The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10
SORD|D TROUBLES OF
THE MARRIED RICH
One Days Dispatches Reveal
Many Skeletoned Closets.
HOWARD GOULD MAKES CHARGES

In P%etitioning That His Wife's Suit
For Separation BE Tried Before
a Referee, Accused Her of I'M
proper Conduct.
New York City.-That portion Of
the public which has been waiting so
patiently for the oft-delayed washing
of the family linen of the Howard
Goulds is about to have itss reward.
Before Justice Bowling Mrs. Gould's
attorney, Clarence J. Shearn, made a
motion to have the issues framed for
trial by jury on the ground that they
were of such a nature that no judge
would care to pass on them first.
Sounding a note of self-pity as he
surveyed the. miserably unhappy life
he had led since he had married
Katherine Clemmons, Howard Gould
told of the many humiliations to
which he had been subjected
There are allegations of the deep
est import to the wife of the million
aire, however, in the swe Gould
charged that not only before but after
he married Katherine Clemmons she
was guilty of improper conduct with
Colonel William F. Cody 0"Buffalo
Bill"). 1t was charged also that she
became infatuated with Dustin Far
mum, actor; that she frequently had
him in her apartment in the Hotel st.
Regis; that she followed him on a
tour through the New England States
and visited him in his hotel after the
performances.
There are charges of Mrs. Gould's
fondness for intoXicants, beginning,
as alleged, with two or three cock
tails before breakfast, a pint of Hook
at luncheon, brandy highballs and I'M
limited supplies of champagne at din.
ner, whereby on one occasion, it is al
legged, she fell from her chair to the
floor.
Mr.. Gould alleges that his mar
riage was the result of fraud and mis-
representation on the part of his wife.
He says that Mrs. Gould. prior to the
marriage, asserted that her relations
with Colonel Cody were exclusively
of a business nature, whereas they
during 1887, 1889 and 1892 his pres.
ChS WIG llfSu Will SOuy III LUuuOu,
Paris, Chicago, Nebraska, Virginia
and New York.
Mime. Gould to Wed
Prince De Sagan,
New York City.--1t was definitely
announced that the opposition of the
Gould family to the marriage of Nine.
Anna Gould and her SIS, 900 900, for.
merly the Countess de Castellane, and
lfelie de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince
de Sagan, has melted away and the
marriage will take place in Paris
within a few months. The steadfast-
ness of Nine. Gould and her suitor,
it was said, had bafied the hostility
Of her brothers and her sister, Miss
Helen Gould, and at a dinner at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Gould
the family finally determined 10 hold
out no longer.
Vanderbilt Countess in
q WhiteWaslled Castle.
Vienna, Austria. - Received with
shouts of welcome by the peasantry
and showered with flowers as they
rode through the streets, the Count
and Countess Szechenyi arrived in the
ancestral home of the n%oblenIan in
Ormezo.
The Countess, who was Miss Gla-
dys Vanderbilt, found the castle Of
her husband a plain, small, white
washed structure, and the Szechenyi
ancestral estates about half a mile of
cultivated land surrounding the
building.
Because of the poverty of the dis
trict the Count had arranged in adj
vance to pay for the decorations in
the village. He said he was glad to
escape from Budapest, where be and
his bride were beset by beggars when
ever they left their hotel.
Alfred G. VanderbiIl's
Wife TO Testify.
New York City.-David Mcclure,
referee in the suit for absolute di-
vorce brought against Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt by the wife he virtually
abandoned eighteen months ago, de-
MED the report that the case had been
partly heard at Tuxedo Park, for the
convenience of Mrs. Vanderbilt, and
that the matter had been settled.
The chief witness so far has been
Howard Kempster, valet to the elder
Cornelius Vanderbilt and subsequent
ly to Alfred Gwynne. His testimony
is to be corroborated by a maid for.
merly in the employ of Nine. Ruiz,
the woman whose name has been con-
nected with Vanderbilt's of late.
Mrs. Vanderbilt herself will be
heard before the case is decided.
Referee is Named in the
Thaw-Nesbit Suit.
New York City.-Robert E. Deyo,
a lawyer at No. III Broadway, was
appointed by Supreme Court Justice
Hendrick to take testimony in the
suit brought by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
to annul her marriage to Harry X.
Thaw, upon the charge that he was
insane when they were married.
Mrs. Thaw has consented to aban-
don the name of Thaw if the suit for
annulment succeeds, and to resume
her maiden name of Evelyn Florence
Nesbit. All of the financial settle
ments have been agreed upon and
partial payment has been made to the
Young woman.
Japan's Policy Changed.