Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-19
Created a Scene

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she was under the influence of liquor
most of the time during the trip.
Created a Scene
At Nice the whole party went to
masked bali in costume, and Mrs.
Gould created a scene because the
courier got lost, the witness said.
On REORGANIZATION Mr. Shearn
took up the masked ball incident ana
asked. Wasn't Mrs. Gould complaint
ing because Mr.. Gould was lost, and
not the courier?"
mo: Mr.. Gould was not lost"
Ibid you and Mr.. Gould wear cos
tumes?" asked Mr. Shearn.
Yes" answered the witness.
What were they?"
Mine was 'Trilby' costume and
Mr.. Gould appeared as Cupid, said
Mr.. Knowles.
The answer caused burst of laugh
ter in which Mrs. Gould Joined with
great zest. She looked toward her hus-
band, 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 Hotel Martinique
in this city and was very friendly with
Mr.. Gould.
Mr.. Gould's chauffeur, Leon Lehroux,
testified that he took Mrs. Gould and
two young women in an automobile to
Boston, Springfield, New London and
Hartford on September 16, 1906
He said he left Mrs. Gould at ho-
tel in Hartford, the name of which he
could not remember. and did not see
her again that night, but he did see
her again the following morning, when
he again took her to a hotel, the name
of which he did not know.
Il waited until a man came out and
told me to go back to the garage and
that Mrs. Gould would telephone ME
about p. m The man was Dustin
Farnum, the actor" said the chauf-
feur.
Re-enter Dustin Farnum
Testimony adduced by the defense
today kept edging more and more
toward Dustin Farnum, the actor,
who has become familiar figure in
the case.
There were also more charges by SER
wants that Mrs. Gould was repeatedly
seen under the influence of liquor. and
that when she had been drinking she
changed from a charming, affable Wom-
an to a woman of whims and caprices,
i'll tempered careless in her choice of
language, overbearing and quarrelsome.
swore that at one time he served his
mistress with two quarts of Manhattan
cocktails in as many days, besides the
wines and liquors which he said she
drank at the table.
John H. Kimbal, an oil and paint
dealer, who said he had known Mrs.
Gould for eighteen years, testified that
he went to a performance of THE Vir-
ginian" in August, 1906, with Mr.. and
In
this city, and that Dustin Farnum the
star in the play. Joined the party out
side the playhouse after the perform
ance and spoke to Mrs. Gould.
She smiled, witness testified, and said
to the witness:
"There is my new beau"
John Flynn, who said he was en-
ployed by Mrs. Gould as a chauffeur,
and that he often drove her to meet
Farnum after the play, testlhed that at
once, when Mrs. Gould was waiting in
the automobile for Farnum at the
Hotel Somerset, two men turned to
the actor as he came out at the hotel
door and asked him whose automobile
was waiting
"Oh. said Farnum, laughing, that is
my new one
"AlI Right, Dearie"
Another time, Flynn swore, when he
raped on Mrs. Gould's chamber door
at the st. Regis, she called out: 'All
right. dearie," and then when she saw
who it was. excused herself with Il
thought it was Mr.. Farnum."
Mary Elizabeth Harrison, who said
she was floor clerk in the Bellevue
Stratford hotel in Philadelphia, said
she had been impelled by her con-
science to tell what she saw at the
hotel Finally she wrote a letter to
Mr.. Gould.
Il said in the letter" she testified,
that in obedience to the golden rule,
] write to you TO help you if you are
in trouble or something like that.
Mrs. Gould occupied apartments on
the floor where she was stationed In
September. 1905. the witness went on,
and one morning about 1880 O'Clock, she
said, she saw a man come out of Mrs.
Could's room and take the elevator.
She noticed he was the only passenger
in the car and that the dial registered
18th floor when the car stopped. She
described the man as tall. With dark