FULL TEXT: New York, June 21. – With her eyes flashing no less brilliantly than the diamonds blazing on her rich gown, Mrs. Eva Browne, in front of the police, thrashed her husband, Richard H. Browne, in front of the entrance to Dreamland, Coney Island, shortly after 10 o’clock last night.
Browne caused the arrest of his wife, and when she was taken
before the sergeant’s desk in the Coney Island and Police court, she broke away
from Policeman James Travis, who took her into custody, and, with hysterical
shrieks, she again fell upon her husband, and punished him severely until she
was taken away.
The husband eventually relented and sent a friend to furnish
bail for Mrs. Browne. When she left the police station he was considerably
cooler, but her gratitude over her release did not go to the extent of
reconciling her with her waiting husband.
Jealousy is said to be the cause of Mrs. Browne’s
chastisement of her husband. Browne is a bookmaker and is reputed to have made
tremendous winnings recently. In company with his wife, two other beautiful
woman and two men, the party drove in an automobile from Sheepshead Bay to
Coney Island. The first indicated that all was not harmonious came when there
was a scuffle on Surf avenue.
Mrs. Browne struck her husband in the face. Browne could not
shield himself from the blows she aimed at him, and was soon much the worse for
the attack. A crowd quickly gathered, and in the arena Mrs. Browne continued to
beat her husband. Some people misunderstood the cause of the trouble and were
on the point of assisting the woman when others of the party restrained them.
Mrs. Browne is a very beautiful woman. She was richly
dressed, and when searched by the matron no less than $5,000 worth of diamonds were taken from her person.
[“Rich Woman Thrashed Husband,” The Meriden Daily Journal
(Ct.), Jun. 21, 1907, p. 9]
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