The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-06-24
HEAR GOULD VALET
MAN WHO WAS HER PRIVATE
SERVANT TELLS OF
DRINKING.
CALLS CHAUFFEUR "DEARIE"
Mistakes Auto Driver for Dustin Far.
mum and Then ApoIoglzes-Wlt.
nesses Say the Actor Was often
with the MllIlonaire's Wife.

New York, June 19.-The flow of
testimony adduced by the defense in
the suit for separation brought by
Katherine Clemmons Gould against
her husband, Howard Gould edges
more and more each day toward Dus.
tin Farnum, the actor whose broad
shoulders and mop of curly hair have
become a familiar figure in the case
There was also iteration by servants
and personal attendants that Mrs.
Gould was repeatedly seen under the
influence of liquor by them, and that
when she had been drinking, as they
alleged on the stand, she changed
from a charming, affable woman to a
woman of whims and caprices, I'll.
tempered, not nice in her choice of
language, overbearing and quarrel.
some.
Her "Valet" on Stand.
Mrs. Goulds one-time personal
valet" Harry ]. Veitch, of Des
Moines, Ia, swore that at one time he
served his mistress with two quarts
Of Manhattan cocktails in as many
days, besides the wines and liquors
which he said she drank at table. On
cross-examining these witnesses, Clar.
ence j. Shearn for Mrs. Gould. strove
always to prove either that they had
a personal grudge against her or that
they were under obligation to Mr..
Gould. Endearing epithets twice
marked the testimony
John II. Kimball, an oil and paint
dealer, who said he had known Mr..
Gould for Is years, testified that he
went TO a performance of "The Vir-
ginian" in August, 1906, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elijah Sells and the Goulds, at
the Academy of Music in this city,
and that Dustin Farnum, the star in
the play, Joined the party outside the
playhouse after the performance and
spoke to Mrs. Gould. She smiled, the
witness testified, and said to the wit.
ness: This is my new beau"
John Flynn, who said he was en-
ployed by Mrs. Gould as a chauffeur,
and that he often drove her to meet
Farnum after the play, testified that
once when Mrs. Gould was waiting in
the automobile for Farnum at the
Hotel Somerset, two men turned to
the actor as he came out at the hotel
door and asked him whose automobile
was waiting.
oh" said Farnum, laughing, Flynn
testified, that is my new one"
Called Chauffeur "Dearle."
Another time, Flynn swore, when he
raped on Mrs, Gould's chamber door
at the ST. Regis, she called out: "All
right, dearie," and then, when she
saw who 1t was, excused herself with:
II thought 1t was Mr.. Farnum"
Mary Elizabeth Harrison, fresh
checked, good-looking girl, who said
she was a floor clerk In the Bellevue
Stratford hotel in Philadelphia, pre-
faced her testimony with the explana-
tion that 1t was her first appearance
in court. She had been impelled by
her conscience, she said to tell what
she saw at the hotel Finally she
wrote a letter to Mr. Gould.
II said in the letter." she testified,
In obedience to the Golden Rule, I
write to you to help you If you are in
trouble or something like that"
Mrs. Gould occupied apartments on
the floor where she was stationed in
September. 1906, the witness went on,
and one morning about 1880 o'clock
she said, she saw man come out OF
Mrs. Gould's rooms and take the ele-
vator. She noticed that he was the
only passenger in the car, and that
the dial registered fourteenth floor
when the car stopped. She described
the man as tall. with dark, bushy hair
and wearing soft hat and a long
coat.
The defense contends that Dustin
Farnum was staying on the fourteenth
floor of the hotel at that tame.