The sun., 1909-06-17

gang Of Italians down to work OH the
place and at o'clock one night he heard
some one coming. and thinking it was
the workmen went out with lantern to
show them where to 60, 1t proved to
be Mrs. Gould and her maid coming
from Lynch burg in hack. An hour
after she arrived. Trotter said, he saw the
maid holding whiskey bottle and Mrs.
Gould drinking out of glass. She was
lntoxicate on the two following days.
he said. and on the night OF the third day
she came downstairs worse than she
had boon before.
THE CAIpENTER's REVOLT
'MrI. Gould abused Tony and me-
ran the carpenters tale, because she
said we hadn't done certain things, among
which was setting the clock in certain
place, sot 1t where she told me to
and then she wanted 1t moved. 1t was
over sevon foet high and had lot Of
ornaments on the tor. | told her could
not move 1t safely without taking the
ornaments OF the top and went to get
the stepladder to reach them. Mrs.
Gould said she would move it herself
and the clock both fell against the wall.
Then ! got angry and said wouldn't
work for her any longer and went homo.
Her manager, Harrison. and her maid
came down to my house for me and said
Mrs. Gould wanted me to come up and
hang a mirror. said was through,
and they came back second time and
consented to go IL Harrison would see
that Mrs. Gould didn't interfere with me.
Harrison agreed and l went up to
hang the mirror. Mrs Gould was in
the hallway. and when she saw me she
started to abuse me because | didn't
have the mirror hung; / left my tools
In, th2 k~ot NJ
Harrison came after me the third time.
| saw Mrs. Gould sitting on a chair in
the dining room. She was grossly in
to1icated and fell of the chair and lay
on the carpet
Trotter added that Mrs Gould got
sick.
Did any one do any thing to help herr
Not while l was there. went to the
bathroom and got my tools and went
away .. ,
for Mrs. Gouldi"
Yes, she gave mo a telegram to send
to Dustin Farnum on this trip. When
called out as she was leaving Trotter's
discharged | said, 1t would be better
for you to settle with lrotter before you
60 l didn't get my pay until two weeks
after. when Mrs. Sells gave it to mo
sHEARN RETURNS TO CASTLE GOULD.
Mr.. Shearn started the cross e1amina-
ton with questions about the incidents
at Castle Gould In reply to a question
about opening the door 1rotter added
the remark:
They seemed to be afraid when ]
went up stairs. so said, Don't be afraid.
the carpenter Is not burglar"
What do you mean by volunteering
remark like that" asked Mr.. Shearn.
Have you some interest in this casef"
no, I'm independent OF the whole
bunch Of them. I've got all the work
l can do
While drawing the witness about the
chair incident Mr. Shearn asked Trotter
i he knew colored cook named Bette
Foster. employed at Blue Gap. Trotter
said he knew her as Mrs. Foster.
You knew her well enough to spend
you?7
Justice Bowling interrupted the e1-
animation to say:
y can't allow such question as that
even if Mr. Nicoll doesn't object to it
Il was busy reading a letter. said
would SO far transgress the rules.
didn' suppose I'd have to watch him to
keep him within bounds
You'd better watch said Mr. Shearn.
I'm going TO ask question right now
that may interest you. Did you put
anything in Mrs, Gould's coffee that
night .
Didn't Mrs. Gould charge you with
her by putting something in her
coffee?r
4 never heard of it until read the
a tfidavit OF Mrs Sells. never heard that
Mrs. Foster was accused OF it, either
Mr.. Shearn asked Trotter IL he really
went away and left Mrs. Gould lying on the
floor. Trotter said he did, because
and the maid were with her and
he didn't think it was his place to inter- !
fere. Mr.. shearn brought out the fact
that the incident occurred two hours after
Mrs. Gould had supper. Trotter said that
another time tho maid asked him to open
q box for her and the box had a dozen
bottles OF whiskey in it He said the maid
told him:
Cover that up as quick as you can.
Tf Mrs Gould sees 1t she will kill US all.
Mr.. Shearn asked Trotter how he hap
pened TO send lot OF letters and kilograms
In the case to Mr.. Nicoll. and the ca carpenter
said they were in his suit case and that he
wrote Mr.. Nicoll's Office that he would
send them IL they were OF use.
just as Trotter was leaving the witness
stand Justice Dowling said:
How did you get these kilograms in
your possession?"
These kilograms were all written out