Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-17
WOMEN FLOCK
TO 7 RIAL OF
GOULDD|vORCE

FAIR SEX THRoNG COURT ROOM
TO HEAR HOWARD GouLD's TEs-
TlMoNY AS TO WHY HE ADAM
poNED HIS WIFE.
New York, June 16.-Evidence to
justify Howard Could in separating
from his wife, Katherine Clemmons
Gould, was presented again today in
the hearing of her suit for separation
and alimony. Most Of this evidence
bore upon the conduct of Mrs. Gould
at her home where Gould alleged the
servants testified that Mrs. Gould had
made frequent use of intoxicants.
Curiosity to hear the testimony OF
Gould when he should take the wit
ness stand in his own defense brought
a throng of people to the court room,
many being turned away because OF
the crowded condition of the chamber.
There were many women present as
spectators.
Trying Ordeal for Mrs. Gould.
With intense anger or extreme hui
initiation alternately causing her to
flush with shame, or with hands and
teeth clenched in evaporation, caus-
ing her to sob her answers, Katherine
Clemmons Gould sat through a trying
ordeal in the supreme court yesterday
at the continuation Of her suit for
separation against Howard Gould,
third son of the late Jay Gould.
1t was on the alleged appetite OF
the fair plaintiff for the alluring cock
tail, for the bubbling highball and the
fzzing champagne that Delaney
Nicoll, counsel for Howard Gould,
trained his heaviest artillery.
Through employees at various hotels
and at Gould castle, he introduced evi-
| dence to prove that Mrs. Gould drank
deep and copious draughts of the
mocking and raging liquid and 1t was
his contention that her constant de-
votions to Bacchus formed just ground
for desertion on the part Of her hus-
4 band,
Daily Excesses Charged.
He endeavoreds to prove that her
daily bill Of fare consisted of couple
of cocktails on arising. light wines at
meals and throughout the day, cham
pagne at dinner and formidable
puncheons of brandy as night cap. BY
one witness he brought out that Mrs.
| Gould had remained In her room for
weeks, during which time she consum-
ed vast quantities of brandy
1t was day of testimony for the de-
tense during which Mr.. Gould's at
torney sought to bring cit through
witnesses who had been associated
with Mrs. Gould that her habits were
such that her husband was justified
in leaving her. In the event of prov
ing this, the defense hopes to under
mine the charge of abandonment, the
only phase Of the plaintiffs case which
has withstood the attack of opposing
counsel, Justice Bowling having ruled
out the charges Of cruelty and non
support yesterday.
I Specific statements that Mrs. GoulG
had been intoxicated on various oc
casions, that she called Howard GoulG
"You little hound" one night, that once
she was apparently so under the in
tluence of liquor as to stagger agains
the bannister at Castle Gould, that hel
maid brought liquors to her room, in
cluding sometimes two cocktails be
! fore breakfast, were among the state
ments brought out as employees of tht
Gould estate related on the stand thei
experiences with their former mis-
treSs.
In the midst of the testimony relat
7, ing to Mrs. Gould's alleged inebria
ton her lawyer Clarence ]. Shearn
: who had objected strenuously at frs
to the trend Of the testimony, but wa
overruled, injected into the case th
: rather novel argument that, admitting
even that his client had been intoxi
Gated, this should have strengthene,
rather than have weakened the tie
a between wife and husband.
8 ''It has been held" he said, "tha
: if husband drank he needed the low
v and companionship of his wife NOR
G than if he were sober. Is not thi
|. equally true in the case Of the wife? ?
n AS opposing this view Defiance
e Nicoll, for the defense, argued tha
Mrs. Gould's alleged excesses, as h
would show, had rendered her unfit fo
her household duties and that thi
certainly justified the husbands az
tions and attitude.
Whether or not fit for managing
\ household, it was rather erratic az
ministration that Mrs. Gould conduc
ed at Castle Gould according to mos
of the testimony today. Verbs
clashes with the manager Of the grea
9 estate, heated arguments at the he
: coop with carpenters, one of whoI
testified that she could not wal
straight" at the time, a period whe
she remained In her room for tw
weeks, consuming during that tim
seven bottles of brandy, with othe
l. liquors-these incidents and other
# were sworn to on the stand. Ais,
there was an account by a forme
> steward Of an exciting night when, b
y said, she wanted the house locked, a
e though Howard Gould was out on th
It front lawn. This, said the stewar'
If did not seem to appeal to Mrs Goul