The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-10

New York, Dec. 1O--More OF the scandal
In the suit for a limited divorce which
Mrs. Howard Gould is pressing against
her millionaire husband broke bounds
yesterday with the filing in the supreme
court OF the testimony given by Mrs.
Gould's former good friend. Helen Mar.
formerly OF Chicago. but now OF London,
This is the testimony through which the
name OF Col. Cody Buffalo BID has
been dragged into the case.
Col. Cody. who is i'm Denver, yesterday
declared that Howard Gould had paid
Helen Mar a price for every word she
had uttered. and that the millionaire had
offered him $4,000 to tell similar tale.
Helen Mar appears. according to her
oath, to have beer known as Helen Mar
White Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Mackaye
during her most interesting career. She
is now Mrs. Clensy in private life She
has lived through 40 summers, but, un-
der cross-eNamination by Clarence
Shearn, counsel for Mrs. Gould, she said
that she had never been able To remem-
ber the year of her birth. Her memory
proved good however, In going back II
years to time when Mrs Gould was
Katherine Clemmons, an actress with as
pirations TO be star, and when, she
swore, Buffalo Eth called Katherine
Viola" and introduced her around the
country as his niece.
HELEN MARS STORY.
Helen Mar, or Mrs. Clensy. as she is
most frequently called in the minutes of
her testimony appeared on Nov. q last
before David Mcclure a referee. Robert
Nicoll. Anable & Lindsay Howard
Gould's counsel started her story. and il
ran smoothly until Mrs. Goud's attorney
took her in and.
Under the guidance OF Gould's attor-
ney she told of first meeting Katherine
Clemmons at a dinner I'm the Hoffman
House i'm this city. She couldn't remem-
ber the date. but Il was Just after Col.
Cody and Miss Clemmons had returned
from a tour OF Europe together. The time
approximately was two years before the
Chicago Worlds Fair. The colonel was
then calling Mrs. Gould Viola" she tes-
tilted. The introduction OF the women
came through Cody. whom the witness
had met previously I'm the West Among
the guests at this dinner were Miss
Hartley and Col Tom Ochltree. who
helped make the Hoffman House and
Texas famous.
Following this dinner the women be-
came bosom friends. and Helen Mar
would make IL appear that Mrs. Gould
told her the secrets OF her life. Kather-
inc complained bitterly against Buffalo
Bill She furnished these particulars In
answer TO Watsons interrogations.
MISS CLEMMoNs' PLAINT.
q What complaint did she make
against him? A. That he had promised
To- star her on tho stage
O. What else? a. She thought he
owed her something for what she was do
ing for him.
q. What did she say she was doing for
him? a. To put IL very crudcly, she said
she was living with him.
Two years elapsed before the two wo-
men met again. 10 was I'm Chicago. Buf-
faio Bll was there. and as near as the
witness could recall 70 was I'm house I'm
Forest avenue that she saw many strange
doings.
@. I will ask you. Mrs. Clensy, how
many times. N YOU remember. did YOU
sec Col Cody and Miss Cicfrfrr-- torrthcr
az the Forest Avenue house the Worlds
Fair year in Chicago y. Several times.
good many times.
sie declared that their relations were
intimate.
q. Did Miss Clemmons over. have any
conversation with you about the begin