The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-18
KATHERINE GOULO
YET ON THE RACK
Procession of Servants and
MenialS Reiterate Stories
of Her CarOuseS.
PLAINTIFF WINCES WHEN
SHE HEARS THEIR TALES
Many Witnesses to Be Called in
RebuttaI; Dirty Case
viii Drag.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE spot
light of the cross-examiner continued to
oscillate today in the trial Of Mrs. How
ard Gould's suit for separation. from
the estate al Castle Gould to the st.
Regis hotel, "a the arn at Blue GAP.
Va, 10 the Niagara. the Gould Yacht,
and back to New York again, but ex-
cept for the moments when 1t fingered
on Dustin tarnmn, il never pot very
lar away from the butler S key TO the
vino cellar.
There was visible an attitude on the
part of the defense. which in this trial
Of many surprises has been curiously
shifted over TO what is virtually the
prosecution, TO prove that Mrs. Gould
was not only so frequently under the
influence of lntoXjcants as 80 fall within
the rulings of Justice Bowling that she
must be proved habitual drunkard
before her husband can be justified for
leaving her, but TO prove that when she
had been drinking her character under
went a transformation for the worse.
Like Transformation.
Delaney Nicol, counsel for the hus-
band, was willing enough to adducc
testimony that the wife was aflable
when herself, If only he could bring her
good nature into contrast with tcsti-
abusive. uncertain in her motives, and
confused IN her actions when she was
alleged to have been drinking.
There was no abatement Of Mrs.
Gould s ordeal, and as the burden of
reIteration grew heavier, she shrank vls-
IDLY, and a look OF pain came INTO her
eyes, as if, though she might have read
or seen such things IT was a new reali-
zation of them for her to hear them
applied directly TO herself At other
times she smiled broadly, shook her head
in amused denial, and several times
stared the witness oht of countenance.
Word ''Blackmail" Stirs.
Only once was the break in the pro-
cession of footmen, butlers. chaufieurs,
maids, walters and beliboys on whose
testimony il is sought to prove Mrs.
Gould an impossible wife. and that was
when Mr.. Nicol called Melville j..
Chapman, a broker, who was guest of
the Goulds on the Niagara during sev.
eral cruises in the year 1908. He had
several times met Mrs. Gould undenia-
bly, drunk. be testified. aud led by Mr..
NicoIl he described several alleged out
breaks, with emphasis on the overbear-
ing manner of the wife and the efforts
of the husband 10 soothe and conclllate
her.
In the effort to discredit this witness
Mr.. Shearu drew the ugly word black
l.
much agitated al its application 10 his
own conduct of the case that for some
moments he was unable to continue his
cross. examination. The court ruled the
use of the word offensive, and Mr.. Nicoll
apologized for introducing II.
AS Mr. Shearn has announced that
he will call fifty OF more witnesses to
rebut the testimony of the defense, IT
is nrobable that the case Will be con
tinued for another week or ten days. 10
shorten it as much as possible Justice
Bowling is bolding court until clock
daily.
Court to Crowd Case.
When the Gould divorce trial was re-
srmcd ioday Justice Dowing an
nounccd that longer sessions would be
held from now on, with possibility OF
NIGHT sessions next week. Ihls actlon
followed the announcement OF Mr.:
Gould S lawyers that small army or
servants and employees was still TO be
heard in support OF the charges oi
hahitual intoxicatIon against MIS-
Gould, and the announcement mat some
fifty Witnesses would be called in re-
Andrew Frederickson. who was EN-
ployed as night watchman at castle
Gould from September. to December,
1906, was the first Witness caIlco 70
dav, lie testified that he saw MIS-
Gould unde er the influence Of liquor, III
his nn;n;on, on November Z. 1906.
..It WAS in the evening and was
MAKING the rounds Of the house, the
witness said. 81 noticed fire IN the
kitchen garde3, near the gas mouse,
and saw a woman coming from that dl-
rection, / went up to her and found 1T
was Mrs, Gould. She said something
bnt | did not understand ii. I went
into the kitchen garden and found the
straw afiro IN three places. While [ was
putting out the fire | heard low cries
in the kitchen and went IN and foGhd
Mrs, Gould there. She aTken .,5 me J.. i I
was the man she met told her y
was. and she wanted me to 90 and get
tho kew 70 the electric alarm, but |
told her could not as | had 10 watch
the place Her face flushed and she
talked rapidly and appeared to be under
the influence of intoxicants'
On Prolonged Spree.
The witness said he saw Mrs. Gould
again the same night and IN his opinion
she was intoxicated then
Edward Bechtold, who was IN charge
of the wines and liquors aboard Mr..
Gould g Yacht, Niagara, III December,
1905. when the Goulds were cruising
with party of friends, testified that
: he saw Mrs. Gould intoxicated several
times during the cruise, and that at
dinners she drank more than anyone
else On one occasion. after n dinner
nt Kingston, Becbtold said Mrs Gould
tool, hold Of a chair TO steady herself
land She had 10 take long breath be,
fore she could 90 on TO her stateroom-.
On cross cXamjna ton the witness said
he had made On affidavit Tor MI
Gould's s lawyers and had talked with
them about testifying.
Now, you nevsT n that Gearn drn MiJ did vo",' ~U9
asked MIR Sbearn
.'Oh, YES. did, said the witness
Ono night at quarantine, he said, he
heard her swearing. On another nlghi
when he was in the kitchen, the wit
ness said Mrs. Gould started TO oPel
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