Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-06-18
lDEfEESE'S FIAYiHG OF
MRS. GOULD CONTINUES
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| calm her and pass the incident on
pleasantly" replied the witness.
Intimates Witness is interested.
ON cross examination Mr. Shearn
asked II the witness was not under
heavy financial obligations To Howard
Gould. and If Mr.. Gould had not put
large sums OF money in the business
OF the brokerage firm OF which the
witness was a member.
The witness said he was under no
| financial obligations To Mr.. Gould.
In endeavoring 10 get several let
ters In evidence which Mr.. Shearn
contended would impeach the credl-
bility oil the witness Chapman, and
which Justice Bowling would not al
low admitted a tilt occurred between
opposing cOunse which called forth
severe rebuke of Mr.. Nicoll. by
Justice Bowling who requested MIR.
Nicoll 20 apologize.
This is only a case OF blacKmailing
tactics practiced from start to finish
in this suit" shouted Mr. Nicoll. the
defendants counsel at Mr. Shearn as
he was pressing the admission Of the
letters.
MIR. Shearn demanded an -poiogy.
81 don't intend To apologize for any
such remarks said Mr.. Nic0ll.
Judge Calls Nicoll Down.
Justice Bowling sternly said that
Mr. Nicoll owed an apology 10 the
court and Mr.. Shearn for making such
a charge.
Mr.. NicOll apologized. to the court
and said he meant no reflection on
Mr. Shearn personally but he believed
il had been the attitude of others
on the opposite side to extort money
from his client. This closed the in
cident.
Counsel for Mr.. Gould read into
the records the deposition of n bell
boy. James Clark, employed at Hotel
Carroll. in I.ynchburg. Va. where
Dustin Farnum, the actor. was stop
ping in November. 1906. when Mrs.
Gould arrived and stayed two or three
days at the hotel on her way to Blue
, Gap farm. according to the deposition
Bell Boys Story.
The bell boy said he saw Mrs. Gould
sitting in the reception room waiting
for Mr.. Farnum on November 10 and
after Mr.. Farnum came they went up
to Mrs. GCuld's room. On two oc-
casions that day he was called TO
Mrs. Gould's room the bell boy said.
and each time he saw Mrs. Gould and
Mr. Farnum alone in the room. They
were in the outside room. which was
really a bedroom with a bed in ii. but
which Mrs. Gould used as reception
room. according to the witness.
Mrs. Gould talked with him each
time with the door partly closed. he
said He did not see them together
i'm the public dining room or about
the hotel at any time. the witness de-
posed. Farnum changed his room and
obtained one on the floor above d.
rectly over Mrs. GOulds' rooms, &C
cording to the witness.
Mr. Gould's counsel read into the
record the cross examination Of the
bell boy in which he told OF coming
to New York and seeing Mr. Watson.
Of counsel for the defendant and talk
ing over the testimony which he was
to give The boy said he went to
various places of amusement and had
a coed time while in New York on tie
expense money allowed him by Mr.
Watson. He said he had not received
or been promised any money for tes-
trying. except his expenses and pay
for his loss Of time In his position.
Dustin Farnum Again.
Mr.. Watson, OF counsel for the de-
Tense, read the deposition of waiter
at the Carroll Hotel who told OF serv-
ing supper for Mrs Gould and Farnum
i'm her rooms at the hotel on Novem-
Der is. 1906. He describes Mrs.
Gould as stout lady, with light hair
and middle age. The waiter said that
Mrs. Gould instructed him to set the
table with chair at the end and the
other chair on the side near the first
chair. The boy said he left Farnum
and Mrs. Gould in the room after he
had cleared away the dishes. The
following morning, Monday, November
10. the witness was called TO Mrs
Goulds' room and she ordered break
fast for two. She stood in the door
way and read the bill OF fare.
lie noticed that door leading into
another room of the suite was closed.
He served supper for Farnum and
Mrs. Gould in her rooms that night
again. She left some time during
that night. the witness deposed, for
he said he went to the head waiter
the next morning and asked IL he should
go up to room II (Mrs. Gould's roomD
and the head waiter said: "No they
have gone