The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-16
MRS. GOULD HEARS WITNESSES
TELL OF HER ALLEGED
USE OF LIQUOR.
ONE SAYS SHE STAGGERED
Another Declares She Was Unable to
Walk Straight Line and 1t Is Tes-
titled That in One Period Of Two
Weeks She Consumed Seven Bot
ties of Brandy and Other Liquors.

New York, June 15.-Torn with an
ger and extreme humiliation, alter
nately flushing with shame, sobbng
or clenching her hands in exaspera-
tion, Katherine Clemlnons Gould sat
through a trying ordeal m the supreme
court today at the continuation of her
suit for separation against Howard
Gould. 1T was day of testimony for
the defense, during which Mr.. Gould's
attorney sought TO bring out that Mrs.
Gould's habits were such that her hus-
band was justified in leaving her In
the event of proving this, the defense
hopes to undermine the charges of
abandonment, the only phase of the
plaintiffs's case which has withstood
the attacks of opposing counsel, JUS
tice Bowling having ruled out the
charges of cruelty and non-support.
Mrs, Could having naively told yes
terday what is required of a woman
of fashion in the matter of dress at
Palm Beach and elsewhere, witnesses
for the defense recitcd today the in
dulgence Of the same women Of fash
ion in the matter Of alcoholic stilnu-
1ants. They told further, while the
heavily Vcilcd Mrs. Gould buried her
burning face in her hands, Of remarks
and conversations not in keeping with
$500 gowns and the palatial Castle
Gould on Long Island
Profane Language.
1t was during this testimony con
cerning the alleged violent and pro
fame language some too strong to be
printed with propriety, that Mrs,
Gould Wept most. Yet, she recovered
herself quickly and at times coached
her lawyer.
Specific statements that Mrs Gould
had been intoxicated on various oc-
casions that she called Howard Gould
you little hound" that once she was
apparently so under the influence Of
liquor as to staggcr, that her maid
brought liquors to her room, were
among the statements brought out as
employees of the Gould estate related no
the stand their experiences with their
former mistress.
Mrs. Goulds lawyer, Clarence J.
Shearn, who had objected strenuously
at first to the trend of the testi-
mohy, but was overrulcd, injected into
the case the rather novel argument
that, admitting even that his client
had been intoxicated, this should
have strengthened rather than have
weakened the ties between wife and
husband.
1T has been held he said, chat
if a husband drank he needed the
love and companionship of his wife
more than if he We're sober Is not
thC tru i,,
Wife?"
A Justification.
Opposing the view, Delaney Nicoll,
for the defense, argued that Mrs
Gould's alleged excesscs, as he would
show, had rendered her unfit for her
household duties and that this Ger
tainly justified the husbands actions
and attitude.
1t was a rather erratic administra-
ton that Mrs. Gould conducted at
Castle Could according to the testi-
mony. Verbal clashes with the man
ager of the great estate, heated argu-
ments over the construction of hen
coop with carpenters, one of whom
testified that "she could not walk a
straight line" period when she re-
manned in her room for two weeks,
consuming seven bottles of brandy |
with other liquors-these incidents
and others We're sworn to on the
stand.
Also, there was an account by a
former steward of an exciting night |
when, he said, she wanted the house
locked, although Howard Gould was
cut on the lawn. This. said the stew
ard. did not seem to appeal to Mrs
Gould as an argument against clos
Ing the front door and she told him
To go ahead and lock up. To appease
her, he testified, he shut the door, but |
die not lock it,
This was the night when Mrs. |
Gould is said to have called her hus-
band "a little hound" term which |
she applied to 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. |
One for Her.
While most of the testimony was |
against Mrs. Gould, one witness spoke |
in her favor. He is Charles H. Dams |
Of Glencove, Long Island, He tast.-
fled 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 he knew she ha1 |
been drinking, because he could "smell ,
her breath"