Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-16


the charges of cruelty and non-support'
Mrs. Gould having naively told yes
terday what is required of woman OF
fashion in the matter of dress at Palm
Beach and elsewhere, witnesses for the
defense recited today the indulgence OF
the same women of fashion in the mat
ter of alcoholic stimulants.
They told further, while the heavily
yelled Mrs Gold buried her burning
face in her hands, of remarks and con
versations not in keeping with $500
gowns and the palatial Castle Gould on
Long Island.
Mrs. Gould Weeps
1t was during this testimony con-
cerning the alleged violent and profane
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.
That Mrs. Gould had been intoxicated
on various occasions, that she called
Howard Gould "you little hound that
once she apparently was so under the
influence of liquor as to stagger, that
her maid brought liquors to her room
We're among the statements brought
out as employees of the Gould estate re-
lated on the stand their experiences
with their former mistress.
Mrs. Gould's lawyer. Clarence Shearn
who had objected strenuously to the
trend of the testimony, but was over
ruled, injected into the case the rather
novel argument that, admitting ever
that his client had been intoxicated
this should have strengthened rather
than have weakened the ties between
wife and husband.
ut has been held" he said, "that If q
husband drank he needed the love and
companionship of his wife more than If
he were sober Is not this equally true
in the case of the wife?'
Opposing this view, Delaney Nicoll
for the defense, argued that Mrs:
Gould's alleged excesses, as he would
show, rendered her unfit for her house
hold duties, and that this certainly
justified the husbands attitude.
Administration Erratlc
It was a rather erratic administration
that Mrs. Gould conducted at Castle
Gould, according to the testimony.
Verbal clashes with the manager OF
the great estate heated arguments with
carpenters over the construction of q
hen coop, a period when she remained
in her room for two weeks, consuming
seven bottles of brandy with other liq-
uors-those incidents and others were
sworn to on the stand.
One of the carpenters testified that
she couldn't walk straight" at the
time of the dispute over the hen coop.
Also there was an account by for
mer steward of an exciting night when,
he said, Mrs. Gould wanted the house
locked, although Howard Gould was
out on the lawn. This, said the stew
ard, did not seem to appeal to Mrs
Gould as an argument against closing
the front door, and she told him to &c
ahead and lock up. TO appease her, he
testified, he shut the door but did not
lock it.
While most of the testimony was
against Mrs. Could one witness spoke
in her favor. He was Charles II. Davis
of Glen Cove, l.. I. He testified that In
1902 and 1908 he did considerable work
on the Gould estate, and saw Mrs
Gould frequently. He had never seen
her intoxicated he said. but at times
he knew she had been drinking because
he could "smell her breath"
The argument on the application OF
Mr.. Shearn for further allowance OF
$4,000 counsel fee for his services as
counsel for Mrs. Gould was postponed
has received a counsel fee of $50OO
Rests on Abandonment
Abandonment is the only charge on
which Mrs. Gould's suit rested when
the hearing of the case was resumed
The charges of cruelty and non-support
which were a part of Mrs. Gould's orig
inal complaint having been stricken
out by Justice Dowling at the motion
Of counsel for Mr.. Gould, today's evil
dence was confined to the hearing on
abandonment only.
Mrs. Gould has declared that she has
not spoken to Mr.. Gould since July
1906, when she had complained to. him
about the condition of Maurice Malloy
whom Mr. Gould had put in charge OF
Castle Gould, the Long Island home OF
Mr.. and Mrs Gould.
S,1beaduanflV Mrs Gould said her
husband sent Elijah w. Sells to her to
saw that Mr.. Gould would return to her
if she would agree to certain condi-
tions, or he would arrange either for a
separation or divorce. These proposals
were rejected by Mrs. Gould.
Under the ruling of Justice Bowling,
Howard Gould was given permission
to submit evidence to support charges
that Mrs. Gould was addicted to the
1se of intoxicants and that she had hui
inflated him before his guests
Before the resumption of the case to-
dav a letter from Mrs. Charlotte Wes-
ton. a sister of Mr. Nicoll, Mr.. Gould's
attorney, was given out denying that
Mrs. Gould had given her a dress. Mrs.
weston said she had never seen Mrs.
could. When the letter was shown to
Mrs. Gould she said;
Gowns Sent to Theater
.T did not give the gown to her per-
sonaIIv. but she was one of the act
resses who received a box of gowns
that sent to one of the theaters."
Morris Malloy, superintendent of the
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