The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-29
SORD|D TROUBLES Of
The MARRIED RICH
One Days Dispatches Reveal
Many Skeletoned Closets.
HOWARD GOULD MAKES CHARGES
In retiticn:ng That His Wifc's Suit
For Separation BE Tried Before
q Referee, Accused Her Of I'M
proper Conduct.

For Separation BE Tried Before
q Referee, Accused Her Of I'M.
proper Conduct.
New York City THAT portion CT
the Public which has been waiting 50
patiently for the ott-delayed washing
of the family linen Of the Howard
Gnulds is about to have its reward.
Before Justice Downing Mrs. Gould's
attorney, Clarence 7. Shearn. made a
motion to have the issues framed for
trial by jury on the ground that they
we're of such a nature that NJ 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 answer. Gould
charged that not only before but after
he married Katherine Clemmons she
was guilty of improper conduct with
Colonel William F.. Cody C'Buffalo
Bill"). 1t was charged also that she
became infatuated with Dustin Far
num-, 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 coci-
tails before breakfast, a pint of Hook
at luncheon, brandy highballs and un-
limited supplies Of champagne at din
ner, whereby on n 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 we're exclusively
Of a business nature. whereas they
were meretricious. He swears that
during 1887, 1889 and 1892 his pres
emit wife lived with Cody in London,
Paris. Chicago, Nebraska, Virginia
and New York.
Nine. Gould to Wed
Prince De Sagan.
New York City.-It was definitely
announced that the opposition CT the
Gould family to the marriage of Nine.
Anna Gould and her S15,000,OOO, Tor
merly the Countess de Castellane, and
Helie de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince
lie Sagan, has melted away and the
marriage will take place in Paris
within a few months. The steadfast-
ness of Nine. Gould and her sutton,
1t was said. had baf1ed the hostility
Of her brothers ard her sister, Miss
Helen Gould, and at a dinner at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Gould
The family finally determined 10 Eold
out no longer.
Vanderbilt Countess in
q W~hitcwaslicd Castle.
Vienna, Austria. - Received with
shouts of welcome by the peasantry
aud shcwered with flowers as they
rode through the streets, the Count
aud Countess S%zechenyi arrived in the
ancestral home of the noblenlan in
Crmezo.
The Countess, who was Miss Gla-
1ys Vanderbilt, found the castle OF
her husband a plain, small, white
washed structure, and the Szechenyl
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 he and
mis- bride we're beset by heggars'whon-
sver they left their hotel.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt's
Wife 10 Testify.
New York City.-David Mcclure,
referee in the suit for absolute di-
rorce brought against Alfred Gw%nne
Vanderbilt by the wife he virtually
abandoned eighteen months ago, de-
MED the report that the case had bsen
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
~ 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 on
2ccted with Vanderbilt's of late.
Mrs. Vanderbilt herself will be
heard before the case is decided.
Referee is Named iu the