Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-11
More Dirt Being Thrown
In Gould Divorce Case.
Actress Helen Mar, Mrs. Clensy,
Claims TO Know Secrets
Supposed to Belong TO Mrs. Gould
and Buffalo Bill.

New York. Dec 10-More of the scan
dal in the suit for a limited divorce
which Mrs. Howard Gould is pressing
,,ainst her millionaire husband broke
hounds yesterday with the filing in the
supreme court of the testimony given
nv Mrs. Goulds former good friend,
ue,en Mar, formerly of Chicago and
VOW of London. This is the testi-
mony though which the name of Col.
Codv buffalo BilD mas been dragged
into the case.
II was only yesterday morning that
tho World printed an interview with
cody. who is in Denver, in which the
Snowman declared that Howard Gould
had maid Helen Mar a price for every
word She had uttered, and that the
millionaire had offered him $4,000 to
tell a similar tale.
Helen Mar appears, according to her
oath. to have been known as Helen
Mar White, Mrs. Brown and Mrs
uackaye during her most interesting
,oroer. She is now Mrs. ClenSy i'll
nrivate life. She has lived through
An summers, but, under cross-eXaml-
nation bv Clarence Shearn, counsel Tor
Nrs Gould, she said that she had never
hoen able to remember the year or her
birth Her memory proved good, how
over in going back II years to time
u,bop Mrs. Gould was Katherine Glenn
mons. an actress with aspirations to be-
:, s,ar and when, she SWOre, Buffalo
p;u called Katherine "Viola" and in
PRODUCED her around the country as his
niece.
Avg
most frequently called in the minutes
Of her testimony. appeared on NOV 4
LEST before David Mcclure, referee.
Robert Watson, an attorney OF the law
firm o: Nicoll, Anable & Lindsay. How
ard Gculd's counsel. started her story.
and it ran smoothly until Mrs. Goulds
attorney took her in hand.
Helen Mar White was my maiden
name" said Mrs. Clensy in the begin
ming. Helen Mar is my stage name, l
drorped White years ago. l have al
WAYS been known as Helen Mar.
Q.-And Mrs. Clensy is your name
in private life? Yes, sir.
Q.-Mrs. Clensy, 1 will ask you t"
state, if you know the plaintiff III TINS
action. Katherine c. Gould? Ayes.
Under the guidance of Gould'S attor-
new she told of first meeting katherine
Clemmons at a dinner in the Hoffman
House in this city. She couldn't remem-
Der the date, but it was just after Col
Cody and Miss Clemmons had returned
from = tour of Europe together The
time approximately was two years be-
fore the Chicago Worlds fair. The col
onel was then calling Mrs. Gould
viola" she testified. The introduction
Of The women came through Cody
whom the witness had met previously
in the West Among the guests at TINS
dinner were Il Miss Hartley and Col
Tom Ochiltree. who helped make the
Hoffman House and Texas famous.
Following this dinner the woman be-
came bosom friends, and Helen Mar
would make il appear that Mrs. Gouid
told her tho secrets of her life. RATHER
inc complained bitterly against Buffa-
10 Bill She furnished these particulars
in answer to Watson's interrogations
Two wears elapsed before the two
women met again. 1t was in chicago
Buffalo Bill WAS there and as near as
the witness could recall it was in
house in Forest avenue that she saw
many strange doinGs.
According to the witness Cody was
again the chief subject of Miss Glenn
mons condolences. She was "bitter be
cause she wanted to go on the stage in
THE Lady of Venice and he was not
paying her bills even in the small way
they were living" There was bitter
Ness. too. against Cody because he was
making so much money with his wild
West show and would not let go OF any
of it. Ono there was Il confidence about
a serious illness and Miss Mar claimed
that Mrs. Gould had expressed great
delight that it was all over, so she
could so on the stage at once.
After the Worlds fair the witness
lost sight of Mrs Gould until the fol-
lowing spring, when she met her by
accident in the street in this city. In
the meantime Mrs. Gould had appeared
in The Lady of Venice" at the Fifth
Avenue the3ter