Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-06-23
MRS. GOULD A BOOZE ARTIST ?
Called Hubby "Little Hound" and
Also Drank to Excess.

New York, June 17.rr-Torn with
anger and extreme humiliation, alter
nately flushing with shame, sobbing
or clinching her hands in exaspera-
ton, Katherine Clemmons Gould sat
| through trying ordeal In the Su-
preme Court at the continuation Of
| her suit for separation against How
ard Gould.
Mr.. Gould's attorney sought to
bring out that Mrs. Gould's habits
| were such that her husband was jas
| tilted in leaving her. In the event Of
proving this, the defense hopes to
undermine the charge OF abandon
ment,th only phase Of the plaintiffs
case which has yet withstood the at
tacks of opposing counsel, Justice
Bowling having ruled out the charges
Of cruelty and non-support.
Mrs. Gould, having naively told
what 1t required Of a woman OF fash
ion in the matter Of dress at Palma
Beach and elsewhere, witnesses for
the defence recited the indulgence Of
the same woman of fashion in the
told further, while the heavily yelled
Mrs. Gould buried her burning face
in her hands, Of certain remarks and
conversations not exactly in keeping
with $500 gowns and the palatial
Castle Gould on Long Island.
1t was during this testimony con-
cerning some of the alleged violent
and profane language, some of it as
related too strong to be printed with
rropriety, that Mrs. Gould wept
most Yet she recovered herself
quickly and at times coached her
lawyer, refreshing his mind on cer-
tain incidents with suggestions and
reminders.
Specific statements that Mrs.
Gould had been intoxicated on vari-
Gus occasions; that she called How
ard Gould "you little hound" one
night; that once she was apparently
so under the influence of liquor as
to stagger against the banister at
Castle Could that her maid brought
liquors to her room, including some
times two cocktails before breakfast,
were among the statements brought
out as employees Of the Gould es-
tate related their experiences with
their former mistress.
Mrs. Gould's lawyer, Clarence j.
Shearn, injected into the case the
rather novel argument that admit
ting even that his client had been in
toXicated, this should have strength
ened rather than have weakened the
ties between wife and husband
at has been held he said, "that
If n husband drank he needed the
company Of his wife more than if he
were sober. Is not this equally true
in the case Of the wife,"
Seven Bottles i'm Two Weeks?
Verbal clashes with the manager
&C the great estate, heated arguments
at The len coop with carpenters, one
Of whom testified that "she couldn't
walk straight" at the time, a period
when she remained in her room for
two weeks, consuming, during that
time, seven bottles Of brandy with
other liquors-these incidents and
others were sworn to on the stand
Also, there was an account by for
mer steward Of an exciting night,
when, he said, she wanted the house
locked, although Howard Gould was
out on the front lawn.
This was the night that Mrs. Gould
is said to have called her husband
little hound" term which she ap-
piled 10 him, as testified, after he
had come to her room to see what
the matter was, confusion having
been spread through the great castle
by the ringing Of bells in Mrs Gould's
room and the burglar alarm system
While most Of the testimony was
against Mrs. Gould, one witness spoke
in her favor. He is Charles II. Da-
mis-, OF Glencove, l.. l., who testified
that in 1902 and 1903 he did con-
siderable work on the Gould estate
and saw Mrs. Gould frequently. He
had never seen her intoxicated, he
said, but at times knew she had been
drinking because he could smell
her breath"
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