Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 24, 1909, Page 2

Ee Made a Good Wxtness, ' with Answers Ready and. Firm A LONG SERIES OF DENIALS Of Wife’s Charges of Cruel and Abusive Language and Drunkenness— : dmitted that He Once Called Mrs. Brokaw a Liar—Never B P A ¥ GOULD BROKAW IN OWN DEFE Forbade His Wife Making Easy of Attitude| .72 * Eyes st Jimmie Martin—Story of ‘So-Called “Poison| 5 ik Night” Attentively Listened To. Nesy York, Dec. 23.—W. Gould Bro- lene, veose wife ¥5 suing him for sep- areson with alimony of $60,000 a year took tfie stand in his own defense teday and swore in the court room at Mineola, L. I, that his father-in-law, Joseph A. Blair, threatened to kill him because he loved her too much. When he told Mrs. Brokaw of this threat, she laughed and sald: “Don’t mind father, Billy; he's craz; Brokaw a Good Witness. Mr. Brokaw described the night when his wife took poison. His law- ger fd him carefully over the two Yyears of their married life, with pains- taking attention to the charges of drunkenness, cruelty and abusive lan- guage brought against him in the tes- timony of his wife, Brokaw made a good witness. His attitude was easy and his answers were firm. Occas- fonally he peered through a lorgnette in examining papers submitted to him. Mrs. Brokaw was ashy pale and muf- fled in furs. She tossed her head scornfully when her husband's testi- mony contradicted her own and she coughed constantly with a nervous lit- tle hack. A heavy black widow's veil fell from her fur hat over the upper balf of her pale forehead. Was Never Drunk in His Life. Brokaw swore that he never was drunk in his life. “The times when Mrs. Brokaw sald I was drunk,” he testifled, “my face was flushed from & long walk or drive.” He never struck his wife. “T never struck anyone in my life,” he swore. “Mrs. Brokaw knows I could not harm her. There never was a night when I could get into her room that I did not kiss her good-night. “I never lock the doors of my house. I never carry guns or revolyers,” he econtinued. Forced to Call Her a Liar. He admitted that he called his wife & liar. “Yes"” he sald, “I called her & liar, but not until she had called me & d——d Har. T had been out and when I came back, bringing her flow- ers, she accused me of meeting some woman, I denfed it. She said I lied and I had to tell her the same.” The long series of denials extended into montony. “Did you forbid your wife to make eyes at Jimmie Martin?” is an example of the form of counsel’s questions, “I dld not,” was the in- variable answer. Never Saw Her Drink Cocktails. Amrmetively, howewer, there was more variety In the testimony. Bi kaw swore that his wife smoked cig- arettés before their marriage and that jhe promised him to stop it. He never saw her drink cocktails, but he un- derstood from the servants that cock- tails were taken to her room on “Will you tell the court of your drinking agreement with your wife?” asked John F. Mclntyre, his counsel. POET WILLIAM WATSON ‘INSANE IN HAVANA. Mis Wife is Unaware of Her Husband's Mental Condition. New York, Dec. 23.—Robinson Wat- eomn, in a statement telegraphed to New York from Montreal today reiterates that his brother, Willlam Wagson, the English poet, now in Havana, is in- sane, though the poet's wife, who is ‘with him, {s unaware of her husband's mental condition, Mrs. Watson cabled from Havana yesterday that “Robinson Wuatson's message to the world is a ‘wicked attempt to ruin my husband.” ‘The brother replies today as follows: “It is not surprising that Mrs. William ‘Watson has cabled an angry message. ‘There will probably be worse to comé, and still worse, untfl she fully appre- hends the whole truth. A sad feature of the situation is that she has been ignorant of fhe"events of 1892, ‘“When the Jong statement about the Asquiths compelled me to recognize clearly what others were beginning to perceive, 1 immediately went to New York and, finding my worse fears con- firmed, endeavored during four consec- utive days to get an opportunity of speaking alone with Mrs. Watson, but no such opportunity could be obtained ard I left without having given her the slightest intimation.” Called to Mother's Bedside. Mirza All Kull Khan, Persian con- sul, who with his family, has spent the last six months in _California, made” a flying trip to Boston and Cambridge on Saturday and then went to Washington. He sails from New ‘York today on the Mauretania for Liv- erpool, and goes by way of Paris and Vienna and Tiflis to Teheran, where his_mother is {ll, his journey being made for the purpose of seeing her. Lady Florence Khannon remains In California. with her two lovely chil- dren during Khan's absence. Khan's family fs one of highest rank in Persia, and many of his relatives are in the diplomatic service. One of Tris unoclés has been in the cabinet dur- ing the reign of the three shahs. Khan's trip over and through the Cauvcasian mountains will be made, perhaps. by automobile, a great inno- vation ‘there, but I am told that rail- roads are to be bullt in Persia and this wonderfully beautiful country thus made more accessible. Besldes books which both Khan and the Lady Florence have written dur- ing the summer and autumn, they have Jately collaborated in translating some of the Persian poets. Far from Playing. AMrs. Parkhurst, conversing with a Detroit newspaper mar who expressed illiberal views on the woman question, #ald with a smile: “Ah, you disappoint me. I had thought American men were models in their treatment of women. T am as disappointed in you as I once was in & littls Anglo-Indian child. “She had just.come trom India to be put to school, and one night she stay- ed with me all night. “After she had been put to bed .I visited her room to see if she was all right. In the dim light I saw the lit- tle, white-robed figure groping on its knees in the cot, and I whispered to my daughter: The little thing -is ers.” saying her he tells it to turn repeats “Yes,” answered Brokaw. “We wanted {0 mix ginger ale with aerated water until it was the exact color of champagne. I wished to appear to drink with my guests and yet not to This Sunday discourses. mixture bubbledsand yet was harmless. I have used it for years. I do not drink.” Mr. Brokaw did not recall any scene after an incident at table when a guest had changed his wif that she got real champagn the imitation, “If Mrs. Brokaw drank champagne, she was the only one who knew it,” he testified. Quarrel With Father-in-Law. Shown a list of objectionable names which Mrs, Brokaw said her husband applied to her when angry, Mrs. Bro- kaw scrutinized them through his lorgnette and sald: not use such language.” Mr. McIntyre arrived at the time quarreled. “My wi to bed very late’ ‘testified Brokaw, “and were still asleep at eight o'clock im the morning when Mr. Blair called “Of course I do | seat. in the presence for evil as ~ is too comfortable fortune has would have to take a rear | with reference to the conditions®exist- of such a power |ing on April 15, 1910. The census of | : Preaching on Leopold. ove. Not A The preachers-found King Leopold’s | the latter, but including the $10,000,000 death an engrossing_theme for their |congress has expend Congress has appropriated $10,000,000 for the thirteemth census, and may be asked for $1,000,000 ‘eounting ed over $57,000,000 impending nquiry. Congress requires the director to ob- tain information relative to populal .agriculture, manufactures, mines and quarries. It restwicted the inguiries ed | under each head, but gave -ector Durand authority to determine the form and subdivision of inquirfes 1o | necessary. 3 The census of population is taken agriculture has reference to the calen- Another preacher in Boston found | dar year 1909, so far as farm opera- when Brokaw and his father-in-law | sweet consolation in the thought that |tions are concerned, and ty April 15, and I had gone | “the hottest place in lowest inferno | 1910, as to farm equipmer, or rather &‘ a ma{: whose | inventory. The schedule will be car- ried by 45,000 of the 65,000 enumerators built up through one long trail of blood. There will be | and these will be chosen from the pro- us. ‘You children will have to get up | plenty of royal company and he will | gressive farmers and crop reporters, earlier, Mr. Blair called, and added: not lack for the society of other kings, ‘The census of manufactufres, mines ‘When you come downstairs I want to | like Herod and Nero, who have pre- |and quarries covers the calandar year have a talk with you personally.’”™ It was during this talk, Mr. Brokaw testified, that kill him. He repeated his wife’s com- ment when he recounted the conver- sation to her and explained that when. “loving her so much. ® “Poison Night" Story. “Tell us what happened on the so- called poison night,” directed Mr. Mc- Intyre. “On thaf night” complied the wit- ness, “I had the Marquis Hermosa and others to dinner. Mrs. Brokaw did not come down, After dinner I went to ‘her room and knocked. She did not answer. Then I said: 'Mary, 1 want to come in” She did not answer. Fi- nally 1 pushed in the door. She was furious. I told her I only wanted to kiss her good-night, and left. “When I came upstairs again, Mrs. Brokaw was not in her room. I eou’d not find her and got a nurse to help me hunt. After a search the nurse called to me from a room at one end of the hall, I got there just in time to see the nurse struggling to take something out of Mrs. Brokaw’s mouth. It was some kind of white tablet. I screamed, ‘My God! she’s dead!’” | “Did you do anything to cause her |} to take poison?” “Absolutely nothing.” From the fact that Mrs. Brokaw's '] counsel for the first time brought a complete set of the minutes of the trial records—which they have hitherto said their client could not afford—it is in- ferred that Brokaw will undergo a rig- orous cross examination when court convenes tomorrow. “BABY SHOPLIFTER” HELD BY ST. LOUIS POLICE. Remarkable Record of Eight Year Old Annie Pavlinski. St. Louis, Dec. 23.—An eight year old girl, blue eyed and pretty, is held by the police as “the baby shoplifter.” She is Annie Pavlinski, daughter of Frank Pavlinski. She has been ar- rested three times for theft, has spent two weeks in the industrial school and escaped, has run away from home doz- ens of times and makes a practice of slipping out of bed after her family is asleep and pilfering meney from her father and her big brother. ceded him.” 1909 only, and the 1,800 spectal agents All of whieh goes to show that Leo- | will begin.Jan. 1, 19}0, to gatiher these r. Blair threatened to | pold’s death was providential for the | statistics. A “test’ sensational preachers who cannot find | Nov. 3 was provided for them.—Na- materia] good enough for sermon texts |tional Magazine. in the Bible, and who would consider she asked what the quarrel was about | it old fogyism to discourse on the wis- he told her Mr. Blafr objected to his ;l&;n‘ e;’ t‘;‘;“d‘ff;hn?h:gh‘:n;;n:c "5 (DR, G. 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Annie’s first exploit was robbing a notion store of sixty cents’ worth of toys. She was arrest- ed, but the proprietor refused to pros- ecute. Two weeks later she entersd a gro- cery ‘store, concealed herself under a countér, and stole $13 from the gro- cer's till For this she was sentenced to_the industrial school. Fourteen days later, ragged but blithe, she reappeared at home, ha escaped. Though she has several times since fallen into the hands of the po- :Ici, she was not returned to the insti- ution. B SCIENCE NOTES. Moving pictures of the flight of In- sects have been made with exposures of 1-42,000 second. Another photogra- pher has' made a kinematographic study of the action of weapons and projectiles, employing for illumination electric sparks of a duration of one- ten-millionth of a second, and obtain- ed plctures of 400 successive phases of the firing mechanism of an auto- matic pistol, althéugh the entire op- eration occupied only about one-tenth ofa seécond Arrangements will sfortly be made by the Austrian government for the public sale of radium for medical and experimental purposes, The total quantity of radium which has been thus far recovered for scientific use throughouf the world is estimated not to exceed a quarter of a pound. After apout eighty shots the Fifling of the present twelve-inch gun of 2,500 foot-seconds velocity hecomes so badly worn as to destroy the accuracy. In the case of the new fourteen-inch gun the erosion is much less and the gun will be serviceable for about 300 dis- charges. 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