Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-19

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| to the main corridor on the fifth floor
where the rooms were located, smash
ing the dishes and making a great
racket He couldn't remember that
anyone else saw him do it. He merely
did it because she ordered him to so
he carried out her instructions liter
| ally, Veitch said.
Henry w. Knowles, an insurance
| agent, testified that he had known the
| Goulds since 1904 and visited at Castle
| Gould and Blue Gap Farm and been
a guest of the Goulds on the yacht
| Niagara. He said that at dinner at
the st. Regis in 1905, Mrs. Gould drank
| diSagreeable.
| She would change from most
| charming and agreeable woman to a
| dbsagreeable woman, nagging and
sarcastic" said the witness.
| He said Mr.. Gould left the table at
| one dinner on account 1 his wife's
| talk and conduct. At another dinner
at Castle Gould in July, 1906, witness
| said, Mrs. Gould found fault with the
| salad because the lettuce was not prop
| erly headed and complained to her
husband because better arrangements
| had not been made.
| THAT'S what you get for having a
| damn fool gardener" Mrs Gould said
to MIR. Gould, the witness testified.
| Referring to an automobile trip OF
| four days from Paris to Nice when the
witness, Mr.. and Mrs Gould and Lord
| Koylstor occupied one car, Mr..
Knowles said Mrs. Gould was continu-
ally complaining to her husband about
the arrangements and often used
strong language and was under the in
| fluence of liquor most Of the time dur
ing the trip. At Nice the whole party
went to masked ball in costume and
Mrs. Gould created scene because the
courier got lost, the witness said.
! On crcss-eXaminatiOn, Mr.. Shearn
took up the masked ball incident and
| asked:
| Wasn't Mrs. Gould complaining be-
cause MIR. Gould was lost and not the
courier?''
mo. Mr.. Gould was not lost re-
| Piled Mr.. Knowles.
did you and Mr.. Gould wear cos
| tumes?" asked Mr.. Shearn.
| "Yes," answered the witness.
| What We're they?"
| MiHt WAS u lIllDy COSTUME anu
| Gould appeared as Cupid" said Mr..
| Knowles.
| The answer caused q burst of laugh
ter in which Mrs. Gould joined will
| great zeal. She looked towards hel
husband sitting at the other end of the
counsel table and seemed to enjoy his
confusion.
| Mr.. Shearn brought out that Mr..
Knowles lived in adjoining apartments
to Mr.. Gould at the Martinique in this
city and was very friendly with Mr..
Gould. He said he was with the Equit-
able life Assurance Society in 1905
when he went to Europe for nine
months and met the Goulds there.
THAT was about the time of the
| Hughes investigation of the insurance
companies. wasn't it?" asked Mr.
| Shearn.
| Nh. Nicoll objected to the question
and his objection was sustained.
| Mr.. Gould's chauffeur, Leon Lehe-
| roux, testified that he took Mrs Gould
and two young women in an automo-
bile to Boston, Springfield. New Lon
| don and Hartford in September, 1906
| He said he left Mrs. Gould at a hotel
| in Hartford, the name of which he
| 'ould not remember and did not see her
again that night, but he did see her
again the following morning. when he
took her to hotel the name of which
he did not know. II waited there until
| man came out and told me to GO
| back to the garage and that Mrs
| could would telephone about 4 o'clock.
the man was Dustin Farrum, the ac-
tor" said the chauffeur.
In the following week Leheroux said
he took Mrs. Gould and Mr.. Farnum to
| Larchnont in an automobile and
brought them back in the afternoon
That evening he took Mrs. Gould and
L party to a theater in Brooklyn and
| after the play Mr.. Farnum joined the
party and they all went to a cafe to
dine. The chauffeur said he afterward
took the other members of the party
home, conveyed Mr.. Farnum to his ho-
tel and Mrs. Gould to the St Regis.
James Fletcher Street, who said he
was superintendent of construction of
the Marlborough-B lenheim hotel at At
lantic City, when it was erected in
1866, was called as a witness at the
beginning of the afternoon session and
identified plan of the rooms on the
seventh floor of the hotel. Mr.. Nicoll
asked If the number and arrangement
and found 1t correspondent with the
plan offered in evidence. The witness
was excused without being further
questioned.
| John J. Flynn, who said he was en-
ployed as driver and chauffeur by
Mrs. Gould, related several instances
III which he drove Mrs Gould to meet
| Farnum. He told Of several trips to
Brooklyn to theater where Farnum
was playing He would get Mrs Gould
at the st. Regis about 10 o'clock, drive
to within block of the theater, where
F'arnum would meet her and then drive