Braund's "Bothers."

NZ Truth, Issue 132, 28 December 1907, Page 3

Braund's "Bothers."

In last "week's issue of ( *Truth." ■prominence was given , to the connection of A. Braund, the English. . cricketer, now with the English' team m Australia,- with the celebrated society divorce case, Wallace v.Wallace,, at- present m- season m Melbourne. On that occasion we had :the / petitioner's side "of the- question, and now "Scouts places before his cricket readers the statements made i,on the othej- s.|tte as recounted by Melbourne l"T,futh." The respondent, Mrs Wallace,, saict that m 1903 she met Braund at the I-totcl Australia m Sydney. The whole : of the English Eleven were staying there. She was iati&djuced t© Braund, as als© was

Mr Wallace. During -their stay m Sydney trouble arose between herself and her husband concerning Braund. Two or three days; after she had met the gentleman her husband told her to Ir.ve nothing to do with him, as he was only- a x professional. She replied she hn-d fouiid v him a gentleman. Cm one occasion Mr Wallace had accused her of tapping Braund's foot. That was about a fortnight before tl.oy left Sydney. He told her he 1 ' s^eh her doing .-if when they were having "a coffee lunch. She had} indignantly ' denied ••■• the accusation.. She was sd troubled m consequence that she • ''■»■; '< - :; COULfi i NOT SLEEP all that night; In the morning she told Mr Wallace she would pack up her box arid go away. He replied, she was anxious to. go because Braund was. going, ,to Melbourne. She had had nothing but : ikauid fo? two months from him.', It .was untrue that Wallace had, gone on his bended knees to her to ask her to give up Braund, and she had. never thrown her head ■ back , and . . laughed , nor had she uttered words -like/those attributed to her by him,- such as. "Why the. 'devil don't you get another " woman and not keep;; worrying me?" was all untrue. He had never told her Braund had 1 shown liim letters he had received ; ; .-.FROM SYDNEY^RJOSTITUTES . She ; had . never ■, bpen : ■ ! with Braund. ,alone -m the tHotel4 Ausfbralia or .any-.-:whipre'else:-/Wai-l 1 5ice"'-h'idV gone to every :test: cricMt'm.atQh in' -Sydney except, one. ?He '/took? -her/ and; Mrs Macgilli-^ cuddy, sometimes' in trdms and sometimes m .Warner's', waggonette. He had provided lunch -m: . a 'hamper. Sometimes Braund rwoiilcl, jo I'^1 '^ them at lunch. The-n: went to the theatre, m Sydnev ■ .arid vSier*. husb,and had gone out v with Braujiti ori several occasions. niprriirig "they went, on, board .ithe ' Bqrii tp^ether. Mrs Macgillicuddy was:. sitting at the table \yheh the alleged :. ; .■ O?OOT-TAPP^N0 Tp6K\ PLACE.. ..' . There , was ; no. change^ m Wallace' s ' demeatior t'pwards. Braund ■ after that. , Her husband v subsequently went to Tasmania iri.thp'D'ona,': and she and. •Mrs Macgiilicud'dy returned to. MeK. (bourne. Then, .trouble , commenqed t again Kanent, Brau>a. . Her husband accused hcrj, of .•having.had Braund at her house, land said, that his motor? car had .tieen\seen-> waiting ouLside for two hpurs. He f had also said she had bewi ;i:. ;> v ..i WALKING WITH BRAUND m- Albert park: ;: She i denied it, and told liim the motof-csir'- was Mr Kelly's, as, m fact, it .was ■ but her husband accused her of lyi^g- He said someone who riliad known her since she was a child ;had told him. She^'had never walked', m the park witirßraund or anyphe else, hor had that y man eyer ; come ftd ', her house. Notwithstanding "tHat Braund went back to Sydney,, further .rows arose concerning him. V Wallace never spoke of anything else •but; I^raund. The night before the 'cricketers left there was . 'v.v ■•■■.'■tVt-,---.V : ■■■' '■')': (AN EXTR^.SIG ROW, ; and she told him,^she r could ftand it no longer,, arid.. that she would go away. He wrongfully accused her of writing a let'tbi" to the 'nmn. She denied, it, and he accused her of lying. She ..."then ', said she .would write a letter, felie did so,\and took it :' back to "t him . mirew v it away and said, "Don't' b'e absurd.": She then v tore it up aiid; threw it m : the ; waste-paper •■• basketv. , * "That ; was ] the letter which' had; jbeeji pieced together' and produced m ev|dence, and whioh commenced, "My: darling old Len." Slie. had never written to Braund m. her life. ,- JShe had' neyer' addressed him, like that, nor had she ever teen alone with .. him /, -She had learned about the' ship m; which she said slie.;"\vas' . • '■. ■* "-;! i;-/.. '.'•'.. ' > | GOING W iIEW YORK out i of: the papers.. " She had no means of going, to America. The name William .'Law;son, Esq., on the blotting-pad was not in/her handwriting. The words — rl love you . . anyone would, and I d})n't care who knows it. . v Lester tOrmorrow, and I hope it • com!es.i , jGood-bye, sweetheart. . Good luck, and be good. Always your t- loving,' ltid<lie"--had evijdently been written' «by : her. She did mot remember when' or; why' she had written them. She had never written m those terms to' 'any man except; her hujsba.rid. ;She; had never expressed herself like,- that to Braund. After tnejftrickctbrs left she suspected- she had bedoniie: pregnant. In consequence of s --her .'belief ' she told her tiusbahdy and" he said* ,^. > ' x ; THE CpLjDJWA^ BRAUND'S, and: not^,, his... She, shpyea^ him vher. ? 'dates' ,'. .-" T t6. convince .him.- One- of the' f'da^s I ', Had .b'eeri since Braund's departure. She was not really pre^ 'nant. It.was a mistake. . , . .'