend of Miss Gabb's. | The party then continued by rail | to Port Chester, arriving there at | | about 4 o'clock, where a marriage license was issued at the office of the | town clerk. They went to the police | | magistrate's office where the cere- mony was completed, Howard and | Miss Hemming attending the couple. | The two elopers then proceeded to | New York where they registered at | the Hotel Pennsylvania. Telegrams | were dispatched to their parents ad- | vising them of their wedding and of | 'an early return to Connecticut. At the Simmons home last eve- ning, the parents announced that they were well pleased with the mar- riage. Mr. Simmons could not be reached by telephone but the bride- groom’s mother gave out the fami- |1¥'s opinion as being well satisfied. A call to the Gabb residence brought | the information that Mr. Gabb de- clined to discuss the matter. | Mrs. Simmons stated that her son, Wwho was a student at Yale for three vears prior to his transfer to Colum- | bia this year, would likely continue | studies until June. Further plans | were not completed, she announced. | The bride is a graduate of lhc[ Hartford Public High school and fs well known among the younger set ' of that city. Simmons, prior to his | | enrollment at Yale, was a graduate | of the Bristol High school. | Mrs. Simmons, interviewed at the | | LeWitt represented the plaintiff. Hotel Pennsylvania, stated that the elopement had been planned in order to do away with the bother and fuss of a church wedding. She said shes had met her husband last August and that announcement of their en- gagement was to have been made shortly. The bride stated that she expected to hear from her parents in the near tuture, sending their best wishes as those of her husband had already done. City Items The Woman's Home Missionary department of the South church will hold an all day sewing meeting Thursday, at 9:30. Luncheon will be served at noon. A daughter was born yesterday to | Officer and Mrs. John M. Liebler of 102 Lawlor street. OITY COURT JUDGMENTS Judgments have been rendered by Judge B. W. Alling of the city court | as follows: Judgment of foreclosure debt amounting to $10,363.25 in the ac- | tion of Max D. Honeyman and oth- ers. The law day of equity was set for the fourth Monday of February and succeeding days for other cumbrances. Alfred LeWitt repre- sented the plaintiff, ! For the plaintiff to recover dam- ages of $276.97 and costs of $27.31, | | was awarded today by Judge Alling in the actlon of W. S. Mason agalnst | Anna R. Vetrano and others. M. S. Gordon represented the plaintiff. In the action of the Kulper Print- ing Co. against F. Szczepanik, judg- ment for damages of $49.28 and costs of $9.94 was awarded the plaintitf by Judge Alling. Alfred WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE Sult for divorce on grounds of de- sertion has been instituted by Adolph Buczewicz against Agnieszka Buczewiecz of Chicopee Falls, Mass. The plaintitt is a residént of this city and has brought his action through Nair & Nair, local law firm. The writ is returnable in the su- perior court, Hartford, the first| Tuesday of March. | The plaintiff claims that he and | the defendant were married on October 29, 1923 and that she de- serted him on January 1, 1924, and that she has not lived with him since that time. 666 is a Prescription for Bilious Fever and Malaria Colds, Grippe. Flu, Dengue. 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